Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions


APPENDIX 5

Summary Data on Apollo Missions

Source for all tables: "Apollo Program Summary Report," JSC-09423, April 1975.

Apollo Manned Missions:


Vehicle and Crew Data

No.        vehicle No.(a)                Crew       signs (CSM, LM)               
                                               
======================================================================
Apollo 7   205       101       None    Schirra,      Apollo 7
                                       Eisele,       (no LM)
                                       Cunningham

Apollo 8   503       103       None    Borman,       Apollo 8
                                       Lovell,       (no LM)
                                       Anders

Apollo 9   504       104       3       McDivitt,     Gumdrop,
                                       Scott,        Spider
                                       Schweickart

Apollo 10  505       106       4       Stafford,     Charlie Brown,
                                       Young,        Snoopy
                                       Cernan

Apollo 11  506       107       5       Armstrong,    Columbia,
                                       Collins,      Eagle
                                       Aldrin

Apollo 12  507       108       6       Conrad,       Yankee Clipper,
                                       Gordon,       Intrepid
                                       Bean

Apollo 13  508       109       7       Lovell,       Odyssey,
                                       Swigert,      Aquarius
                                       Haise

Apollo 14  509       110       8       Shepard,      Kitty Hawk,
                                       Roosa,        Antares
                                       Mitchell

Apollo 15  510       112       10      Scott,        Endeavor,
                                       Worden,       Falcon
                                       Irwin

Apollo 16  511       113       11      Young,        Caspar,
                                       Mattingly,    Orion
                                       Duke

Apollo 17  512       114       12      Cernan,       America,
                                       Evans,        Challenger
                                       Schmitt

(a) 200 number, Saturn IB; 500 number, Saturn V.

(b) Commander, CM pilot, LM pilot.


Launch Data

Mission       Date, time(c)         Launch Site
No.           of launch
================================================
Apollo 7      11 Oct. 1968          ETR
              10:02:45a.m.          LC-34

Apollo 8      21 Dec. l968          KSC
              7:51:00 a.m.          LC-39A

Apollo 9      3 March 1969          KSC
              11:00:00 a.m.         LC-39A

Apollo 10     18 May 1969           KSC
              11:49:00 a.m.         LC-39B

Apollo 11     16 July 1969          KSC
              8:32:00 a.m.          LC-39A

Apollo 12     14 Nov. l969          KSC
              11:22:00 a.m.         LC-39A

Apollo 13     11 Apr. 1970          KSC
              2:13:00 p.m.          LC-39A

Apollo 14     31 Jan 1971           KSC
              5:03:02 p.m.          LC-39A

Apollo 15     26 July 1971          KSC
              8:34:00 a.m.          LC-39A

Apollo 16     16 Apr. 1972          KSC
              12:54:00              LC-39A

Apollo 17     7 Dec. 1972           KSC
              12:33:00 a.m.         LC-39A
(c) Eastern Standard Time.

(d) ETR, Eastern Test Range; KSC, Kennedy Space Center; LC, launch complex.


Landing and Recovery Data

Mission Landing   Mission    Landing        Dist.  Ocean     Recovery 
        date,     duration   point,         from             ship
        time      (b)        lat., long.    target
        (a)                  (c)            (nm)(c)
========================================================================
Apol1o  22 Oct.   260:09:03  27 deg. 38'N   1.9    Atlantic  U.S.S.
7       1968                 64 deg. 9'W                     Essex
        6:11:48         

Apollo  27 Dec.   147:00:42  8 deg. 6'N     1.4    Pacific   U.S.S.
8       1968                 165 deg. 1'W                    Yorktown
        10:51:42

Apollo  13 Mar.   241:00:54  23 deg. 13'N   2.7    Atlantic  U.S.S.
9       1969                 67 deg. 59'W                    Guadalcanal
        12:00:53

Apollo  26 May    192:03:23  15 deg. 4'S    1.3    Pacific   U.S.S.
10      1969                 164 deg. 39'W                   Princeton
        11:52:23

Apollo  24 July   195:18:35  13 deg. 18'N,  1.7    Pacific   U.S.S.
11      1969                 169 deg. 9'W                    Hornet
        11:50:35

Apollo  24 Nov.   244:36:25  15 deg. 47'S   2.0    Pacific   U.S.S.
12      1969                 165 deg. 9'W                    Hornet
        15:58:25

Apollo  17 April  142:54:41  2 deg. 38'S    1.0    Pacific   U.S.S.
13      1970                 165 deg. 22'W                   Iwo Jima
        13:07:41

Apollo  9 Feb.    216:01:58  27 deg. 1'S    0.6    Pacific   U.S.S.
14      1971                 172 deg. 40'W                   New Orleans
        16:05:00

Apollo  7 Aug.    259:11:53  26 deg. 8'N    1.0    Pacific   U.S.S.
15      1971                 158 deg. 8'W                    Okinawa
        15:45:53

Apollo  27 Apr.   265:51:05  0 deg. 42'S    3.0    Pacific   U.S.S.
16      1972                 156 deg. 13'W                  Ticonderoga
        14:45:05

Apollo  19 Dec.   301:51:59  17 deg. 53'S   1.0    Pacific   U.S.S.
17      1972                 l66 deg. 7'W                   Ticonderoga
        14:24:59

(a) Command module splashdown, Eastern Standard Time(b) Hours-minutes: seconds.

