Check Out Apollo 11's Flight Plan
Apollo 11 Flight Plan NASA/National Archives Cool, huh? Now you can plan your own personal moon flight accordingly. If you're interested in traveling to the moon, here's a chance to (literally) take a page out of Apollo 11's handbook: the National Archives has this snippet of the Apollo 11 flight plan, and it's basically a how-to for a successful space flight! If you can figure out how to read it, that is, which would indicate you already know a bit about rocketry. (So many acronyms! And what do those doodles mean???) Thankfully the Archives put together a small guide to reading at least some of it: This page is one of 185 pages in the plan. Each page represents one hour of the Apollo 11 flight. ... 1st column CSM = Command Service Module CMP = Command Module Pilot This column lists tasks for CMP Mike Collins 2nd column (1530 EDT)=elapsed time 3rd and 4th columns LM = Lunar Module CDR...