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
- 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
Roll
Entry Monitor System Scroll
Apollo 10
- 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
Apollo 11
- page 7-12 120/359 TABLE 7-VI I . - ENTRY TRAJECTORY PARAMETERS
- Entry at 400 kft (122 km) at 195:03:05.7
- 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 |
|
Apollo 12
- page 5-14 98/310 TABLE 5-IX . - ENTRY TRAJECTORY PARAMETERS
- Entry at 400 kft (122 km) at 244:22:19.1
Apollo 13
- page 9-17, two brief paragraphs about entry and landing (useless)
Apollo 14
- page 5-28, two brief paragraphs about entry and landing (useless)
Apollo 15
- page 114, two brief paragraphs about entry and landing (useless)
Apollo 16
- page 9-56, "entry deceleration exceeded 7 gees" (semi-useless)
Apollo 17
- page 190, no trajectory data (useless)