Manned lunar landing - Strategy of system management and operations

The Apollo Lunar Landing Mission planning involves the development 'of both a spacecraft system and a strategy of operation of that system.Considerable developmental flight testings will be accomplished prior to the Lunar Landing Mission.Although the.development flight tests will exercise the lunar module system the lunar landing approach will be the first time that the lunar module system will have been operated in other than a simulated landing approach.This landing approach will also be man's initial face-to-face encounter with certain of the lunar surface environmental problems.This paper discusses the development of a strategy for the lunar landing approach.This strategy relates the spacecraft systems management to the lunar landing objectives and to anticipated system performance and lunar environment problems.