Word: lm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drift about 100 miles ahead of the Saturn 4B, the astronauts fired the service module's powerful propulsion engine twice in orbital maneuvers that once more brought them to a rendezvous with the spent second-stage rocket. This operation, too, had implications for the lunar mission; if the LM should become stranded in lunar orbit on the way to or from the Apollo command moduel, the larger craft would have to seek it out and dock with it to rescue the two astonauts aboard...
...McDivitt, David Scott and Russell Schweickart are scheduled to zoom into earth orbit aboard Apollo 9, the first complete moon package to be shot into space. In addition to the Saturn 5 rocket and the Apollo command and service modules, the package will include the trouble-plagued lunar module (LM) that is destined, eventually, to land on the moon. The mission will include space walks, rendezvous and docking maneuvers, and the first transfer in space of astronauts between Apollo and LM...
...shortly after launch). Any one of those items conceivably could cause trouble. But NASA nonetheless is optimistically planning for success. Says Metallurgist Thomas Paine, who this week replaced retiring NASA Administrator James Webb: "We have put great stress on the ability of the Apollo 9 crew to operate the LM. All subsequent crews will have extensive training in all of the activities required for lunar landing...
NASA is forging ahead with its plans for the first manned test flight of the Apollo spacecraft on Oct. 11. But a De cember mission, in which astronauts were to have rendezvoused and docked their Apollo command ship with an LM, has been pushed back until February by problems in the Grumman-built module. In place of the LM flight, a manned Apollo flight has now been scheduled for December, the first to be powered by the mighty Saturn 5 rocket...
Mascon Troubles. NASA is confident that it can speedily solve the troubles of the LM, which is designed to carry two astronauts to the surface of the moon while the third remains in lunar orbit in the Apollo command module. Tests have shown that most of the LM's troubles are electrical, and technicians at Cape Kennedy are busily rewiring the spacecraft, shielding circuits and replacing switches...