Download or read book Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle Operations Handbook written by Nasa and published by Periscope Film LLC. This book was released on 2012 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed in only 17 months at a cost of 38 million dollars, the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) greatly expanded the survey range of the astronauts on Apollo 15, 16 and 17. Designed to operate in the low-gravity vacuum of the Moon, the LRV boasted an ingenious design that allowed it to be folded up and stored inside the Lunar Module. It would then be deployed using a system of pulleys and brake reels. The LRV's frame was made of aluminum alloy 2219 tubing assemblies, giving the vehicle a fairly small mass of 210kg but allowing it to carry up to 490kg on the lunar surface. The LRV's lightweight tires were made of zinc-coated steel strands with titanium chevrons and aluminum hubs, and offered a ground clearance of 36cm. The LRV featured two side-by-side, foldable seats, a TV camera, and a dish antenna. Four independent DC motors - one for each wheel - powered by two 36-volt batteries provided maneuvering power. Both sets of wheels could be used to steer, although they could also be decoupled. For safety reasons, astronauts never drove the LRV a distance farther from the LM than they could safely walk in the unlikely event that the rover failed. On each of the three day missions that it was employed, the LRV was used daily for three traverses. The longest was on Apollo 17, when it was driven 20.1km, and it traveled a total of 35.9km on that mission. The total distance traveled by all three LRVs was 90.4km. Almost all of it was done without incident, although some damage to the fender extensions caused dust problems on Apollo 16 and 17. Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 praised the design and operation of the vehicle, saying "...the Lunar Rover proved to be the reliable, safe and flexible lunar exploration vehicle we expected it to be." Originally created for the astronauts by prime contractor Boeing, this Lunar Roving Vehicle Operations Handbook describes the LRV and its systems, and details the deployment and driving procedures. It also details the 1-gravity LRV used to train astronauts on Earth. A lengthy appendix provides performance and other data.
Download or read book 20th Century NASA History written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reproduction of the Lunar Roving Vehicle Operations Handbook. This handbook, prepared by the LRV contractor Boeing, provides information on this "moon buggy" that made the last Apollo landings unique. Covers: Vehicle systems, mobility subsystem, electrical power subsystem, control and display console, navigation subsystem, crew station, thermal control, space support equipment Normal procedures: Unloading and chassis deployment, post-deployment checkout, payload loading, pre-sortie checkout, LRV configuration for science stop, display reading sequence and time intervals, special procedures, malfunction procedures, other contingencies Auxiliary equipment, forward chassis payload provisions, center chassis, and rear chassis Operating limitations - payload limitations, parking limitations, sortie limitations, navigation system Operating timelines, profiles - LRV and 1g trainer 1G trainer non-crew procedures.
Download or read book Lunar Roving Vehicle Operations Handbook written by Boeing Company. LRV Systems Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lunar Roving Vehicle Operations Handbook written by Nasa and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lunar Roving Vehicle Operations Handbook Contract NAS38 25145 written by National Aeronautics and Space Adm Nasa and published by . This book was released on 1971-07-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book APOLLO OPERATIONS HANDBK EXTRA written by NASA and published by Periscope Film LLC. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of eighteen years of design and research, the A7L and A7LB spacesuits served during the Apollo, Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz missions. Designed by International Latex Corporation (ILC) Dover and with a life support backpack provided by Hamilton Standard, the A7L featured a water-cooled undergarment, an inner blue pressurized layer, and a tough white nylon outer hull. After the disastrous Apollo I fire, ILC produced a version that utilized beta cloth that is fire resistant up to 650 degrees Celsius. Two basic versions of the suit were used during Apollo: an EV A7L configuration for the command module pilot (CMP) that provided low pressure and fire protection as well as protection for free-space EVA, and the EV A7L PGA configuration that provided additional protection from the lunar surface environment. Apollo 7-14 used the A7L design that provided six hours of primary and thirty minutes of emergency life support. The longer ""J"" missions 15, 16 and 17 utilized the A7LB suit that extended primary life support by an hour, and also featured additional joints to facilitate operation of the lunar roving vehicle. CMPs on these missions wore A7LB based H-series A7L suits, as they needed to perform EVAs to retrieve film from the Scientific Instrument Module in ""deep space."" Modified A7LBs were also used during both Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz. Created by NASA in 1968 and revised in 1971 for the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions, this handbook explains the extravehicular mobility unit, its subsystems, accessories and operation, as well as emergency procedures. Originally printed in two volumes by NASA, this version incorporates both in one book.
