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Apollo Lunar Excursion Mo🌺dule (LEM) Heat Exchanger Manual, 1966

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[GRUMMAN]

Grumman Specification LSP-270-820A...Heat Exchanger, Fuel/Helium Descent Propulsion Design Control Specification... [Bethpage, New York: Grumman 🍃Aircraft Engineering Corporatio🌄n, 1966.]

Approximately 96 pages (8 1/2 x 11 in.), including fold-out specification drawings and charts. Prong-bound into the original blue Grumman paper covers, slight scuffing to cover and edges. Several pages stapled♌ to inside of back cover. Signed AL GIMSON and inscribed "PROP" at top right of cover. New York: Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, 1966.

Engineering notations throughout in penc🌃🎃il and red pen, presumably in GIMSON's hand.

ꦫA HISTORIC LOOK AT THE MAKING OF AND CALCULATIONS BEHIND THE LUNAR MODULE'S DESCENT PROPULSION AND HEAT EXCHANGER, FRO🐈M THE COLLECTION OF ONE OF ITS KEY ENGINEERS

Compiled from technical documents detailing testing by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation in 1965, the Lunar Excursion Module (LE🐻M) Heat Exchanger, Fuel/Helium Descent Propulsion Design Control Specifications manual details the calculations and testing of 🦋the technology that would lead to the historic touchdown of the spacecraft on the Moon just a few years later.

This document features several pages of notes on technical specifications, including a specification control drawing of the heat exchanger. Altogether, this lot affords a unique loಌok at the engineering building blocks of the Apollo program with notations from one of the LEM's chief architects, its Cognizant Engineer Mr. Alvin Gimson.

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