Apollo 15 Mission Report Chapter 2
An edited record is presented of the conversations between the Apollo 15 astronauts and mission control pertaining to the geology of the landing site. It contains all discussions and observations documenting the lunar landscape, its geologic characteristics, the rocks and soils collected, and the ...
bearing the notation, "Carried to the moon - Jim Irwin," which were carried by Irwin. Each is numbered (1 through 8) within a circle in the lower left front corner . Apollo 15 was the first mission to
This image from NASA’sLunar Reconnaissance Orbitershows the area surrounding Apollo 15’s landing site, annotated with the traverse plots of the mission’s first two moonwalks, abbreviated as EVAs (extra-vehicular activities). Numbers indicate elevations in meters above the landing site (indicated ...
Reaching the moon was an engineering success in its own right, but Apollo astronauts also capitalized on the opportunity to test scientific ideas. During the Apollo 15 mission in 1971, astronauts David Scott and James Irwin decided to test a ...
Apollo 10 mission report. Supplement 6: Ascent propulsion system final flight evaluationAPOLLO 10 FLIGHTASCENT PROPULSION SYSTEMSFLIGHT SAFETYROCKET LAUNCHINGROCKET PROPELLANTSULLAGENo Abstract AvailableGriffin, W. GJohnson Space Center
After having the information needed to burn the SPS to send them home radioed from Mission Control, Apollo 15 disappeared behind the Moon for the last time. 在获得任务控制中心发送的启动返程动力系统(SPS)所需信息后,阿波罗15号最后一次消失在月球背面。 LASER-wikipedia2 On Apollo 15, 16 and...
Apollo 13 was NASA's third moon-landing mission, but the astronauts never made it to the lunar surface. During the mission's dramatic series of events, an oxygen tank explosion almost 56 hours into the flight forced the crew to abandon all thoughts of reaching themoon. The spacecraft was ...
Homer Ahr had been asleep for 15 minutes when he got a call from his boss at Johnson Space Center. "All he said was, 'Homer, get into mission control as fast as you can.' I didn't have an idea of why I was going in there," he said. ...
July 31, 1971 - The inaugural drive of the first car on the moon occurred on the Apollo 15 mission. Credit: NASA As for life support systems, predicted consumable usage estimates were underestimated by as much as 20 percent compared to what was actually required by the crew to complete the...