Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions
APPENDIX 5
Summary Data on Apollo Missions
Source for all tables: "Apollo Program Summary Report," JSC-09423, April 1975.
- Apollo Manned Missions
- Summary of Apollo Lunar Surface Activity
- Apollo Science Experiments
- Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package Arrays and Status as of April 1975
- Flight Directors for Apollo Manned Missions
Apollo Manned Missions:
Vehicle and Crew Data
No. vehicle No.(a) Crew signs (CSM, LM)
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Apollo 7 205 101 None Schirra, Apollo 7
Eisele, (no LM)
Cunningham
Apollo 8 503 103 None Borman, Apollo 8
Lovell, (no LM)
Anders
Apollo 9 504 104 3 McDivitt, Gumdrop,
Scott, Spider
Schweickart
Apollo 10 505 106 4 Stafford, Charlie Brown,
Young, Snoopy
Cernan
Apollo 11 506 107 5 Armstrong, Columbia,
Collins, Eagle
Aldrin
Apollo 12 507 108 6 Conrad, Yankee Clipper,
Gordon, Intrepid
Bean
Apollo 13 508 109 7 Lovell, Odyssey,
Swigert, Aquarius
Haise
Apollo 14 509 110 8 Shepard, Kitty Hawk,
Roosa, Antares
Mitchell
Apollo 15 510 112 10 Scott, Endeavor,
Worden, Falcon
Irwin
Apollo 16 511 113 11 Young, Caspar,
Mattingly, Orion
Duke
Apollo 17 512 114 12 Cernan, America,
Evans, Challenger
Schmitt
(a) 200 number, Saturn IB; 500 number, Saturn V.
(b) Commander, CM pilot, LM pilot.
Launch Data
Mission Date, time(c) Launch Site
No. of launch
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Apollo 7 11 Oct. 1968 ETR
10:02:45a.m. LC-34
Apollo 8 21 Dec. l968 KSC
7:51:00 a.m. LC-39A
Apollo 9 3 March 1969 KSC
11:00:00 a.m. LC-39A
Apollo 10 18 May 1969 KSC
11:49:00 a.m. LC-39B
Apollo 11 16 July 1969 KSC
8:32:00 a.m. LC-39A
Apollo 12 14 Nov. l969 KSC
11:22:00 a.m. LC-39A
Apollo 13 11 Apr. 1970 KSC
2:13:00 p.m. LC-39A
Apollo 14 31 Jan 1971 KSC
5:03:02 p.m. LC-39A
Apollo 15 26 July 1971 KSC
8:34:00 a.m. LC-39A
Apollo 16 16 Apr. 1972 KSC
12:54:00 LC-39A
Apollo 17 7 Dec. 1972 KSC
12:33:00 a.m. LC-39A
(c) Eastern Standard Time.
(d) ETR, Eastern Test Range; KSC, Kennedy Space Center; LC, launch complex.
Landing and Recovery Data
Mission Landing Mission Landing Dist. Ocean Recovery
date, duration point, from ship
time (b) lat., long. target
(a) (c) (nm)(c)
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Apol1o 22 Oct. 260:09:03 27 deg. 38'N 1.9 Atlantic U.S.S.
7 1968 64 deg. 9'W Essex
6:11:48
Apollo 27 Dec. 147:00:42 8 deg. 6'N 1.4 Pacific U.S.S.
8 1968 165 deg. 1'W Yorktown
10:51:42
Apollo 13 Mar. 241:00:54 23 deg. 13'N 2.7 Atlantic U.S.S.
9 1969 67 deg. 59'W Guadalcanal
12:00:53
Apollo 26 May 192:03:23 15 deg. 4'S 1.3 Pacific U.S.S.
10 1969 164 deg. 39'W Princeton
11:52:23
Apollo 24 July 195:18:35 13 deg. 18'N, 1.7 Pacific U.S.S.
11 1969 169 deg. 9'W Hornet
11:50:35
Apollo 24 Nov. 244:36:25 15 deg. 47'S 2.0 Pacific U.S.S.
12 1969 165 deg. 9'W Hornet
15:58:25
Apollo 17 April 142:54:41 2 deg. 38'S 1.0 Pacific U.S.S.
