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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    Title :

    The Apollo flights: a brief history


    Contributors:

    Published in:

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


    Publication date :

    2008-01-01


    Size :

    27 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English