Sunday, July 16, 1989

Apollo 11 (Columbia)

  1969-059A


The first lunar landing mission was Apollo 11, crewed by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.


Columbia (CSM 107) 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1969 Jul 16  1332:00  Launch by Saturn V (SA-506)  KSC LC39A 
 1334:15  S-IC CECO, 44.4 km 
 1334:41  S-IC OECO, 66.3 km 
 1334:42  S-IC sep, 67.0 km  -5999 x 109 x 31.9  
 1334:43  S-II ignition, 67.6 km  
 1335:12  Interstage sep, 91.8 km  -5938 x 118 x 32.0 
 1335:18  LES sep  -5923 x 120 x 32.0 
 1339:40  S-II CECO, 179.3 km 
 1341:04  S-IC impact at 74.04W 30.21N 
 1341:11  S-II OECO, 185.9 km 
 1341:12  S-II sep, 185.9 km  -2116 x 182 x 32.5  
 1341:15  S-IVB burn 1 ignition, 185.9km 
 1341:21  Ullage case jettison 
 1343:30   -27 x 185 x 32.5  
 1343:32   15 x 185 x 32.5 
 1343:42  S-IVB cutoff, 188.4 km 
 1343:49  Earth orbit insertion  188 x 192 x 32.57 
 1352:13  S-II impact at 34.84W 31.54N 
 1352   185 x 194 x 32.5 
 1411  Optics cover jettison 
 1532   191 x 210 x 32.5  
 1616:16  MES-2? 
 1616:27  S-IVB TLI burn (5:47) 
 1622:03  S-4B MECO-2 
 1622:13  Translunar injection  222 x 565954 x 31.4  
 1647:23  CSM sep from LM/S-IVB 
 1656:03  CSM docked with LM/S-IVB 
 1749:03  CSM/LM undocked from S-IVB 
 1812:01  SPS evasive burn  
 1812:05  SPS evasive burn cutoff 
1969 Jul 17  1616:58  SPS MCC-2 burn(0:03)  237 x 528637 x 31.4  
1969 Jul 19  0311:55  Equigravisphere 
 1721:50  SPS LOI-1 burn (6:02)  112 x -12082 x 152.8  
 1727:52  Lunar orbit insertion  111 x 311 x 156.9  
 2143:36  SPS LOI-2 burn (0:16)  100 x 122 
 2143:52  LOI-2 CO  102 x 123 x 156.8  
1969 Jul 20   CDR and LMP transfer to LM 5 
 1745:00  Eagle undocked 
 1811:53  SPS sep burn  105 x 118 x 163.1  
 1812:01  SPS sep cutoff 
1969 Jul 21   Rendezvous with Eagle AS 
 2135  Docked to Eagle 
  CDR and LMP return to CSM with cargo  
  of 21 kg lunar rock samples 
1969 Jul 21  2342  Eagle undocked 
1969 Jul 22  0002:00  Sep burn  102 x 116 x 177.4  
 0002:08  Sep burn cutoff 
1969 Jul 22  0455:42  SPS TEI burn (2:29)  96 x 112 x 152.8 
 0458:11 Transearth injection 95 x -9954 x 152.6  
 2001:57  MCC-5 burn (0:10) -777 x 825306 x 41.1  
 2002:07  MCC-5 cutoff  -861 x 824556 x 41.1  
1969 Jul 24  1621:19  SM-107 sep  37 x 835743 x 39.93  
 1635:06  Entry 122 km 45 x 831540 x 40.1  
   109 x -3668 x 39.9  
 1636:06? 58 km, begin skip 
 1639:16? 67 km, skip apogee 
 1640:30? 58 km, end of skip 
 1641  46 km  
 1650:35  Splashdown in Pacific, 13 30 N 169 15W 
 1735Recovered by USS Hornet 

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