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
  • velocity 36 221 ft/s ( 11 040 m/s)
  • flight path angle -6.50 degrees, ( 0.114 slope )
  • maximum velocity 36 303 ( 11 065 m/s )
  • maximum acceleration 6.84 gees
• page 6-67 to 6-69 entry graphs

Entry Monitor System Scroll, Gees vs Velocity

Roll vs Mission Elapsed Time

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
  • velocity 36 314 ft/sec (11 068 m/s)
  • flight-path angle -6.54 degrees ( slope 0.115 )
  • maximum velocity 36 397 ft/s ( 11 094 m/s)
  • maximum acceleration 6.78 gees

• Entry Postflight Analysis

Entry Monitor System Scroll, Gees vs velocity

Roll and Altitude vs Ground Elapsed Time

Gees and Lift/Drag vs Ground Elapsed Time

Range and Vertical Velocity vs Ground Elapsed Time

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
  • velocity 36 194.4 ft/sec (11 032 m/s)
  • flight-path angle -6.48 degrees ( slope 0.114 )
  • maximum velocity 36 227.4 ft/s ( 11 042 m/s)
  • maximum acceleration 6.51 gees

• 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

Entry Monitor System Scroll, Gees vs Velocity

Roll and Altitude vs Time from Entry Interface

Gees vs Time from Entry Interface and Lift/Drag vs Mach Number (velocity)

Range and Vertical Velocity vs Time from Entry Interface

Velocity vs Time from Entry Interface

Apollo 12

• Mission report

• page 5-14 96/310 TABLE 5-IX . - ENTRY TRAJECTORY PARAMETERS
  • Entry at 400 kft (122 km) at 244:22:19.1
  • velocity 36 116 ft/sec (11 008 m/s)
  • flight-path angle -6.48 degrees ( slope 0.108 )

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 Mission report page 190, no trajectory data (useless)