Apollo Program and Lunar Crater - Meteor Crater, AZ
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Bernd das Brot Team
N 35° 01.974 W 111° 01.275
12S E 498061 N 3876691
An Apollo Capsule on display at a space exhibition
Waymark Code: WM1039R
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 02/17/2019
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member saopaulo1
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Apollo Basin; Source: NASA Apollo Boilerplate #29

Apollo is a huge impact crater in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. The crater is not named after the Greek god Apollo, but after NASA's Apollo program. The inner part of the crater is called Apollo Basin. There are a number of smaller craters in the basin. They are named after several deceased NASA employees and after the three crew members of Apollo 8, who were the first humans to observe the far side of the Moon with their own eyes.

The exhibition at Meteor Crater in Arizona honors the Apollo Program with the display of Apollo Boilerplate #29. A boilerplate is a non-functional system or payload which is used to test the configuration. It is a lot cheaper to use this method than to launch the full spacecraft. Boilerplate #29 never flew in space but was used to simulate the ocean recovery of Apollo 9.

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