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Old September 14th 04, 12:35 AM
Rusty Barton
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Default NASA PDF Mercury, Gemini, Apollo reports free online

I found these Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab PDF reports on the
NASA Technical Reports Server.

These are listed in the random order that I found them while
searching.

This should keep people busy for a while.

Most of these reports are hundreds of pages and tens of megabytes.


NASA Technical Reports Server
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/index.cgi?method=simple





Apollo operations handbook. Command and service module (spacecraft
012) - Apollo 1 - November 1966
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973061045.pdf

Apollo spacecraft familiarization: NASA support manual - December 1965
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1977078690.pdf

NASA support manual: Apollo spacecraft familiarization - December 1966
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974075010.pdf

The Mercury-Redstone project
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1967028606.pdf

Launch vehicle flight report - Nasa project Apollo Little Joe 2
qualification test vehicle 12-50-1 - September 1963
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1979076764.pdf

Launch vehicle handbook - August 1961
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1978071276.pdf

Little Joe II test launch vehicle - December 1964
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1978070078.pdf

Analysis of Apollo 12 lightning incident
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1972066106.pdf

Apollo operations handbook: Extravehicular mobility unit. Volume 1:
Apollo 15-17 - March 1971
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973064704.pdf

Apollo operations handbook: Extravehicular mobility unit. Volume 2:
Apollo 15-17 - March 1971
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973064705.pdf

Gemini program mission report gemini 12
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1979076631.pdf

Gemini program mission report, Gemini 9-A - GT-9 post flight analysis
report supplement
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1979076640.pdf

Gemini program mission report, Gemini 7
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1979076811.pdf

Gemini program mission report, gemini 6-a
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1979076749.pdf

Lunar module 7, 8, and 9 elementary functional diagrams
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1971070891.pdf

Lunar module 10 and sub elementary functional diagrams
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1971070889.pdf

Apollo Operatons Handbook Lunar Module (LM 11 and Subsequent) Vol. 2
Operational Procedures
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1971071423.pdf

Mercury spacecraft no. 15A configuration specification (Mercury-Atlas
No. 10)
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973065749.pdf

Project Mercury familiarization manual: NASA manned satellite capsule
- November 1961
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974076527.pdf

Mercury manned orbital capsule detail specification - August 1960
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1975069772.pdf

Project Mercury familiarization manual - December 1959
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1979077942.pdf

Mercury capsule no. 16 configuration specification (Mercury - Atlas
no. 8)
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973065328.pdf

Apollo 15 mission report, supplement 4
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973023018.pdf

Apollo 15 mission report: Apollo 15 guidance, navigation, and control
system performance analysis report
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973078842.pdf

Apollo 11 mission report, supplement 5: Performance of lunar module
reaction control systems
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1972018196.pdf

Service propulsion system final flight evaluation: Apollo 12 mission
report
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974077562.pdf

Apollo 9 mission report. Supplement 8: Descent propulsion system final
flight evaluation
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974077270.pdf

Apollo 12 mission report
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1976072997.pdf

Apollo 11 mission report - 1971 Version
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1971015566.pdf

Apollo 11 mission report - 1969 Version
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1970008096.pdf

Apollo 10 mission report. Supplement 7: Descent propulsion system
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973064164.pdf

Apollo 10 mission report - August 1969
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1976073014.pdf

Apollo 9 mission report. Supplement 3: LM abort guidance system
postflight analysis report
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1975064239.pdf

Apollo 5 mission report. Supplement 2: Apollo mission 5/AS-204/LM-1
trajectory reconstruction and postflight analysis, volume 1
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1975065841.pdf

Saturn SA-1 flight evaluation
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974074734.pdf

Saturn S-4B-205 stage (Apollo 7) flight evaluation report
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1970076411.pdf

Saturn 5 launch vehicle flight evaluation report: AS-501 Apollo 4
mission
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1990066482.pdf

Saturn 5 launch vehicle flight evaluation report: AS-508 Apollo 13
mission
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1990066486.pdf

Saturn 5 launch vehicle flight evaluation report: AS-506 Apollo 11
mission
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1990066485.pdf

Saturn 5 launch vehicle flight evaluation report-AS-512 Apollo 17
mission
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973025089.pdf

Saturn S-1B stage final flight report S-1B-8 (applicable to Skylab-4,
SA-208)
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1992075310.pdf

Technical Information Summary for Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7)
mission
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1975064567.pdf

Lunar excursion module familiarization manual - October 1965
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973060786.pdf

Project Mercury preliminary flight test results of the Big Joe,
Mercury R and D capsule
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1976067285.pdf

Surveyor program results Final report
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1969027073.pdf

Direct flight Apollo study. Volume 2: Gemini spacecraft applications
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1978072529.pdf

Gemini spacecraft study for MORL ferry missions
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1975069218.pdf

Project Apollo - A description of a Saturn C-3 and Nova vehicle - July
1961
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1979076768.pdf

