Lunar Mission Flight Charts for Apollo 8

Sale 2001 - Lot 222

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Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 4,500

Lunar Mission Flight Charts for Apollo 8. A group of lunar charts folded into a heavy card stock prong binding labeled "Apollo Charts" with the NASA "meatball" emblem. The set includes two versions of the Apollo Lunar Flight Chart (Sept. and Nov. 1968), Apollo Lunar Orbital Map Base Chart (Dec. 1968), two Target of Opportunity Planning Charts with primary photographic targets listed in red (Oct. and Dec. 1968), and a series of three Lunar Orbiter based image charts of the Moon's equatorial region with prominent craters and areas labeled. The tri-prong binder is 11x15 inches with folded chart sizes varying from 11x38 to 14x58 inches, eight charts total. Vp, 1968

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With the confluence of events during the last few months of 1968, including the success of Apollo 7 and mounting spy evidence that the Russian were planning a lunar flight, NASA changed the flight planning for Apollo 8 to a lunar orbital mission. Mission planners rushed to assemble all navigational data required, such as the initial basis lunar charts and projected launch date orbital maps. This binder contains charts used and preserved from that historic era.