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  1. Newsgroups: sci.space
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!fs1.ee.ubc.ca!davem
  3. From: davem@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Michelson)
  4. Subject: Re: RTG's on the Lunar Module
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan7.205250.26335@ee.ubc.ca>
  6. Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
  7. References: <1993Jan7.144516.20330@cam-orl.co.uk>
  8. Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:52:50 GMT
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  11. In article <1993Jan7.144516.20330@cam-orl.co.uk> dg@cam-orl.co.uk (Dave Garnett) writes:
  12. >Peering at a cut-away drawing of the Lunar Module the other day
  13. >I noticed what appears to be a Radioisotope Thermal Generator
  14. >mounted on the outside low down.
  15. >
  16. >Was this intended to power some experiment - I don't think
  17. >that they generate very much power (order 80 watts ?)
  18. >
  19.  
  20. Yes.  It powered the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package (ALSEP).
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