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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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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Mar 21 2006, 03:06 PM
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Found a little additional information on the lunar orbiting Radio Astronomy Explorer (Explorer 49). It's at the NSSDC Spacecraft Database and includes basic information on the spacecraft, the instruments fitted and most importantly an email address for further information.
Hope this helps. |
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Mar 21 2006, 11:34 PM
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Found a little additional information on the lunar orbiting Radio Astronomy Explorer (Explorer 49). It's at the NSSDC Spacecraft Database and includes basic information on the spacecraft, the instruments fitted and most importantly an email address for further information. The very last US lunar mission until Clementine -- unless you count Galileo's long-range observations of the Moon during its two Earth flybys, which actually did provide important new information on it, including confirmation of the existence of the Aitken Basin. (Explorer 49 did carry a wide-angle facsimile camera that photographed the Moon, but only to confirm its proper attitude orientation.) |
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Mar 22 2006, 01:28 PM
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The very last US lunar mission until Clementine -- unless you count Galileo's long-range observations of the Moon during its two Earth flybys, which actually did provide important new information on it, including confirmation of the existence of the Aitken Basin. (Explorer 49 did carry a wide-angle facsimile camera that photographed the Moon, but only to confirm its proper attitude orientation.) Interesting as the camera is not mentioned on the website I linked to. Were the pictures released in any form? |
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