Heiken / Jones On the Moon

The Apollo Journals
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-48940-7
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 492 Seiten

Reihe: Space Exploration

This book explains how the Apollo crews learned to work on the lunar surface. Its lively and informative text draws heavily on transcripts and photographs to illustrate points. It puts the reader on the lunar surface with the astronauts, sharing their observations, excitement, and frustrations. The book describes the challenging yet exhilarating lunar environment facing the Apollo astronauts, and reveals their courageous, sometimes creative and occasionally humorous adaptation to the field conditions on another planet. Recent interviews with the astronauts are included in which they recall their thoughts after more than 25 years of reflection.

Grant Heiken worked for NASA during the Apollo and Skylab Programs, in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, as a geology instructor in the astronaut training program, and conducting independent research on lunar surface processes, including volcanism. He is a co-editor of 'Lunar Sourcebook-A User's Guide to the Moon' (Cambridge University Press). In 1975 he moved to the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (now the Los Alamos National Laboratory) in New Mexico, where he worked in geothermal exploration and development, volcanic hazard analysis, the uses of volcanic rocks, basic research in explosive volcanism, and integrated urban science. Eric Jones has a lifetime background in space exploration-related science. He visited NASA Johnson in 1988 to examine transcripts of the Apollo missions in an effort to understand what is involved in getting work done on the Moon. Subsequent discussions with Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt led to the idea of creating the 'Apollo Lunar Surface Journal' to document the activities of the Apollo lunar surface crews in a manner analogous to the exploration journals of Captain James Cook and others. During 1989-92, he conducted minute-by-minute mission reviews with nine of the twelve moonwalking astronauts so that readers of the could understand, in detail, what was done, how it was done, and how the crews trained before hand. Portions of the Journal first appeared on the World Wide Web in 1995 and, although all of the transcripts and astronaut comments had been added by 1998, photographs, background documents, and additional commentary are still being added in mid-2006. The Journal is hosted by NASA at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj and is generally considered to be the authoritative source for information about the activities of the lunar surface crews. In Heiken and Jones we have the ideal authors for this project.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heiken, Grant

Jones, Eric

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;On the Moon;2
2;Grant Heiken and Eric Jones;3
3;Contents;5
4;Foreword;6
5;Preface;9
6;Adapting to a New World;12
7;Pinpoint Landings Great Science^ and a Lot of Fun;38
8;A Damned Hard Walk Followed by a Little Golf;128
9;The Lunar Dune Buggy;212
10;Drilling Troubles;268
11;The Descartes Highlands - High Land But No Volcanoes;338
12;The Volcanoes of Taurus- Littrow - Explosive Volcanism on the Moon;372
13;Boulder Rolling - the Last Apollo EVA;400
14;Lessons from Apollo for Future Operations on the Moon;462
15;Afterword - The Spirit of Exploration;486
16;Acronyms;488
17;Suggested Reading;490
18;Sources for Figures;492
19;Index;495