Man Must Explore

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Sketch completed 23 November 2003
Drawing Copyright by Ulrich Lotzmann. All rights reserved.
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As Dave and Jim leave Station 2 on the lower slopes of Mt. Hadley Delta, they have a magnificent view into Hadley Rille:

123:26:02 Scott: Okay; here we go; rolling again. Okay; we'll try getting home on the Nav system here. Oh, look at that big fresh one in the side of the rim! (Garbled) that stereo pan, so we're right up...

123:26:20 Irwin: Got to make a...Don't want to go (directly) downslope too much.

123:26:24 Scott: I'm not. I'm going slow. I'll cut back over here.

123:26:28 Irwin: Yeah.

123:26:31 Scott: Easy does it. (Pause) Looks like it (the navigation system) takes us right back the way we came, doesn't it?

123:26:45 Irwin: Yeah, that's the closest way. We're going to have to go to the right to go around Elbow.

[Elbow cuts into the rille rim and, unless they were willing to drive down into the crater or the rille, they will have to skirt the east rim.]
123:26:50 Scott: Oh, yeah; I was suggesting that we could go to the left, but I guess we don't want to do that.

123:26:53 Irwin: I don't think we'd better try it, Dave.

123:26:55 Scott: (Laughing) That's a neat place down into the rille though, isn't it?

123:27:01 Irwin: See the way it comes back?

123:27:02 Allen: Roger, Dave and Jim.

123:27:03 Scott: ... down into the rille, Joe, (lost under Joe) would like...

123:27:04 Allen: ...we'd rather that you don't take that option.

123:27:07 Scott: (Laughing) Okay. And if anybody ever comes back, Joe, and wants to go down into the rille, have them come talk to us, because there's a good place to do it here.

123:27:16 Allen: Roger. We'll suggest that. (Pause)

This sketch shows Dave and Jim starting a fantasy trip down into the Rille.

The title, 'Man Must Explore', comes from Dave's words as he first stepped on to the lunar surface:

119:55:45 Scott: Okay, Houston. As I stand out here in the wonders of the unknown at Hadley, I sort of realize there's a fundamental truth to our nature. Man must explore.

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