13 1970 165 deg. 22'W Iwo Jima
13:07:41
Apollo 9 Feb. 216:01:58 27 deg. 1'S 0.6 Pacific U.S.S.
14 1971 172 deg. 40'W New Orleans
16:05:00
Apollo 7 Aug. 259:11:53 26 deg. 8'N 1.0 Pacific U.S.S.
15 1971 158 deg. 8'W Okinawa
15:45:53
Apollo 27 Apr. 265:51:05 0 deg. 42'S 3.0 Pacific U.S.S.
16 1972 156 deg. 13'W Ticonderoga
14:45:05
Apollo 19 Dec. 301:51:59 17 deg. 53'S 1.0 Pacific U.S.S.
17 1972 l66 deg. 7'W Ticonderoga
14:24:59
(a) Command module splashdown, Eastern Standard Time(b) Hours-minutes:
seconds.
(c) Best estimate; may be based on recovery ship position data, CM computer data, or trajectory reconstruction.
Summary of Apollo Lunar Surface Activity
Mission Lunar Date, time(a) of: Time on Duration Weight
No. landing lunar of EVAs of
site Lunar Lunar surface (c) samples
(Lat.-long) landing liftoff (b) collected
(name) (kg)
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Apollo 0.7 deg.N, 20 July 21 July 21:36:21 2:31:40 21
11 23.4 deg.E 1969 1969
Mare 17:17:40 14:54:01
Tranquillitatis
Apollo 3.2 deg.S 19 Nov. 20 Nov. 31:31:12 3:56:03 16.7
12 23.4 deg.W 1969 1969 3:49:15 17.6
Oceanus 1:54:36 9:25:48 ------- ----
Procellarum 7:45:18 34.3
Apollo 3.6 deg.S 5 Feb. 6 Feb. 33:30:31 4:47:50 20.5
l4(d) 17.5 deg.W 1971 1971 4:34:41 22.3
Fra Mauro 4:18:11 13:48:42 ------- ----
9:22:31 42.8
Apollo 26.1 deg.N 30 July 2 Aug. 66:54:53 0:33:07(e) --
15 3.7 deg.E 1971 1971 6:32:42 14.5
Hadley- 17:16:29 13:11:22 7:12:14 34.9
Apennine 4:49:50 27.3
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19:07:53 76.7
Apollo 9.0 deg.S 20 Apr. 23 Apr. 71:02:13 7:11:02 29.9
16 15.5 deg.E 1972 1972 7:23:11 29.0
Descartes 21:23:35 20:25:48 5:40:03 35.4
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20:14:16 94.3
Apollo 20.2 deg.N 11 Dec. 14 Dec. 74:59:40 7:11:53 14.3
17 30.8 deg.E 1972 1972 7:36:56 34.1
Taurus- 14:54:57 17:54:37 7:15:08 62.0
Littrow -------- -----
22:03:57 110.4
(a) Eastern Standard Time. Liftoff time calculated from touchdown time
plus time on lunar surface.
(b) Touchdown to liftoff, hr:min:sec.
(c) Extravehicular activity in hr:min:sec, LM hatch opening to closing. Multiple EVAs shown separately.
(d) Apollo 13 was aborted following an explosion in the service module 55 hr, 54 min after launch. Intended landing site, on the Fra Mauro formation, was used for Apollo 14.