(c) Best estimate; may be based on recovery ship position data, CM computer data, or trajectory reconstruction.


Summary of Apollo Lunar Surface Activity

Mission  Lunar         Date, time(a) of:  Time on   Duration   Weight
No.      landing                          lunar     of EVAs    of
         site         Lunar      Lunar    surface   (c)        samples
         (Lat.-long)  landing    liftoff  (b)                  collected
         (name)                                                (kg)
========================================================================

Apollo   0.7 deg.N,   20 July    21 July  21:36:21  2:31:40    21
11       23.4 deg.E   1969       1969
         Mare         17:17:40   14:54:01
         Tranquillitatis

Apollo   3.2 deg.S    19 Nov.    20 Nov.  31:31:12  3:56:03    16.7
12       23.4 deg.W   1969       1969               3:49:15    17.6
         Oceanus      1:54:36    9:25:48            -------    ----
         Procellarum                                7:45:18    34.3

Apollo   3.6 deg.S    5 Feb.     6 Feb.   33:30:31  4:47:50    20.5
l4(d)    17.5 deg.W   1971       1971               4:34:41    22.3
         Fra Mauro    4:18:11    13:48:42           -------    ----
                                                    9:22:31    42.8

Apollo   26.1 deg.N   30 July    2 Aug.   66:54:53  0:33:07(e) --
15       3.7 deg.E    1971       1971               6:32:42    14.5
         Hadley-      17:16:29   13:11:22           7:12:14    34.9
         Apennine                                   4:49:50    27.3
                                                   --------    ----
                                                   19:07:53    76.7

Apollo   9.0 deg.S    20 Apr.    23 Apr.  71:02:13  7:11:02    29.9
16       15.5 deg.E   1972       1972               7:23:11    29.0
         Descartes    21:23:35   20:25:48           5:40:03    35.4
                                                   --------    ----
                                                   20:14:16    94.3

Apollo   20.2 deg.N   11 Dec.    14 Dec.  74:59:40  7:11:53    14.3
17       30.8 deg.E   1972       1972               7:36:56    34.1
         Taurus-      14:54:57   17:54:37           7:15:08    62.0
         Littrow                                   --------   -----
                                                   22:03:57   110.4
(a) Eastern Standard Time. Liftoff time calculated from touchdown time plus time on lunar surface.

(b) Touchdown to liftoff, hr:min:sec.

(c) Extravehicular activity in hr:min:sec, LM hatch opening to closing. Multiple EVAs shown separately.

(d) Apollo 13 was aborted following an explosion in the service module 55 hr, 54 min after launch. Intended landing site, on the Fra Mauro formation, was used for Apollo 14.

(e)"Standup" EVA - commander stood up in open upper LM hatch to make visual and photographic observations of the landing area


Apollo Science Experiments

Experiment                                  Mission
==========                                  =======
I. Surface Experiments                      11  12  13  14  15  16  17

S-031 Passive seismic experiment             x   x  (x)  x   x   x
S-033 Active seismic experiment                          x       x
S-034 Lunar surface magnetometer                 x           x   x
S-035 Solar wind spectrometer                    x           x   x
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
S-036 Suprathermal ion detector                  x       x   x
S-037 Heat flow' experiment                         (x)      x   x
S-038 Charged particle lunar environment            (x)  x
S-058 Cold cathode ion gauge                     x       x   x
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
S-059 Lunar field geology                    x   x  (x)  x   x   x   x
S-080 Solar wind composition                 x   x  (x)  x   x
S-078 Laser ranging retroreflector           x           x   x
M-515 Lunar dust detector                        x  (x)  x   x
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
S-198 Portable magnetometer                              x       x
S-199 Lunar gravity traverse                                         x
S-200 Soil mechanics                                     x   x   x   x
S-201 Far-ultraviolet camera spectroscope                x
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S-202 Lunar ejecta and meteorites                                    x
S-203 Lunar seismic profiling                                        x
S-204 Surface electrical properties                                  x
S-205 Lunar atmospheric composition                                  x
S-207 Lunar surface gravimeter                                       x
S-229 Lunar neutron probe                                            x

