Apollo Operations Handbook: Lunar Module LM5 and Subsequent. Volume I: Subsystems Data

$1,450.00

Technical manual issued under NAS 9-1100 with base date 15 December 1968 and revision date 15 June 1969,—barely a month before the moon landing—produced jointly by NASA and Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, Bethpage, New York. Hundreds of pages with numerous diagrams, systems schematics, technical illustrations, and large folding plates detailing the operational architecture of the Apollo Lunar Module, including guidance/navigation systems, controls and displays, electrical subsystems, and cockpit instrumentation. “LM5” designation associated with the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle. Produced under the direction of NASA’s Flight Crew Support Division in conjunction with Grumman, prime contractor for the Lunar Module program.

Thick 4to (9” x 11.5”), original green clip binder, b/w illustrations throughout. Facsimile signatures of W.T. Malloy, Ass’t Program Manager, Support, and W.J. Everett, Program Manager, LM Publications Section, on title page. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities, with minor foxing to edges of rear wrapper. Contents near fine.

An exceptional surviving piece of operational Apollo-era engineering documentation from the threshold of the first moon landing.

Technical manual issued under NAS 9-1100 with base date 15 December 1968 and revision date 15 June 1969,—barely a month before the moon landing—produced jointly by NASA and Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, Bethpage, New York. Hundreds of pages with numerous diagrams, systems schematics, technical illustrations, and large folding plates detailing the operational architecture of the Apollo Lunar Module, including guidance/navigation systems, controls and displays, electrical subsystems, and cockpit instrumentation. “LM5” designation associated with the Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle. Produced under the direction of NASA’s Flight Crew Support Division in conjunction with Grumman, prime contractor for the Lunar Module program.

Thick 4to (9” x 11.5”), original green clip binder, b/w illustrations throughout. Facsimile signatures of W.T. Malloy, Ass’t Program Manager, Support, and W.J. Everett, Program Manager, LM Publications Section, on title page. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities, with minor foxing to edges of rear wrapper. Contents near fine.

An exceptional surviving piece of operational Apollo-era engineering documentation from the threshold of the first moon landing.