Page 96 - The Appollo Story

~-----------1 The Apollo Storyt----------~

Apollo 15 (AS-510) Hadley Rille
The vehicle was designed to carry the two crewmen and a science payload. Each wheel was driven by an
electric motor and it could attain speeds to a maximum velocity of about 16 kilometers per hour (8.6
mph) on a smooth, level surface and at reduced velocities on slopes up to 25°. But what no one had pre-
dicted was how exciting the ride would be as it bounced with every bump in one-sixth gravity. It could be
operated from either crewman's position, as the control and display console was located on the vehicle
centerline. The deployed vehicle was approximately 1 Oft (3m) long, 7ft (2. lm) wide, and 3ft 9in (l. lm)
high. Its chassis was hinged such that the forward and aft sections fold back over the centre portion, and
each of the wheel suspension systems rotated so that the folded vehicle fit in quadrant I of the lunar mod-
ule. The gross operational weight: the crew, their equipment, communications equipment, and the science
payload was approximately 1535Ib (697kg) of which 455Ib (207kg) was the weight of the vehicle itself
when empty.

JULY 31, 1971

ASTRONAUTS
DAVID R. SCOTT

JAMES B. IRWIN

Two Moon landing covers, one signed by Dave Scott and Jim Irwin, the Commander and the Lunar Module Pilot

F 1-RS T \If AL K
ON TH£ MOON

LUNAR ROVER I ON THE MOON - CAPE CANAVERAL
Covering some 5 miles and spending about 6'h hours outside t heir
lunar landing craft (Falcon) Astronauts Scott and Irwin rode Rover I
-their 4 wheel - battery operated lunar vehicle along the rim of a
mile wide canyon and to the edge of a deep crater in search of
rocks from the Moon's crust. From the craters slope they transmit-
ted spectacular color television pictures of the lunar vista - The
canyon depths of Hadley Rille and t he rounded summits of the
Apennine Mountains.