& SIM Bay Data Retrieval EVA
Apollo 15 CSM "Endeavor" orbits above the moon
with SIM Bay visible. Detail from NASA photo AS15-88-11971
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Apollo 15 CSM "Endeavor" orbits above the moon
with SIM Bay visible. Detail from NASA photo AS15-88-11971
Click on photo for full, high resolution image.
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& 16 SIM Bay diagram |
Pre-flight
photo of Apollo 15 SIM Bay |
in-flight photo of SIM Bay |
SIM Bay diagram |
in-flight photo of SIM Bay |
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Camera (diagram) |
Camera (photo) |
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Diagram of Mapping
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SIM Bay Subsatellite
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Much like the entire mission, Apollo 17's SIM Bay was a little different from it's J-Series predecessors. The Subsatellite canister was replaced with the Lunar Sounder Experiment box, and the entire bottom shelf of experiments was changed. The differences are listed in this table:
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(Also referred to as the Coherent Synthetic Aperture Radar or CSAR) |
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| Bottom shelves of
Apollo 17 SIM Bay, showing the different instruments it carried |
UV
Spectrometer (see photo below) |
IR Scanning
Radiometer (see photo below) |
Front panel
of the Lunar Sounder Optical Recorder |
Antenna
configuration of the Lunar Sounder Experiment |
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| IR Scanning
Radiometer (lying on it's back) Front of instrument is facing up |
UV Spectrometer |
Above: Lunar orbital photos of Apollo 17 CSM "America", showing the
two dipole antennae boxes for the Lunar Sounder Experiment
Above: Apollo 17 CSM "America", with the Yagi antenna for the
Lunar Sounder Experiment clearly visible.
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| Beautiful painting of
SIM Bay EVA |
Nat Geo painting
showing Al Worden's view of Jim Irwin in the CM hatch |
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SIM EVA |
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PLSS OPS worn by CMP for EVA |
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Rehearsing for SIM Bay EVA in WETF | J-Series CMP EMU Connectors layout |
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