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Aaron, John

Agena spacecraft

explosion of

Agnew, Spiro

Air Force

Air Force Institute of Technology

Air Force Special Weapons Center

airglow

Aldrin, Buzz

American Football League

Anders, Bill

Apollo 8 bumped to moon shot and

awards and honors

background of

Borman’s illness and

chatter on flight and

Christmas in space and

crater named for

distance record and

early orbit and

Earthrise photo by

family and

later career of

launch preparations and

lunar orbit entry and

lunar orbits and

motion sickness and

photographs by

prelaunch and liftoff and

recovery and

reentry and

return flight from moon and

sleep and

SPS and

TEI and

third stage separation maneuver

TLI and

TV from space and

Anders, Eric

Anders, Valerie Hoard

Anders Crater

Apollo 1

design and quality problems of

explosion of

oxygen and

preparations for

Apollo 4

Apollo 5

Apollo 6

Apollo 7

Apollo 8

awards and honors and

blackouts behind moon and

Borman crew bumped up to

Borman’s illness on flight

broadcast chatter

Christmas in space and

circumlunar vs. lunar orbit and

command and service module

computer and

coolant system

crew selection

decision to turn into moon shot

distance traveled by

early Earth orbits after liftoff

equipment bay

families and

fan mail and

first planned as Earth orbit flight

hatch improved

launch party and visits

launch timing

launch window set

life-support systems

liftoff

Lindbergh and

lunar gravity entered by

lunar mission set

lunar orbit insertion

lunar orbits and

maneuvered inaccurately in orbit

mid-course correction and

Mission Control and

mobility in capsule

motion sickness and

navigation of

orbital mechanics and

parachutes deployed

photographs and

preparations for

reentry and

retrofire and

return flight from moon

Saturn V and

sleep and

Soviet observations of

splashdown and recovery and

SPS and

sunlight and

tapes and

TEI and path to Earth

third stage separation maneuver

thrusters

TLI and path to moon

toileting in

TV broadcasts from

Van Allen belts and

view from

view of Earth from lunar orbit

view of moon in lunar orbit

windows and

Apollo 9

Borman crew bumped to Apollo 8 from

Collins replaced by Lovell

planned as Apollo 8 rerun

post-Apollo 8 mission

Apollo 10

Apollo 11

Apollo 12

Apollo 13

Apollo 14

Apollo 15

Apollo spacecraft. See also specific missions

astronauts assigned to

Borman moves to

command module simulator

design and quality problems

engine of

impact of Apollo 1 explosion on

layout and feel of

mission assignments and

reentry method

rendezvous and docking and

redesign after explosion

Arlington National Cemetery

Armstrong, Jan

Armstrong, Neil

astronauts

Anders becomes

basic training of

Borman becomes

first crew (Original Seven)

Lovell becomes

mission assignments for

second crew (Next Nine)

selection process

third crew

White House dinner for

Atlas rocket

Aviation Week

B-17

B-52s

Babbitt, Donald

Bailey, John

Baltimore Colts

Bassett, Charlie

BBC

Bell X-1 rocket plane

Berry, Charles

Blaik, Earl

Borman, Crater

Borman, Edwin

Borman, Edwin

Borman, Frank

Air Force career and

Apollo 1 explosion and

Apollo 8 turned into moonshot and

Apollo 9 assignment and

Apollo program and

awards and honors and

becomes astronaut

broadcast chatter and

Christmas in space and

Collins and

crater named for

“custard” shorthand and

distance record and

eardrum rupture and

early life of

early orbit of Apollo 8 and

Eastern Airlines and

education of, at West Point

family and

Gemini 3 and

Gemini 6–7 dual mission and

Gemini 7 and

Gemini investigation by

grounded

illness on Apollo 8 flight

Korean War and

later career of

Lindbergh and

Lovell and

lunar far side and

lunar orbit and

lunar orbit entry and

marriage to Susan

navigation and

near death of, as test pilot

personality of

photos from space and

prelaunch sequence and liftoff and

preparations for Apollo 8 and

recovery after splashdown and

reentry and

return from moon and

rollover for TV cameras and

Slayton and

sleep and

SPS and

TEI toward Earth and

third stage separation and

TLI toward moon and

TV from space and

views from lunar orbit and

White as understudy

Borman, Frederick

Borman, Marjorie

Borman Susan Bugby

Apollo 1 explosion and

Apollo 8 and

Frank’s near death and

Frank’s selection as astronaut and

later life of

marriage and family life

Bostick, Jerry

Bourgin, Si

Brain Busters

Branch, Ben

Brand, Vance

Britain

Brooks Air Force Base

Buckner, Rev. James

Burke, Walter

Bushuyev, Konstantin Davidovich

Canary Islands

Cape Kennedy (formerly Canaveral)

