A group of 8 lunar mission flight charts for Apollo 8. Various formats including September and November 1968 versions of the Apollo Lunar Flight Chart, a December 1968 Apollo Lunar Orbital Map base chart, October and December 1968 Target of Opportunity Planning Charts with primary photographic targets listed in red, three charts based on Lunar Orbiter photographs of the moon's equatorial region with prominent craters and areas labeled. Sizes range from 38 by 11 to 58 by 14 inches. All folded and contained in a heavy card stock pronged folder, the upper cover with "Apollo Charts" and NASA "meatball" labels. Mounting spy evidence gathered during 1968 suggested that the Russians were attempting to send a man around the moon to tarnish the significance of a lunar landing by the US planned for the next year. With political urging, NASA changed flight planning for Apollo 8 to a lunar orbital mission. Mission planners rushed to assemble all required navigational data, such as base edition lunar charts and projected launch date orbital maps. This folder contains charts used and preserved from that historic era. The upper cover of the folder is inscribed and signed by FRED HAISE with: "Mission Planning Charts for Apollo 8, Fred Haise, Apollo 8 Back-up LMP."
A group of 8 lunar mission flight charts for Apollo 8. Various formats including September and November 1968 versions of the Apollo Lunar Flight Chart, a December 1968 Apollo Lunar Orbital Map base chart, October and December 1968 Target of Opportunity Planning Charts with primary photographic targets listed in red, three charts based on Lunar Orbiter photographs of the moon's equatorial region with prominent craters and areas labeled. Sizes range from 38 by 11 to 58 by 14 inches. All folded and contained in a heavy card stock pronged folder, the upper cover with "Apollo Charts" and NASA "meatball" labels. Mounting spy evidence gathered during 1968 suggested that the Russians were attempting to send a man around the moon to tarnish the significance of a lunar landing by the US planned for the next year. With political urging, NASA changed flight planning for Apollo 8 to a lunar orbital mission. Mission planners rushed to assemble all required navigational data, such as base edition lunar charts and projected launch date orbital maps. This folder contains charts used and preserved from that historic era. The upper cover of the folder is inscribed and signed by FRED HAISE with: "Mission Planning Charts for Apollo 8, Fred Haise, Apollo 8 Back-up LMP."
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