Index

“Age of Aquarius,” 61, 83, 88

Apollo legacy, 107–117

Apollo missions, 21–27, 35, 42, 97–106

Apollo 1, 21–23

8, 24, 54, 63

Apollo 11, 23, 25, 35, 64, 74, 89, 94–95

Apollo 14, 90–92, 94–95

Apollo 15, 95, 97–100

Apollo 16, 95, 101–102

Apollo 17, 95, 102–106

Apollo 13, 112

Apollo 13 conditions

condensation, 64, 75

food, 41–43, 48, 65–66

living space, 38–39, 41, 57

sleep deprivation, 48–49, 56–57, 61, 65, 71

temperature, 41, 57, 64, 66, 71–72

waste, 66

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, 108

Aquarius, 29–31

jettison, 76

lifeboat, 37–38, 40–41, 55, 61

powering up, 38–39

role in mission, 39–40

Virgin Galactic, 91

astronauts

Alan Shepard, 13–15, 45, 92–94

animal, 14–15, 107–108, 110

Buzz Aldrin, 23, 25, 77

Christa McAuliffe, 107, 109

Ed White, 10, 21–22

first, 13, 14–15, 17, 19, 24, 60, 93–95, 102, 109

Guion Bluford, 13

Gus Grissom, 13–14, 16, 21–22

John Glenn, 13, 14–15, 17, 19, 64

Mae Jemison, 13

Michael Collins, 23, 25

Neil Armstrong, 23, 25, 77, 89

qualifications, 12–13

Roger Chaffee, 22

Sally Ride, 13

Scott Kelly, 110

battery charge, 37–38, 67, 71, 74

battery failure, 62

budget cuts, 92, 106

burns, 44–46, 49–50, 53–56, 62–63, 65, 72

carbon dioxide scrubbing, 57–58

command module, 28–29, 37, 39–40, 50, 59, 64, 67–68, 74, 91, 112

companies investing in space, 12, 14–15, 74, 90, 115–116

Blue Origin, 115

SpaceX, 112, 116

Virgin Galactic, 115

contamination.See quarantine

cosmonauts, 108

Alexei Leonov, 19

Gherman Titov, 16–17

Mikhail Kornienko, 110

Valentina Tereshkova, 19–20

Yuri Gagarin, 15

dehydration. See water shortage

docking, 21, 30–31, 64, 92, 94, 101, 108, 110

Earthrise, 24 See also photography in space

engineers, 11–15, 23, 32, 34, 47, 58–59, 68, 74, 89–91, 97–98, 103, 117

explosion, 9, 26, 28, 31–36, 40–43, 46, 51, 58–59, 61–62, 88–91, 109

flight controllers, 12, 22, 28, 32–38, 41–44, 46–51, 53–56, 61–62, 67–68, 76, 78–81

flight directors, 34, 40

Gene Kranz, 33, 36, 44, 57, 79, 81

Gerald Griffin, 51, 79

Glynn Lunney, 50, 79

fuel cells, 29, 33–34, 36–37, 47

Galileo experiment, 100

Gemini missions, 20–21, 35, 42, 102

Genesis Rock, 100

geology, 5, 7, 94, 97–100, 102–103

glitches, 9, 33, 61–62, 68

Apollo 14, 92–93

Apollo 15, 100

Apollo 16, 101

Apollo 17, 103–104

Haise, Fred, 31, 43, 54, 59, 61–62, 64–65, 72–73, 83–88, 92–93

education, 5

infection, 65, 84

role in mission, 6, 26, 38–39, 46–48

training, 5

Haise, Mary, 60, 80

heat shield, 17, 28, 37, 50–51, 61, 74, 76, 78, 80

Hidden Figures, 65

Hubble Space Telescope, 113

improvements after Apollo 13, 91

International Space Station (ISS), 109–112, 116

Iwo Jima, USS, 77, 80, 82–85

Johnson, Katherine, 64–65, 86

landing checklist, 67–69, 75–76

landing on Earth.See splashdown

Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (Lovell and Kluger), 112

Lovell, Jim, 8–9, 31, 34–35, 38–39, 43, 45–47, 62–64, 70, 72–73, 76–77, 82–84, 87–88, 112

