Apollo Heavier Weight Hammer
- Hammers of this style were used on Apollo 14, 15, 16 and 17. However, there were minor changes in configuration of the handle and adapter through out these missions. This tool was used to break chips from rocks or to drive core tubes into the soil. It wasdesigned…
Apollo 16MM Maurer Data Acquisition Camera
- Apollo 11 carried two Maurer data acquisition cameras, one on the command module and one on the lunar module. The cameras were used primarily to record engineering data and for continuous-sequence terrain photography. The CM camera had lenses of 5-mm, 10-mm,…
Apollo 70mm Hasselblad EL Data Camera
- The electrically powered camera, carried on the lunar module, featured semiautomatic operation. It used 60-mm Biogon lens exclusively. The operating sequence was initiated by squeezing a trigger mounted on the camera handle. A reseau grid was set in front…
Apollo Moon Golf Club
- On Feb. 6, 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard became the first person to play golf on the moon. He smuggled a makeshift golf club head onto the spacecraft inside a sock. The first ball he hit veered into a nearby crater, but with a solid second swing,…
Apollo Gnoman Tripod
- This gnomon is like those used on the lunar surface by Apollo astronauts during their scientific and photographic tasks. A gnomon is a gimbaled stadia rod mounted on a tripod so that the rod was free to point vertically. When deployed on the lunar surface,…