Where No Man Has Gone Before by Compton William David;

Author:Compton, William David;
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 1894744
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-11T04:00:00+00:00

To Fra Mauro, At Last

The loss of the scientific information Apollo 13 would have returned from Fra Mauro made it necessary to reevaluate objectives for later missions. At its meeting in early March the Apollo site selection board had recommended Littrow (Figure 4, site 21) as the target for Apollo 14.16 After Apollo 13 the board’s scientific advisers almost unanimously agreed that the Fra Mauro site still rated the high priority it had been given; they recommended sending Apollo 14 there instead of Littrow, and the board agreed.17 Since a number of changes in the service module were expected as a result of the Apollo 13 investigation, Apollo 14 was rescheduled for the third time in six months. Launch readiness was targeted for no earlier that January 31, 1971.18

In the nine months between the third and fourth lunar exploration missions, the last of the year’s budget shocks hit the Apollo program. With the loss of Apollo 15 and 19, Apollo 14 became the last of the intermediate (“H”-type) missions. Its basic objectives were the same as those of Apollo 13, but several changes were made in details.

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