II. Lunar Orbital Experiments               11  12  13  14  15  16  17

S-158 Multispectral photography              x
S-176 Command module window meteoroid                    x   x   x   x
S-177 Ultraviolet photography,
          earth and moon                                     x   x
S-178 Gegenschein from lunar orbit                  (x)  x   x
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
S-160 Gamma-ray spectrometer                                 x   x
S-161 X-ray fluorescence                                     x   x
S-162 Alpha-particle spectrometer                            x   x
S-164 S-band transponder (CSM/LM)                x  (x)  x   x   x
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
S-164 S-band transponder (subsatellite)                      x   x
S-165 Mass spectrometer                                      x   x
S-169 Far-ultraviolet spectrometer                                   x
S-170 Bistatic radar                                     x   x   x   x
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S-171 Infrared scanning radiometer                                   x
S-173 Particle shadows 
         boundary layer (subsatellite)                       x   x
S-174 Magnetometer (subsatellite)                            x   x
S-209 Lunar sounder                                                  x
(x) not performed (or deployed) on aborted mission.

Source JSC. "What We've Learned About The Moon," July 1980.


Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package Arrays and Status as of April 1975*

Experiment        Apollo 12         Apollo 13         Apollo 14 
                  Array A           Array B           Array C
=======================================================================
Passive seismic   Short-period      Not deployed.     Long-period Z-axis
                  Z-axis has                          inoperative since
                  displayed reduced                   3/20/72. Noisy 
                  sensitivity since                   data on 
                  deployment.                         long-period Y axis
                                                      since 4/14/73.

Active seismic                                        Mortar not fired.
                                                      Geophone 3 data
                                                      noisy since
                                                      3/26/71. Geophone
                                                      2 data invalid
                                                      since 1/3/74.

Lunar surface     Permanently
  magnetometer    commanded off
                  6/4/74.

Solar wind        Full operation
  spectrometer    except for
                  intermittent
                  modulation drop
                  in two proton
                  energy levels
                  each lunation
                  since l1/5/71.

Suprathermal      Periodically                        Periodically
  ion detector    commanded off to                    commanded to
                  prevent high-                       standby operation
                  voltage arcing at                   to avoid mode
                  elevated lunar                      changes at
                  day temperatures                    elevated lunar
                  since 9/9/72.                       day temperatures
                                                      since 3/29/72.

Heat flow                           Not deployed.

Cold-cathode      Inoperative.      Not deployed.     Intermittent
  ion gauge       Failed 14 hours                     science data
                  after turn-on                       since 3/29/72.
                  11/20/69.
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                  Apollo 15         Apollo 16         Apollo 17
                  Array A-2         Array D           Array E
=======================================================================
Passive seismic   Full operation    Full operation

Active Seismic                      3 of 4 grenades
                                    launched. Mortar
                                    pitch sensor off
                                    scale after 3rd
                                    firing on 5/23/72.

Lunar Surface     Permanently       Full operation 
  magnetometer    commanded off
                  6/14/74.

Solar wind        Permanently
  spectrometer    commanded off
                  6/14/74

Suprathermal      Periodically
  ion detector    commanded to
                  standby operation
                  to avoid mode
                  changes at
                  elevated lunar
                  day temperatures
                  since 9/13/73.

Heat Flow         Probe 2 not to    Inoperative       Full operation 
                  full depth        since emplacement
                  intended, but
                  experiment
                  provides useful
                  data.

Cold-cathode      Intermittent
  ion gauge       science data since
                  2/22/73.

Lunar ejecta and                                      Thermal control
  meteorites                                          design not optimum
                                                      for Apollo 17
                                                      site. Instrument
                                                      operated for about
                                                                                                                                75% of lunation.
*The Apollo 14 ALSEP station failed in January 1976. The stations still operating (12, 15, 16, and 17) were turned off September 30, 1977.


Flight Directors for Apollo Manned Missions

Mission   Shift 1         Shift 2         Shift 3             Shift 4
========================================================================
7         Glynn S. Lunney Eugene F.       Gerald D. Griffin   --
                          Kranz

8         Clifford E.     Lunney          Milton L. Windler   --
          Charlesworth     

9         Kranz           Griffin         M. P. Frank         --

10        Lunney,         Windler         Frank               --
          Griffin         

11        Charlesworth,   Kranz           Lunney              Windler
          Griffin         

12        Griffin         Frank           Charlesworth        Lunney

13        Windler         Griffin         Kranz               Lunney

14        Frank,          Windler         Griffin             --
          Lunney

15        Griffin         Windler         Lunney,             --
                                          Kranz

16        Frank,          Kranz,          Griffin, Neil B.    --
          Philip C.       Donald R.       Hutchinson,
          Shaffer         Puddy           Charles R. Lewis
                                          
17        Griffin         Kranz,          Frank               --
                          Hutchinson,     Lewis

Source: memos from Director, Flight Operations, MSC, to multiple addressees, listing personnel assignments for the Mission Control Center for each flight.