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Topic: Details in high-resolution Apollo photos
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oly
Member Posts: 1493
From: Perth, Western Australia
Registered: Apr 2015
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posted 06-10-2019 09:53 PM
   
This post flight inspection photo shows the severed umbilical lines and cables of the command module after experiencing the heat of re-entry. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3839
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-06-2019 08:32 PM
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Originally posted by oly:
It breaks my heart seeing that Hasselblad left sitting on the MET.
Do we know how many lunar surface Hasselblads were brought back to Earth? I know of at least one (from Apollo 17). |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-06-2019 08:39 PM
As best known, four: Alan Shepard's from Apollo 14, Jim Irwin's from Apollo 15 and both Gene Cernan's and Jack Schmitt's from Apollo 17. |
dsenechal
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posted 11-07-2019 11:59 AM
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Originally posted by LM-12:
Apollo 9 commander Jim McDivitt can be seen...
Rather than a picture of McDivitt, this appears to be a reflection of Schweickart with his gold visor up. Sort of a reflective selfie. Note that the image of the spacesuit extends beyond the inside window frame. Also, the NASA suit patch is reversed, as it would be in a reflection. |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 11-07-2019 01:22 PM
To me, it still looks like McDivitt inside the LM, with his right shoulder closest to the window and his head turned to the right.Would Schweickart's neck ring be exposed like that on an EVA? It was covered.  |
perineau
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From: FRANCE
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 11-08-2019 09:34 AM
Just an unrelated thought: I wonder after his two missions Gemini 4 and Apollo 9, if it bothered McDivitt that he never got to do an EVA himself! |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 11-30-2019 01:10 AM
Photo S66-46237 shows the Gemini 10 spacecraft docked with Agena 5005 on orbit 12, with Agena 5003 in the distance. |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 12-09-2019 01:55 AM
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Originally posted by LM-12:
The Station 6 pan taken by Jack Schmitt includes three photos that show a bright object in the sky just above the horizon ... Since the CM was approaching LOS shortly after the pan was taken, those white dots in the sky might be the CM flying over Cernan and Schmitt at Station 6.
Here are some approximate GET times for the three photos: frame 141-21592 (white dot at center and low above horizon) ... 164:59 GET
frame 141-21596 (white dot at right and higher above horizon) ... 164:59 GET
frame 141-21600 (white dot at far right and low above horizon) ... 165:00 GET The CSM in orbit was approaching LOS at 165:03 GET.
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One Big Monkey
Member Posts: 182
From: West Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Jul 2012
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posted 12-09-2019 12:34 PM
It's tempting, but I'm not sure about the timings.For example, while they are at station 7 the CMP is on rev 40, and we have this observation during that orbit: 163:38 CC "Are you getting the landing site into view now?" CMP "I got it in window 2" That orbit's AOS was at 163:13, and the last message before LOS was 164:23, so Evans was flying over the landing site much nearer AOS than LOS.Taurus-Littrow is some distance from either event, so I wouldn't put any CSM images as being near the LOS time. (The times I quote above are from the transcript, and don't reflect the adjustment to the timings made as a result of the delay in lift off.) |
LM-12
Member Posts: 4122
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 12-09-2019 01:42 PM
I see your point with the example you mentioned. Thanks for that. The CSM would have been much further west in its orbit when those Station 6 photos were taken.As mentioned earlier, the Apollo 12 CSM was spotted by Conrad and Bean from the lunar surface. But I haven't seen anything to indicate they photographed it. It is still possible that a CSM overflight was caught by chance in a photograph taken from the lunar surface. I'll keep searching. |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 12-10-2019 10:49 AM
How about this one: Dave Scott took an ALSEP pan on EVA-2 when the CSM flew over the landing site.From the TEC transcripts: 148:02:25 Scott: Okay, my pan -- out of the way real quick. From the CSM transcripts: 148:02:43 Henize: I have you coming up on Hadley, right - Well, you just passed Hadley, I guess.148:02:50 Worden: Yes, that's right. I'm just going over Archimedes right now. And what looks like a moving white dot seen in these pan photos: - AS15-92-12420 ... white dot above Hill 305
- AS15-92-12421 ... white dot above Hill 305 farther right
- AS15-92-12422 ... white dot farther right
- AS15-92-12423 ... white dot farther right
- AS15-92-12424 ... Irwin digging a trench
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LM-12
Member Posts: 4122
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 12-11-2019 07:06 AM
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Originally posted by LM-12:
As mentioned earlier, the Apollo 12 CSM was spotted by Conrad and Bean from the lunar surface.
That was between the lunar landing and EVA-1.Conrad saw the CSM overhead again between the end of EVA-2 and lunar liftoff: 139:49:32 CC: Intrepid, Houston. Go.139:49:37 CDR: Has Yankee gone overhead yet? 139:49:43 CC: Not yet, Pete. 139:49:48 CDR: Give me an overhead time, so I can watch him go by. ... 139:51:01 CC: Intrepid, Houston. Clipper should be overhead at 140:04:10. ... 140:06:16 CDR: Houston, Intrepid. We had a visual on him although I couldn't talk to him on VHF. 140:06:25 CC: Intrepid, Houston. Roger. |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 12-15-2019 10:10 AM
About two hours before lunar liftoff, Cernan and Schmitt talked about possibly seeing the CSM flying overhead: Cernan: You might be able to. It's awful glary though. He'll be well sunlit up there. Schmitt: I doubt it. |
One Big Monkey
Member Posts: 182
From: West Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Jul 2012
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posted 01-02-2020 01:06 PM
Here's a wonderful detail from AS11-36-5308, taken after TLI but before extraction of the LM. It shows cloud spirals caused by air flow around the island of Guadalupe, also known as von Karman vortex streets. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 4122
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 05-09-2020 12:24 AM
Most have seen photo 66-HC-1476 that shows the Gemini 11 launch with AS-500F on Pad 39A in the background.  If you look closely, you can also see AS-500F in the distant background in another photo of the Gemini 11 launch.  |
LM-12
Member Posts: 4122
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 05-09-2025 05:25 PM
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Originally posted by LM-12:
Looks like an umbilical line did not disconnect properly during the Gemini 10 launch.
You can see that faulty umbilical line in this close-up launch footage of the Gemini 10 vehicle. |
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