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five miles above the moon Dave Scott and Jim
Irwin looked out the window of

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their lunar module down toward Al Worden in
the command module which had

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completed its separation maneuver beneath
them the 15,000 foot peaks of the

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lunar aponine mountain soon they would fly
low over those peaks on their way to

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a landing in a little valley in the mountains
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coming up on pitch over he 64 then LPD LPD
coming right out their window they

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could see the sinuous meanderings of the
lunar canyon known as Hadley Rill as

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they brought their lunar module calls sign
Falcon toward its landing and the

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beginning of what would be one of the most
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history of scientific exploration

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200 minus 1150 minus 7 minus 6

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okay the balcony is on the plane at Hadley
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no denying that we had contact

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Houston the Hadley base here tell those
geologists in the back room to get ready

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because we've really got something for him

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Scott and Irwin were located on an undulating
plane situated between the

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aponines and Hadley Rill an area selected by
the scientists as being one

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of the most geologically significant sites on
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okay over here that's just open and latch two
hours after touchdown Dave

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Scott stood up in Falcons upper hatch to
survey their landing area oh boy what

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have you I can see Bruton and Icarus as Scott
stood describing the craters and

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mountains we on earth perhaps did not yet
realize the scope and extent of the

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coming mission aboard the lunar module was a
small doombuggy like car called

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the lunar roving vehicle or just plain rover
the astronauts would travel miles

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in collecting samples and placing and
conducting experiments there are no

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sharp jagged piece or no large boulders
apparent anywhere they would observe the

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layering of the lunar terrain most clearly
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to the south called silver spur this layering
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mountains and the real give scientists a
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moon and the deeper insight as to the
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the journey of Apollo 15 had begun four days
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Dave Scott spacecraft commander and veteran
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Irwin lunar module pilot who would explore
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front with Scott Al Worden command module
pilot who would remain in lunar

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orbit operating an extensive array of cameras
and experiments and making

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observations which when coupled with the
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give the most comprehensive picture of the
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precisely on schedule 934 a.m. Apollo 15
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moon with the exception of a few minor
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uneven the command module Endeavour carrying
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arrive in lunar orbit with Scott's
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with cargo and what a fantastic sight this is
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this is absolutely mind-boggling gentlemen I
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foreign planet must be a weird thing to see

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July 31st after a night's rest Dave Scott
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stand out here the wonders of the unknown at
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fundamental truth to our nature man must
explore and this is exploration

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Scott was then joined by Jim Irwin

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their first job was to get the lunar roving
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they can't pull it out a little bit Jim that
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boy is this dirt rock like soft powder snow

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next the astronauts tried out the rover
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showed up the rover was designed to steer
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wheels

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I don't have any front steering Jill

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in youth the absence of front wheel steering
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they loaded the equipment they would need for
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boarded the rover for their first exploration

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they were headed towards st. George crater
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yeah this is really a rock and roll right in
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collect samples of a smaller crater called
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st. George and a look into Hadley rill

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that's beautiful that is spectacular

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this is unreal the most beautiful thing I've
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Scott then adjusted the television antenna on
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million miles away in Houston's mission
control a flight controller operated

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the television camera mounted on the rover
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could directly monitor the lunar exploration
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watching on television felt like the third
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it looks fairly recent doesn't it?

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okay now we got the fillet, we got the soil,
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the astronauts began to collect samples and
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consist of rocks picked up with a rake like
device soil samples selected rocks

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and chips taken from boulders

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can you imagine that Joe? Here sits this rock
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creatures roamed the sea on all the earth

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they would also drive core tubes into the
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specimens from beneath the surface

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but now it was time to return to the lunar
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period on the lunar surface but to begin
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I can't believe we came over those mountains

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we did, they're just a beautiful little
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yeah those are pretty big mountains to fly
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after returning to the lem to load equipment
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location to set up a science station similar
to those left on previous

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missions with the establishment of these
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stations was achieved which would allow
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ability to locate precisely the origin of
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as they worked one of their instructions was
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possible from the site

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Dave Scott

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I'll give you a demonstration here Joe

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Roger, right on

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Spectacular demonstration

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I will, nothing to add

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Lovely

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What was that a demonstration of by the way?

