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NASA-UAP-D024, “Apollo 16 Scientific Debriefing”

NASA-UAP-D024, “Apollo 16 Scientific Debriefing”

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First of all let me say thank you from S&AD for the scientific help on Apollo 16. I personally think that you all did a very credible job in helping the science support room and pre-flighting to get all the experiments ready to prepare the crew and the flight for Apollo 16. I think that looking back on it now we can say we had a very successful mission that we attained a tremendous amount of information from the flight. I know that the rock boxes back there at the curatorial facility are bursting at their seams and the geologists are going to have a lot to do. I think also that because of the problems that arose and the necessity to change the flight plan that you responded quite well to get the maximum science out of the time that we had available. I realized that in all of our flights there hasn't been one flight yet that ran according to schedule and I am very sure that Apollo 17 will be in the same boat that we will have to change things real-time to get the maximum scientists or science out of the mission and I think the response on this flight was superb. Now today the briefing here is in two parts and for two purposes. First of all, I like each principal investigator to briefly describe the results so far obtained from his work. This is to sort of educate the crew on what we obtained so far from Apollo 16 so that they might have information along that line. Also, I like to have him describe any anomalies that might have occurred that we do not know about now. And second, then we'd like to have the PI with the crew working with them to answer have the crew answer any questions that might still be puzzling him so that he might further his analysis of the data. We have a lot of people to go through today, a lot of science to cover, so we like to keep each briefing…

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