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Explore our moon like never before with our stunning 3D topographical map 🚀🌌. Experience its surface in accurate detail. A must-have for space enthusiasts! 🪐
This is an accurate 3D Topographical map of what was probably the most ambitions Apollo moon landing. This 3D topo map covers an area of 30km x 30km. It is built in the USA of a durable and plant based plastic.
Apollo 15's primary mission goals were to explore the spectacular Hadley-Appenine region, carry out scientific experiments from orbit and evaluation of new and improved Apollo equipment, including the Lunar Rover.
The Apollo 15 mission was famous for breaking a few records. I had the maximum distance traveled on the moon away from the spacecraft of 17.5 miles away. The previous record was only 2.1 miles away! It also had the longest time in lunar orbit (145 hours) and the longest total duration for lunar surface EVA's (18 hours, 37 minutes). It also had a LOT of other first... to name a few: first satellite placed in lunar orbit by a crewed spacecraft, first deep space and operation EVA, longest Apollo mission (295 hours), etc.
The Apollo mission launched on 7/26/71 in a new shiny Saturn 5 and landed back on earth on 8/7/71 into the Pacific Ocean.
DIMENSIONS
SMALL
13 cm or 5 inches long
13 cm or 5 inches wide
1.3 cm or5 inch tall
LARGE
17.8 cm or 7 inches long
17.8 cm or 7 inches wide
2 cm or75 inch tall
Visit our other accurate topographical 3d maps of other landmarks, craters, landing sites, etc
All Apollo missions are available:
Apollo 11: Sea of Tranquility
Apollo 12: Ocean of Storms
Apollo 14: Fra Mauro
Apollo 15: Apennine Mountains
Apollo 16: Descartes Highlands
Apollo 17: Taurus-Littrow
MORE ABOUT APOLLO 15 (Source NASA.gov):
Apollo 15 was the first of the Apollo "J" missions capable of a longer stay time on the moon and greater surface mobility. There were four primary objectives falling in the general categories of lunar surface science, lunar orbital science and engineering-operational. The mission objectives were to explore the Hadley-Apennine region, set up and activate lunar surface scientific experiments, make engineering evaluations of new Apollo equipment, and conduct lunar orbital experiments and photographic tasks.
Exploration and geological investigations at the Hadley-Apennine landing site were enhanced by the addition of the Lunar Roving Vehicle, or LRV. Setup of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, or ALSEP, was the third in a trio of operating ALSEPs (on Apollos 12, 14 and 15). Orbital science experiments were concentrated in any array of instruments and cameras in the scientific instrument module, or SIM, bay. Engineering and operational objectives included evaluation of modifications to the lunar module, or LM, made for carrying a heavier payload and for a lunar stay time of almost three days. Changes to the Apollo spacesuit and to the portable life support system, or PLSS, were evaluated, and performance of the Lunar Roving Vehicle and the other new J-mission equipment that went with it - lunar communications relay unit, or LCRU, and the ground-controlled television assembly, or GCTA.
Another major mission objective involved the launching of a Particles and Fields, or P&F, subsatellite into lunar orbit by the command and service module, or CSM, shortly before beginning the return-to-Earth portion of the mission. The subsatellite was designed to investigate the moon's mass and gravitational variations, particle composition of space near the moon and the interaction of the moon's magnetic field with that of Earth.
Apollo 15 launched from Launch Complex 39 at Cape Canaveral at 9:34 a.m. EDT, only 187 milliseconds off schedule. The translunar injection, or TLI, and hybrid transfer maneuvers were combined into a single "optimized TLI" S-IVB engine burn. A minor problem early in the mission involving a short circuit in a service propulsion engine, or SPS engine, firing switch was successfully cleared through revised procedures for the lunar orbit insertion, or LOI, and subsequent SPS maneuvers.
David Scott and James Irwin flew their LM to a perfect landing at 6:16 p.m. EDT July 30, at Hadley Rille about 1,500 feet north and east of the targeted landing point near a crater named Salyut. Landing approach over the Apennine Range - one of the highest on the moon - was at an angle of 26 degrees, the steepest approach yet used in Apollo missions. During three periods of extravehicular activity, or EVA, on July 31, and Aug. 1 and 2, Scott and Irwin completed a record 18 hours, 37 minutes of exploration, traveled 17.5 miles in the first car that humans have ever driven on the moon, collected more than 170 pounds of lunar samples, set up the ALSEP array, obtained a core sample from about 10 feet beneath the lunar surface, and provided extensive oral descriptions and photographic documentation of geologic features in the vicinity of the landing site during the three days (66 hours, 55 minutes) on the lunar surface.
On Aug. 2, LM Falcon fired its ascent stage engine and lifted off the moon for its rendezvous with command module, or CM, Endeavor. For the first time, the lunar liftoff was seen on Earth via the LRV television camera. The two spacecraft docked as Endeavor began its 50th lunar orbit. On the 74th revolution, the Particles and Fields subsatellite was spring-launched from the service module, or SM, SIM bay. On the next revolution, Aug. 4, a 2-minute, 21-second SPS burn put Apollo 15 on its path back to Earth. On Aug. 5, Alfred Worden became the first human to carry out a deep space EVA. He exited the CM, climbed toward the rear of the SM and retrieved film cassettes from the SIM bay cameras and returned to the CM. The entire operation was completed in 18 minutes (one hour had been scheduled in the flight plan). At approximately 4:46 p.m. EDT Aug. 7, Apollo 15 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, about 335 miles north of Honolulu, ending a flight of 12 days, seven hours. The crew was picked up by helicopters from the prime recovery ship, the USS Okinawa, 6.32 miles from the targeted touchdown point. During the final stages of descent on its three main parachutes, the CM crew and shipboard observers noted one of the parachutes became only partially inflated following jettison of RSC fuel remaining on board. As a result of the loss of one parachute, the CM impacted at 21.8 mph, instead of the planned 19 mph.
Apollo 15 set several new records for crewed spaceflight: heaviest payload in a lunar orbit of approximately 107,000 pounds, maximum radial distance traveled on the lunar surface away from the spacecraft of about 17.5 miles (previous high was 2.1 miles on Apollo 14), most lunar surface EVAs (three) and longest total of duration for lunar surface EVAs (18 hours, 37 minutes - almost the total time spent in lunar orbit by Apollo 8), longest time in lunar orbit (about 145 hours; only two hours less than the entire Apollo 8 mission), longest crewed lunar mission (295 hours), longest Apollo mission (295 hours - previous high was 244 hours, 36 minutes on Apollo 12), the first satellite placed in lunar orbit by a crewed spacecraft, and first deep space and operational EVA.
Features:
1️⃣ Apollo 15 landing site - Apennine Mountains.
2️⃣ Accurate representation take from satellite 3d scans of the surface.
3️⃣ Area of map is 30 km x 30 km.
4️⃣ A must-have for space enthusiasts!
5️⃣ 3d printed to order from a plant based and environmentally friendly PLA plastic using 100% renewable energy in Beaverton, Oregon.
Dimensions:
Height: 7 inches
Length: 7 inches
Width: 0.7 inches
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