APOLLO 15 LANDING SITE – NASA Lunar Topographic Photomap, Rima Hadley. Aeronautical Chart Information Center, USAF for NASA, February 1972.
APOLLO 15 LANDING SITE – NASA Lunar Topographic Photomap, Rima Hadley. Aeronautical Chart Information Center, USAF for NASA, February 1972.

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APOLLO 15 LANDING SITE – NASA Lunar Topographic Photomap, Rima Hadley. Aeronautical Chart Information Center, USAF for NASA, February 1972.

One of the largest Apollo individual landing charts created for NASA, SIGNED by Dave SCOTT.

All three EVA traverses using the Lunar Rover are drawn with white arrowed lines starting at the landing point of Lunar Module Falcon. Contour intervals of 20 meters are in red. The total distance traveled by the Rover was some 17 miles as plotted by the traverses moving outwards from the Lunar Module in three different directions.

Lunar chart, 58 by 42 inches. Scale 1:25,000. First edition.
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Locations of lunar surface photographic panoramas are indicated with white circles and each Rover stop in marked with the “station stop” number. Landscape featured including the Rima Hadley, believed to be a collapsed lava tube over a billion years old, two mountains surrounding Hadley Delta and Mount Hadley. Official and unofficial names of craters visited or used for navigation by astronauts Dave Scott and James Irwin are labeled.

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