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Topic: Apollo 14
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Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1586
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 05-02-2003 07:06 PM
   
Was Apollo 14 ever assigned a landing site
before it was given the Fra Mauro site of Apollo 13? |
sts205cdr
Member Posts: 649
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 05-02-2003 07:37 PM
Pulled from a discussion on Usenet:From Don Wilhelms' excellent "To a Rocky Moon,"...pages 246-47: "Apollo 14 was to investigate a dark mantling deposit interpreted as volcanic ash or other pyroclastic material. Possible landing sites were at Rima Bode II (13 degrees North, 4 degrees West), a linear graben adjoining an elongated probable volcanic crater that was the blanket's presumed source, or a site called Littrow, which lies west of the later Apollo 17 landing site in the Taurus-Littrow Valley. Littrow had won out over Rima Bode II at a GLEP meeting in October, 1969, and Shepard's crew trained for a Littrow landing in February, 1970." --John [This message has been edited by sts205cdr (edited May 02, 2003).] |
spaceuk
Member Posts: 2113
From: Staffs, UK
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 05-03-2003 12:37 PM
There has been good discussion of this in recent days at sci.space.history newsgroup - and is still a live topic there.I have done a 'movie' (a quickie that will be polished up in next few days now I have some more time). This is based on Apollo orbital ground track - which I have in my collection. The web page is at:-
http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~spaceuk/apollo14/index.html |
derek
Member Posts: 297
From: N.Ireland.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 05-05-2003 04:50 PM
In 2000 I asked Mitchell this very question at a dinner,he said it was the crater Censorinus.------------------
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