Apollo 15

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Overview

Destination: Lunar Orbit
Mission: Human Exploration

Lunar Orbit Apollo 15 landing site Hadley–Apennine, Moon

Return flight of Apollo 15 from the Moon.

Apollo LM

Family:
Configuration:

The Apollo lunar module (LM) ascent stage contained the crew cabin with instrument panels and flight controls. It contained its own Ascent Propulsion System (APS) engine and two hypergolic propellant tanks for return to lunar orbit and rendezvous with the Apollo command and service module.

Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
    2.832 m
  • Diameter
    4.29 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    5.0 T
  • Thrust
    16.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Apollo LM
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Apollo LM Ascent Stage
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

LM Falcon


In-active Human Rated Crew On-board: 2 Crew Capacity: 2
Destination: Apollo 15 CSM
Serial Number: LM-10

Flown on Apollo 15. Descent stage on lunar surface at Hadley–Apennine, ascent stage deliberately crashed into Moon

Apollo Lunar Module Details

Crew


David Scott

Commander - configurations.Country.None - ( NASA )

Status: Retired

Date of Birth: June 6, 1932
Age: 92

James Irwin

Lunar Module Pilot - configurations.Country.None - ( NASA )

Status: Deceased

Date of Birth: March 17, 1930
Date of Death: Aug. 8, 1991

Northrop Grumman Space Systems

Northrop Grumman Space Systems

(NGSS)

CEO: Kathy Warden Founded: 2015 Successes: 14 Failures: 0 Pending: 6

Agency Type:

Northrup Grumman Space Systems designs, builds and delivers space, defence and aviation-related systems to customers around the world. They aquired Orbital ATK in 2018 along with its launchers and ongoing missions.

INFO WIKI

Hadley–Apennine, Moon

Apollo 15 landing site


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Falcon 9
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1 week, 1 day ago
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Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 2 days ago
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Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 2 days ago
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