Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations

Edited by Edgar M. Cortright

By Charles D. Benson and William Barnaby Faherty

CONTENTS

CHAPTERS

  1. The First Steps
  2. Launch Complex 34
  3. Launching the First Saturn I Booster
  4. Origins of the Mobile Moonport
  5. Acquiring a Launch Site
  6. LC-39 Plans Take Shape
  7. The Launch Directorate Becomes an Operational Center
  8. Funding the Project
  9. Apollo Integration
  10. Saturn I Launches (1962 - 1965)
  11. Ground Plans for Outer Space Ventures
  12. From Designs to Structures
  13. New Devices for New Deeds
  14. Socio-Economic Problems on the Space Coast
  15. Putting It All Together: LC-39 Site Activation
  16. Automating Launch Operations
  17. Launching the Saturn 1B
  18. The Fire That Seared the Spaceport
  19. The Trial Run
  20. Man on Apollo
  21. Success
  22. A Slower Pace: Apollo 12 - 14
  23. Extended Lunar Exploration: Apollo 15 - 17
  24. Five Years After

APPENDIXES

  1. Launches of Saturn 1B and Saturn V
  2. Launch Complex 39
  3. Apollo 9 (AS-504) Countdown
  4. Apollo 11 (AS-506) LC-39 Processing
  5. Apollo 14 (AS-509) Countdown

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