{ "reviewed": "2026-11-11", "scope": "Eight Apollo 11 investigation tracks. This is a reviewed public-source map, not a census of all NASA holdings or a completed flight reconstruction. Unobtained means absent from this review; it does not establish loss, withholding or a physical anomaly.", "sources": [ { "id": "entry-analysis", "title": "Manders · Apollo 11 Entry Postflight Analysis · 70-FM-30", "url": "https://www.apollojournals.org/afj/ap11fj/pdf/19740072963_as11-entry-analysis-19700220.pdf", "role": "NASA-authored technical analysis, working Apollo Flight Journal mirror; report and relevant sections inspected", "locator": "20 February 1970 · printed pp.1, 3, 5–8, 11–12; PDF pp.7–12, 15–16" }, { "id": "trajectory-report", "title": "Apollo mission 11 trajectory reconstruction · Volume I · NASA-CR-108349", "url": "https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19700014995", "role": "Public NASA contractor analysis; foreword, reconstruction methods and appendix leads inspected", "locator": "16 March 1970 · printed p.iii and pp.7-1–7-2; PDF pp.3, 12–13" }, { "id": "radiation-protection", "title": "English, Benson, Bailey and Barnes · Protection Against Radiation · TN D-7080", "url": "https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19730010172", "role": "Historical instrument and mission-dose methodology; not current medical guidance", "locator": "March 1973 · Table I and instrument discussion, printed pp.3–4; PDF pp.7–8" }, { "id": "dose-comparison", "title": "Atwell · Dosimetry in the Manned Space Program · 1979 proceedings", "url": "https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19800016185/downloads/19800016185.pdf#page=138", "role": "Later published comparison of calculated and measured instrument doses; table visually checked", "locator": "NASA-TM-81061, Vol.2 · printed pp.124–126; Table III p.126 / PDF p.138; individual paper catalogue 19800016193" }, { "id": "landing-reconstruction", "title": "Miller and colleagues · Final Descent Trajectory Reconstruction · NASA/TM-20220007267", "url": "https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20220007267", "role": "Modern reconstruction from digitized historical plots; analysis of lunar landing, not Earth entry", "locator": "August 2022 · printed pp.5–7, 10–12; PDF pp.9–11, 14–16" }, { "id": "thermal-history", "title": "Pavlosky and St. Leger · Thermal Protection Subsystem · TN D-7564", "url": "https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19740007423", "role": "Program-level design and flight-test synthesis; historical context, not raw Apollo 11 heat-flux measurements", "locator": "January 1974 · Table III p.12 / PDF p.16; test discussion pp.11–12, 15–16" }, { "id": "entry-planning", "title": "Graves and Harpold · Mission Planning for Apollo Entry · TN D-6725", "url": "https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19720013191", "role": "Public entry-planning context; Apollo 11 targeting and Apollo 10 postflight analysis are distinct", "locator": "March 1972 · abstract and report scope inspected" }, { "id": "purdue-entry", "title": "Purdue Archives · catalogue record for 70-FM-30", "url": "https://archives.lib.purdue.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/38528", "role": "Physical-copy finding aid; does not itself supply underlying measurements or reproduction permission", "locator": "Neil A. Armstrong papers, MSA 5 · Box 76, Folder 6 · record dated 20 February 1970" }, { "id": "tv-tape-record", "title": "Apollo 11 Telemetry Data Recordings: A Final Report · catalogue", "url": "https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20110011709", "role": "Catalogue abstract concerns lunar television recordings; full report not retrieved here", "locator": "NTRS 20110011709 · catalogue publication date 1 January 2010; no downloadable file listed at review" }, { "id": "nasa-history-contact", "title": "NASA History Office · research contact", "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/history/history-office/", "role": "Current institutional routing contact, checked 11 November 2026", "locator": "Contact Us · history@mail.nasa.gov" }, { "id": "uhcl-contact", "title": "UHCL Archives · contact and collections", "url": "https://www.uhcl.edu/library/archives/", "role": "Institutional archives contact, checked 11 November 2026", "locator": "archives@uhcl.edu; holding a specific requested dataset is not yet confirmed" }, { "id": "uhcl-access", "title": "UHCL Archives · access and research conditions", "url": "https://www.uhcl.edu/library/archives/access-and-research/", "role": "Current access conditions for NASA materials; check directly before arranging access", "locator": "Onsite US-citizen access restrictions stated for NASA materials; additional restrictions and appointments apply" }, { "id": "nasa-foia", "title": "NASA · FOIA guidance", "url": "https://www.nasa.gov/foia/foia-guidance/", "role": "Fallback process for reasonably described existing agency records, not a request for new analysis", "locator": "One request can be routed through Headquarters; no FOIA request or paid order has been filed for this map" } ], "tracks": [ { "id": "entry", "group": "entry", "number": "01", "title": "Rebuild Earth re-entry from its surviving measurements", "status": "Analysis located · input records still needed", "established": "70-FM-30 identifies ARIA aircraft downlink, recovery data and the Entry Monitor System (EMS) scroll as inputs. Its reconstruction adjusts the 21-day best-estimate