Topic: [Video] Apollo 16: Young gets his feet tangled
apolloprojeckt Member
Posts: 1460 From: Arnhem, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2009
posted 07-22-2012 02:29 PM
Does know one of you what John Young has in his right hand (hardware) when Young gets his feet tangled? To see in this video clip on time frame: 0.25.
posted 07-22-2012 03:58 PM
Probably the mortar package
garymilgrom Member
Posts: 1966 From: Atlanta, GA Registered: Feb 2007
posted 07-23-2012 06:40 AM
What's the mortar package? Thanks.
mjanovec Member
Posts: 3811 From: Midwest, USA Registered: Jul 2005
posted 07-23-2012 01:14 PM
He pulled out the cable on the Heat Flow Experiment. The experiment had previously failed to work on Apollo 15, due to the inability to bore holes deep enough for the probes.
They finally got it installed and working on Apollo 17.
apolloprojeckt Member
Posts: 1460 From: Arnhem, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2009
posted 07-23-2012 01:59 PM
But what has he now in his right hand, a bore? Or HFE electronics package or the mortar package?
nasamad Member
Posts: 2141 From: Essex, UK Registered: Jul 2001
posted 07-23-2012 03:48 PM
According to the Lunar Surface Journal, Young had taken the mortar package from the top of the central ALSEP station when he caught the cable.
Blackarrow Member
Posts: 3160 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002
posted 07-23-2012 04:41 PM
quote:Originally posted by mjanovec: The experiment had previously failed to work on Apollo 15, due to the inability to bore holes deep enough for the probes.
It is not correct that the Apollo 15 Heat Flow Experiment failed. The bore-holes were deep enough to allow some very significant results which proved to be consistent with the Apollo 17 results. See "Exploring the Moon" by David Harland (Praxis; 1999) Page 318.
posted 07-22-2012 02:29 PM
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