Response to Belinda (Apollo Missions 14-17)

The Apollo program continued after the successful failure of Apollo 13 with Apollo 14. Their mission was the third lunar landing. They launched on January 31, 1971 with Alan Shepard in command, Stuart Roosa, the command module pilot, and Ed Mitchell, the lunar module pilot. Sheprad and Mitchell landed at Fra Mauro Highlands, the location that Apollo 13 was going to land before the explosion. They spent a total of 33.5 hours on the lunar surface and collected 94 ibs of moon rocks. The splashdown was on February 9, 1971.

You may be able to find a link to each person here, or the mission in general as far as those aboard. Usually on the official NASA sight. A picture of the crew would be great. I think "ibs" is supposed to be "lbs" for pounds, but I knew what you meant.

On July 26, 1971, Dave Scott lead Jim Irwin, the lunar module Pilot, and Al Worden, the command module pilot to the moon onboard Apollo 15. They landed at the Apennine Mountains where they tested the famous Lunar Roving Vehicle. They spent 66.9 hours on the moon's surface and collected 169 ibs of moon rock. The splashdown was on August 7, 1971.

Where are these "Apennine Mountains"?

The fifth lunar landing was done onboard Apollo 16. The crew is made up of the commander John Young, Ken Mattingly, the command module pilot and was originally apart of the Apollo 13 crew, last is Charlie Duke, the lunar module pilot. They lauched on April 16, 1972.

Young and Duke landed in the Cayley-Descartes highlands, drive lunar roving vehicle 16.8 miles, and collect 213 pounds of lunar samples. (Lovell 373)

The splashdown was on April 27, 1972

Explain what a splashdown is. Just put it in parenthesis after the word.

The last of the Apollo missions was Apollo 17. They launched on December 7, 1972, and the splashdown was on December 19, 1972. This was the sixth and final lunar landing. They landed in the Taurus-Littrow region. They spent 75 hours on the surface of the moon and collected 243 pounds of moon rocks. That is the end of the Apollo program. We have laken what we have learned form it all and have applied it to todays Space Shuttle Missions.

They landed in the Taurus-Littrow region of the moon.

Our desire is that Apollo 17 symbolizes not the end of an era, but rather the culmination of the beginning of mankind's greatest achievements in his distory-achievemenst which only have as their bounds the infinity of space and time-symbolization that man's seemingly impossible dreams can become limitless realities. (Burgess 88)

Burgess Eric Outpost on Apollo's Moon. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993

Lovell Jim, and Kluger Jeffrey Apollo 13. New York: Houghton Mifflin Publishing, 1994

Don't forget the quotation marks.

I am not sure I can really disagree with much here because most of it is fact, and I can't say that is wrong. The only thing I would say is just to make sure that someone who has not researched this at all will understand it. You did a pretty good job of this, but I would recomend that for this topic especially you link to things for terms that may confuse people (I did not find anything here other than "splashdown", I assume you meant when the capsule fell back to earth and landed in the ocean.).

The original post can be found here.