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over a decade of effort by the Marshall

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Space Flight Center and the Saturn

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Apollo industrial contractors was

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culminated this report period with two

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highly successful launchings of Saturn

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five vehicles four manned lunar landing

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missions Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 on the

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morning of July 16th 1969 the sixth

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Saturn five flight vehicle lifted off

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from the Kennedy Space Center's launch

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complex 39b for the beginning of

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mankind's most historic undertaking the

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first manned landing on the moon

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the launch vehicle designated Apollo

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Saturn 506 developed and manufactured by

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the Marshall Center and its industrial

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team performed its mission almost

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flawlessly as it carried astronauts Neil

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Armstrong Edwin Aldrin and Michael

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Collins aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft

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on their epic journey to the lunar

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surface engineering evaluation of flight

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data indicated no significant deviations

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from the flight program with all mission

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objectives attained the s1c stages

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center f1 engine cutoff at 2 minutes 15

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seconds the four outboard engines shut

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down at 2 minutes 41 seconds all staging

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sequences were performed within seconds

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or even fractions of a second of their

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predicted times separation of the S 1 C

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and s 2 stages occurred at 2 minutes 42

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seconds into flight S 2 ignition was

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achieved at 2 minutes 43 seconds S 2

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Center J 2 engine cutoff came at 7

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minutes 40 seconds into the flight with

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s 2 outboard engines cutoff at 9 minutes

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8 seconds separation of the s 2 and s 4

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B stages occurred at 9 minutes 9 seconds

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and s 4 B Agnes

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two tenths of a second later the first

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burn of the s4b stage lasting two

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minutes 30 seconds established a

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circular parking orbit around the earth

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of 103 nautical miles precisely as

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planned during the second revolution the

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s4b stage was reignited on schedule two

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hours 44 minutes 16 seconds after launch

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time for a five minute 44 second burn to

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achieve translunar injection after

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transposition docking and ejection of

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the Apollo 11 spacecraft residual

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propellants in the s4b

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were used to increase the separation of

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the stage in spacecraft trajectories and

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to dispose of the stage into a solar

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orbit the accuracy with which the s4b

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second burn had sent the three

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astronauts on their moon word coast

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trajectory was such that only one of

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four planned mid-course Corrections

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proved necessary as astronaut Colin

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circled the moon in the spacecraft's

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command and service module codenamed

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Columbia brother space travelers

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descended to the surface in their lunar

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module the Eagle landing at 3:18 p.m.

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Sunday July 20th only four miles from

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their predicted landing site some six

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and a half hours later Neil Armstrong

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became the first man ever to set foot on

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the moon Edwin Aldrin followed the

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Apollo 11 commander some twenty minutes

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later the two men spent a total of 2

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hours and 32 minutes on the moon taking

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photographs gathering lunar material

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samples and deploying scientific

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experiment packages then a perfect

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liftoff from the lunar surface docking

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with the Columbia in lunar orbit firing

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of the spacecraft service propulsion

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system engine for trans Earth injection

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the fifty nine and a half hour coast

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near Hawaii all accomplished without

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mishap and the historic mission begun so

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successfully by the saturn v launch

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meanwhile preparations for the second

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lunar landing mission Apollo 12 were

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well underway at the beginning of this

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report period as the seventh saturn v

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its launch pad the astronaut crew for

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the Apollo 12 mission would be Charles

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flight readiness test was concluded on

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before launch began on October 24th and

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was finished five days later after final

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November 8th and proceeded with only a

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few minor problems with us event of the

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threatening skies which severely

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curtailed photographic coverage a s 507

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vehicle but these had no effect on

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despite some unanticipated events a.s

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of the low frequency vibrations of

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previous vehicles was recorded however

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qualification levels of components such

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as valves lines and electronic packages

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the stage being placed on the proper

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trajectory as shown in this non scale

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animation sequence the s4 B stage was

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disposed out by using residual

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nautical mile orbit while Gordon

