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Topic: Tracking Apollo to the Moon (Hamish Lindsay)
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Philip Member Posts: 5952 From: Brussels, Belgium Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 07-02-2001 02:42 AM
Does anyone know this new book, "Tracking Apollo to the Moon" by Hamish Lindsay (ISBN 1-85233-212-3)? |
tegwilym Member Posts: 2331 From: Sturgeon Bay, WI Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 07-02-2001 08:55 AM
I saw a copy of that book in a bookstore here in Seattle. It looks like a good one, and another one that I must add to my Apollo library. |
cspg Member Posts: 6210 From: Geneva, Switzerland Registered: May 2006
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posted 08-05-2014 11:09 AM
Tracking Apollo to the Moon by Hamish Lindsay One of the wonderful aspects of the U.S. manned spaceflight program was the opportunity for people around the entire globe to participate in one of man's greatest adventures. "As we laid out the plans for flying the first manned spaceflight program, it was obvious that we would require extensive operations around the earth. One of the most challenging features of this plan was to build a world-wide network of tracking stations to provide communications with the orbiting spacecraft. At the time, about 1958 and 59, the construction of these facilities, in what turned out to be some very interesting pieces of geography, was a tremendous task." — Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. Australia is located roughly 180 degrees longitude from the launch site, Cape Canaveral, and so occupied not only a unique position but a very critical one. Determining the position of the spacecraft as it traversed the Australian continent was critical to the orbit determination. This set of parameters was necessary to properly manage the entire operation. Such things as the time of retrofire, paramount to recovery of the crew, and the information required for signal acquisition at each of the tracking sites around the world are but two examples. Also, because the status of the astronaut and the spaceship were extremely critical to the decision-making process, the stations down under provided vital data to evaluate the progress and to allow the flight control team to manage the problems that inevitably developed. - Paperback: 428 pages
- Publisher: Springer; Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001 edition (September 12, 2014)
- ISBN-10: 1447110641
- ISBN-13: 978-1447110644
Note: I don't remember having paid that much for this book and my copy has a different cover. |
One Big Monkey Member Posts: 169 From: West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2012
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posted 08-06-2014 11:33 PM
There are cheaper copies to be had second hand - I wasn't aware of this book and have just bought one for under £20 on Amazon. |
Dwight Member Posts: 576 From: Germany Registered: Dec 2003
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posted 08-07-2014 12:24 PM
I took my copy to Fresnedillas in Spain for the Apollo 11 40th celebrations, and got all the tracking crew to sign it! Just need to HSK and Golstone guys to make it a real gem! |
Mike_The_First Member Posts: 436 From: USA Registered: Jun 2014
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posted 09-07-2017 02:27 AM
I was just skimming back through the Apollo mission sections of the book to refresh my memory of some details and I noticed some details that were either too oversimplified at best or inaccurate at worst.The biggest one that jumped out at me in quick perusal was in the Apollo 12 part: Aaron quickly called Capcom Jerry Carr on the voice loop to tell the spacecraft, "Flight, try SCE to Aux." I'm a bit surprised to notice this, honestly, as, from what I've seen in the past (I'm yet to read it cover to cover, just specific parts when I need a refresher), the book has seemed pretty accurate, and this is a really amateurish mistake. Is this sort of issue common in this book or did my eyes just happen to land on the only problem?Any chance it was corrected in later printings? | |
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