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. Estimated ( 6.6 x 4.3 to 2.8 ) meters.

• p138 COAS Crewman Optical Alignment Sight, aligned to target on LM

• p139 probe and drogue docking mechanism

• p149 "asteroid" J002E3 probably the S-IVB from Apollo 12

• p157 Unified S-Band, combination of all signals into one 2.1064 GHz (CSM) or 2.1018 GHz (LM) uplink carrier, used for distance and speed doppler. Transponder multiplied frequency by 240/221 for downlink.
• p160 Sextant telescope on opposite side of CM main hatch, 0.01 degree precision
• p161 SLOS = Star Line Of Sight.
• p163 Jim Lovell made P23 measurements and calculated state with P21 to within 500 meters of ground/doppler calculations
• p166