Landing Eagle: Inside the Cockpit During the First Moon

Landing Eagle: Inside the Cockpit During the First Moon Landing

Fifty years ago, in a small, fragile spacecraft designed for only one purposeâ€”landing on the Moonâ€”two American astronauts prepared to fly that spacecraft from its 10 mile high orbit above the Moon down to a landing on the Sea of Tranquility. It was a sea in name only. It was actually a bone dry, ancient dusty basin pockmarked with craters and littered with rocks and boulders. Somewhere in that 500 mile diameter basin, the astronauts would attempt to make Mankindâ€™s first landing on the Moon.Neil Armstrong would pilot the Lunar Module â€œEagleâ€ during its twelve minute descent from orbit down to a landing. Col. Edwin â€œBuzzâ€ Aldrin would assist him. On the way down they would encounter a host of problems, any one of which could have potentially caused them to have to call off the landing, or, even worse, die making the attempt. The problems were all technical-communications problems, computer problems, guidance problems, sensor problems. Armstrong and Aldrin faced the very real risk of dying by the very same technical sword that they had to live by in order to accomplish the enormous task of landing on the Moon for the first time.Yet the human skills Armstrong and Aldrin employed would be more than equal to the task. Armstrongâ€™s formidable skills as an aviator, honed from the time he was a young boy, would serve him well as he piloted Eagle down amidst a continuing series of systems problems that might have fatally distracted a lesser aviator. Armstrongâ€™s brilliant piloting was complemented by Aldrinâ€™s equally remarkable discipline and calmness as he stoically provided a running commentary on altitude and descent rate while handling systems problems that threatened the landing. Finally, after a harrowing twelve and a half minutes, Armstrong gently landed Eagle at â€œTranquility Baseâ€, a name he had personally chosen to denote the location of the first Moon landing.In â€œLanding Eagle-Inside the Cockpit During the First Moon Landingâ€, author Mike Engle gives a minute by minute account of the events that occurred throughout Eagleâ€™s descent and landing on the Moon. Engle, a retired NASA engineer and Mission Control flight controller, uses NASA audio files of actual voice recordings made inside Eagleâ€™s cockpit during landing to give the reader an â€œinside the cockpitâ€ perspective on the first Moon landing. Engleâ€™s transcripts of these recordings, along with background material on the history and technical details behind the enormous effort to accomplish the first Moon landing, give a new and fascinating insight into the events that occurred on that remarkable day fifty years ago.
Country USA
Manufacturer Telemachus Press, LLC
Binding Paperback
EANs 9781948046633
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Telemachus Press, LLC
Binding	Paperback
EANs	9781948046633
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Landing Eagle: Inside the Cockpit During the First Moon Landing

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