Help File for Apollo Landing Missions

Structure

There is a page for each of the six Apollo landings (11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17). Each is subdivided into the following sections: Overview, Landing Site, Photography, Science Experiments, Sampling Activities, and Surface Operations. The Science Experiments section for missions 14 through 17 is further divided into Surface Science and Orbital Science. Each section is then divided as follows:

MISSION DESCRIPTION

• Plan
• Launch
• Crew
• Spacecraft
• Summary
• Links to Other Sites

LANDING SITE

• Selection Criteria
• Regional and Geologic Setting
• Nature of the Surface
• Views from the Landing Site
• Views of the Landing Site

SURFACE OPERATIONS

• Traverse Map
• Extravehicular Activities

MISSION PHOTOGRAPHY

• Cameras and Equipment
• Orbital Photography
• Surface Photography

SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS

• Orbital Science
• Surface Science

SAMPLING ACTIVITIES

Navigating

We have tried to make navigating around the document as easy and helpful as possible. From the main Apollo Missions page you can choose which of the Apollo missions you wish to visit by clicking either on the image map or on the list of missions below the map, or you can return to the Exploring the Moon page by clicking on "Exploring the Moon."

From within a mission, you can choose which section you wish to visit by clicking on the image map or, if you do not have graphics capability, by clicking where indicated to access a table of contents. Alternatively you can go back to the Apollo Missions page or to the Exploring the Moon page.

From within a section, you can go to any of the subsections by clicking on the highlighted text, or you can go back to the Table of Contents. You can also go to a linking page ("Information for Other Apollo Missions") that gives you the opportunity to go to the same section for the other missions.

From any subsection, you can go to any other subsection, or you can go back to the main section page.

Links to Other Sources

There are numerous links to other sources throughout the document. When you click on one of these, you will have left the LPI site, and there will be no direct way back. You will have to use the "Back" button on your particular browser to return to the LPI page you came from.

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