flight-path angle by −0.043° and fits selected entry observations.", "gap": "The complete EMS scan, time-tagged ARIA packets, exact simulation input deck and a propagated uncertainty budget have not been obtained in this review.", "request": "Locate those input records, their timing/calibration descriptions, the Apollo Reentry Simulation configuration and any later revisions of 70-FM-30. Ask which observations constrained the fit and which supplied a separate check.", "test": "Reproduce the published fit, propagate measurement/model uncertainty and compare held-out observations in the same units and reference frame.", "route": "NASA History → responsible JSC archive or records custodian. Purdue identifies a physical report copy; its catalogue is not a raw-data inventory.", "sources": [ "entry-analysis", "mission", "purdue-entry" ] }, { "id": "dosimetry", "group": "radiation", "number": "02", "title": "Keep personal meters, passive dosimeters and belt sensors distinct", "status": "Dose definition clarified · calibration trail open", "established": "TN D-7080 defines the mission dose as an average of passive thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) readings. The Apollo 11 value is 0.18 rad. Atwell later compares TLD, computed VABD and measured VABD results.", "gap": "Individual passive-dosimeter results, instrument corrections, integration intervals and the relationship to the mission report’s preliminary readings remain untraced here.", "request": "Identify existing instrument calibration, readout/reduction and final mission dosimetry reports. Request non-identifying technical records; protected medical records are unnecessary.", "test": "Compare instruments only after aligning quantity, location, shielding, interval and calibration. The TLD average is not automatically a corrected personal-meter total.", "route": "NASA History → JSC radiation/dosimetry records custodian; UHCL Archives can advise whether relevant historical series are held.", "sources": [ "radiation-protection", "dose-comparison", "radiation", "mission" ] }, { "id": "trajectory", "group": "flight", "number": "03", "title": "Find the numerical trajectory behind the summary tables", "status": "Volume I inspected · Volume II not obtained", "established": "NASA-CR-108349’s foreword identifies a separate Volume II listing the 45-day best-estimate trajectory in NASA Apollo Trajectory format. Volume I describes reconstruction methods and appendix leads.", "gap": "The Volume II numerical listing, machine-readable successor, revision history and complete observation lineage have not been obtained. Its 1970 request address is historical.", "request": "Locate Volume II and its current custodian, NAT format/coordinate/time definitions, version identifiers, uncertainty records and any surviving measurement files. Link as-flown burn and propellant records separately.", "test": "Replace the Earth-only teaching model with a documented full-force trajectory and compare equivalent event states. Do not treat an omitted-force difference as a measured anomaly.", "route": "NASA History → JSC trajectory-data custodian; UHCL is a catalogue-routing lead, not a confirmed holder of Volume II.", "sources": [ "trajectory-report", "translunar", "orbit", "vehicle" ] }, { "id": "belt", "group": "radiation", "number": "04", "title": "Match radiation exposure to the actual belt passages", "status": "Method located · time-resolved reconstruction pending", "established": "Historical radiation reports describe trajectory, shielding and instrument directionality as inputs to exposure analysis. Atwell’s comparison includes calculated as well as measured doses.", "gap": "An aligned Apollo 11 trajectory, attitude/shield map, contemporaneous particle spectra and complete dose-rate time series have not been assembled here.", "request": "Identify the exact belt model versions, particle measurements, instrument acceptance/calibration, spacecraft shielding model and outbound/return dose-rate records used for Apollo 11.", "test": "Integrate predicted dose along each passage and compare against time-matched sensors with uncertainty. A mission-total dose alone cannot locate where every increment occurred.", "route": "NASA History → JSC radiation and trajectory custodians; then the original environmental-data repository named in their records.", "sources": [ "radiation-protection", "dose-comparison", "prd" ] }, { "id": "heating", "group": "entry", "number": "05", "title": "Separate entry energy from measured heat-shield performance", "status": "Test history located · Apollo 11 channel inventory needed", "established": "TN D-7564 documents design verification through ground and flight tests and tabulates operational entry conditions. Earlier test flights and their calorimeters are not measurements made aboard Apollo 11.", "gap": "An Apollo 11-specific inventory of functioning thermal sensors, returned-shield inspection measurements and their uncertainties is not yet in this review.", "request": "Locate the CM-107 postflight thermal-protection report, channel availability and calibration, reconstructed heating inputs, and returned-shield char/recession or inspection records. Ask explicitly if a quantity was modeled rather than instrumented.", "test": "Compare predicted heating with available flight/physical inspection evidence. Mechanical kinetic energy per kilogram is not the absorbed heat flux or total heat-shield load.", "route": "NASA History → JSC thermal-protection and