Apollo Program Summary Report

JSC-09423, the program’s own closing account, issued from Houston in April 1975 after the last Apollo hardware had flown on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

Eleven sections and six appendices move from the unmanned Saturn/Apollo development flights and abort tests through all twelve manned missions (Apollo 1 and 7 through 17), then across the program’s full breadth: lunar surface and orbital science (geology at each of the six landing sites, the ALSEP instrument packages, the Lunar Sounder and other orbital sensors), vehicle development and performance for the Saturn launch vehicles, command and service module, and lunar module, spacecraft development testing, a flight crew summary covering training and mission experience mission by mission, mission operations and the Manned Space Flight Network, a biomedical summary including the lunar quarantine program, spacecraft manufacturing and testing, launch site facilities, and the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, closing with appendices of flight data, mission designations, spacecraft weights, records set, checkout history, and flight anomalies.

Illustrations sampled here include an exploded diagram of the Apollo 15 ALSEP instrument package, a cutaway of the lunar module configured for the first landing, the Block II command module side hatch mechanism, a fold-out photomap of the Apollo 16 landing area with its EVA traverse routes plotted against named craters, and the lunar module ascent-stage assembly sequence at the Grumman plant.