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Why did some Apollo missions carry a grenade launcher?
Was Hayabusa-2's plastic explosive charge the largest charge detonated beyond LEO?How was reserve fuel calculated for the Apollo missions?How did the Apollo astronauts train for the 1/6G lunar landing?Did any Apollo missions have backup parachutes?Why were there beeps punctuating the voice communications during missions such as Apollo?How much extraneous mass did each of the Apollo missions carry?What was the Apollo service module propellant used for on the LEO missions?In what ways would the high elliptical orbit of Apollo “E missions” simulate lunar missions?Why did Apollo have a crew of 3?Why was the Saturn V considered to be human-rated after Apollo 6?Why didn't NASA launch communications relay satellites for the Apollo missions?
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According to ALSEP Flight System Familiarization Manual, p. 2-166, some Apollo missions carried a grenade launcher and 4 grenades. What were these used for?
apollo-program explosives
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According to ALSEP Flight System Familiarization Manual, p. 2-166, some Apollo missions carried a grenade launcher and 4 grenades. What were these used for?
apollo-program explosives
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For the seismic experiments
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See space.stackexchange.com/a/37774/6944
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Even more fun, Apollo 14 didn't use their grenades, and they are still on the lunar surface.
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According to ALSEP Flight System Familiarization Manual, p. 2-166, some Apollo missions carried a grenade launcher and 4 grenades. What were these used for?
apollo-program explosives
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According to ALSEP Flight System Familiarization Manual, p. 2-166, some Apollo missions carried a grenade launcher and 4 grenades. What were these used for?
apollo-program explosives
apollo-program explosives
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For the seismic experiments
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See space.stackexchange.com/a/37774/6944
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Even more fun, Apollo 14 didn't use their grenades, and they are still on the lunar surface.
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For the seismic experiments
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See space.stackexchange.com/a/37774/6944
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Even more fun, Apollo 14 didn't use their grenades, and they are still on the lunar surface.
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For the seismic experiments
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See space.stackexchange.com/a/37774/6944
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Even more fun, Apollo 14 didn't use their grenades, and they are still on the lunar surface.
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They were part of an active seismic imaging experiment (archived version on wayback)
By setting up a seismometer and setting off surface explosions of known size, you can get a lot of information about how shockwaves propagate underground, from which you can infer structure.
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They were part of an active seismic imaging experiment (archived version on wayback)
By setting up a seismometer and setting off surface explosions of known size, you can get a lot of information about how shockwaves propagate underground, from which you can infer structure.
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They were part of an active seismic imaging experiment (archived version on wayback)
By setting up a seismometer and setting off surface explosions of known size, you can get a lot of information about how shockwaves propagate underground, from which you can infer structure.
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They were part of an active seismic imaging experiment (archived version on wayback)
By setting up a seismometer and setting off surface explosions of known size, you can get a lot of information about how shockwaves propagate underground, from which you can infer structure.
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