spacecraft postflight-analysis custodian.", "sources": [ "thermal-history", "entry-analysis", "mission" ] }, { "id": "disposal", "group": "flight", "number": "06", "title": "Trace the service-module disposal anomaly to its engineering follow-up", "status": "Anomaly documented · full closure record not obtained", "established": "The mission report discusses radar, crew observations and aircraft imagery for the service module’s unexpected return path, a proposed propellant-slosh mechanism and controller changes for later missions.", "gap": "The full slosh/control analysis, original radar and film timing, and the later verification/closure record have not been assembled here.", "request": "Locate the specific anomaly investigation, controller change authorization, underlying observations and subsequent mission test or verification results.", "test": "Check whether one dynamics model reproduces the observations and whether the changed controller removes the predicted instability. Keep the discarded module separate from the crew capsule.", "route": "NASA History → JSC spacecraft systems/anomaly records custodian.", "sources": [ "mission", "timeline" ] }, { "id": "outside-radio", "group": "radio", "number": "07", "title": "Align outside radio observations with the reported flight", "status": "Reception histories and chart located · calibrated series needed", "established": "Jodrell Bank preserves an Eagle frequency chart and identifies receiver adjustments. CSIRO documents Parkes reception. Their evidence roles differ; Parkes participated in the communications operation.", "gap": "Numerical chart calibration, UTC/clock corrections, receiver tuning, station coordinates and complete original logs have not been matched to a common prediction here.", "request": "Ask NASA for the relevant link/transponder definitions and tracking-product catalogue. Ask each observatory separately for its own chart/log calibration and access conditions; NASA cannot supply an outside archive’s holdings by assumption.", "test": "Predict station-relative Doppler/range with the correct one-way or coherent two-way model, align clocks and fit residuals with instrument errors.", "route": "NASA History for NASA records; Jodrell Bank/University of Manchester and CSIRO for their separately held observations. Observatory emails are not part of the current draft.", "sources": [ "jodrell", "parkes", "trajectory-report" ] }, { "id": "landing", "group": "flight", "number": "08", "title": "Follow the modern reconstruction of the lunar landing", "status": "2022 analysis inspected · numerical research files not obtained", "established": "NASA/TM-20220007267 reconstructs final lunar descent using digitized historical plots, least-squares methods and Kalman filtering. The paper discusses plot resolution, kinematic inconsistencies and analyst-selected filter tuning.", "gap": "The digitized samples, adjusted points, estimator settings, code and final numerical trajectories have not been obtained here. This is a different phase from Earth re-entry.", "request": "Locate the report’s supporting research files and an authoritative record-by-record account of unavailable inputs. Its introductory references about missing tapes concern lunar TV and do not establish the loss of every trajectory record.", "test": "Repeat the published processing and test sensitivity to digitization, timing, interpolation and filter assumptions. Compare with other surviving landing measurements.", "route": "NASA History → Langley report authors/data custodian for this technical memorandum; historical source plots remain separately identified.", "sources": [ "landing-reconstruction", "trajectory-report", "tv-tape-record" ] } ], "entry_fit": [ { "quantity": "First maximum load factor", "unit": "g", "source_observed": 6.73, "reconstructed": 6.74 }, { "quantity": "Speed at first maximum", "unit": "ft/s · EMS", "source_observed": 31810, "reconstructed": 31776 }, { "quantity": "First minimum load factor", "unit": "g", "source_observed": 0.48, "reconstructed": 0.6 }, { "quantity": "Speed at first minimum", "unit": "ft/s · EMS", "source_observed": 20500, "reconstructed": 20257 }, { "quantity": "Second maximum load factor", "unit": "g", "source_observed": 6.0, "reconstructed": 6.0 }, { "quantity": "Speed at second maximum", "unit": "ft/s · EMS", "source_observed": 12390, "reconstructed": 13070 } ], "dose_comparison": { "mission": 11, "unit": "rad", "tld_skin": 0.18, "computed_vabd_sensor_1": 0.21, "computed_vabd_sensor_2": 0.19, "measured_vabd_sensor_1": 0.2, "measured_vabd_sensor_2": 0.18, "sensor_1_shield_g_cm2_aluminum": 0.23, "sensor_2_shield_g_cm2_aluminum": 6.34, "source_id": "dose-comparison", "locator": "Table III · printed p.126 / PDF p.138", "uncertainty": null }, "request": { "status": "UHCL reply received · NASA clarification pending", "response": "The initial inquiry was sent on 12 November 2026. UHCL replied with access-policy and staffing limits; custody and release status of the requested files remain unconfirmed. Babylon’s public response records four clarification questions for NASA.", "to": "history@mail.nasa.gov", "cc": "archives@uhcl.edu", "purpose": "Catalogue and custodian inquiry: numerical trajectory listing, entry reconstruction inputs and technical dosimetry records.", "fees": "No reproduction order, payment authorization or formal FOIA filing.", "initial_sent_date": "2026-11-12", "uhcl_reply_date": "2026-11-12", "public_access_record": "/research/nasa-archive-access/" } }