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“Age of Aquarius,” 61, 83, 88 battery charge, 37–38, 67, Galileo experiment, 100
Apollo legacy, 107–117 71, 74 Gemini missions, 20–21, 35,
Apollo missions, 21–27, 35, battery failure, 62 42, 102
42, 97–106 budget cuts, 92, 106 Genesis Rock, 100
Apollo 1, 21–23 burns, 44–46, 49–50, geology, 5, 7, 94, 97–100,
8, 24, 54, 63 53–56, 62–63, 65, 72 102–103
Apollo 11, 23, 25, 35, 64, glitches, 9, 33, 61–62, 68
74, 89, 94–95 carbon dioxide scrubbing, Apollo 14, 92–93
Apollo 14, 90–92, 94–95 57–58 Apollo 15, 100
Apollo 15, 95, 97–100 command module, 28–29, Apollo 16, 101
Apollo 16, 95, 101–102 37, 39–40, 50, 59, 64, Apollo 17, 103–104
Apollo 17, 95, 102–106 67–68, 74, 91, 112
Apollo 13, 112 companies investing in space, Haise, Fred, 31, 43, 54, 59,
Apollo 13 conditions 12, 14–15, 74, 90, 61–62, 64–65, 72–73,
condensation, 64, 75 115–116 83–88, 92–93
food, 41–43, 48, 65–66 Blue Origin, 115 education, 5
living space, 38–39, 41, 57 SpaceX, 112, 116 infection, 65, 84
sleep deprivation, 48–49, Virgin Galactic, 115 role in mission, 6, 26,
56–57, 61, 65, 71 contamination.See quarantine 38–39, 46–48
temperature, 41, 57, 64, cosmonauts, 108 training, 5
66, 71–72 Alexei Leonov, 19 Haise, Mary, 60, 80
waste, 66 Gherman Titov, 16–17 heat shield, 17, 28, 37, 50–51,
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Mikhail Kornienko, 110 61, 74, 76, 78, 80
108 Valentina Tereshkova, Hidden Figures, 65
Aquarius, 29–31 19–20 Hubble Space Telescope,
jettison, 76 Yuri Gagarin, 15 113
lifeboat, 37–38, 40–41,
55, 61 dehydration. See water improvements after Apollo
powering up, 38–39 shortage 13, 91
role in mission, 39–40 docking, 21, 30–31, 64, 92, International Space Station
Virgin Galactic, 91 94, 101, 108, 110 (ISS), 109–112, 116
astronauts Iwo Jima, USS, 77, 80,
Alan Shepard, 13–15, 45, Earthrise, 24 82–85
92–94 See also photography
animal, 14–15, 107–108, 110 in space Johnson, Katherine, 64–65,
Buzz Aldrin, 23, 25, 77 engineers, 11–15, 23, 32, 86
Christa McAuliffe, 107, 109 34, 47, 58–59, 68, 74,
Ed White, 10, 21–22 89–91, 97–98, 103, landing checklist, 67–69,
first, 13, 14–15, 17, 19, 24, 117 75–76
60, 93–95, 102, 109 explosion, 9, 26, 28, 31–36, landing on Earth.See
Guion Bluford, 13 40–43, 46, 51, 58–59, splashdown
Gus Grissom, 13–14, 16, 61–62, 88–91, 109 Lost Moon: The Perilous
21–22 Voyage of Apollo 13
John Glenn, 13, 14–15, 17, flight controllers, 12, 22, 28, (Lovell and Kluger), 112
19, 64 32–38, 41–44, 46–51, Lovell, Jim, 8–9, 31, 34–35,
Mae Jemison, 13 53–56, 61–62, 67–68, 38–39, 43, 45–47,
Michael Collins, 23, 25 76, 78–81 62–64, 70, 72–73,
Neil Armstrong, 23, 25, flight directors, 34, 40 76–77, 82–84, 87–88,
77, 89 Gene Kranz, 33, 36, 44, 57, 112
qualifications, 12–13 79, 81 childhood, 4
Roger Chaffee, 22 Gerald Griffin, 51, 79 education, 4–5
Sally Ride, 13 Glynn Lunney, 50, 79 role in mission, 5, 26
Scott Kelly, 110 fuel cells, 29, 33–34, 36–37, 47 training, 5, 54–55

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