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• #Video of the first man on the moon update#

On the Apollo 15 mission, the LRV was driven a total of about 17 miles (27 km), which amounted to 3 hours and 2 minutes of driving time, according to NASA officials. As a safety precaution, the vehicles were also constrained to a distance that, if the rover broke down, the astronauts would have enough resources in their life support systems to walk back to the Lunar Module. The LRVs allowed the Apollo astronauts to explore beyond their landing site, but there were definite limitations, such as the non-rechargeable battery life of the rovers. The public took a lot of interest in this new capability that the astronauts had." But, the rovers were definitely a part of that. Part of it was because the landing site was so much more attractive, and there were also more television broadcasts from the moon. Apollo 15 provided a blip upwards in public interest. "The public was becoming more and more blasé. "Overall public interest had declined after Apollo 11," Neufeld said. The lunar rovers also injected a new level of public enthusiasm for the Apollo program. Even flat looking terrain on the moon is not very flat because there are so many crater pits, so it would have been a fairly exciting ride."

"It didn't travel that fast, but for the astronauts who drove it, it seemed like it was exciting and fast. "They weren't driving on flat land – it was more like a dirt buggy than anything else," he explained. The rovers could reach a top speed of about 8 mph (about 13 kph), but the moon's cratered surface prevented the astronauts from driving too fast. They were very successful – there were no major failures – so clearly it was a successful design." Īnd they drove relatively well, Neufeld said, given the rocky terrain on the moon. "It had to be lightweight and had to be folded up in a very compact space. "It was a very elegant little vehicle," Neufeld said. Cernan makes a short checkout of the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the early part of the first Apollo 17 extravehicular activity at the Taurus-Littrow landing site in 1972. Maybe all these stupid moon hoax conspiracy theory believers should take a look at these.ĭo you really believe that these data would be freely available for private research if it all was fake.Apollo 17 mission commander Eugene A. Note that the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal is a private initiative by Eric Jones On each of the panoramas you can scroll down and get detailed information about the images used (thanks to Eric Jones who let me use these abstracts) This has been possible because of Eric Jones Apollo Lunar Surface Journal where every image taken on the moon is linked to the transcripts from the authentic conversation with Houston which also includes audio and video.

#Video of the first man on the moon update#

In this update January 2007 panoramas from all the Moon Landings has been added.Īll panoramas now also have a sound-clip which matches the panorama. It included the Apollo 11 and the Apollo 17 panorama. This page was first published in July 2004 at the 35 year anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing NASA HISTORY page about Photography on the moon

Original images from The Apollo Image Gallery The Journal also contains extensive, interwoven commentary by the Editor Eric Jones and by ten of the twelve moonwalking astronauts. It includes a corrected transcript of all recorded conversations between the lunar surface crews and Houston. The Journal is intended as a resource for anyone wanting to know what happened during the missions and why. The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal is a record of the lunar surface operations conducted by the six pairs of astronauts who landed on the Moon from 1969 through 1972. I have tried to keep this as much as possible like the originals but in some the visible errors from this has been covered by a photoshop generated flare.Īudioclips and data from the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal In several of the panoramas the sun is very low and shining directly into the camera which causes very large flares. Besides stitching them to panoramas the images are kept as much as possible in their original