Owen Maynard, one of the engineers who had been designing manned spacecraft for NASA from the beginning, reduced the task of reaching the Moon to a series of missions that, one by one, would push Apollo’s capability all the way to the lunar surface. These missions were assigned letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, etc. Managers believed that if the lunar goal was to be realised, each of these preliminary missions would have to be successfully flown — more than once if necessary — before the subsequent mission could be attempted.


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    Titel :

    The Apollo flights: a brief history


    Beteiligte:
    Woods, W. David (Herausgeber:in)

    Erschienen in:

    How Apollo Flew to the Moon ; Kapitel : 2 ; 25-51


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.01.2008


    Format / Umfang :

    27 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch