Apollo 15 Flight Journal - Notes
Apollo 15 Flight Journal - Notes
This material is extracted, with permission, from the [Apollo 15 Flight Journal] by David Woods and Frank O'Brien (December 30, 2004 release with updates through August 21, 2005). Much of the support information is common to more than one Apollo flight. In keeping with the "encyclopedia" approach, I decided to try making each one its own wiki page. MediaWiki's template feature be included wherever appropriate for any of the flights.
[edit] Apollo Flight Journal Explanations - Index
Original web page: http://history.nasa.gov/ap15fj/a15explan.htm
- Launch and Reaching Earth Orbit
- Range safety ordnance (ap15fj)
- S-IC description (ap15fj)
- S-II description (ap15fj)
- Instrument Unit description (ap15fj)
- S-IVB description (ap15fj)
- Mobile Launcher (ap15fj)
- F-1 engine description (ap15fj)
- F-1 engine start (ap15fj)
- Abort mode IA (ap15fj)
- Abort mode IB (ap15fj)
- Abort mode IC (ap15fj)
- S-IC/S-II separation (ap15fj)
- Dual plane separation (ap15fj)
- J-2 engine description (ap15fj)
- J-2 engine start (ap15fj)
- Abort mode II (ap15fj)
- IGM (Iterative Guidance Mode) (ap15fj)
- Pogo - longitudinal vehicle oscillations (ap15fj)
- Abort mode III (COI) (ap15fj)
- Abort mode IV (ap15fj)
- Earth Orbit and Translunar Injection
- Transposition, Docking and Extraction
- SPS Troubleshooting and the PTC
- [[]] (SPAN and MER rooms ap15fj)
- PTC REFSMMAT (ap15fj)
- P23 cislunar navigation (ap15fj)
- Midcourse correction maneuver (ap15fj)
- PTC (Passive Thermal Control) (ap15fj)
- PTC maneuver (ap15fj)
- Lithium hydroxide canisters (ap15fj)
- [[]] (Service Module RCS (quad thrusters) ap15fj)
- Attitude deadband (ap15fj)
- PTC maneuver (ap15fj)
- Day 2: Checking the SPS
- Day 2: Entering the LM
- [[]] (Sextant photo test ap15fj)
- [[]] (PCM cable missing - 032:14:19 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Initial atmosphere within the LM ap15fj)
- [[]] (Preparations for first entry into LM ap15fj)
- [[]] (Electrical glitch - 033:47 GET ap15fj)
- [[]] (Lunar Module activation ap15fj)
- [[]] (Tapemeter glass breakage at 034:33:07 GET ap15fj)
- [[]] (OPS (Oxygen Purge System) ap15fj)
- [[]] (Cause of electrical glitch ap15fj)
- [[]] (Cause of tapemeter glass breakage ap15fj)
- Day 3: Flashing Lights
- Day 3: Leaking Water and the Top of the Hill
- Day 4: Lunar Encounter
- [[]] (Free return trajectories and PC+2 burn ap15fj)
- [[]] (Stars named by the Apollo 1 crew ap15fj)
- [[]] (SIM bay door ap15fj)
- [[]] (SIM bay door jettison ap15fj)
- [[]] (Alpha Particle Spectrometer ap15fj)
- [[]] (Spacecraft tracking by the Doppler effect ap15fj)
- [[]] (Geometry of Earth and Moon at spacecraft arrival ap15fj)
- [[]] (Abort PADs in lunar orbit ap15fj)
- [[]] (LOI (Lunar Orbit Insertion) ap15fj)
- [[]] (PUGS (Propellant Utilization Gauging System) ap15fj)
- LVLH (Local Vertical/Local Horizontal) (ap15fj)
- Day 4: Lunar Orbit
- [[]] (Using P20 to aim at Moon ap15fj)
- [[]] (Worden's Littrow description (1) - 079:23:46 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Mare Serenitatis ap15fj)
- [[]] (Impact of S-IVB on Moon - 079:24:42 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Farouk El-Baz ap15fj)
- [[]] (The Mare and Basin distinction ap15fj)
- [[]] (Apennine Bench Formation ap15fj)
- [[]] (Gamma-ray Spectrometer ap15fj)
- [[]] (Landing site REFSMMAT ap15fj)
- [[]] (System Test Meter ap15fj)
- [[]] (DOI (Descent Orbit Insertion) and the bail-out burn ap15fj)
- [[]] (First Reactions to Tsiolkovsky - 083:16:41 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Wrinkle ridges in Mare Serenitatis ap15fj)
- [[]] (Perceived apparent speed at pericynthion ap15fj)
- [[]] (Boom deployment mechanism ap15fj)
- [[]] (Mascons and the lunar gravity field ap15fj)
- [[]] (Mass Spectrometer ap15fj)
- Day 5: Waking In the Descent Orbit
- Day 5: Preparations for Landing
- [[]] (Alignment of LM guidance platform ap15fj)
- [[]] (AOT (Alignment Optical Telescope) ap15fj)
- [[]] (CSM/LM Undocking - first attempt ap15fj)
- [[]] (Suit integrity check anomaly - 099:29:40 ap15fj)
- [[]] (CSM/LM Undocking - second attempt ap15fj)
- [[]] (LM abort PADs ap15fj)
- [[]] (AGS (Abort Guidance System) Description ap15fj)
- [[]] (Pressurisation of the Descent Propulsion System ap15fj)
- [[]] (LPD (Landing Point Designator) description ap15fj)
