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Space Rocket History #348 – Apollo 15 – Traverse 3
“We pray for one last landingOn the globe that gave us birth;Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skiesAnd the cool, green hills of Earth.” Robert...
Space Rocket History #347 – Apollo 15 – Traverse 2-Part 2 – The Genesis Rock
Both men realized what they had discovered. The rock was almost entirely plagioclase. This was surely a chunk of anorthosite, a piece of the primordial...
Space Rocket History #346 – Apollo 15 – Traverse 2-Part 1
Suddenly, Scott called out that the Rover was beginning to slide down the hill. As the back wheels came off the ground, Scott quickly got back on...
Space Rocket History #345 – Apollo 15 – The Lunar Rover & Traverse 1
The whole stripped-down rover weighed about 455 pounds on Earth but only 76 pounds on the moon and was built to carry 2 1/2 times its weight at a maximum...
Space Rocket History #344 – Apollo 15 – Oxygen Leak, Glass Ball, First Steps & The Lunar Rover
After a good nights sleep, Houston woke the astronauts up an hour early the next morning because of a slight oxygen leak.
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