Apollo 15: Mission Flown Material (Lunar Surface). Lunar Module Contingency Checklist. HD 1080p
I am often asked why I collect artifacts like this one. For some of us, these items have some kind of energy that connects one to the past. If you are curious, if you love history in all of its disciplines and fields, holding or even owning a historical item, no matter how small, obscure or specialized, is meaningful. In July of 1971, this little scrap of card stock was on the moon with Dave Scott and Jim Irwin, and with Al Worden in the Command Module on the way back to earth.
"Apollo 15 set several new records for crewed spaceflight: heaviest payload in a lunar orbit of approximately 107,000 pounds, maximum radial distance traveled on the lunar surface away from the spacecraft of about 17.5 miles (previous high was 2.1 miles on Apollo 14), most lunar surface EVAs (three) and longest total of duration for lunar surface EVAs (18 hours, 37 minutes - almost the total time spent in lunar orbit by Apollo 8), longest time in lunar orbit (about 145 hours; only two hours less than the entire Apollo 8 mission), longest crewed lunar mission (295 hours), longest Apollo mission (295 hours - previous high was 244 hours, 36 minutes on Apollo 12), the first satellite placed in lunar orbit by a crewed spacecraft, and first deep space and operational EVA.” (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...)
Interesting Links:
Mission overview :
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...
LROC Satellite Images of Apollo 15 Landing Site:
http://www.lroc.asu.edu/posts/153
Lunar Rover:
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall...
Attribution:
All photos provided by NASA's Image Library:
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/image...
Rover Audio:
https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/a15...
Apollo 15 Contingency Checklist cover photo:
https://www.rrauction.com
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