posted 07-15-2022 12:00 AM               

RelaunchSpace reconstructs NASA flight plan for Apollo 11 moon landing

More than half a century since its pages served as humanity's first roadmap to the moon, NASA's Apollo 11 flight plan has been relaunched.

More than a simple reprint, this new edition from RelaunchSpace has been reconstructed from the ground up so that it appears exactly as it did when it was prepared in 1969 by the flight planning branch of the flight crew support division at the Manned Spacecraft Center (today, the Johnson Space Center) in Houston.

posted 07-15-2022 04:31 PM            

For instance, I have an Apollo 13 Final Flight Plan (dated March 16th, 1970) which was owned by a contractor working in the support room at Mission Control. The staples have been (carefully) removed to allow the pages of the "Revision A" document to be inserted. The later "Revision B" is also included, consisting of both extra pages for replacement/insertion and "pen and ink changes to be made on indicated pages." There are indeed a number of handwritten amendments. All of the pages (original, Revision A and Revision B) were originally held in a 5-ring binder, as can be seen from slight "stretch marks" to the ring-holes.

I realize this sounds like a sales-pitch, but the Flight Plan is not for sale. I'm just curious about whether a fully amended and updated Flight Plan is more desirable to collectors.

posted 07-16-2022 11:31 AM               

These documents were living documents in that they were under constant revision. Ideally any reissued collector's would reflect what the crew and flight controllers actually used complete with strike outs and new pages. And of course a Revision B will be worth more than Revision A, unless there is provenance Rev. A was owned by someone historically known (such as a FD or astronaut) or signed "Used in Training" for example.