The Apollo 11 Press Kit
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/A11_PressKit.pdf
says in the biography for Charlie Duke, "Has more than 24 (sic) hours flying time, most of which is jet time." Modern biographies say he has a total of 4,147 hours flying time, so the correct figure for June 1969 was possibly 2,400 hours. Can any BABBers please give the correct figure from another early biography?

The Apollo 16 Press Kit says 3,000 hours, so you're probably right about the 2,400 hours.

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Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.

Many thanks, ToSeek. I was hoping to avoid downloading the Apollo 16 Press Kit with my old Win95 system and 56k modem.

The reason I asked is that I found the Apollo 11 Press Kit such a brilliant resource, even without the diagrams, that I thought it could be useful to do a typescript in Word of just the text. Did some Googling to check whether I wouldn't just be reinventing the wheel, and couldn't find any, though I suspect that you may be able to show up my searching abilities.

Anyway, it's about three-quarters completed and could be perhaps useful for the BA to have available as a download for the few HBs that are actually interested in doing some research.

There are quite a few mistakes in the searchable text in the pdf file (see below **), and a few inconsistencies in layout, probably due to different typists working on the text. I hope to correct most of them.

It occurred to me today that the "24 hours" could have been the result of a keen typist changing it due to being told, "If it's for the general public, change 2400 hours to 24 hours," etc.

** E.g.: To search for every instance of "LM" you have to search for LM, I&l, IM, LFI, and LPI. In other cases Guidance = midance, Moon = Dioon, MSC = i4SC, and PGNS = ENS.

That's what you get from OCR of a poor scan.

If you make the final thing into a PDF, I'm sure Eric, the editor of the ALSJ would be more than happy to put into the ALSJ. Please contact him when you're finished.

Harald

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Good call Harald, you can then use all those Acrobat search facilities from the PDF file.

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If you make the final thing into a PDF...

No, the typescript of the Apollo 11 Press Kit will be a rich text file of the text only. Fairly small and useable with any word-processor. I'll certainly see if Eric Jones is interested in it.

Would anyone care to do a final check of my work?

Does anyone know whether there are any parts of the Apollo 11 Press Kit that didn't actually apply to the mission? One I noticed was that it has the wrong lens for the lunar surface Hasselblad.

On pages 154 - 157 is the ALRH (Apollo Lunar Radioisotopic Heater), which I know nothing about. Was this actually part of the mission?

Another thing I'd like if anyone can put me onto it, is a list of geologists etc. who investigated the Apollo 11 rocks in the first year or so. It would be good to relate it to the big list of investigators on pages 220-241. Also, putting names, locations, qualifications etc. to the scientists might help defeat the "faked rock" HBs.

Contact me when you're finshed.
The passive seismic experiment used radioisotopic heaters to keep it warm during lunar night. Unfortunately, the PSE didn't made it through the night.

Harald

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"Flying in space is risky business, but just staying on this planet is risky business too." - John Young, astronaut