Apollo 1 and

Apollo 4 and

Apollo 8 and

crew quarters on

Gemini 6 and

name changed

Redstone tests and

Titan tests and

capsule communicator (capcom). See also Mission Control

Carpenter, Scott

Carr, Jerry

CBS TV

Cernan, Gene

Chaffee, Crater

Chaffee, Roger

Chance Vought

Charlesworth, Cliff

Chertok, Boris

Chestnut, Ma

China

Christmas in space

circularizing burn

circumlunar flight

Apollo 8 changed to lunar orbit from

Apollo 8 proposed as

Zond and

Civil Rights Act (1964)

Cold War

Collins, Crater

Collins, Michael “Mike”

Colombo Crater

Colossus software

command and service module (CSM)

Conrad, Pete

Cooper, Gordon

Crater, Crile 228

Cronkite, Walter

Crossfield, Scott

cryogenic tanks

Cuban Missile Crisis

Cunningham, Walter

data storage equipment (DSE, dump tapes)

Debus, Kurt

Deiterich, Chuck

Delporte Crater

Democratic National Convention (Chicago, 1968)

Democratic Party

Depression

digital autopilot (DAP)

Dobrynin, Anatoly

Drums Along the Mohawk (Edmonds)

Duke, Charlie

Earth

Apollo 8 leaves gravity of

humans adapted to

light-time distance to

position of, and launch window

views of, from space

Earthrise (photograph)

Earthshine

Eastern Air Lines

Eastern Europe

Edmonds, Walter

Edwards Air Force Base

Eisele, Donn

Eisenhower, David

Eisenhower, Dwight

Electronic Data Systems

Elizabeth II, Queen of England

Elkins, Joe

Elkins, Margaret

entry monitoring system (EMS)

environmental control system

Ernal, Bob

F-80 fighter jet

F-84

F-86 Sabrejets

F-89

F-104

Field, John

flight dynamics (FIDO) console

flotation balloons

flotation collar

Fra Mauro Highlands

France

Franz Crater

Freeman, Ted

free-return trajectory

Gay, Chuck

Gehrig, Lou

Gemini 1

Gemini 3

Gemini 4

Gemini 5

Gemini 6

Agena explosion and scrubbing of

dual mission with Gemini 7

first scheduled

shutdown protocol

Gemini 7

Borman assigned to

dual mission with Gemini 6

launch of

medical tests on

sleeping shifts

splashdown and recovery

two-week orbit

Gemini 8

Gemini 10

Gemini 11

Gemini 12

Gemini spacecraft

design of

food on

human body tested by

mobility in

orbit and reentry

space walking and

Titan rocket and

General Dynamics

Germany, Nazi

g-forces

on launch

on reentry

Gilbert Crater

Gilruth, Bob

Glenn, John

global tracking web

Goddard, Robert

Godfrey, Arthur

Goldwater, Barry

Gordon, Dick

Grau, Dieter

Griffin, Gerry

Grissom, Crater

Grissom, Gus

Apollo 1 explosion and death of

Apollo mission and

Apollo simulator and

food and

Gemini 3 and

Lovell and

Mercury program and

Grissom, Mrs. Gus

Grumman Aircraft

Gutenberg Crater

Hadley-Apennine region

Hadley Base

Haise, Fred

Hall, Floyd

Hamblin, Dodie

Haney, Paul

Hannigan, Jim

Harless, Dick

heat shield

high-dive reentry

Hodge, John

Holland

Holloman Air Force Base

Hong Kong

Houston Chronicle

Houston Oilers

human body, impact of space on

Humphrey, Hubert

Hungary

hypergolic fuels

International Astronomical Union (IAU)

Iran

Jeffs, George

Jodrell Bank Observatory

Johnson, Lady Bird

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Jones, Donald

Journal du Dimanche

Kästner, Crater

Kennedy, Jacqueline

Kennedy, John F.

assassination of

Kennedy, Robert F.