(e)"Standup" EVA - commander stood up in open upper LM hatch to make visual and photographic observations of the landing area
Apollo Science Experiments
Experiment Mission
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I. Surface Experiments 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
S-031 Passive seismic experiment x x (x) x x x
S-033 Active seismic experiment x x
S-034 Lunar surface magnetometer x x x
S-035 Solar wind spectrometer x x x
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S-036 Suprathermal ion detector x x x
S-037 Heat flow' experiment (x) x x
S-038 Charged particle lunar environment (x) x
S-058 Cold cathode ion gauge x x x
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S-059 Lunar field geology x x (x) x x x x
S-080 Solar wind composition x x (x) x x
S-078 Laser ranging retroreflector x x x
M-515 Lunar dust detector x (x) x x
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S-198 Portable magnetometer x x
S-199 Lunar gravity traverse x
S-200 Soil mechanics x x x x
S-201 Far-ultraviolet camera spectroscope x
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S-202 Lunar ejecta and meteorites x
S-203 Lunar seismic profiling x
S-204 Surface electrical properties x
S-205 Lunar atmospheric composition x
S-207 Lunar surface gravimeter x
S-229 Lunar neutron probe x
II. Lunar Orbital Experiments 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
S-158 Multispectral photography x
S-176 Command module window meteoroid x x x x
S-177 Ultraviolet photography,
earth and moon x x
S-178 Gegenschein from lunar orbit (x) x x
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S-160 Gamma-ray spectrometer x x
S-161 X-ray fluorescence x x
S-162 Alpha-particle spectrometer x x
S-164 S-band transponder (CSM/LM) x (x) x x x
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S-164 S-band transponder (subsatellite) x x
S-165 Mass spectrometer x x
S-169 Far-ultraviolet spectrometer x
S-170 Bistatic radar x x x x
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S-171 Infrared scanning radiometer x
S-173 Particle shadows
boundary layer (subsatellite) x x
S-174 Magnetometer (subsatellite) x x
S-209 Lunar sounder x
(x) not performed (or deployed) on aborted mission.
Source JSC. "What We've Learned About The Moon," July 1980.
Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package Arrays and Status as of April 1975*
Experiment Apollo 12 Apollo 13 Apollo 14
Array A Array B Array C
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Passive seismic Short-period Not deployed. Long-period Z-axis
Z-axis has inoperative since
displayed reduced 3/20/72. Noisy
sensitivity since data on
deployment. long-period Y axis
since 4/14/73.
Active seismic Mortar not fired.
Geophone 3 data
noisy since
3/26/71. Geophone
2 data invalid
since 1/3/74.
Lunar surface Permanently
magnetometer commanded off
6/4/74.
Solar wind Full operation
spectrometer except for
intermittent
modulation drop
in two proton
energy levels
each lunation
since l1/5/71.
Suprathermal Periodically Periodically
ion detector commanded off to commanded to
prevent high- standby operation
voltage arcing at to avoid mode
elevated lunar changes at
day temperatures elevated lunar
since 9/9/72. day temperatures
since 3/29/72.
Heat flow Not deployed.
Cold-cathode Inoperative. Not deployed. Intermittent
ion gauge Failed 14 hours science data
after turn-on since 3/29/72.
11/20/69.
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Apollo 15 Apollo 16 Apollo 17
Array A-2 Array D Array E
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Passive seismic Full operation Full operation
Active Seismic 3 of 4 grenades
launched. Mortar
pitch sensor off
scale after 3rd
firing on 5/23/72.
Lunar Surface Permanently Full operation
magnetometer commanded off
6/14/74.
Solar wind Permanently
spectrometer commanded off
6/14/74
Suprathermal Periodically
ion detector commanded to
standby operation
to avoid mode
changes at
elevated lunar
day temperatures
since 9/13/73.
Heat Flow Probe 2 not to Inoperative Full operation
full depth since emplacement
intended, but
experiment
provides useful
data.
Cold-cathode Intermittent
ion gauge science data since
2/22/73.
Lunar ejecta and Thermal control
meteorites design not optimum
for Apollo 17
site. Instrument
operated for about
75% of lunation.
*The Apollo 14 ALSEP station failed in January 1976. The stations still
operating (12, 15, 16, and 17) were turned off September 30, 1977.
Flight Directors for Apollo Manned Missions
Mission Shift 1 Shift 2 Shift 3 Shift 4
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7 Glynn S. Lunney Eugene F. Gerald D. Griffin --
Kranz
8 Clifford E. Lunney Milton L. Windler --
Charlesworth
9 Kranz Griffin M. P. Frank --
10 Lunney, Windler Frank --
Griffin
11 Charlesworth, Kranz Lunney Windler
Griffin
12 Griffin Frank Charlesworth Lunney
13 Windler Griffin Kranz Lunney
14 Frank, Windler Griffin --
Lunney
15 Griffin Windler Lunney, --
Kranz
16 Frank, Kranz, Griffin, Neil B. --
Philip C. Donald R. Hutchinson,
Shaffer Puddy Charles R. Lewis
17 Griffin Kranz, Frank --
Hutchinson, Lewis
Source: memos from Director, Flight Operations, MSC, to multiple addressees, listing personnel assignments for the Mission Control Center for each flight.