Apollo 15 landing site

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The Apollo 15 landing site is the area on the Moon where NASA’s 1971 Apollo 15 mission touched down near the Hadley Rille and Apennine Mountains to conduct advanced scientific exploration and rover-based surface operations.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf geographic location on the Moon
lunar landing site
countryOfOperator United States of America
surface form: United States
evaCount 3
experimentDeployed Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) NERFINISHED
Lunar dust detector
Lunar surface gravimeter
Lunar surface magnetometer
Solar wind spectrometer
firstUseOf Lunar Roving Vehicle NERFINISHED
geologicContext Apennine Front highlands NERFINISHED
Mare Imbrium basin rim
landingCraft Lunar Module Falcon NERFINISHED
landingDateUTC 1971-07-30
landingOfMission Apollo 15 NERFINISHED
landingTimeUTC 22:16:29
launchVehicleOfMission Saturn V NERFINISHED
locatedInRegion Mare Imbrium region NERFINISHED
locatedOn Moon NERFINISHED
missionLaunchDateUTC 1971-07-26
missionLunarLandingNumber 4th crewed lunar landing
missionNumberInApolloProgram 9th crewed Apollo mission
missionSplashdownDateUTC 1971-08-07
missionType crewed lunar landing
nearFeature Apennine Mountains (lunar) NERFINISHED
Hadley Rille NERFINISHED
Mons Hadley NERFINISHED
Mons Hadley Delta NERFINISHED
notableFor first extended-stay J-mission to the Moon
first use of a lunar rover on the Moon
notableRockSample Genesis Rock GENERATED
operatedBy NASA
primaryCommander David R. Scott NERFINISHED
primaryCommandModulePilot Alfred M. Worden GENERATED
primaryLunarModulePilot James B. Irwin GENERATED
program Apollo program NERFINISHED
sampleCollectionMass about 77 kg of lunar samples
scientificFocus advanced geological field exploration
sampling of highland and mare materials
study of Apennine Front
study of Hadley Rille
selenographicLatitude 26.1322° N (approximate)
selenographicLongitude 3.6339° E (approximate)
surfaceVehicleUsed Lunar Roving Vehicle 1 NERFINISHED
totalEVAOnSurfaceHours about 18.5 hours
totalSurfaceStayDuration about 66 hours
visitedByAstronaut David R. Scott NERFINISHED
James B. Irwin NERFINISHED

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Hadley–Apennine region containsFeature Apollo 15 landing site