King, Jack

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Korean War

Korolev, Sergei

Kraft, Betty Anne

Kraft, Christopher Columbus

Apollo 1 explosion and

Apollo 7 and

Apollo 8 and

Apollo quality problems and

background of

Christmas in space and

crater named for

Gemini 5 and

Gemini 6–7 dual mission and

Kranz and

Mercury missions and

Saturn V and

Kranz, Gene

Kranz, Marta

Laitin, Christine

Laitin, Joe

Langley Aeronautical Laboratory

launch pad

LeMay, Curtis

LEM (lunar excursion module)

Anders and

Apollo 5 and

Apollo 7 and

Apollo 8 and

Apollo 9 and

Apollo 10 and

Apollo 11 and

crew training for

design of

Libya

Life

life-support systems

life vests

Lindbergh, Charles

Lindsay, John

Litvinov, Victor

Lombardi, Vince

London Blitz

loss of signal (LOS)

Lovelace Clinic

Lovell, Barbara

Lovell, Sir Bernard

Lovell, Jeffrey

Lovell, Jim

Apollo 8 as moon shot and

Apollo 9 plan and

Apollo 11 and

awards and honors

background of

becomes astronaut

Borman and

Borman’s illness on Apollo flight and

Christmas in space and

computer and

crater named for

distance record and

early orbit and

family and

Gemini 6–7 dual mission and

Gemini 7 and

Gemini 12 and

later career of

Lindbergh and

lunar orbit and

lunar orbit entry and

marriage and

motion sickness and

as navigator

personality of

prelaunch and liftoff and

preparations for launch and

recovery and

reentry and

return from moon and

sleep and

SPS and

TEI and

third stage separation maneuver

TLI and

TV broadcasts from space

views from lunar orbit and

Lovell, Marilyn Gerlach

Lovell, Susan

Lovell Crater

Low, George

lunar gravity

lunar orbit. See also moon

danger of being trapped in

circumlunar flight vs.

TV broadcasts from

lunar orbit insertion (LOI)

lunar sunrise

lunar terminator

Lunney, Glynn

Lyell Crater

Mach velocity

Manned Spacecraft Center

Apollo 1 explosion and

Marines

Marshall Space Flight Center

Marsh of Sleep

mascons (lunar mass concentrations)

Mattingly, Ken

McCain, John, III

McCain, John, Jr.

McCormack, John

McDivitt, Jim

McDonnell Aircraft

McGee, Charles

McMorris, USS (ship)

McNamara, Robert

medical tests

Mercury spacecraft

Carpenter’s flight in

design of

Glenn’s flight in

Grissom’s flight in

parachute on landing

Redstone tests with

Schirra’s flight

Shepard’s flight

Messier Crater

Minnesota Vikings

Minuteman missiles

Mission Control

Apollo 1 explosion and

Apollo 8 and

Apollo 8 Christmas in space and

Apollo 9 and

capcom and

early, at Cape Canaveral

flags and

Gemini 6 and

Gemini 6–7 dual mission and

Kranz as flight director

MIT Draper Lab

moon. See also circumlunar flights; lunar gravity; lunar orbit; lunar sunrise

Apollo 1 delays missions to

Apollo 8 becomes mission to

Apollo 8 enters orbit

far side of

Apollo 9 and

Apollo program and

Gemini 6–7 dual mission and

JFK and

landing on

landing sites

landmarks named

LBJ and

LEM and

Low proposes flight to

mapping

phases of, and launch timing

photographs of

Saturn V and

Soviet space program and

Moyers, Bill

Mueller, George

N1 rocket

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)

National Aeronautics and Space Act (1958)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). See also astronauts; Cape Kennedy; Mission Control; and specific missions and individuals

Apollo 1 explosion and

Apollo 7 and

Apollo 8 turned into moon shot by

Apollo families and

Apollo program, post-explosion

Apollo spacecraft design and

celebrations post-moon shot

Christmas TV broadcasts and

creation of

Distinguished Service Medal

early rockets and

families and

flight rules

funding

Gemini 1 and

Gemini 6–7 dual mission and

improvisations and

JFK and

Kraft as flight operations head

LBJ and

medical testing and

Mercury overshoot and

moon landing deadline and

PR and

Slayton and oversight of

space race and

White House dinner and

National Aeronautics and Space Council

National Football League

Naval Academy (Annapolis)

