Apollo in Perspective : Spaceflight Then and Now

Content: Cover
 Half Title
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Contents
 Introduction
 Acknowledgments
 1 Apollo in outline
 1.1 The mission
 1.2 The Moon
 1.3 The immediate future
 2 The best driver in physics
 2.1 The first voyage to the Moon
 2.2 On spacecraft and shopping trolleys
 2.3 The power of imagination
 2.4 Falling
 2.5 Forces during lift offâ#x80
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the astronauts
 2.6 Forces during lift offâ#x80
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the spacecraft
 2.7 Momentum
 2.8 The physics of rocket motors
 Intermission 1: The Saturn V booster rocket
 3 Rocketry
 3.1 Faltering starts
 3.2 Thrust
 3.3 Propellant. 3.4 Applying Newton's laws to a spacecraft3.5 Real rocket engines
 3.6 Staging
 3.7 A typical Saturn V launch
 3.8 Future developments in rocketry
 Intermission 2: From Mercury to Gemini
 4 Orbits and trajectories
 4.1 Hollywood gets it right
 4.2 Falling again
 4.3 Orbits
 4.4 Centripetal forces
 4.5 Gravity and orbits
 4.6 Other orbits
 4.7 Simulating gravity
 4.8 Changing orbits
 4.9 Flying to the Moon
 4.10 Trajectories to Mars
 4.11 Space stations
 5 The Apollo command and service modules
 5.1 Mission modes
 5.2 The command module
 5.3 The service module. Intermission 3: Inertial guidance and computersI3.1 The need for a guidance system
 I3.2 Guidance and control systems
 I3.3 The Apollo computer
 I3.4 The Apollo computer in perspective
 6 The lunar module
 6.1 Designing the first spacecraft
 6.2 The ascent stage
 6.3 The descent stage
 6.4 Space suits
 6.5 The lunar rover
 6.6 The ascent to orbit
 Intermission 4: The three 'ings'
 7 The shuttle and its followers
 7.1 The space shuttle
 7.2 Shuttle components and construction
 7.3 Assembling a shuttle
 7.4 Launching a shuttle
 7.5 Challenger
 7.6 What follows the shuttle?
 7.7 Other ideas. Intermission 5: The politics of Apollo8 Mars
 8.1 The modern scene
 8.2 Mars Direct
 8.3 Chemistry on Mars
 8.4 The NASA reaction
 8.5 Mars in the near future
 8.6 Mars in the more distant future
 Intermission 6: Godspeed John Glenn
 9 Journeys to the stars
 9.1 Motivations and timescales
 9.2 The ground rules
 9.3 Is warp drive possible?
 9.4 Orion and project Daedalus
 9.5 Laser propulsion
 9.6 Ramjet
 9.7 Antimatter drive
 9.8 Colony ships
 9.9 Wormholes
 9.10 Personal conclusions
 Appendix 1: Glossary
 Appendix 2: Apollo mission summary
 Appendix 3: Development of boosters. Appendix 4: Deriving some of the mathsAppendix 5: Further information
 Index.