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Although Littrow went unvisited, a nearby area, Taurus-Littrow, was the landing site for Apollo 17. [34] Apollo 14's landing site was located slightly closer to Cone crater than the point designated for Apollo 13. [35] The change in landing site from Littrow to Fra Mauro affected the geological training for Apollo 14.
After Apollo 13 failed to land, mission planners decided to re-target Apollo 14 to Fra Mauro, as they regarded Fra Mauro as more interesting scientifically than the Littrow site. There, Apollo 14 had the objective of sampling ejecta from the Imbrium impact to gain insight into the Moon's geologic history. Mission planners chose a landing site ...
[60] [61] Comparison of the original 16 mm Apollo 17 LM camera footage during ascent to the 2011 LRO photos of the landing site show an almost exact match of the rover tracks. [62] Further imaging in 2012 shows the shadows cast by the flags planted by the astronauts on all Apollo landing sites.
On Jan. 31, 1971, NASA sent the Apollo 14 mission skyward. The eighth crewed mission in the Apollo program (and third one to reach the surface of the Moon) lifted off on a Sunday afternoon with ...
Cone crater is a small crater in the Fra Mauro highlands, north of Fra Mauro crater, on the Moon.The name of the crater was formally adopted by the IAU in 1973. [1]The Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell landed the Lunar Module (LM) Antares southwest of Cone crater on February 5, 1971.
Armstrong pilots the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle and lands on the Moon, July 20, 1969, creating Tranquility Base. Armstrong named the site at 20:17:58 UTC, approximately 18 seconds after his and Aldrin's successful landing, as he announced:
Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...
Hadley–Apennine is a region on the near side of Earth's Moon that served as the landing site for the American Apollo 15 mission, the fourth crewed landing on the Moon and the first of the "J-missions", in July 1971. [1] [2] The site is located on the eastern edge of Mare Imbrium on a lava plain known as Palus Putredinis.