childhood, 4

education, 4–5

role in mission, 5, 26

training, 5, 54–55

Lovell, Marilyn, 60, 77, 80

lunar module, 26, 29, 37–39, 40, 55, 59, 64, 67, 71, 74, 76, 78, 85, 91–92, 97–98, 105

lunar rover, 96, 98–100, 102–104

lunar samples, 5, 7, 23, 26, 94–95, 99–100, 102–104, 106

mailbox device, 58–59

Mars, 106–107

InSight, 115–117

missions, 112, 115–116

math, 6, 11–12, 38, 64–65, 86, 107, 117

Mattingly, Ken, 5, 40, 68–69, 80, 101–102

media coverage, 15, 39, 58, 60, 77–78, 80

medical breakthroughs, 114

Mercury missions, 13–17, 19–21, 42, 64

Freedom 7, 15, 93

Friendship 7, 17, 19, 64

Liberty Bell 7, 16, 18

mission control, 22, 77, 112

communication, 8–9, 38, 45, 47–48, 54, 60, 69, 78–80

decisions, 17, 32–33, 36, 41–44, 66, 81, 101

help, 40–41, 92

history, 6, 12, 34–35

simulators, 40, 68

moon landings, 11, 15, 20–23, 34–36, 88, 92–93, 95, 97–98, 101–102, 106, 115

moonwalks, 25, 94, 97, 101, 104

NASA, 6

goals, 8, 14–15, 20–22, 106, 115, 117

Grumman Aerospace Corporation, 40, 46–47, 74, 115

history, 11–14

North American Rockwell, 74

space race, 10–12, 15, 19, 21, 27, 95, 108, 117

vomit comet (KC-135), 112

navigation, 32, 34, 38, 64–65, 98

star check, 75

sun check, 53–54

Nixon, Richard, 23, 60, 82, 85–87, 106

Odyssey, 30–31, 33–34, 38–39, 49, 57

landing, 71, 76, 80, 82–83

powering up, 44, 61, 67–68, 74–76

role in mission, 28–29, 48

oxygen tanks, 37

explosion, 9, 33–36, 70, 73

investigation, 88–91

uses, 29, 33–34

Paine, Thomas, 84, 88

parachutes, 76, 80, 100

photography in space, 23–25, 54–56, 99, 106, 110, 113

power sources, 9, 33, 36–37, 44–45, 67

Presidential Medal of Freedom, 85–87

public reaction, 58–61, 76–77, 80, 82–83, 86–87

quarantine, 94

reentry, 17, 37–38, 43–44, 50, 63, 67–68, 71–72, 74–80, 109

scientific discoveries, 5, 17, 23, 26, 91–92, 94–97, 100, 104, 107–108, 110–111, 113–115, 117

service module, 78, 92, 102

explosion, 33, 37, 41–43, 70, 73–74

investigation, 89–91

jettison, 50–51, 71, 72–74

role in mission, 29–30, 33

simulators, 40, 53, 68–69

Skylab, 107–108

Smylie, Ed, 59

Soviet. See cosmonauts

Soviet space missions, 20, 27, 108

Sputnik 1, 11, 64

Vostok 1, 15

Vostok 2, 16

Vostok 3, 19

space exploration, 12, 21, 109

benefits, 112–115

cost, 58, 106, 108, 112

future, 115–117

space shuttle program, 106, 108–110, 116

Challenger, 109

Columbia, 109

Discovery, 109, 113

space suits, 16, 19–21, 59, 66, 94, 99, 103, 114

space technology, 95, 112–115

space walk, 21, 102, 110

SpaceX Crew Dragon, 116

splashdown, 55–56, 60, 70–72, 76–83

superstition, 7

Swigert, Jack, 5, 9, 30–31, 38–39, 41, 43, 54, 64–65, 78–80, 82–85, 86–87, 91

education, 6

role in mission, 6, 39, 69, 71–72, 74–76

training, 6

television broadcasts, 8–9, 15, 39, 58, 60, 77–78, 80, 98, 100, 102

temperature, 28, 41, 51, 64, 66, 71–72, 78–79

thermal control roll, 48, 56–57, 63

unlucky 13, 7

waste, 66

water shortage, 29, 34, 37–38, 42, 44, 46–48, 50–51, 65–66, 91

what-if games, 81