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Apollo 15 Solar Wind Spectrometer Deployment

United States of America · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1971

David ScottJuly 1971

Hadley-Apennine · Science / Astronomy

Helps deploy the Apollo 15 Solar Wind Spectrometer as part of the lunar surface experiments used to monitor the particle flow from the Sun.

Names involved

David Scott

Provenance

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