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July
14
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1969
SPECIAL NASA BRIEF 'r
Anoiio 11 Plans
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Attached are:
A.
Dr. Painers JuIy 14-18 itinerary.
B. Highlights of news rnedia coverage planned for the rnission. C. A detailed chronology of critical events.
A. P.
Tone
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Reprocluced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
Dr. Paine wilL depart !,Iashington at 5:00 p.m., July arriving
Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
at the Quality Courts Motel in reached there,
at 8:00 p.m.
Cocoa Beach,
He
Florida,
1-4,
wilL stay and can be
or through the Office of the Director, ffiC.
plans to return on July 1-6, departing
KSC
at
He
2200 p.m. and
arri-ving Washington, D. C. at, 5:00 p.m. He is scheduLed;ito
in his office on July
L7 and l-8.
Telephone numbers:
Quality Courts Mote1, Cocoa Beach: 305 783-g43L Office of the Director, ffiC: 305 867-3333
be
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
APOLLO 1].
The
Apollo Ll- misslon is expected to receive the most
intense world-wide coununication media attention of any space
activity to date. This will include the heaviest T. V.
coverage
ever given a news event. Over 31000 newsmen from the United States and other countries
ui1I cover the flight.
This incLudes
newsmen
from 52 foreign countries. ALL major U. S. T. V. networks
several foreign networks wiLL cover the mission and the
eight television broadcasts from the spacecraft. wil-l include
.The
and
scheduLed
broadcast
seven colorcasts from the'spacecraft enroute
to
and
from the moon and one black and white two-hour and forty-minute broadcast network
of lunar surface activities.
wilL bring 1-ive T. V.
coverage
The communications
satellite
to most of the countries
of Earth, including the USSR. It is anticipated that over L miLlion peopLe
will watch the
Launch from Cape Kennedy and
broadcasts from the spacecraft
that T.
V.
will be viewed around the worLd
by over L bill-ion people. Assuming that the launch takes place on scheduLe and the mission goes according
to plan, the major
events and the T. V. broadcasts wiLl be in accordance with the attached tentative schedules.
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Presidential Libran,
APOLLO 11 M]SSION CRIT]CAL EVENTS
July Event
Date /Time
Lift off
L6
TransLunar Command
injection (S-M engine &gnition)
L6
12 :
L6
L2:52
Module separates from S-IVB and docks
with Lunar
Module
9:32 a.m. 16 p.m. p
"m.
L6
L:42 p.m.
L9
L:26 p.m.
20
L:42 p.m.
20
4:08 p.m.
Lunar Module touchdown on lunar surface
20
4: 19 p.m,
Armstrong steps onto l-unar surface
2L
2:L7 a.m.
2L
2:L7 - 4t47 a.m.
2L
1:55 p.m.
21
5: 15 p.m.
2L
5:32 p.m.
2L
9
Lunar Module Separation Lunar
orbit insertion (60 x
parking orbit)
Lunar ModuLe spparates from Lunar Module surface
170
nautieal mi.
Command Module
initiates descent toward lunar
Crew performs
activities on lunar surface
Lunar Module ascendg from
moon
LM-CM Rendezvous
Lunar Module docks with Command
Command ModuLe
Module separates from Lunar Module
:25 p.m"
Transearth injection
22
L2:57
CM/Slt separation
24
12222 p.m.
Reentry (400r000 feet)
24
L2:37 p.m.
Splashdown
24
12: 51 p.m.
p
"m"
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SCIIEDUTED APOLLO II-BROADCAST FROM SPACE- AND-TEIE MOON
Times
Date
of
Pl-anned TV (EDT)
Event
July
L7
7232
-
7247 p.m.
Enroute to
Moon
July
1B
7232
-
7147 p"m.
Enroute to
Moon
July
L9
4zO2
-
4zL7 p.m.
Lunar Orbit (generaL surface shots)
Ju1-y 20
Lz52
-
2222 p.m.
O{/tM Formation FLying in Lunar Orbit
July
L:57 - 2zO7 a"m.
July
21
21
2:L2 - 4:52 a.m.
Landing Site Tracking
pr.ior to
Crew
touchdown
activities
Lunar Surface 17 p.m.
Enroute
to Earth
:L7 p.m.
Enroute
to
July
22
9 202
9:
July
23
7:02
7
Earth
on