Author: NASA
Title: Code-Name: Spider Flight of Apollo 9
Description: Washington D. C.: NASA, 1969. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Color Illustrations; NASA brochure #Ep68. This is an oversized, thin brochure with self covers and a stapled spine. The brochure is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The text pages are clean and bright. There is one tiny crease to the top rear corner of the brochure. "Apollo 9 was the first space test of the complete Apollo spacecraft, including the third critical piece of Apollo hardware besides the Command/Service Module and the Saturn V launch vehicle—the Lunar Module. It was also the first space docking of two vehicles with an internal crew transfer between them. For ten days, the astronauts put both Apollo spacecraft through their paces in Earth orbit, including an undocking and redocking of the LM with the CSM, just as the landing mission crew would perform in lunar orbit. Apollo 9 gave proof that the Apollo spacecraft were up to this critical task, on which the lives of lunar landing crews would depend. For this and all subsequent Apollo flights, the crews were allowed to name their own spacecraft (the last spacecraft to have been named was Gemini 3). The gangly LM was named Spider, and the CSM was labeled Gumdrop because of the Command Module's shape, and because of the blue wrapping in which the craft arrived at Kennedy Space Center. These names were required as radio call signs when the vehicles flew independently.". Very Good+ .
Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Apollo 9 Code Name Spider Gumdrop Lunar Modules Spacecraft
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Title: Code-Name: Spider Flight of Apollo 9
Description: Washington D. C.: NASA, 1969. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Color Illustrations; NASA brochure #Ep68. This is an oversized, thin brochure with self covers and a stapled spine. The brochure is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The text pages are clean and bright. There is one tiny crease to the top rear corner of the brochure. "Apollo 9 was the first space test of the complete Apollo spacecraft, including the third critical piece of Apollo hardware besides the Command/Service Module and the Saturn V launch vehicle—the Lunar Module. It was also the first space docking of two vehicles with an internal crew transfer between them. For ten days, the astronauts put both Apollo spacecraft through their paces in Earth orbit, including an undocking and redocking of the LM with the CSM, just as the landing mission crew would perform in lunar orbit. Apollo 9 gave proof that the Apollo spacecraft were up to this critical task, on which the lives of lunar landing crews would depend. For this and all subsequent Apollo flights, the crews were allowed to name their own spacecraft (the last spacecraft to have been named was Gemini 3). The gangly LM was named Spider, and the CSM was labeled Gumdrop because of the Command Module's shape, and because of the blue wrapping in which the craft arrived at Kennedy Space Center. These names were required as radio call signs when the vehicles flew independently.". Very Good+ .
Keywords: Aeronautics / Astronautics Apollo 9 Code Name Spider Gumdrop Lunar Modules Spacecraft
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 36396
- Book number: 36396
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