[FPSPACE] Astronaut sighting of TLP during Apollo mission

[Jim Oberg]

"Vostok" was one of the reference names on local craters
that Apollo missions used. Check out the Lunar Surface Journal
to locate 'Vostok' on one of the mission maps.


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From: "pjp" <pjp961 at svol.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 6:32 PM
Subject: [FPSPACE] Astronaut sighting of TLP during Apollo mission


> If memory serves, the CSM pilot on Apollo 17 saw a meteor strike in real
> time.  He got excited about it.  He called it "Vostog" or "Vostok".I wrote
> him a letter while he was still alive, and he told me he didn't know why 
> he
> used that term (it's on the CD "The Mission Transcript Collection: Mercury
> Redstone 3 to Apollo 17"), but he said he was thinking "Meteor"..just type
> in "Vostog" in the search engine for the PDF file software on the CD, and 
> it
> will come up.
>
>
>
> Still a mystery to me why he would use the term "Vostog" or "Vostok" 
> (it's
> in the transcript).
>
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