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The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was an electric vehicle designed to operate in the low-gravity vacuum of the Moon and to be capable of traversing the lunar surface, allowing the Apollo astronauts to extend the range of their surface extravehicular activities.
Description. The Apollo 15 lunar module (LM) "Falcon" was the fourth crewed vehicle to land on the Moon. It carried two astronauts, Commander David R. Scott and LM pilot James B. Irwin, the seventh and eighth men to walk on the Moon. The LM also carried a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), an Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) that ...
The LM also carried a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), an Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) that contained scientific experiments to be deployed and left on the lunar surface, and other scientific and sample collection apparatus.
The Apollo Program (1963 - 1972) 30th Anniversary of Apollo 11 - July, 1999. The Apollo program was designed to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. Six of the missions (Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) achieved this goal.
The Apollo program included a large number of uncrewed test missions and 12 crewed missions: three Earth orbiting missions (Apollo 7, 9 and Apollo-Soyuz), two lunar orbiting missions (Apollo 8 and 10), a lunar swingby (Apollo 13), and six Moon landing missions (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17).
The primary mission goals of investigating the lunar surface and environment in the Taurus-Littrow region, emplacing and activating surface experiments, performing experiments in lunar orbit, obtaining and returning lunar surface samples, and enhancing the capability for future astronaut lunar exploration were achieved.
Apollo 17. Launched: 7 December 1972 UT 05:33:00 (12:33:00 a.m. EST) Landed on Moon: 11 December 1972 UT 19:54:57 (02:54:57 p.m. EST) Landing Site: Taurus-Littrow (20.19 N, 30.77 E) Returned to Earth: 19 December 1972 UT 19:24:59 (02:24:59 p.m. EST) Eugene A. Cernan, commander Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar ...
During this time they covered 27 km using the Lunar Roving Vehicle, collected 95.71 kg of rock and soil samples, took photographs, and set up the ALSEP and other scientific experiments. Other experiments were also performed from orbit in the CSM during this time.
The primary objective of the traverse gravimeter experiment (S-199) was to make a high-accuracy relative survey of the lunar gravitational field in the Apollo 17 landing area and to use these measurements to obtain information about the geological substructure.
The Laser Ranging Retroreflector Experiment (LRRR), part of the ALSEP package, was a corner reflector for laser ranging from earth. The ranging data obtained included information on lunar motion, lunar librations, and earth rotation.