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Charles Conrad became the third man ever

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to set foot on the moon with Alan bean

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stepping down shortly afterwards

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the two men left the lunar module twice

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they inspected the surveyor three

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unmanned spacecraft which had been sent

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then ascent from the moon surface

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docking with the orbiting command and

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successful mission meanwhile the final

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portion the instrument unit for the next

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platform electronics assembly a

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defective relay was discovered the

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assembly was removed and sent to the

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Marshall Center for repair in late

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third lunar landing mission the flight

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was postponed from its original March

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launch date in order to allow more time

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for scientific investigation between

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the s4b stage of 508 pushes Apollo 13

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seismometer left by Apollo 12 screw will

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of late June was rapidly affected with

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of workaround procedures allowing

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major delays cause of the s 1 C 11 fire

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a duct leading to one of the engines the

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damage stage was returned to the Michoud

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assembly facility in July for engine

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thousand dollars and delaying test

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schedules the s2 stage for the 10th

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tested in mid-november the s-1 sea stage

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successfully fired at MTF in early

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acceptance firing of the s4 be staged

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california acceptance firing of the

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final f1 production engine was performed

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for operation support and test have

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repaired or refurbished engines

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nozzle detached and fell about 45 feet

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causing a small hole in the forward

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bulkhead repair was effected by use of a

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doubler a pneumo static test was

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successfully conducted in mid-november

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lifecycle tests of the foil seal and

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doubler repair were also satisfactory no

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s two-stage delivery impact is foreseen

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operations and was in the pneumo static

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test and cleaning phases near the end of

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the report period production of s4b

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stages for saturn v flight vehicles

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the contractor McDonnell Douglas at its

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Huntington Beach California facility

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painting of s4b 512 was finished in

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November and the stage is now in storage

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post manufacturing check out of s4b 513

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neared completion assembly operations

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continued on s4b 514 with tank cleaning

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underway on 515 fabrication and assembly

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of saturn v instrument units is

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progressing at IBM Huntsville in late

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October a request for quotation was

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issued to IBM by the Marshall Center for

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six instrument units for the Saturn 5

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follow-on program launch vehicles by 15

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through 521 RFQ is for the six s1 c s2

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and s4 b stages were issued in november

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efforts by marshal and contractors to

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procure

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reduced-cost vehicles for the follow-on

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program are progressing well the basic

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concept for this procurement is to phase

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from an R&D mode to a production mode

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and procure the vehicles on a fixed

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price contract a follow-on reduced cost

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procurement plan for 30 f1 engines and

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the combination of 36 J 2 and J 2's

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engines from Rocketdyne is being studied

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by NASA batching of f1 and j2 production

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to better utilize production machine

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capabilities combined procurement of raw

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materials and revising mode of operation

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from development production to

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production only are expected to

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contribute significantly to reduced

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engine costs this is an artist's concept

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of the lunar roving vehicle for which

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the Boeing Company was selected by MSFC

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in November to be prime contractor the

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LRV will provide transportation on the

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moon for two astronauts and their

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collected lunar samples equipment and

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experiments this is a full-scale mock-up

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of the moon car the LRV will be needed

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for extended scientific investigation of

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the moon the first of four operational l

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RVs will be delivered by boeing in 1971

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the fourth wheeled vehicle will weigh

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approximately 400 pounds and will be

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about 10 feet long and eight feet wide

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electric motors will drive the LRV with

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silver zinc batteries providing power

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top speed will be about 10 miles per

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hour preliminary design and definition

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studies for a dual-mode LRV which could

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be either manned or unmanned will be

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performed by Grumman aircraft and the

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Bendix corporation the dual mode vehicle

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could be operated remotely from Earth

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while making long-range automated

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traverses across the moon with the

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report period just ending the saturn v

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launch vehicle has helped achieve the

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historic culmination of a decade of

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national effort and the dream of

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centuries man has walked upon the moon

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this is but the beginning of a new age

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of space exploration for the benefit of