- [[]] (Landing radar ap15fj)
- Solo Orbital Operations - 1
- [[]] (Panoramic Camera ap15fj)
- [[]] (DAP (Digital AutoPilot) ap15fj)
- [[]] (Mapping Camera ap15fj)
- [[]] (Sextant angles ap15fj)
- [[]] (X-ray Spectrometer ap15fj)
- [[]] (Explanation of Mare Serenitatis two toned basalt ap15fj)
- [[]] (Bistatic Radar Experiment ap15fj)
- Solo Orbital Operations - 2
- [[]] (Coverage of Moon by SIM bay ap15fj)
- [[]] (KREEP rocks and their importance ap15fj)
- [[]] (Hello Earth; Greetings From Endeavour ap15fj)
- [[]] (MCC's explanation for V over H problem - 122:11:07 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Worden's Littrow description (2) - 122:18:17 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Solar Corona photography ap15fj)
- [[]] (Lagrangian points and photography of the L4 point ap15fj)
- [[]] (The North Complex ap15fj)
- [[]] (Worden's first mention of particle cloud - 126:34:27 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Transient phenomena ap15fj)
- [[]] (P20 and Omicron explanation ap15fj)
- [[]] (Worden's Picard description (1) - 128:07:19 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Worden's Proclus description (1) - 128:07:19 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Worden's Littrow description (3) - 128:12:46 ap15fj)
- Solo Orbital Operations - 3
- [[]] (Mass Spectrometer Boom retraction anomaly - 141:42:46 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Worden spots lava flows on Mare Imbrium near Mount La Hire - 142:16:28 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Worden's Tsiolkovsky description (1) - 142:26:09 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Worden's Tsiolkovsky description (2) - 143:36:31 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Worden's crater pair description - 143:42:51 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Worden's Picard description (2) - 143:49:24 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Worden's Proclus description (2) - 143:52:09 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Worden's Littrow description (4) - 145:57:12 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Distinction between basins and maria ap15fj)
- [[]] (Explanation of Gimbal Lock ap15fj)
- [[]] (Chronology of the Imbrium basin and mare ap15fj)
- [[]] (Mount La Hire Photography - 148:10:13 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Counter anomaly (1) ap15fj)
- [[]] (Counter anomaly (2) ap15fj)
- Solo Orbital Operations - 4
- [[]] (Lift-off REFSMMAT ap15fj)
- [[]] (Correlation of X-ray data and altitude ap15fj)
- [[]] (Gegenschein ap15fj)
- Rendezvous and Docking
- Leaking tunnel and Jettison of the LM
- [[]] (Scott putting plugs into suits - 177:04:07 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Explanation of Tunnel Vent valve ap15fj)
- [[]] (Pressure integrity check problems - 177:56:39 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Mission Report about integrity check problems ap15fj)
- [[]] (Lunar Module jettison ap15fj)
- [[]] (Delay of CSM separation burn ap15fj)
- [[]] (Use of language causing confusion between crew and ground ap15fj)
- [[]] (Slayton's call for crew to take Seconal ap15fj)
- [[]] (Discussion on crew heart rhythms ap15fj)
- Orbital Science and Crew Rest
- Day 10: Orbital Science
- Subsatellite Launch and Trans-Earth Injection
- Settling down for the Journey Home
- Day 11: Worden's EVA Day
- Science and a Press Conference
- [[]] (X-ray astronomy - Galactic South Pole ap15fj)
- [[]] (Reason for Rover's LCRU switching off ap15fj)
- [[]] (Third light flash experiment - 264:26:15 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Problem with DSE (Data Storage Equipment) ap15fj)
- [[]] (Eclipse of the Moon ap15fj)
- [[]] (Press conference - 270:16:46 ap15fj)
- [[]] (X-ray astronomy - Galactic North Pole ap15fj)
- Splashdown Day
- [[]] (System Test Meter - Settings ap15fj)
- [[]] (Waste water tank problem - 289:39:59 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Explanation of Entry Interface and of 0.05g points ap15fj)
- [[]] (Chill-down of Command Module Electronics ap15fj)
- [[]] (Command Module RCS pressurisation - 294:06:32 ap15fj)
- [[]] (Command Module/Service Module Separation ap15fj)
- [[]] (Entry Interface - the start of re-entry ap15fj)
- [[]] (Streamed main parachute ap15fj)
- [[]] (Splashdown - 295:11:53 ap15fj)