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| ----- A useful reference, which I cannot afford to add to my groaning library. Borrowed January 2017 ----- === Notes: === .p118 ARIA: Apollo Range Instrumentation Aircraft, EC-135 (like Boeing 707) that relayed voice and recording telemetry. .p127 PAD: pre-advisory data, spoken numbers uplinked to astronauts to a small form, used for navigation and manual operation in the event of automatic equipment failure .p130 passing through van Allen belt at "10 km/s": minutes through the inner belt protons, 1.5 hours through the outer belt electrons. In lunar orbital plane, not through the densest equatorial portions of the belts. .p133 '''EMS''' Entry Monitor System .p134 '''TD&E''' Transposition, docking, and extraction of LM .p136 [[ https://history.nasa.gov/diagrams/ad003.gif | SLA (spacecraft LM adapter) panel]], 4 panels per mission, as many as 36 in heliocentric orbit. 6.6 meter diameter S-IVB (third) stage to 3.9 meter diameter service module. . |
How Apollo Flew to the Moon
W. David Woods, Praxis 2011, second edition ISBN 978-1-4419-7178-4, Central 629.454 w868h 2011
A useful reference, which I cannot afford to add to my groaning library. Borrowed January 2017
Notes:
- p118 ARIA: Apollo Range Instrumentation Aircraft, EC-135 (like Boeing 707) that relayed voice and recording telemetry.
- p127 PAD: pre-advisory data, spoken numbers uplinked to astronauts to a small form, used for navigation and manual operation in the event of automatic equipment failure
- p130 passing through van Allen belt at "10 km/s": minutes through the inner belt protons, 1.5 hours through the outer belt electrons. In lunar orbital plane, not through the densest equatorial portions of the belts.
p133 EMS Entry Monitor System
p134 TD&E Transposition, docking, and extraction of LM
p136 SLA (spacecraft LM adapter) panel, 4 panels per mission, as many as 36 in heliocentric orbit. 6.6 meter diameter S-IVB (third) stage to 3.9 meter diameter service module.