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It started out to be of gravity and it wound
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Using an electric drill Scott sank a tube
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probe would be placed to measure heat flow in
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the difficulty in drilling would delay
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the science station was then activated

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and Scott and Erwin closed Falcon's hatch on
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60 miles above the moon Al Worden orbited in
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operating experiments his observations adding
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already accumulated

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Okay I'm looking right down on letro now and
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looks like a whole field of small cinder
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the detection of cinder cones clearly of
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element of the controversy about how much of
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and how much by meteoroid impact

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Warden was operating a series of experiments
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these included a mapping camera to shoot
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star field for accurate location of these
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altimeter for accurate topographical mapping
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analyze the chemical makeup of the lunar
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in the estimation of a number of scientists
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would provide the most important information
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August 1st Scott and Erwin prepared for their
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checked the inoperative forward steering of
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Good work Dave. Yes sir. It's working my
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Their destination was the base of the
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some of the basic substance of the lunar
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As we drive up sun here I can see Mount
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really remarkable.

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Then they began the physical sampling of the
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craters in their traverse.

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Oh boy. It's a nice little crater isn't it?
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Okay Dewey let's go to work. Roger.

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Look at that. Wow. Almost see twinning in
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I think we found what we came for. Crystals
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To the untrained eye it looked like just
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formed in pairs called twinning showed it to
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formed during the earliest history of the
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billions of years of impacts and lava flows.
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Was the early lunar crust molten? Why
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the highlands and lowlands? Nicknamed the
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in unraveling the formative processes of the
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Let's make this bag number 196 a special bag.
Yes sir.

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Joe this crater is a gold mine. And there
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Yeah babe. Then we saw another practical use
of television in lunar exploration.

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And Dave you're going to want to cinch up
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It's coming very loose there. Okay.

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Okay. Let me do it right now Joe so we don't
forget it.

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Roger we sure don't want to lose that one. I
don't know what we'll do with Roger Joe.

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Okay Jim let's get on a rover and get back.

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It's nice to sit down in it. Oh it is.

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Okay we're on our tracks. Roger.

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And follow on home.

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We're sure on a neat rocks in the noon too
bad we can't spend some more time.

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On your next trip. Yeah next trip you're
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I could be seasick. What do you expect
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They returned to the science station where
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The difficulty in drilling was shown by
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Okay Dave take heart you've got just one
minute of drilling left.

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Okay we made a little bit you didn't make it.
Hand over fifth.

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Okay we made a little bit you didn't make it.
Hand over fifth.

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It was time to get back into the lem and end
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The drill and attached sections were left in
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On earth scientists poured over data from the
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On earth scientists poured over data from the
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The 1400 photographs the crew would return
would themselves constitute a major...

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The 1400 photographs the crew would return
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Lunar exploration was achieving a new
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We are now exploring to test new hypotheses
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One scientist when asked why he didn't sit
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I can't I'm too excited.

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Oh it's nice to be outside where you can
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It's the same. Hey I'll meet you up there.

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After the drill we last left our friend.

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If we could just get our shoulder under that.

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Their first stop was at the drill they had
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This core tube was the deepest sample ever
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Perhaps the deepest we would ever get. Eight
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This would not only tell us more about the
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but the traces of particles emitted by the
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Which would give us a clue to the early years
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But now it was time to leave the core tubes
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But now it was time to leave the core tubes
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Look at that grill.

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How about that?

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I can see maybe 10 very well defined layers
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Hang on.

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Very soft, but...

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Stuffed over that rock.

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Then Scott and Irwin descended a short
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to get a piece of one of the large blocks
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A big rock there.

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Yeah, chuck of the bedrock here.

