Apollo 15?

[1cooldaddyo]

Can anyone shed some light on this picture:<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Apollo_CSM_lunar_orbit.jpg<br /><br />I've seen it before labeled as a shot of Apollo 13, which can't be, but I'm wondering why all the panels are missing.

 

[subzero788]

That section on the SM is the "SIM bay" which carried a range of instruments for analysing the moon from lunar orbit. <br /><br />See this

 

[davf]

And which also gave the CMPs a chance to do a 'deep space' EVA to go retrieve film cassettes during the coast home.

 

[georgeniebling]

obviously the "deep space" EVAs done to retrieve the film canisters are the furthest EVAs save for the walks on the Moon ...<br /><br />how far out were these done and were they free float or tethered?

 

[qso1]

IIRC, the EVAs were conducted about 180,000 miles from earth. The astronaut was definetely tethered, somewhere there is a pic of one SIM EVA showing the tether connected to the astronaut. I looked for any links that specified the distance but couldn't find any distance refs in the links I checked out. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>