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Post by freon on Aug 30, 2006 12:15:43 GMT -4
Anybody got any pictures or video showing the deployment of the Apollo moon rovers?
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Post by HeadLikeARock (was postbaguk) on Aug 30, 2006 12:45:02 GMT -4
Anybody got any pictures or video showing the deployment of the Apollo moon rovers? As far as I am aware, it took both astronauts to unload and deploy the rover, so no Hasselblad images. The TV camera was mounted on the rover itself, so no TV footage as far as I am aware. Anyone else, please feel free to enlighten me! There are some animations and artists impressions out there though...  Nice photo of the rover folded up on the LM quad.  www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo15/A15_Surface_EVA1.htmlen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Rover#DeploymentHope this helps! |
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Post by freon on Aug 30, 2006 13:23:16 GMT -4
Thanks for the photos. I am having a hard time finding anything.
What about from there chest mounted cameras? Anything like that out there?
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Post by dwight on Aug 30, 2006 13:37:50 GMT -4
The TV camera on Apollo 15 documented the entire deployment. The Apollo Lunar Surface journal should have clips. For full 525/60 resolution, www.spacecraftfilms.com has the entire mission downlinks available on DVD. cheers dwight |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Aug 30, 2006 17:27:33 GMT -4
The best is from Apollo 15 (The TV camera was in the MESA like the previous missions and set on a tripod during the deployment and was later moved to the mount on the LRV) though it doesn't show as much as would have been nice because it is static and much of the action occurs off to the side of the shot.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Aug 30, 2006 17:29:06 GMT -4
What about from there chest mounted cameras? Anything like that out there?
Both astronauts were required to deal with the deployment, so they didn't have time to take photos.
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Post by nomuse on Aug 30, 2006 17:31:29 GMT -4
I've seen video of the deployment done on Earth by a bunch of guys in shirt-sleeves. At least that shows what happened when, and how. I'm sorry I can't come up with a link to that video now.
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Post by Count Zero on Aug 30, 2006 18:38:17 GMT -4
Here is the time-lapse. The deployment in real time is here (which starts with one of those leaps the CTs say we never did) followed by this (where the front wheels deploy in a ballistic spray of dust), and this (where the rear wheels deploy), and this, where they get it on the ground. I remember watching this EVA live at my uncle's house in Tucson back in the summer of '71.
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Post by HeadLikeARock (was postbaguk) on Aug 30, 2006 19:41:20 GMT -4
Here is the time-lapse. The deployment in real time is here (which starts with one of those leaps the CTs say we never did) followed by this (where the front wheels deploy in a ballistic spray of dust), and this (where the rear wheels deploy), and this, where they get it on the ground. I remember watching this EVA live at my uncle's house in Tucson back in the summer of '71. Excellent, I hadn't seen that footage. Cheers, Count Zero! :-) |
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