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episode 83: How Apollo Flew to the Moon
This episode is a conversation with W. David Woods about his wonderful book How Apollo Flew to the Moon where he describes in great length all the detail a geek wants to know about how the Apollo spacecraft and the flights to the Moon worked. In the episode, we basically go through an Apollo mission and discuss aspects such as the mission structure, the workshare between the crew and mission control, communication and telemetry, guidance and navigation, approach, landing and re-launch on the Moon as well as re-entry and landing on earth.
- Apollo Flight Journal
- How Apollo Flew to the Moon: David’s Site, and at Amazon
- Saturn V
- Apollo
- John Houbolt
- Hohmann transfer orbit
- Inertial measurement unit
- Apollo Guidance Computer
- DSKY
- Unified S-Band
- Quindar tones
- 8 Ball (you can buy it :-))
- REFSMAAT
- PAD
- Hypergolics
- Celestial mechanics