The Apollo 'A'/Saturn C-1 launch vehicle system - July 1961
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973064291.pdf

Direct flight study using Saturn C-5 for Apollo project. Volume 1:
Summary
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974074842.pdf

Results of the third Saturn 1 SA-3 launch vehicle test flight
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974074318.pdf

Apollo systems description. Volume 2 - Saturn launch vehicles -
February 1964
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1971065502.pdf

Tail service mast design report. saturn v ground support equipment
launch complex 39
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1964014208.pdf

Apollo command module access arms, saturn ib, launch complexes 34 and
37 engineering report
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1964016454.pdf

Orbital payload potential: Saturn 1B earth launch vehicle using solid
propellant motors
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974076081.pdf

Saturn 5 launch vehicle digital computer. Volume 1: General
description and theory
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973063841.pdf

Results of the seventh Saturn 1 SA-7 launch vehicle test flight
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974074283.pdf

Advanced post-saturn earth launch vehicle study executive summary
report - February 1965
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1965007941.pdf

Saturn 1B/Centaur propulsion systems compatibility study - August 1965
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973064347.pdf

Apollo/Saturn 5 facility description. Volume 2 - Launch complex 39
facility description
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1970076250.pdf

Sa-9 vehicle and launch complex, functional description. launch pad
accessories, volume vii
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1965013588.pdf

Apollo/Saturn 5 - Launch complex 39, mobile launcher service arms,
operations and maintenance Technical manual
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1970007600.pdf

Saturn 5 flight manual SA-503
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1975063889.pdf

Apollo/Saturn 5 space vehicle selected structural element review
report, AS-503
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1969073000.pdf

Saturn 5 flight manual SA 507 - Apollo 12
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1979074184.pdf

Skylab Saturn 1B flight manual
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974021163.pdf

Project Apollo: A feasibility study of an advanced manned spacecraft
and system. Volume 9: Apollo program implementation plan - GE Apollo
Report - May 1961
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974073801.pdf

Apollo: Configuration - June 1961
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1975064557.pdf

Apollo Lunar Excursion Module - August 1962
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1976067000.pdf

Direct flight Apollo study. Volume 1: Two man Apollo spacecraft -
October 1962
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973064943.pdf

Direct flight Apollo study - October 1962
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1979077943.pdf

Manufacturing plan for Project Apollo: Lunar excursion module - May
1963
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1978075395.pdf

Project Apollo spacecraft description - September 1963
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1979076817.pdf

Modified Apollo logistics spacecraft - December 1963
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974073531.pdf

Postlaunch report for Apollo mission A-101 - June 1964
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1979077210.pdf

Postlaunch report for Apollo mission A-102 - October 1964
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1978071276.pdf

Apollo command and service module system specification /Block 1/ -
October 1964
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1979077122.pdf

Direct flight Apollo study. Volume 2: Gemini spacecraft applications -
October 1962
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1978072529.pdf

Program apollo flight mission directive Apollo Little Joe II mission
A-003, BP-22
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1979078425.pdf

Apollo mission simulator instructor handbook. Volume 1: Description -
July 1965
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973061044.pdf

Preliminary Apollo mission simulator instruction handbook. Volume 2:
Operation and utilization - July 1965
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973060784.pdf

Apollo flight mission assignments - September 1965
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1979076757.pdf

Postlaunch report for mission AS-201 (Apollo spacecraft 009)
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1975065090.pdf

Apollo spacecraft 011: Postlaunch report for mission AS-202
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974075039.pdf

The Apollo parachute landing system - September 1968
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973062665.pdf

Apollo visibility handbook - October 1968
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1969067137.pdf

Apollo command and service module stabilization and control system
design survey - December 1968
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1969023263.pdf


Apollo 13: Lunar exploration experiments and photography summary -
February 1970
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1977075651.pdf


Analysis of Surveyor 3 material and photographs returned by Apollo 12
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1972019081.pdf

On the moon with Apollo 15: A guidebook to Hadley Rille and the
Apennine Mountains
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1972026129.pdf

Skylab reactivation mission report
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1980012907.pdf







- Rusty Barton

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Old September 14th 04, 07:13 AM
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:35:45 -0700, Rusty Barton
wrote:

I found these Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab PDF reports on the
NASA Technical Reports Server.

These are listed in the random order that I found them while
searching.

This should keep people busy for a while.

Most of these reports are hundreds of pages and tens of megabytes.


NASA Technical Reports Server
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/index.cgi?method=simple





Here are a few more PDF files:

Skylab: Command service module systems handbook, CSM 116 - 119
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1972067844.pdf

Skylab Saturn 1B flight manual
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974021163.pdf

MSFC Skylab program engineering and integration
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974024202.pdf

MSFC Skylab crew systems mission evaluation
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974024203.pdf

Liberty Bell 7 Recovery Evaluation and Nondestructive Testing
http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/ltr...9-tm209824.pdf

The Vanguard satellite launching vehicle: An engineering summary
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974072500.pdf

Transonic aerodynamic characteristics of the dyna-soar glider and
Titan 3 launch vehicle configuration with various fin arrangements
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1972065896.pdf


- Rusty Barton
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Old September 14th 04, 10:26 AM
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Rusty Barton wrote:

I found these Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab PDF reports on the
NASA Technical Reports Server.

