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TFA does go on to reference "reflectors in the Sea of Tranquility (Apollo 11), at Fra Mauro (Apollo 14) and Hadley Rille (Apollo 15), and, sometimes, in the Sea
by R_Edward 13y ago
TFA does go on to reference "reflectors in the Sea of Tranquility (Apollo 11), at Fra Mauro (Apollo 14) and Hadley Rille (Apollo 15), and, sometimes, in the Sea of Serenity. There's a set of mirrors there onboard the parked Soviet Lunokhud 2 moon rover..."
That would sort of imply that it happened more than once. I do wonder, though, why the Sea of Serenity doesn't get a mission name tied to it.
- VLM 13y ago"I do wonder, though, why the Sea of Serenity doesn't get a mission name tied to it." 1) Too depressing that 17 was probably the last time a human being will ever visit the moon, so lets not talk about it. 2) General lack of selenological (is that even a word?) knowledge. Its like saying I've never visited Ireland, although I have been to Dublin and Galway and a couple places in between, or some similar static type language failure like that. The armchair lawyers like to point out that the mission planners didn't use that name on the map for the landing, but the scientists in charge of the reflector did, or something along those lines.