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4 days ago · William Fischer, Jr. via NASA. The story of Apollo 14 pilot Stuart Roosa’s pocketful of seeds might seem quaint if it weren’t so absurd. It all starts in 1971, as Roosa flies to the Moon with...
4 days ago · Mission Profile. Apollo 16 launched on 16 April 1972 at 17:54:00 (12:54:00 p.m. EST) on Saturn V SA-511 from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center. (The launch was postponed from the originally scheduled date, March 17, because of a docking ring jettison malfunction.) The spacecraft entered Earth parking orbit at 18:05:56 UT and translunar injection ...
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4 days ago · The lunar module was a two-stage vehicle designed for space operations near and on the Moon. The spacecraft mass of 15235 kg was the total mass of the LM ascent and descent stages including propellants (fuel and oxidizer). The dry mass of the ascent stage was 2383 kg and it held 2375 kg of propellant. The descent stage dry mass (including ...
2 days ago · Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930, Rome, Italy—died April 28, 2021, Naples, Florida, U.S.) was a U.S. astronaut who was the command module pilot of Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing mission. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, Collins transferred to the air force, becoming a test pilot at Edwards Air ...
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2 days ago · Pete Conrad. Answer: Apollo 12. Pete Conrad was a Gemini veteran, having flown twice on Gemini 5 and Gemini 11, as well as on the backup crew of Gemini 8, when he was appointed to command his own Apollo crew in December 1966. This was the backup crew for the mission planned as the first Lunar Module test flight, which was initially designated ...
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3 days ago · The purpose of this experiment was to permit ground-based stations to conduct short-pulse laser ranging to a corner reflector array on the lunar surface at the Fra Mauro site. This instrument, those at Apollo 11 (Tranquility base), and at the Apollo 15 site in the Hadlye/Apennine region provided a network of stations (well-separated in ...