Naval Air Station Patuxent River

Navy

Navy Department

near-escape velocity

Nellis Air Force Base

New York Jets

New York Times

Nixon, Julie

Nixon, Richard

North American Aviation

North Korea

nuclear missiles

Ocean of Storms

Offenbach, Jacques

orbital parameters

Outer Space Treaty

PADS (preliminary advisory data)

parachute

passive thermal control (PTC) mode

Pasteur Crater

Paul VI, Pope

Peanuts (comic strip)

Perot, Ross

Pershing Missile

Petrone, Rocco

Philippines

Pickering Crater

Pilyugin, Nikolai

plugs-out test

Podgorny, Nikolai

pogo problem

Polaris missiles

Propst, Gary

Pueblo, USS (ship)

Pyrenees Mountains of the Moon

radiation sickness

Raish, Donald

Redstone rocket

reentry

Soviet Zond and

protocol, broken by Schirra

rendezvous and docking

Gemini 6 plan

Gemini 6–7 dual mission and

Republican Party

retrofire console

Richardson Crater

Rockefeller, Nelson

Roughing It (Twain)

Rudolph, Arthur

Saturn 1B

Saturn V rocket

Apollo 6 and

Apollo 8 and readiness of

Apollo 8 launch and

design of

engine problems

launch window

Mission Control rehearsals and

pogo problem and

third stage for TLI and

third stage separation and

Scaliger Crater

Scheer, Julian

Schefter, James

Schirra, Wally

Apollo 1 explosion and

Apollo 7 and

Apollo assignment and

Gemini 6 launch and

Gemini 6–7 dual mission and

humor and

Schweickart, Rusty

Scientific Research Institute (Moscow)

Scott, Dave

Sea of Crises

Sea of Fertility

Sea of Tranquillity

See, Elliot

service module junking

Service Propulsion System (SPS)

central role of, in lunar mission

circularizing burn

fuel and

hypergolic chemical flow and

lunar orbit entry and

TEI burn and

testing, for course correction

Shea, Joe

Shepard, Al

Sherrington Crater

Slayton, Donald Kent “Deke”

Anders and

Apollo 1 explosion and

Apollo 7 and

Apollo 8 and

Apollo 9 and

Apollo 11 and

Gemini flights and

Smyth’s Sea

Snoopy hats

Sousa, John Philip

South Korea

Soviet astronauts, early

Soviet Central Research Institute (USSR)

Soviet MiG plane

Soviet Union (Russia)

Apollo 1 and

Apollo 8 and

Cuban Missile Crisis and

Korean War and

Outer Space Treaty and

Sputnik and

Zond and

space race

spacesuits

Space Task Group

space walk

White and

Collins and

splashdown and recovery

launch windows

Sputnik

Stafford, Tom

Apollo 10

Gemini 6 and

Gemini 6–7 dual mission and

Storms, Harrison “Stormy”

Strategic Air Command

subortibal missions

Sunday Times (London)

Super Bowl

sustainer engine cut-off (SECO)

T-6

T-33

Taurus-Littrow Mountains

television broadcasts from Apollo 8

Christmas

reentry and

thrusters

Time

Man of the Year issue

Tindall, Bill

Titan missile

Borman and tests of

design of

Gemini 6–7 dual mission and

man-rating of

toilet needs in space

Apollo 8 urine problems

Gemini 7 and

Tranquillity Base

trans-Earth injection (TEI)

translunar injection (TLI)

translunar route navigation

Triangular Mountain (Mount Marilyn)

Tsiolkovsky Crater

Tuskegee airmen

Twain, Mark

United Kingdom

U.S. Congress

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

University of Pennsylvania

University of Wisconsin

unmanned lunar spacecraft

urban riots

Ustinov, Dmitry

U Thant

V-2 rocket

Van Allen belts

Vanguard rocket

Victory, John F.

Vietnam War

Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI)

vision tests

von Braun, Wernher

von Fremd, Charles

Voting Rights Act (1965)

Voyage to the Moon (Offenbach)

War Department

Wasp, USS (aircraft carrier)

Weather Bureau

Webb, James

Wendt, Guenter

West Point

White, Bonnie Lynn

White, Edward Higgins

Apollo 1 explosion and death of

Gemini 4 spacewalk and

Gemini 7 and

White, Edwin (son)

White, Pat

White Crater

Wilson, Harold

Windler, Milt

World War I

World War II

Wright, Orville

Wright, Wilbur

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Yardley, John

Yeager, Chuck

Yorktown, USS (aircraft carrier)

Young, John

zero g

Zond 5

Zond 6

zoom flight