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    The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) comprised a set of scientific instruments placed by the astronauts at the landing site of each of...
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    Apollo 12 (section ALSEP)
    some tasks, such as deployment of the ALSEP, required humans. In 1966, a contract to design and build the ALSEPs was awarded to the Bendix Corporation...
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    Apollo 17 (section ALSEP)
    maneuverability of the rover, the crew deployed the ALSEP just west of the landing site. The ALSEP deployment took longer than had been planned, with the...
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    experiments not part of the ALSEP were also flown, the Laser Ranging Retroreflector (LRRR or LR3), to be deployed in the ALSEP's vicinity, and the Lunar Portable...
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    ALSEP site and the LM. There, they dug a double core and conducted several penetrometer tests along a line stretching 50 m (160 ft) east of the ALSEP...
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    activities (EVAs) to setting up the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) group of scientific instruments; during the second, Lovell and Haise would...
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    support for all packages of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) flying as part of the Apollo Program. The instrument's primary sensor was...
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  • 1970s for gun shells and for Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) seismic experiments, although the latter experiments are usually cited...
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    internationally for space research and operations, though by 2014 standards the ALSEP uplink was in the wrong part of the band (deep space instead of near earth)...
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    compound being studied. The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Packages (ALSEP) determined that more than 95% of the particles in the solar wind are electrons...
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    the Soviet radio telescope RATAN-600 observed all five transmitters of ALSEP scientific packages placed on the Moon surface by all Apollo landing missions...
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    OCLC 1023166907. Bates, James R.; Lauderdale, W. W.; Kernaghan, Harold (April 1979). ALSEP Termination Report (PDF) (Report). Washington, D.C.: NASA. RP-1036. Archived...
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    Texas: NASA Manned Spacecraft Center. p. 5–4. "Apollo 12 Lunar Module / ALSEP". NASA Space Science Data Coordinate Archive. Retrieved June 15, 2016. Williams...
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    operational support for packages of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) to fly on the Apollo Program. In January 1963, the Civil Aeronautics Board...
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    Experiments Package (ALSEP). The magnetometer continued to work several months after that return module departed. As part of the Apollo 14 ALSEP, there was a...
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    original on 18 April 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2019. "Apollo 12 Lunar Module / ALSEP". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 15 July 2019. Retrieved...
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    part of the Apollo program's Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP). It was contained as part of the same housing as the Suprathermal Ion Detector...
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    not use SSTV. At least some of the telemetry tapes still exist from the ALSEP scientific experiments left on the Moon (which ran until 1977), according...
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    and Apollo 15 as part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP). The LRRR consists of a series of corner reflectors set within a panel...
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    on October 2, 2019. Retrieved December 3, 2019. "Apollo 14 Lunar Module /ALSEP". NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive. Archived from the original...
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    (2), Viking 2 (2) 42.7 525 238Pu c. 1 15.2 2.8 c. 40 SNAP-27 Apollo 12–17 ALSEP (1) 73 1,480 238Pu 3.8 20 3.65 19 (fission reactor) Buk (BES-5)** US-As...
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    rest of the ALSEP experiments near the Apollo 17 landing site in the Taurus-Littrow valley. The instrument was placed northeast of the ALSEP, 7.5 m (25 ft)...
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    samples and prepare to set up the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP), the scientific instruments that would remain when they left. Scott had...
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    The instrument on Apollo 16 was deployed but the cable from it to the ALSEP central station was broken and the experiment was rendered inoperable. A...
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    lunar rover, and deployed the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP). Mission Control informed Young that the U.S. House of Representatives...
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    MET consisted of part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP)., including a portable magnetometer, as well as various tools and space...
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    carry, among other things: the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Packages ALSEP, the modularized equipment transporter (MET) (a hand-pulled equipment cart...
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    Bombardment Lunar meteorites KREEP Volcanism Experiments Lunar laser ranging ALSEP Lunar sample displays Apollo 11 Apollo 17 Lunar seismology Exploration Missions...
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    Apollo 12 mission as part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP). The PSE was designed to detect vibrations and tilting of the lunar surface...
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    Bombardment Lunar meteorites KREEP Volcanism Experiments Lunar laser ranging ALSEP Lunar sample displays Apollo 11 Apollo 17 Lunar seismology Exploration Missions...
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