Instrument Host Information
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urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.a16l::1.2
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The Apollo 16 Lunar Module
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Spacecraft
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The Apollo 16 lunar module (LM) "Orion" spacecraft was the fifth crewed vehicle to land on the Moon. The Apollo 16 LM was a two-stage (descent and ascent) vehicle designed for space operations near and on the Moon. It carried two astronauts, a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), and an Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) that contained scientific experiments to be deployed and left on the lunar surface and other scientific and sample collection apparatus.
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Apollo 16 Preliminary Science Report, NASA SP-315, 622 pages, published by NASA, Washingtion, D.C., 1972.
Apollo 16 - Expedition to Descartes (mission report), NASA MR-11, published by NASA, Washingtion, D.C., 1972.
Davies, M.E., and T.R. Colvin, Lunar coordinates in the regions of the Apollo landers, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 105, Issue E8, pages 20,227-20,280, 2000, doi:10.1029/1999JE001165.
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