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Astronauts manually flew Project Gemini with control sticks, but computers flew most of Project Apollo except briefly during lunar landings. [6] Each Moon flight carried two AGCs, one each in the command module and the Apollo Lunar Module, with the exception of Apollo 7 which was an Earth orbit mission and Apollo 8 which did not need a lunar module for its lunar orbit mission.
The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology. NASA SP-4009. Available online: HTML; Orloff, Richard W. "Apollo By The Numbers". NASA History Division, Washington, DC, 2000. NASA SP-2000-4029. 345 pages. Available online: HTML Appendices useful. "Apollo Program Flight Summary Report Apollo Missions AS-201 through Apollo 16".
Powered Descent Initiation (PDI) is a term used during the Apollo program Moon landing missions to describe the maneuver of the Apollo Lunar Module as it descended from lunar orbit to a rocket-powered landing. [1] "Eagle was GO to ignite its descent engine, and Armstrong and Aldrin locked their eyes to the glowing numbers displayed before them ...
On February 16, 2019, React 16.8 was released to the public, introducing React Hooks. [18] Hooks are functions that let developers "hook into" React state and lifecycle features from function components. [19]
The ascent propulsion system (APS) or lunar module ascent engine (LMAE) is a fixed-thrust hypergolic rocket engine developed by Bell Aerosystems for use in the Apollo Lunar Module ascent stage. It used Aerozine 50 fuel, and N
After being tested in public beta since early 2015, [6] Apollo officially launched on the App Store for iOS on 23 October 2017. [7] Halifax-based [8] [9] developer Christian Selig, a former Apple intern, [10] [11] said in his Reddit introduction post that he saw the app as a suitable replacement for Alien Blue, and that the new official app, unlike Apollo, had not incorporated fan-favourite ...
The docking mechanism of the Apollo was a "probe and drogue" system designed to allow the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) to dock with the Apollo Lunar Module.The same system was later used for the Skylab 2, Skylab 3 and Skylab 4 CSMs to dock with the Skylab space station, and the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project CSM to dock with a Docking Module adapter which allowed docking with the Soyuz 19 ...
Lunar Module Eagle (LM-5) is the spacecraft that served as the crewed lunar lander of Apollo 11, which was the first mission to land humans on the Moon. It was named after the bald eagle , which was featured prominently on the mission insignia .