List of records for Apollo 11

1969 Jun 20 - Nation: USA.

List of records for Apollo 11 Program: Apollo. Flight: Apollo 10, Apollo 11.
Sigurd A. Sjoberg, MSC Deputy Director of Flight Operations, informed MSC management of a list of records that could be set in the Apollo 11 flight.
Plans were made to file claims with the Fdration Aronautique Internationale for:
Class records for lunar missions
- Duration of stay on the surface of the moon.
- Duration of stay inside the spacecraft on the surface of the moon.
- Duration of stay outside the spacecraft on the surface of the moon.
- Greatest mass landed on the moon.
- Greatest mass lifted to lunar orbit from the surface of the moon.
- Duration of stay in lunar orbit (The Apollo 10 record would be broken if the optional sleep period after rendezvous and before transearth injection were included.)
Absolute world record
- EVA record-duration of stay outside spacecraft.
Bibliography:
- Ertel , Ivan D; Morse , Mary Louise; et al, The Apollo Spacecraft Chronology Vol I - IV NASA SP-4009, NASA, 1966-1974. Web Address when accessed: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4009/cover.htm.

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