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Old 06-September-2008, 03:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Superluminal View Post
I think you mean Apollo 15. A few days after Apollo 15 left the moon, there was an eclipse as you described. NASA planned to watch the eclipse with the tv camera on the abandoned lunar rover. Unfortunatly, the battery failed before the eclipse, otherwise we would have had quite a show.
LOL. You're right about Apollo 15. But I did, indeed, mean Apollo 14. I just hadn't looked into Apollo 15 yet.

Apollo 15 looks to have been a better bet; the eclipse occurred only a day or so after Apollo 15 launched from the moon (compared to Apollo 14's eclipse being four whole days after.)
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