Direct flight Apollo study. Volume 2: Gemini spacecraft applications
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1978072529.pdf


Gemini spacecraft study for MORL ferry missions
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1975069218.pdf


Advanced post-saturn earth launch vehicle study executive summary
report - February 1965
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1965007941.pdf


Project Apollo: A feasibility study of an advanced manned spacecraft
and system. Volume 9: Apollo program implementation plan - GE Apollo
Report - May 1961
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974073801.pdf



Direct flight Apollo study. Volume 1: Two man Apollo spacecraft -
October 1962
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973064943.pdf

Direct flight Apollo study - October 1962
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1979077943.pdf

Direct flight Apollo study. Volume 2: Gemini spacecraft applications -
October 1962
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1978072529.pdf





I'm drooling! THANK YOU!

Pat

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Old September 14th 04, 10:35 AM
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Rusty Barton wrote:


The Vanguard satellite launching vehicle: An engineering summary
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974072500.pdf

Transonic aerodynamic characteristics of the dyna-soar glider and
Titan 3 launch vehicle configuration with various fin arrangements
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1972065896.pdf




Jeezus H. Christ! It's like he walks in with the complete Library of
Alexandria on DVD ROM!
I'm going to be busy for days! :-) :-) :-)

Pat

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Old September 14th 04, 11:30 AM
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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 04:35:44 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:



Rusty Barton wrote:


The Vanguard satellite launching vehicle: An engineering summary
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974072500.pdf

Transonic aerodynamic characteristics of the dyna-soar glider and
Titan 3 launch vehicle configuration with various fin arrangements
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1972065896.pdf




Jeezus H. Christ! It's like he walks in with the complete Library of
Alexandria on DVD ROM!
I'm going to be busy for days! :-) :-) :-)

Pat


All that searching, and I still didn't find the missing Satrun V
blueprints. ;-)

I also sent this list to Bob Andrepont for his PDF webpage. He said
NASA must have just added these recently. He had searched the
site a few month's ago and they were not there at that time.



-Rusty
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Old September 14th 04, 02:53 PM
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Rusty Barton wrote:


I also sent this list to Bob Andrepont for his PDF webpage. He said
NASA must have just added these recently. He had searched the
site a few month's ago and they were not there at that time.


No kidding. A great many of the titles sounded familiar; I downloaded 'em and
realized why: I bought the damend things from NASA-CASI over the past 10 years. I
shudder to imagine how many hundreds of dollars I've spent that could've been simply
downloaded if CASI had beena little faster...

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Old September 14th 04, 02:54 PM
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Rusty Barton wrote:


All that searching, and I still didn't find the missing Satrun V
blueprints. ;-)


Inboard profiles? I've got a few of those...




I also sent this list to Bob Andrepont for his PDF webpage. He said
NASA must have just added these recently. He had searched the
site a few month's ago and they were not there at that time.


No kidding. A great many of the titles sounded familiar; I downloaded 'em and
realized why: I bought the damend things from NASA-CASI over the past 10 years. I
shudder to imagine how many hundreds of dollars I've spent that could've been simply
downloaded if CASI had beena little faster...

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Old September 14th 04, 04:54 PM
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
...
I'm drooling!


Odie! Bad dog!


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Old September 14th 04, 09:01 PM
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Somebody stop me! ;-)

Challenge To Apollo: The Soviet Union and The Space Race, 1945-1974 by
Asif A Siddiqi
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...2000122281.pdf

Emergency earth orbital escape device study. Volume 4: Apollo
applications - January 1969
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1978075338.pdf

Skylab Experience Bulletin no. 6: Space garments for IVA wear (These
fashions a so 1973)
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1984072546.pdf

MSFC Skylab crew systems mission evaluation
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974024203.pdf

Soviet space stations as analogs, second edition
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1987012563.pdf

Deep Space Chronicle: A Chronology of Deep Space and Planetary Probes
1958-2000
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...2002087773.pdf

- Rusty Barton
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Old September 15th 04, 05:23 AM
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On 14 Sep 2004 13:01:58 -0700, (Rusty B)
wrote:

Challenge To Apollo: The Soviet Union and The Space Race, 1945-1974 by
Asif A Siddiqi
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...2000122281.pdf

....Oh. Dear. God. This is now available online???

Note to group: Grab this *now*. DO NOT HESITATE! This is probably the
best read on what the Commies were doing over there during the Space
Race, and has to be read on the same level of importance as "Korolev"
and RSIO.

OM

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