Friday, June 25, 2004

Apollo 14 (Kitty Hawk)

  1971-008A


Apollo CSM 110 was flown on the Apollo 14 mission to Fra Mauro. Commander Alan Shepard, CMP Stuart Roosa, and LMP Ed Mitchell named it `Kitty Hawk. On Feb 7 the crew carried out some of the first materials processing experiments done in space, including electrophoresis tests and a composite casting test.


Kitty Hawk (CSM 110) 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1971 Jan 31  2103:02  Launch by Saturn V (SA-509)  KSC LC39A 
 2105:17  S-IC CECO  
 2105:45  S-IC OECO  
 2105:47  S-IC sep, S-II ignition  -6009 x 112 x 30.70  
 2106:16  Interstage sep  -5952 x 120 x 30.76 
 2106:22  LES jet  -5937 x 122 x 30.77  
 2110:45  S-II CECO 
 2112:21  S-II OECO, sep 182.6 km  -1977 x 184 x 31.12 
 2112:22  S-IVB ignition 
 2112:33  Ullage case jettison  -1897 x 184 x 31.1 
 2114:42  S-IVB cutoff 
 2114:51  Earth orbit insertion  183 x 189 x 31.11 
   185 x 185 x 31.11 (MPR) 
 2115:32  184 x 185 x 31.1 
 2123:02   184 x 190 x 31.1 
 2124  Optics cover jettison 
 2148:02   180 x 200 x 31.1 
 2220:32   187 x 203 x 31.2 
 2236:22  T+1:33:20  191 x 192 x 31.1  
 2331:33  S-IVB TLI burn  
 2337:24  S-IVB cutoff 
 2337:34  Translunar injection at 337 km  214 x 461334 x 30.8  
1971 Feb 1  0005:32  CSM sep from SLA/S-IVB  217 x 455424 x 30.8  
 
  Transposition and docking maneuver 
 0016:56  CSM failed to dock with LM, attempt 1A 
 0017:03  Attempt 1B 
 0017:06  Attempt 1C 
 0017:11  Attempt 1D 
 0017:46  Attempt 2 
 0019:45  Attempt 3 
  Stationkeep for 6 minutes 
 0026:44  Attempt 4, failed to dock with LM  
  Stationkeep for 70 minutes 
 0037  S4B venting 
 0136Attempt 5, CSM failed to dock with LM 
  Stationkeep for 20 min  
 0157  At 3m 
 0159:46 Attempt 6 to dock with LM, successful  
 0159:58 CSM docked with LM 
 0250:27  CSM/LM sep from S-IVB  220 x 454981 x 31.0 
 1419  Pass EL1:4 
1971 Feb 2  0339:09  MCC-2 burn 10s  120 x 456123 x 31.1 
 0339:20  MCC-2 CO  -520 x 441384 x 31.2 
1971 Feb 3  1512:03  Equigravisphere 
1971 Feb 4  0201:13  MCC-4 burn 0.7s  140 x -14916 x 154.4 
   134 x -14907 x 154.3 
 0659:42  SPS LOI-1 burn 370.8s  111 x -14833 x 167.0 
 0705:54  Lunar orbit insertion cutoff109 x 315 x 166 
 1113:54  SPS LOI-2 burn (DOI) 20.8s 18 x 109 x 166 
 1114:16  DOI cutoff  19 x 109 x 156.1 (MR)  
1971 Feb 5   Photography of Descartes site 
  CDR and LMP transfer to LM 
 0450:45  LM undocked  15 x 112 x 149.2 
 0452  CSM sep burn  14 x 111 
 0614:48  Circ burn 4s  
 0614:52  Circ cutoff  104 x 118 
 1832:35  LOPC-1 burn 18.5s  106 x 115 
 1832:54  LOPC-1 cutoff   
1971 Feb 6   Rendezvous by LM 
 2035:52  LM docked with CSM   
  CDR and LMP return to CSM 
1971 Feb 6  2248:00  Antares undocked 
 2252:45  Sep burn  105 x 115  
1971 Feb 7 0139:04  SPS TEI burn 2:29 
 0141:33  Transearth injection  110 x -10361 x 172.7 
 1530  Homebound equigravisphere 
 1837:58  MCC-5 burn 3s  -885 x 658137 x 42.37 
1971 Feb 9  2035:44  SM-110 sep  40 x 663641 x 40.6  
 2050:47  Entry  42 x 733353 x 40.47  
 2104:59  Splashdown in Pacific 27 02 24S 172 41 24W 
  Recovered by USS New Orleans 

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