[Apollo 11]

Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 Flight Crew G and N Dictionary, used by him during training

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[APOLLO 11]

Apollo XI Flight Crew G&N Dictionary. Houston, Texas: NASA, Manned Spacecraft Center, Guidance and Control Section, Spacecraft Systems Branch, Flight Crew Support Division, May 29, 1969.

8 by 6 inches. 110 pp. on 56 leaves. Original printed blue card stock covers, punched and bound at spine with two original metal rings.

FRONT COVER SIGNED "ALDRIN" IN BLUE FELT TIP PEN

Directly from the Personal Collection of Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin

BUZZ ALDRIN'S FLIGHT CREW G&N DICTIONARY—USED BY HIM DURING TRAINING FOR APOLLO 11

This Flight Crew G&N Dictionary provides remedial details on both the Primary Guidance and Navigation System (PGNS) and the Abort Guidance System (AGS), as well as ways to realign the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) if the computer lost the state vector (position and direction of the spacecraft in space). It provides star charts, the star list, list of "verbs" (action instructions to the Apollo Guidance Computer (ACG)) and "nouns" (data that results from the actions of the verbs, such as, "How are we?"). The book also provides a key to all the programs that would be used during the entire mission. The book gives a review of the AGS program in the Lunar Module and Data Entry and Display Assembly (DEDA) unit that the Lunar Module Pilot would use to operate the AGS system in the event of a failure of the PGNS.

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