The Surveyor Lunar Roving Vehicle, Plans for a rover to accompany Surveyor |
The Surveyor Lunar Roving Vehicle, Plans for a rover to accompany Surveyor |
Aug 18 2005, 04:05 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Surveyor Lunar Roving Vehicle, phase I. Volume V - System evaluation Final technical report
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntr..._1966004162.pdf -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Aug 25 2005, 12:25 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10197 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Thanks, Bruce - yes, I do know those, of course. I was thinking specifically about the Surveyor Rovers, and whether their purpose was only to give ground truth to Apollo sites AFTER they were chosen, or if other science targets might also be chosen specifically for Surveyor.
The two references you mention are interesting. Compton gives summaries of various stages in the site selection process, but when I looked at the minutes I found a few cases where Compton's dates seem to be mistaken - a decision would be related to a different meeting than the one at which it was made. This might be because they had the habit of including a package of presentation materials for the last meeting with the minutes for the current meeting, inviting misunderstanding later. Wilhelms, of course, wrote a fabulous book about all this. But he intended more, preparing many illustrations. The publisher rejected the idea and left him with the book we see. So he packaged up his illustrations and lots of other material from the site selection and put it in binders which he deposited in the Branch History Collection at Flagstaff. I was able to get hold of most of it and make copies, and luckily my Atlas will be able to contain it all. The only things I couldn't get were a couple of binders from the last two missions. Jack Schmitt had borrowed them and has been hanging on to them. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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