Instrument Host Information
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urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.a15l::1.2
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APOLLO 15 LUNAR MODULE
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Spacecraft
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The Apollo 15 lunar module (LM) 'Falcon' was the fourth crewed vehicle to land on the Moon. It carried two astronauts, and a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), 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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| REFERENCES |
Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report, NASA SP-289, 546 pages, published by NASA, Washington, 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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