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Manned Lunar Exploration Investigations Semiannual Report Manned Lunar Exploration Investigations Semiannual Report

The U. S. Geological Survey's Manned Lunar Exploration Investigations carried out during the second half of Fiscal Year 1965 concept studies for Apollo and for AES exploration, and shirt-sleeve field tests of geologic operations for Apollo exploration. Three Apollo field tests were carried out late in the spring using communications and television systems, a simple LEM mock-up, and other...

Technical Letter: Astrogeology-8 Apollo Extension Systems Field Test I Technical Letter: Astrogeology-8 Apollo Extension Systems Field Test I

A field test held in the Hopi Buttes, Arizona, was planned to test geological, geophysical, and analytical operations and instruments that are of potential use in Apollo Extension Systems lunar surface missions. The test was conducted under "shirt-sleeve" conditions, but potentially useful methods of recording and compiling information during lunar exploration were employed. The test...

Manned Lunar Exploration Investigations Plan Of Research, And Work Plan And Operating Budget. Fiscal Years 1965-1966 Manned Lunar Exploration Investigations Plan Of Research, And Work Plan And Operating Budget. Fiscal Years 1965-1966

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, working with members of the scientific community, has determined that early manned lunar exploration will be oriented primarily to investigations in the geosciences. Exploration by man on the lunar surface will, therefore be geological, geophysical, geochemical, geochemical, and surveying in nature, and will be directed to the physical...

Geologic Log of Drill Hole: Project Cinder Lake Geologic Log of Drill Hole: Project Cinder Lake

Drill Core Log of Cinder Lake (in Yavapai county) Collected September 10-17, 1968.

Technical Letter: Astrogeology-3 Preliminary Scientific Mission Profiles For The First Seven Apollo Missions Technical Letter: Astrogeology-3 Preliminary Scientific Mission Profiles For The First Seven Apollo Missions

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to land two astronauts on the Moon as a part of the Apollo Space Program. The questions arise: What should the astronauts do on the surface and what information should they gather? This report proposes answers to these questions by describing a possible series of scientific activities, or mission profiles, to be performed by the...

Cinder Lake Conversation and Notes Cinder Lake Conversation and Notes

Cinder Lake symbology, unit descriptions, and ideas tested at Cinder Lakes and Verde Valley, northern Arizona.

Technical Letter: NTS-79 Guidebook For Field Trips To The Nevada Test Site Technical Letter: NTS-79 Guidebook For Field Trips To The Nevada Test Site

In several respects the Nevada Test Site is located in an area that is especially interesting geologically. It lies along the projected trend of the Walker Lane and the Las Vegas Valley Shear Zone (Locke and others, 1940; Longwell, 1960), one of the major crustal features of the Basin-Range province. The shear zone itself, however, may not continue through the Test Site in a simple way...

A Geological Approach To The Meteorites A Geological Approach To The Meteorites

Incorporated into USGS OpenFile Report #1094, "The Geologic Classification of the Meteorites", these materials were written by Donald Elston and contain figures, photos, and charts to help astronauts (who were not trained geologists) be able to identify and articulately describe the geologic observations they made on the lunar surface.

Memorandum: Cinder Lake Crater Field Seismic Profiles Memorandum: Cinder Lake Crater Field Seismic Profiles

Enclosed are the seismic profiles and a plan of the seismic lines at the new Cinder Lake Crater Field in Yavapai county. Along the East-West line the upper layer is made up of 3.5 feet of cinders on the top and then becoming mixed with clay t o a depth of 7.5 to 11.0 feet below the surface. Beneath this is a 10 to 20 foot thick layer of denser cinders or some other unconsolidated...

Schedule and Outline of Courses in Geology Astronaut Training Program Schedule and Outline of Courses in Geology Astronaut Training Program

Outline and schedule of geology training courses provided by the USGS Astronaut training program. Training topics include, but are not limited to, lunar and terrestrial geology, the rock cycle, impact processes, rock and mineral identification, lunar and terrestrial geophysics, and geologic mapping. This outline is dated January 8, 1964.

Technical Letter: Astrogeology-12, Time and Motions Required to Perform an Active Seismic Experiment Proposed for the First Apollo Landing Technical Letter: Astrogeology-12, Time and Motions Required to Perform an Active Seismic Experiment Proposed for the First Apollo Landing

At the suggestion of the Planetology Subcommittee of the Space Sciences Steering Committee, an active engineering seismic experiment originally proposed by J. S. Watkins, J. Cl. De Bremaecker, and M. F. Kane was incorporated into the Early Apollo Active Seismic Experiment originally proposed by R. L. Kovach . J. S. Watkins was made co-experimenter for the Early Apollo Active Seismic...
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