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Apollo Entry

From Apollo mission reports here

Apollo 7 and 9 were earth orbit, slower reentry. Apollo 8 and 10 through 17 were lunar missions with high speed reentry of the command module. Apollo 11,12, and 14-17 were landing missions.

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Apollo 8

  • Mission report

  • page 5-10, 53/252 TABLE 5-V . - ENTRY TRAJECTORY PARAMETERS
  • Entry at 400 kft (122 km) at 146:46:12.8
  • page 6-67 to 6-69 entry graphs

Entry Monitor System Scroll

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Roll

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Apollo 10

  • Mission report

  • page 6-13, 54/323 TABLE 6-VI I . - ENTRY TRAJECTORY PARAMETERS
  • Entry at 400 kft (122 km) at 191:48:54.5

Entry Monitor System Scroll

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Apollo 11

  • Mission report

  • page 7-12 120/359 TABLE 7-VI I . - ENTRY TRAJECTORY PARAMETERS
  • Entry at 400 kft (122 km) at 195:03:05.7
  • Entry Postflight Analysis

    • 1st maximum load factor 6.73g 31,810ft/s
    • 1st minimum load factor 0.48g 20,500ft/s
    • 2nd maximum load factor 6.00g 12,390ft/s

Table III

EI time

Load g

V f/s

range n mi

° Bank

Rdot f/s

0:00

0.000

36190

1593

0:28

0.049

36276

1418

0:30

36277

0.0

-3186

1:18

-666

1:30

30176

54.43

211

1:56

1.057

22091

-86.68

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Apollo 12

  • Mission report

  • page 5-14 98/310 TABLE 5-IX . - ENTRY TRAJECTORY PARAMETERS
  • Entry at 400 kft (122 km) at 244:22:19.1


Apollo 13

  • Mission report

  • page 9-17, two brief paragraphs about entry and landing (useless)


Apollo 14

  • Mission report

  • page 5-28, two brief paragraphs about entry and landing (useless)


Apollo 15

  • Mission report

  • page 114, two brief paragraphs about entry and landing (useless)


Apollo 16

  • Mission report

  • page 9-56, "entry deceleration exceeded 7 gees" (semi-useless)


Apollo 17


ApolloEntry (last edited 2017-11-22 23:14:55 by KeithLofstrom)