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Get a little closer so you can get that big
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Right, where rock?

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Getting ready to move out Dave? Yep.

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And set up here for the next guy.

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Okay, I'm on it.

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They buckled their seatbelts for the ride
back to the lunar module.

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Oh, what a big mountain that Hadley is. Yeah,
it's beautiful.

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The sun is really fresh. Oh, look at the
mountains today Jim when they're all sunli...

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It really is. My golly, that's just super.

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Unreal.

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Dave, I'm reminded of a favorite biblical
passage from Psalms.

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I look under the hills from whence come with
my help.

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But of course we get quite a bit from Houston
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After a stop to pick up the core samples,
they returned to the Lem to close out thei...

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And they put the stamp on an interplanetary
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I'm very proud to have the opportunity here
to play postman.

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What could be a better place to cancel the
stamp than right here at Hadley real?

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Then a demonstration of a classic experiment.

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Well, in my left hand I have a feather. In my
right hand a hammer.

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And we thought that was because of a
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And we thought that where would be a better
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And so we thought we'd try it here for you.

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The feather happens to be appropriately a
falcon feather for our falcon.

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And I'll drop the two of them here and
hopefully they'll hit the ground at the sa...

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How about that?

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That was a good move that Mr. Galileo was
correct in his findings.

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Finally, Scott drove the rover away from the
Lem so that its TV camera could pick up a...

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As the space poet Reisling would say, we're
ready for you to come back again to the ho...

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Thank you, Joe. We're ready too.

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But it's been great.

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171 hours and 37 minutes after they had
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Accompanied by a musical salute they
themselves would provide from a small tape...

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This liftoff is automatic.

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This liftoff is automatic.

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Wow.

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Look at that.

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It's like a 3-0 trick.

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Hey, good smooth ride, Ed.

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Sounds like the wind was right, didn't it?

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What a view of the real, huh?

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Older track coming down into it.

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The rendezvous and docking procedures were
flawless, right on the money.

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But their jobs were not over yet.

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They would spend two more days in lunar orbit
gathering data from the experiments and...

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One more day around the moon than any
preceding mission.

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On August 4th, they prepared to come home.

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But even on their last orbit of the moon,
they had another experiment.

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Three, two, one, launch.

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A very pretty satellite out there.

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They placed in orbit a subsatellite, the
first ever launched by a manned spacecraft.

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It was designed to circle the moon for a
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the strength and direction of interplanetary
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and the flow of charged particles in space.

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Tracking stations have acquired the
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Then the burn to bring them back to Earth.

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But their jobs were far from over.

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After the moon was sent miles from Earth, Al
Worden left the spacecraft to retrieve the...

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contained in the cassettes of the experiment
bay cameras.

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Later they would turn their X-ray
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those mysterious black holes in space.

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At the same time, in accord with the previous
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was built to help derive a model consistent
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During the trip home, the X-ray spectrometer
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and gather 50 hours of galactic data.

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Then on August 7th, they looked into the
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at 25,000 miles per hour.

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Then there would be a heart-stopping moment
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However, the landing system was designed to
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The third parachute was an added safety
factor. Today, that margin paid off.

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The success of Apollo 15 had been
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The results have been almost unbelievable. In
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Yet while we rejoice in our success, we
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that gave us these achievements.

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I think many people have contributed to this
pinnacle we've reached.

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Some have contributed more than others, and
we know of 14 individuals who contributed ...

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And because of that, while we left a small
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about 20 feet north of rover 1, in a small,
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there's a simple plaque with 14 names. And
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of all the astronauts and cosmonauts who have
died in the pursuit of exploration of space.

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Near it is a small figure representing a
fallen astronaut.

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We went to the Moon as trained observers in
order to gather data

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not only with our instruments on board, but
with our minds.

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And I'd like to quote a statement from
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which I think expresses our feelings since
we've come back.

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a
fire to be lighted.

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Thank you.

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