Beware space buffs bearing useless facts.
I mentioned this in passing in another section of the forum, but here goes, in the "goofs" forum.
In Deep Wizardry, Nita, her parents, and Kit visit the landing site of Apollo 16 to show her parents what wizards can do.
Even the actual first LRV (lunar roving vehicle) carried to the Moon would not have been the first built, due to engineering and training replicas which were used to prepare for the flights that carried LRVs (some are in museums today) -- but the LRV carried on Apollo 16 is not even the first to make it to the Moon!
The last three missions in the Apollo program were "J" missions, designed for longer surface stays and expanded science programs when compared to the first four (counting Apollo 13, which never landed). One of these changes was the addition of a powered electric vehicle, the LRV, to the flight manifest. This was carried, folded, in a bay of the LM descent stage, and unfolded by the astronauts after landing.
Those last three missions were Apollo 15, 16, and 17. That means that the Apollo 16 rover was the second to reach the Moon.
There is also a terminology change sharp-eyed readers might notice. The book's text says "LEM" and I say "LM" -- the E stands for Excursion, which was dropped relatively late in the vehicle's development. Both are correct, though the flight vehicles don't include the E.
Post tenebras spero lucem - after dark I wish for light
(CC) This post has been closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired.
I mentioned this in passing in another section of the forum, but here goes, in the "goofs" forum.
In Deep Wizardry, Nita, her parents, and Kit visit the landing site of Apollo 16 to show her parents what wizards can do.
He pointed past the abandoned first-stage platform of the LEM Orion at the first Lunar Rover ...
The last three missions in the Apollo program were "J" missions, designed for longer surface stays and expanded science programs when compared to the first four (counting Apollo 13, which never landed). One of these changes was the addition of a powered electric vehicle, the LRV, to the flight manifest. This was carried, folded, in a bay of the LM descent stage, and unfolded by the astronauts after landing.
Those last three missions were Apollo 15, 16, and 17. That means that the Apollo 16 rover was the second to reach the Moon.
There is also a terminology change sharp-eyed readers might notice. The book's text says "LEM" and I say "LM" -- the E stands for Excursion, which was dropped relatively late in the vehicle's development. Both are correct, though the flight vehicles don't include the E.
Post tenebras spero lucem - after dark I wish for light
(CC) This post has been closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired.
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