This catalog reviews Apollo mission reports, preliminary science reports, technical crew debriefings, lunar surface operations plans, and various relevant lunar experiment documents, collecting engineering- and operation-specific information by experiment. It is organized by discrete experimental and equipment items emplaced or operated on the lunar surface or at zero gravity during the Apollo missions. It also attempts to summarize some of the general problems encountered on the surface and provides guidelines for the design of future lunar surface experiments with an eye toward operations. Many of the problems dealt with on the lunar surface originated from just a few novel conditions that manifested themselves in various nasty ways. Low gravity caused cables to stick up and get caught on feet, and also made it easy for instruments to tip over. Dust was a problem and caused abrasion, visibility, and thermal control difficulties. Operating in a pressure suit limited a person's activity, especially in the hands. I hope to capture with this document some of the lessons learned from the Apollo era to make the jobs of future astronauts, principle investigators, engineers, and operators of lunar experiments more productive.
Catalog of APOLLO Experiment Operations
1994
161 pages
Report
No indication
English
Extraterrestrial Exploration , Astronautics , Apollo lunar experiment module , Apollo lunar surface experiments package , Catalogs (Publications) , Lunar surface , Lunar roving vehicles , Apollo flights , Lunar dust , Lunar photographs , Lunar seismographs , Lunar soil , Manned lunar surface vehicles , Microgravity , Spacecrews
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