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Apollo 11

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Apollo 11

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Auction Date:2019 Nov 06 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:15th Floor WeWork, Boston, Massachusetts, 02108, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Sought-after staple-bound official NASA manual entitled “Final Apollo 11 Flight Plan, AS-506/CSM-107/LM-5," 294 pages, 8 x 10.5, dated July 1, 1969, prepared by the Flight Planning Branch, Crew Procedures Division at the Manned Spacecraft Center. The manual is comprised of six sections: general summaries and schedules, update forms, detailed timeline, detailed test objectives, consumables, and flight plan summary. Front cover bears an affixed DBR label. In fine condition. As mankind's first lunar landing mission, the flight plan for Apollo 11 was among the most important of all documents prepared by NASA. A significant, detailed piece documenting the minute-by-minute plan for the historic voyage to the lunar surface.

Accompanied by the original NASA mailing envelope and by a letter of provenance from Jack Stone, the original owner of this manual: "I was a programmer working for a NASA contractor, Lockheed Electronics, on the Consumable Analysis Team during the Apollo missions...I used [this manual] to input data into a Univac 1108 computer about the various components of the CSM and the LM modules that required electricity. The fuel was oxygen and hydrogen. The task for my group was to ensure that the spacecraft had enough of both to power the fuel cells used to generate the required electricity. Post mission analysis revealed that our pre mission predictions were 95% of the actual."