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Hace 5 días · Luna 15 was a Ye-8-5 spacecraft, basically identical to the successful Luna 16 mission that operated just over a year later. It had a mass of 2718 kg. The spacecraft consisted of two attached stages, an ascent stage mounted on top of a descent stage. The descent stage was a cylindrical body with four protruding landing legs, fuel tanks, a ...
Hace 2 días · Description. Apollo 16 was the fifth mission in which humans walked on the lunar surface and returned to Earth. On 21 April 1972 two astronauts (Apollo 16 Commander John W. Young and LM pilot Charles M. Duke, Jr.) landed in the Descartes region of the Moon in the Lunar Module (LM) while the Command and Service Module (CSM) (with CM pilot Thomas K. Mattingly, II) continued in lunar orbit.
13 de may. de 2024 · After docking with the CSM (piloted by Richard F. Gordon Jr.) at 17:58:22 UT, the LM was jettisoned at 20:21:30 and intentionally crashed into the Moon, striking at 3.94 S, 338.80 E, about 60 km from the seismic station at the Apollo 12 landing site, creating the first recorded artificial moonquake. Lunar Module Spacecraft and Subsystems
Hace 4 días · The initial orbit was 189.1 km x 1866.8 km and had a period of 3 hours 37 minutes and an inclination of 12.2 degrees. On 21 August perilune was dropped to 58 km and on 25 August to 40.5 km. The spacecraft acquired photographic data from August 18 to 29, 1966, and readout occurred through September 14, 1966. A total of 42 high resolution and 187 ...
Hace 2 días · The more complex human spaceflight has been pursued soon after the first orbital satellites and has reached the Moon and permanent human presence in space around Earth, particularly with the use of space stations. Human spaceflight programs include the Soyuz, Shenzhou, the past Apollo Moon ... long journey to the Moon. Apollo ...
Hace 3 días · The spacecraft was the second of the Apollo H-series. The purposes of the mission were (1) to explore the hilly upland Fra Mauro region of the moon, (2) to perform selenological inspection, survey, and sampling of material in the Fra Mauro formation, (3) to deploy and activate an Apollo lunar surface experiments package (ALSEP), (4) to further ...
Hace 5 días · Having extracted the lunar module from the Saturn V, the Apollo stack slipped into lunar orbit 55 years ago on May 21, 1969. Stafford and Cernan piloted the Apollo lunar module to less than 47,000 feet above the surface a day later. "Much closer," noted Cernan, "if you consider those damned mountains that seemed to be grinning around us like ...
