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- Earthrise during Apollo 8
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- Minutes before departure of Eagle (Apollo 11)
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- Owen Garriott and Jack Lousma replacing film for the ATM (Skylab 3)
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- Skylab damaged shortly after launch
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- The first LEM sent into space (Apollo 5)
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- The Lunar Roving Vehicle of Apollo 17
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- Jim Irwin saluting the US Flag (Apollo 15)
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- Apollo 9 SEVA, the first spacewalk of the Apollo program
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- Pete Conrad and Alan Bean visiting Surveyor 3 (Apollo 12)
The entirety of the Apollo program has now been simulated on Celestia! Note that all models and textures included, except for the
Lunar Roving Vehicle,
LEM-1, and the
ALSEP instruments, are made by many add-on contributors of the past, and thus I dedicate this addon to them (full list on the ReadMe.txt).
WHAT'S NEW?:- Added seven missions; Apollo 6, 10, 12, 14-17.
- Added the
Lunar Roving Vehicle for Apollo 15-17
- Added
LEM-1, the spacecraft used in Apollo 5
- Added six
ALSEP instruments (provided by
Endeavor35!)
- The lunar orbits of Apollo 8, 10-12, 14-17 are updated to allow the crossing of the landing sites (values generated using Orbiter 2016)
- The EVAs and the repair of Skylab are now simulated
- The orbit of Skylab now follows the TLE data provided by
revent on this
thread (recovered by
pedro_jg!)
- The heliocentric orbits of all surviving S-IVB stages of Apollo 8 to 12, based on HORIZONS data
- Earlier (beta) versions from three years ago,
Part 1 and
Part 2, are now obsolete
HOW TO NAVIGATE?:- The Apollo LEMs on the surface have spaces before their names to distinguish them from the CSMs (example: " Apollo 17")
- To visit Surveyor 3, download first the
Surveyor Landers addon
- You can still visit the hardware left on the surface in the present day, albeit the Descent Stages are now classified as "component" rather than "spacecraft". The same also goes for the S-IVBs and the Snoopy LEM-AS now orbiting the sun
FUTURE DEVELOPMENT:- The flight of Apollo 13 (as of today, no HORIZONS/SPICE data has been found to accurately render it on Celestia).
- The orbit of Apollo 9's Spider LEM-AS up until 1981
- Simple orbits depicting the descent of the seven LEMs (including Snoopy) on the surface of the Moon
- Lastly, the creation of the actual terrain of the landing sites themselves for historical accuracy
DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION HERE, 2022-Dec-11