Apollo 11 Schedule

Library Richard Niron Presidential Reproduced at the

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WASHINGTON

July

14

,

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.

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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

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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.

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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