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First Steps Planted Moon Foothold July 10, 2009 Vol. 49, No. 14 www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/news/snews/spnews_ Inside . First steps planted moon foothold By Kay Grinter moon at 1:54 p.m. July 21. Reference Librarian Now, 40 years later, hat a difference preparations are under way a day makes! for astronauts to return to the WThe Apollo 11 moon. President George W. astronauts’ sojourn on the Bush unveiled a new vision 2 lunar surface was a mere for space exploration in Janu- 21 hours, 36 minutes, but that ary 2004, calling on NASA Director’s Note single day made a permanent to “gain a new foothold on impact on the history of the the moon and to prepare for human race. new journeys to the worlds The lunar module Eagle beyond our own.” NASA’s descended to the Sea of new initiative to return to the Tranquility on July 20, 1969, moon was named the Con- carrying Neil Armstrong and NASA fi le/1969 stellation Program. The designs of the Buzz Aldrin into the his- In one of the most iconic images of the 20th century, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin explores 3 tory books. Michael Collins the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969. launch vehicles and crew orbited above the moon’s capsule envisioned for use Rockets surface in the command mod- him describe the feat as “one the project, every guy at the in the Constellation Program ule Columbia. The legs of the small step for a man, one gi- bench building something, are in progress. The Ares I lunar module made contact at ant leap for mankind.” every assembler, every and Ares V rockets are slated 4:18 p.m. EDT. Of course, the plan was inspector, every guy that’s to carry future crews and Armstrong reported put in motion May 25, 1961, setting up the tests, cranking supplies to the International to mission control, “Hous- by President John F. Kennedy the torque wrench, and so on, Space Station and on to the ton, Tranquility Base here in an address to Congress. is saying, man or woman, ‘If moon, much as the Saturn -- the Eagle has landed,” and However, Armstrong ac- anything goes wrong here, it’s I and Saturn V vehicles did 4 received the reply, “Roger, knowledged in an interview not going to be my fault, be- during Apollo. Tranquility. We copy you on for NASA’s Johnson Space cause my part is going to be The fi rst crewed fl ight Modules the ground. You got a bunch Center Oral History Project, better than I have to make it.’ of the Orion spacecraft to the of guys about to turn blue. the contribution made by And when you have hundreds space station is targeted for We are breathing again.” every worker in the interven- of thousands of people all 2015. Altair’s fi rst landing on Armstrong took human- ing eight years led to the doing their job a little better the moon with an astronaut ity’s fi rst step on the moon at success of that fi rst landing than they have to, you get an crew is planned for 2020. 10:56 p.m. Some 600 million and the reliable operation of improvement in performance. The hope is that another viewers on Earth -- one-fi fth the hardware in the Apollo And that’s the only reason we day will come when NASA of the world population Program. could have pulled this whole can say once more: “We 5 -- watched the live televi- “I can only attribute that thing off,” Armstrong said. came in peace for all man- sion transmission and heard to the fact that every guy in The Eagle lifted off the kind.” Launch Pads 8 9 10 11 12 VAB Parachutes Science Experiments Community Work Force Page 2 SPACEPORT NEWS: The First Steps - Apollo to Constellation July 10, 2009 Remember triumphs, keep looking ahead orty years ago, humans set foot on during its beginning. A lot can happen in the moon for the first time, a journey 10 years; just look up in the night sky when of some 230,000 miles that took Director’s the station is making a twilight pass over- F head. I truly believe that if we can dream it, four days to complete and began right here on Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Update we can make it happen. Center. There are some of you who were We have an amazing team here at Kenne- here for that historic event, but for many of Bob Cabana dy, and in spite of all the challenges in front our Kennedy work force, it’s a memory from Kennedy Space Center Director of us, this is a great time to be part of space a grainy black-and-white TV or something exploration. The shuttle is unequalled in what they read about in history class. It’s time to it can do, the station is nearing completion change that. and will reach its full potential in the years Kennedy is once again preparing to Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite. ahead. The Launch Services Program send humans beyond low Earth orbit in a These missions will accurately map the lunar leads the way in the delivery of scien- spirit of exploration and discovery. Only surface and search for the presence of water- tific and robotic missions that pave the this time when we return to the moon, it ice on the moon, preparing the way for an way for human exploration, and the will be for weeks at a time instead of days, extended human presence. Constellation Program is laying the and we will be establishing the infrastruc- Change is all around us at Kennedy as foundation here at Kennedy to once ture we need to travel even further from we prepare for the Constellation Program. In again explore beyond the confines our home planet. the Vehicle Assembly Building, the Ares I-X of low Earth orbit. None of this On June 18, we took the first steps to- vehicle is being stacked and checked out for would be possible without your ward this future with the successful launch a flight test later this year. Modifications are dedication and service. of the Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s being made to Launch Pad 39B to support the So as we take time this month Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Lunar Ares I-X flight test and the follow-on Ares to remember our triumphs of I rocket. Construction continues on the new 40 years ago, let’s also take mobile launcher for Ares I. At the beginning time to celebrate the accom- of this year, we held a ceremony to com- plishments of today as a new memorate the activation of the Operations generation of Kennedy work- and Checkout Facility high bay, which ers prepare to take us back to will serve as the final assembly the moon and beyond. This facility for the Orion crew ex- is a great time to be part ploration vehicle. In the facility of the Kennedy team. that once processed the Apollo command and service modules Keep charging! for our first trips to the moon, we will now be processing the Bob Orion spacecraft for our future trips there. With all that’s going on, it’s tough to stay focused on the task at hand sometimes, but that’s exactly what we must do. This means executing the remaining shuttle missions and completing the International Space Station in a flawless manner. At my last All-Hands Meeting, I made the comparison of the current status of the Constellation Program with where the International Space Station program was Background: Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan adjusts the U.S. flag on the moon’s surface. Apollo 17 was the seventh and last crewed lunar landing. July 10, 2009 SPACEPORT NEWS: The First Steps - Apollo to Constellation Page 3 Ares rockets model Saturn V successful design By Steve Siceloff two years later, a booster just like I design. Called Ares I-X, the Spaceport News it would propel astronauts to the mission is meant to evaluate the surface of the moon. first stage by launching an upper onstruction dust fell all For the first time since the stage and capsule simulator. around the launch team, halcyon days of Apollo, designers Instead of one large rocket Ca reporter fell out of his and technicians are engineering like the Saturn V, designers chair on air and about everyone the first line of rockets meant to want two new rockets – a gasped as the first Saturn V roared carry humanity back to the face of small one called Ares I NASA image to life and thundered off the launch another world. to carry astronauts in pad in November 1967. “Anytime you go to a new a spacecraft called No one rode inside the capsule vehicle, it’s exciting,” said Jon Orion into at the top of the massive rocket Cowart, deputy mission manager Earth orbit, An artist’s rendition during that first test. But less than for the first flight test of the Ares and then of Ares I, which is the crew launch vehicle being another developed by NASA as a component of Constellation Program. planned. The booster even survived stronger lightning strikes in 1969 when booster, the Apollo 12 lifted off. Ares V, to lift a “I would like to have their moon lander called safety record,” Cowart said. Altair. Orion would meet When it came time to design the lander and the upper new moon missions, Cowart said stage of the Ares V above Earth the success of the Saturn V gave and then the group would fly to the engineers plenty of cues to work moon.
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