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Old June 23rd 05, 05:15 PM
Henry Spencer
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In article ,
Jeff Findley wrote:
...The Apollo CM/LM tunnel was about 75cm in
diameter, and was passable to a suited astronaut (as witness Dave Scott's
stand-up EVA in the LM docking hatch on Apollo 15).


Interesting. I don't remember ever reading about this, but a quick web
search confirms that this was indeed done in order to take pictures of the
site:
http://www.fukuoka-edu.ac.jp/~kanami...15.htm#standup


It was Scott's idea, based on the geology training: when you arrive at a
new site, the first thing you do is find a high spot and take a look
around. In addition to the photography, it let him pick out a good spot
for the ALSEP, and confirm that there wasn't going to be a problem with
driving in certain areas which had originally been considered doubtful.
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