Download or read book Lunar and Planetary Rovers written by Anthony Young and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fills a need for a complete history of the Lunar Roving Vehicle used on Apollo 15, 16 and 17, drawing on many photographs never before published. It also tells the story of the robotic rovers used on Mars, and concludes with a description of the new designs of rovers planned for The New Vision for Exploration now underway at NASA. The book provides extensive quotes from the astronauts who drove the LRV on the Moon from interviews conducted especially for the book. It also details new material from interviews of engineers and managers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory covering the robotic rovers, Sojourner, Sprit and Opportunity.
Download or read book Lunar Roving Vehicle Payload Handbook Apollo 17 J 3 Mission written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines the maximum equipment, its placement and fit criteria, on the LRV for a lunar traverse. the equipment to be stowed is listed.
Download or read book Lunar Roving Vehicle Payload Handbook Apollo 16 written by Boeing Company and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines the maximum equipment, its placement and fit, on the LRV for a lunar traverse. The equipment is listed.
Download or read book Lunar Sourcebook written by Grant Heiken and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1991-04-26 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only work to date to collect data gathered during the American and Soviet missions in an accessible and complete reference of current scientific and technical information about the Moon.
Download or read book NASA Moon Missions Operations Manual written by Dr. David Baker and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing by Apollo 11. The story of Apollo has been told many times, but most accounts stop at the first landing. This book picks up where others have left off, and describes the five post-Apollo 11 Moon landings, defined as technical developments built upon engineering excellence. It was only through the robust design adopted when aerospace contractors first designed and built the Apollo spacecraft and the Lunar Module that successive evolutions were possible, taking lunar-landing operations far beyond what had first been envisaged. This book is not intended to tell the full story of each mission, but rather to describe the technical development of spacecraft and equipment necessary to grow the capability from a single EVA (‘moonwalk’) of less than three hours, to advanced missions where astronauts spent three full working days exploring their landing sites. With the aid of a Lunar Roving Vehicle, they collected a wide variety of rocks and soil and left a range of instruments at the surface powered by a thermonuclear generator. As interest grows in humans returning to the Moon, 50 years on from those pioneering days of lunar exploration, we look again at what was accomplished at the dawn of the Space Age, spurred on by a political goal and developed as a tool for science. The story of the Apollo Moon missions is an expression of those achievements.
Download or read book Operations and Maintenance Manual for a Scale Model Lunar Roving Vehicle written by Allen S. Lessem and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-sixth scale model of the Lunar Roving Vehicle used in the Apollo 15 mission was built and instrumented to conduct model studies of vehicle mobility. The model was free running under radio control and was equipped with a lightweight telemetry transmitter that allowed 16 channels of data to be gathered simultaneously. String payout and fifth-wheel devices were developed to measure vehicle velocity. Other real-time measurements included wheel torque, wheel speed, center-of-gravity accelerations, and steering forces. Califration, operations, and maintenance procedures were worked out. Details of the development of the instrumentation, its maintenance, some of the problems encountered etc., are recorded in this report to serve as a preliminary operations and maintenance manual for this specific model. (Author).
Download or read book The Automotive Chassis written by Giancarlo Genta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-26 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work serves as a reference concerning the automotive chassis, i.e. everything that is inside a vehicle except the engine and the body. It is the result of a decade of work mostly done by the FIAT group, who supplied material, together with other automotive companies, and sponsored the work. The first volume deals with the design of automotive components and the second volume treats the various aspects of the design of a vehicle as a system.
Download or read book Apollo Operations Handbook written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Spacecraft Systems Branch. Flight Crew Support Division and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lunar Rover Manual written by Christopher Riley and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the popular Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual space series, which includes NASA Apollo 11 Manual and NASA Space Shuttle Manual, this unique book provides an insight into the only car ever built to be driven on the surface of another world. With a Foreword by the first Apollo astronaut to drive it on the Moon, Dave Scott, and published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of mankind’s final drive on the Moon in December 2012. The book is part mechanical guide, illustrated with many of the technical drawings from the time, and part narrative-driven story of engineering ingenuity and human triumph. It draws on the rich NASA photographic archive and the complete transcripts of the crews' reaction to driving across the Moon, which the authors have an un-paralleled knowledge and experience of working with.
Download or read book The Lunar Base Handbook written by Peter Eckart and published by McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lunar Base Handbook provides an overview about the Moon and its environment, the current status of lunar base design, tools we need to design a lunar base, checklists and flow charts that outline the design process, and technological requirements of a lunar base. The main audience for this book is engineers, but it is also interesting for scientists, managers, lawyers, undergraduates, and high school students, and readable for the interested layman.
Download or read book ALSEP Termination Report written by James R. Bates and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
