OHM Vallis Schroteri & Apollo 18

[OrbitHangar]

Author: 4th rock

This add-on features realistic terrain for the Vallis Schröteri area near the Aristarchus crater on the Moon. It is presented in a way that you have a relatively large flat area (Orbiter limitation) where you can land and drive.

[FONT=Arial, Verdana, sans-serif]The area covered by terrain mesh is about 30x30km. Some surface features were placed to provide interesting destinations for EVAs, based on the actual geology of the region.

[FONT=Arial, Verdana, sans-serif]The provided scenarios use AMSO to recreate the proposed Apollo 18 mission. They are generic and the orbital trajectories are not optimized regarding fuel or mission duration. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana, sans-serif]Anyhow, I think I've remained within realistic parameters for a late Apollo mission. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Verdana, sans-serif]Let’s say after Apollo 17 all the hardware as updated and can perform a little bit better.[/FONT] To give that impression, I'm including a CMS repaint with the white Skylab paint scheme. There’s also a small update to LC39 ground texture that now resembles the actual ground cover in the 1960/70s.

I've added some normal maps for the Saturn V rocket and the LEM 's gold foil, for the benefit of those using modern graphic clients.


[FONT=Arial, Verdana, sans-serif]Notice:[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Verdana, sans-serif]Two AMSO textures are overwritten - the ground texture for KSC and the CSM is now the white "Skylab" version.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana, sans-serif]Required: [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Verdana, sans-serif]AMSO add-on.[/FONT]
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Read the docs for more information.


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[Kyle]

Love it! But I was always under the impression though that 18 would have landed at Marius Hills instead of near Aristarchus.

 

[Hlynkacg]

Love it! But I was always under the impression though that 18 would have landed at Marius Hills instead of near Aristarchus.

Same.

Gotta say, 4throck your addons have been keeping me motivated to work on AAPO. That said pretty much all my reserch has indicated that Apollo 18 would have gone to Gassendi or the Marius Hills. Apollo 19 and 20 were targeted for Copernicus and Tycho respectively. Good job on getting the names though

 

[barrygolden]

Keeping a dream alive

thank my friend for making this and keep a dream alive. As Dave Scott said that Hadley-Appenine had grandgeur this site has alot of grandgeur.

great job

 

[IronRain]

Awesome, thanks!

 

[4throck]

I'm also having a good time doing this. Tricky to fit the landing site topography into Orbiter's flat surface. Over large areas, the Moon's curvature starts to mess thing up.


That site was on one of the early proposals.

From Wikipedia: According to "NASA OMSF, Manned Space Flight Weekly Report" dated July 28, 1969, Apollo 18 would have landed at Schröter's Valley in February 1972, Apollo 19 in the Hyginus rille region in July 1972, and Apollo 20 in Copernicus crater in December 1972.

On other proposals the sites and mission numbering changed a lot.
No problem in having another Apollo 18 to another site, this is all alternate history.

Anyway, I'm working on Copernicus and Tycho for A19 and A20


Hlynkacg, I didn't provide any scenarios for AAPO just because AMSO has all the EVA+Rover stuff already built in.
I guess that AAPO + UCGO + UMMU can do the same, but I don't have a template for that. AAPO could do a great EVA, if we had some grabbable rocks that we could load on the rover as cargo and then transfer to the LEM...

 

[apollo 18]

Great addon!!

 

[apollo 18]

why download link doesn't work?

 

[Harry]

Link for the download doesn't work.

 

[n122vu]

Worked ok for me.

 

[samplereturn]

I'm getting a "404 (Page Not Found) Error" when I click on the Download link. Cannot recall ever having a problem downloading from Orbit Hangar before. Looking forward to this addon !

 

[Castor]

I'm getting a "404 (Page Not Found) Error" when I click on the Download link.

Strange. It works just fine on my side.

 

[4throck]

The download trouble MAY have something to do with the fact that I used non standard characters (Schröteri) for the file name.
Normally, if they cause trouble, the problems appear right after my original upload. Also normally the server or the upload script renames those characters right away.

I'm reupload with a standard name.

Anyway, it's odd that only some systems are affected.
Out of curiosity, what OS + browser gave trouble?