OPERATIONS HANDBOOK
*FIRST
TIME IN PRINT IN 40 YEARS !*
Here is something you won't find for sale ANYWHERE else!
Exclusively from Periscope Film LLC, a full and complete reprint of the super
rare Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle handbook, over 300 pages of it!
This is NOT I repeat NOT a CD or a .pdf
file! What you are
getting is a wonderful 8x10" book made with high quality paper, and
beautiful glossy covers!! Why buy a CD of this and then have to print out all
the pages?? It'll cost much more and the result will be inferior!
Okay, more about this book:
Developed in only 17 months at a cost of 38 million
dollars, the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) greatly expanded the survey
range of the astronauts on Apollo 15, 16 and 17. Designed to operate in the
low-gravity vacuum of the Moon, the LRV boasted an ingenious design that
allowed it to be folded up and stored inside the Lunar Module. It would then be
deployed using a system of pulleys and brake reels.
The LRV's frame was made of aluminum
alloy 2219 tubing
assemblies, giving the vehicle a fairly small mass of 210kg but allowing it to
carry up to 490kg on the lunar surface. The LRV's lightweight tires were made
of zinc-coated steel strands with titanium chevrons and aluminum hubs, and
offered a ground clearance of 36cm. The LRV featured two side-by-side, foldable
seats, a TV camera, and a dish antenna. Four independent DC motors - one for
each wheel - powered by two 36-volt batteries provided maneuvering power. Both
sets of wheels could be used to steer, although they could also be decoupled.
For safety reasons, astronauts never
drove the LRV a
distance farther from the LM than they could safely walk in the unlikely event
that the rover failed. On each of the three day missions that it was employed,
the LRV was used daily for three traverses. The longest was on Apollo 17, when
it was driven 20.1km, and it traveled a total of 35.9km on that mission. The
total distance traveled by all three LRVs was 90.4km. Almost all of it was done
without incident, although some damage to the fender extensions caused dust
problems on Apollo 16 and 17. Harrison Schmitt of Apollo 17 praised the design
and operation of the vehicle, saying "...the Lunar Rover proved to be the
reliable, safe and flexible lunar exploration vehicle we expected it to
be."
Originally created for the astronauts
by prime contractor Boeing, this Lunar Roving Vehicle Operations
Handbook describes the LRV and its systems, and details the deployment and
driving procedures. It also details the 1-gravity LRV used to train astronauts
on Earth. A lengthy appendix provides performance and other data.
8x10", 382 pages, full color covers
with black and white interior, softbound