Apollo 16 "nail" claim

[trebor]

I have a query about a claim made by someone else about
AS16-107-17442
In it he claimed that there was a "nail" sticking out of what seems to me to be the probe attached to the bottom of the landing pad.

See this :
www.myimgs.net/images/mynf.jpg
About a third of the way down.

What appears to be a handle on the end of it seems to blow that one away,
but I am still curious as to what that is..
Are there any other images showing this? Anyone know?

[AtomicDog]

heroicrelics.org/info/lm/lunar-surface-probe.html


My guess? It's part of the latching mechanism that holds the probe in a stowed position while the LM is in translunar flight.

Here's another view:

heroicrelics.org/cradle/lm-artifacts/dsc35233.jpg.html

How does your correspondent claim this is evidence for a hoax?

[Bob B.]

Jan 30, 2010 20:29:04 GMT -4 AtomicDog said:

My guess? It's part of the latching mechanism that holds the probe in a stowed position while the LM is in translunar flight.

That's what it is...

[trebor]

Jan 30, 2010 20:29:04 GMT -4 AtomicDog said:

heroicrelics.org/info/lm/lunar-surface-probe.html


My guess? It's part of the latching mechanism that holds the probe in a stowed position while the LM is in translunar flight.

Here's another view:

heroicrelics.org/cradle/lm-artifacts/dsc35233.jpg.html

How does your correspondent claim this is evidence for a hoax?

He believes it is a 'nail' and would 'puncture' the astronauts suits. Yes this is the level he is at.
Anyway, cheers for the pics

[randombloke]

Oh dear. I was at least hoping for a slightly more sophisticated "no-one uses nails to build spacecraft therefore this 'nail' is clear evidence that the whole thing is a prop" type argument, but I guess you can't beat the old "two-inch nail punctures three-inch suit" trick.

Speaking of which, wasn't the moon full of, what were they called now...ah yes, rocks? Of various shapes and sizes and a lot of them pointed, and very few of them directly under the landing gear where no-one would be moving about anyway...