Apr 12, 2003 - Sale 1967

Sale 1967 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 6,210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Apollo IX Mission Control note and log book. Contains 53 hand-written pages beginning with the first use of the Lunar Module Simulator by a flight crew. 8.5x11 inch with spiral binding. Np, January to March, 1969

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Entries during January record numerous problems such as: "CSM unable to hear LM", "master alarm still on, (with) wrong indication", and "Simulator reversed (data) parameter!". Other problems such as mission documents with incorrect data and errors between the flight plan verses the crew's checklists. There are 19 pages of notes from the first manned Lunar Module (LM-3) flight in March, 1969. Details how various EVA (space walk) tests were modified due to the illness of astronaut Schweickart, updated spacecraft rocket engine burn times and results. Notes were recorded by members of the Gold, White, and Orange communication teams on 8 hour shifts during the mission. With two internal distribution memos on LM-3 communications and flight test objectives plus three print-outs of LM data directly from mission control monitors.