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    The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) comprised a set of scientific instruments placed by the astronauts at the landing site of each of...
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    Apollo 12 (section ALSEP)
    some tasks, such as deployment of the ALSEP, required humans. In 1966, a contract to design and build the ALSEPs was awarded to the Bendix Corporation...
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    experiments not part of the ALSEP were also flown, the Laser Ranging Retroreflector (LRRR or LR3), to be deployed in the ALSEP's vicinity, and the Lunar Portable...
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    Apollo 17 (section ALSEP)
    maneuverability of the rover, the crew deployed the ALSEP just west of the landing site. The ALSEP deployment took longer than had been planned, with the...
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    ALSEP site and the LM. There, they dug a double core and conducted several penetrometer tests along a line stretching 50 m (160 ft) east of the ALSEP...
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    activities (EVAs) to setting up the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) group of scientific instruments; during the second, Lovell and Haise would...
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    internationally for space research and operations, though by 2014 standards the ALSEP uplink was in the wrong part of the band (deep space instead of near earth)...
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    support for all packages of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) flying as part of the Apollo Program. The instrument's primary sensor was...
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  • 1970s for gun shells and for Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) seismic experiments, although the latter experiments are usually cited...
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    OCLC 1023166907. Bates, James R.; Lauderdale, W. W.; Kernaghan, Harold (April 1979). ALSEP Termination Report (PDF) (Report). Washington, D.C.: NASA. RP-1036. Archived...
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