NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
(FOR ALL LAUNCH DATES)
APOLLO 17
FINAL
LUNAR SURFACE
PROCEDURES
VOL. 1: NOMINAL PLANS
PREPARED BY
EVA AND EXPERIMENTS BRANCH
CREW PROCEDURES DIVISION
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) MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER
HOUSTON, TEXAS
NOVEMBER 6, 1972
’APOLLO 17
LUNAR SURFACE PROCEDURES
VOL. I: Nominal Plans
FINAL
PREFACE
. This document has been prepared by the Crew Procedures
Division, Flight Crew Operations Directorate, Manned Space-
craft Center, Houston, Texas and by General Electric, Apollo
and Ground Systems, Houston Programs. The information con-
tained herein represents Lunar Surface Procedures for Apollo 17
Mission J-3, the seventh manned lunar landing mission. The
final document consists of two parts: Vol. 1 - Nominal Plans;
Vol. 2 - Contingency Plans.
Prepared By: —
D.
r EVA Procedures Section
ARS V. Blevins
eneral Electric Co.
G. Olmst
jeneral Electric Co.
RJ. Koppay Décument Manager
General Electric Co.
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INTRODUCTION
This Final Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Procedures Document is
used to document the planning for lunar surface EVA operations
on Mission J-3, to describe the crew equipment interface,
and to document the manner in which the lunar surface mission
requirements are to be implemented.
The nominal plan includes three two-man EVA periods during the
78 hour stay of the LM vehicle on the lunar surface. The first,
second and third EVA's are each planned for seven hours of ac-
tivity from depressurization to repressurization of the LM.
EMU operations and procedures (including contingency) are covered
in the EMU AQH, Reference 6.
Photographic and TV camera operations are integrated herein in
a summary manner,
This document contains summary and detailed timeline and pro-
cedures data. The voice data plan and copies of the crew's
cuff checklist are included. The summary timelines are
essentially a task flow analysis along a time base showing
coincident activities and points of interaction between crew-
men. The detailed timeline procedures simply list in the
Sequence of performance, the steps required to carry out each
of ‘the tasks identified in the summary timeline. It is in the
detailed timeline procedures that the crew/equipment interfaces
are revealed. Both the summary and detailed timeline proce-
dures present the CDR's and the LNP's task side-by-side to
minimize the confusion as to which crewman is doing what and
to show how they cooperate in the lunar surface operations.
The voice data plan is provided coincident with the detailed
timeline procedures as a device by which cap-com (capsule
communicator) is able to keep abreast of the crew's activities
and to provide cap-com with cues, data and data recording
points with which to provide realtime assistance to the lunar
surface crew during the EVA activities. The crew's cuff check~
lists are included for information only, showing the procedural
cues the crew have at their fingertips.
‘The procedures herein are responsive to the Mission Requirements
for SA-512/CSM-114/LM-12 J-3 Type Mission currently in effect
as of the date of this document,