Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight (56 page)

Mission Control, Houston

broadcasts to the public

casual conversations with astronauts

monitoring of flight data

operational communications with astronauts

training at

views of activity at

Mitchell, Edgar

Mojave Desert, California

moon, the

color of

composition of

contingency sample from

craters on

a dead world

dust on

first astronaut to land on

flight around (circumlunar)

formation of, in early solar system

gravity of

JFK’s challenge to go to and return (1961)

no human visits since December 17, 1972

practice in landing on

return to, advocated by Neil

rock samples from

science experiments on

smell of (wet ashes and gunpowder)

view of, from deep space

view of, from earth orbit

view of, from lunar orbit

view of, on the surface

water on, possibly

moon landing conspiracy theories

moonwalks

Moore, John

Morse, Ralph

Morton Thiokol

Mount Fuji, Japan

Mount Marilyn, on the moon

Muffie’s Crater, on the moon

MythBusters
show

N-1 rocket

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

and the
Challenger
accident

confidence of, in the shuttle

criticisms of

enters the space race

forerunner of (NACA)

invitations to view a launch

and launchpad fire

maturing of, in the 1990s

Neil given title as Administrator for Aeronautics

public affairs office

recruiting astronauts

schedule for space exploration

National Space Council

Naval School of Pre-Flight, Pensacola, Florida

navigational error

NBC Nightly News

NBCNews.com

nebulae

Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center

Nellis Air Force Base

Nelson, George “Pinky”

New York City, ticker-tape parades

Nixon, Pat

Nixon, Richard

instructions re astronauts

meets and greets returning
Apollo 11
astronauts

talks to Eagle on the moon

Noa, Danny

Noa
recovery ship

“non-striking-a-claim” treaty

North American Aviation

nuclear warheads, rocket delivery of

O-rings

Obama, Barack

O’Malley, Anne

O’Malley, Thomas J.

Orion spacecraft

oxygen, and
Apollo 1
fire

P-51 Mustang

Page, George

Paine, Thomas

Panama Canal Zone

parachutes

Passive Thermal Control (PTC)

photoreconnaissance

Pings and Ags guidance systems

Piper Tri-Pacer

Pius XII, pope

planets, formation of

plasma propulsion

Pohang Airport, Korea

Precourt, Charlie

Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident

Purdue University

quarantine

pre-launch

after return from moon

R4D research plane

R-7 rocket

radiation, protection from

“raptures of the deep”

Rathmann, Jim

Reagan, Maureen

Reagan, Ronald

Recovery I
helicopter

Redford, Robert

Redstone rocket

manned flight

reentry

disaster of
Columbia
on

Reentry Control System (RCS)

rendezvous in space, first

research papers

retro-rockets

Riley, Jack

Rivard, John

rocketry, U.S. vs. Soviet

Rockwell

Rogers, William P.

Rose Knot Victor
tracking ship

Russia

spaceflight program

See also
Soviet Union

S4B rocket stage

satellites

first (Sputnik, 1957)

first American (
Explorer
)

Saturn 1B rocket

launching

Saturn V rocket

flight

ignition

launch

Schirra, Wally

Schmitt, Harrison

Schweickart, Russell L.

Scobee, Dick

Scott, Dave

Sea of Tranquility, on the moon

See, Elliot

See, Marilyn

Shearon, Janet

(1956) marriage to Neil

(1957) birth of first child

(1959) birth of second child

(1963) birth of third child

at
Apollo 1
disaster

at
Apollo 11
launch

and death of Karen Anne

divorces Neil

friendship with Gene Cernan

home life

interviews

listening to the
Gemini 8
emergency

meets returning Neil

Neil meets

Neil proposes to

Shepard, Alan

first American in space

messages to astronauts

Sigma 7
spacecraft

Sinatra, Frank

Skylab

Slayton, Deke

accompanies
Apollo 11
crew to launch

assignments of astronauts

and astronauts’ welfare

chosen to be chief astronaut by fellow astronauts

grounded because of heart irregularity

messages to astronauts

at Mission Control

monitoring flights

and Neil’s future

one of the Mercury Seven

pin of, left on the moon

private conversation of

recruiting of astronauts

and Redstone

schedule of space exploration of

in space flight

sleeping on a spacecraft

Smith, Mike

Society of Experimental Test Pilots

solar corona from behind the moon

solar panels

solid boosters

Soviet Union

spaceflight program

in World War II

Soyuz 1

Soyuz spacecraft

space

exploration of

justification for humans in

live television from

“non-striking-a-claim” treaty (1967)

survival of humans in

view of Earth from

view of stars, from above the atmosphere

view of stars, from deep space

“Space in the 20Teens” news show

Space Launch System (SLS)

space pilots, NASA’s criteria for

space shuttle

Dyna-Soar forerunner of

end of program

space stations

space suits and gear

space travel

considered safe

doomsayers about

spacecraft

commercial

life aboard one (eating, sleeping)

thermal control of

spacewalks.
See also
Extra Vehicular Activity

SPS rocket

Sputnik 1

Sputnik 2

SS-6 booster

Stafford, Tom

stage separation

Starlite Inn, Cocoa Beach

stars

explosion of, making new star material

view of, from deep space

Stewart, Jimmy

sun, the, formation of

T-38 jet

crashes

Tananarive tracking station, Madagascar

telescopes, invention of

Thomas, Gene

Thompson, Floyd L

Thor-Agena surveillance rocket

the 3s (3 seconds days)

thrusters

Timber Cove neighborhood, Houston, Texas

Titan II rocket

Titov, Gherman

Tofield, Geoff

tracking ships

Trans Earth Insertion (TEI)

Trans Lunar Insertion (TLI)

“the trench”

True, Virgil

Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin E.

Unidentified Flying Object (UFO), sighted

United States

loss of capability to go to space

spaceflight program

universe, the

age of

coming into existence of

University of Cincinnati

Vanguard rocket

destruction on launch of

Viking RTV-N-12A sounding rocket

von Braun, Wernher

Vostok I
spacecraft

Walker, Joe

Wapakoneta, Ohio

airport

Warren, Goodell

water safety and survival training

Webb, James

weightlessness