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Charlie Duke's handwritten "Federal Supply Service" notebook bound in green cloth, 8 x 10.5, annotated and signed on the first page in black ballpoint, "My personal notes taken during various meetings and in my office during Apollo 16 training, Charlie Duke." The notebook contains approximately 53 pages of Duke's handwritten notes in pencil and ballpoint, recording information from meetings on the performance of the OPS ("To improve the situation we are looking at following product improv. areas: 1. Remove cruciform in Ox manifold…Optimize barrier coolant flow"); notes on the "ALSEP," listing elements including "Passive Seismic," "Cold Cathode Ion Gauge," "Heat Flow," and "Charged Particle Lunar Environment Exp."; notes on "Geology," including visual descriptions of olivine, mica, and quartz; notes on a "Rendez. Briefing," with a couple hand-drawn charts; some notes on using the Apollo Guidance Computer, under the heading "MIT briefing"; notes on the Apollo 15 "Science Debrief," held after the mission on "8/17/71"; and some earlier notes taken in research and development meetings held in 1968.
One page also boasts an interesting draft of a handwritten letter to "Doc," signed "Sincerely Yours, Charlie Duke," in part: "I have attempted to write this letter at least ten times. Each time I get partially through and something comes up. Hopefully this time I'll actually get this in the mail…Dotty and I want to thank you so much for being so kind to us when we visited…Thanks also for allowing us to have the houseboat trip…I have been getting busier and busier as launch day approaches. We have six months to go until lift off, and I feel as if I'm already a month behind. Our really intensive training starts next month with the beginning of spacecraft checkout." In very good to fine condition, with dampstaining to the covers and cracking to the inner front hinge; interior pages are all fine.
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