Original NASA educational publication issued during the Apollo program in 1967, prior to the first manned lunar landing.
Published by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Public Affairs, Educational Programs Division, this 16-page illustrated booklet provides a contemporary NASA explanation of the developing Apollo lunar program.
Publication details:
- Title: Manned Space Flight: Apollo
- Series: NASA Facts
- Publication No.: NF-23
- Volume IV, No. 7
- Date: 1967
- 16 pages
- Published by NASA\'s Office of Public Affairs / Educational Programs Division
- Printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office
- Original government price: 15 cents
- Noted on the cover as replacing Vol. III, No. 1
The publication discusses NASA\'s goals for Apollo, the decision to use Lunar Orbit Rendezvous, the Apollo spacecraft and Lunar Module, launch and flight operations, lunar landing, return to Earth, parachute deployment and spacecraft recovery. It contains numerous period NASA photographs, technical illustrations and diagrams showing how NASA expected the Apollo lunar missions to be carried out.
An especially interesting piece of pre-Moon-landing Apollo history, produced while NASA was still preparing the hardware and procedures that would ultimately place astronauts on the lunar surface
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