Apollo 16 Site Selection

The selection is discussed of the Descartes landing site for the Apollo 16 flight for direct sampling of highland materials that would be compositionally different from previous samples. The lessons learned in this site selection that should be considered in future site selection are listed

Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package environmental specification revision, lunar dust

In view of engineering difficulties , the requirement that ALSEP operate successfully even when thermal-control surfaces are 100 percent "dust" covered is reviewed.N. W. Hinners

An Empirical Approach to the St. Petersburg Paradox

The St. Petersburg game is a probabilistic thought experiment. It describes a game which seems to have infinite expected value, but which no reasonable person could be expected to pay much to play. Previous empirical work has centered around trying to find the most likely payoff that would result from playing the game n times. In this paper, we extend this work to the distribution of all possible values which could result from this experiment. We use this distribution—with a surprising fractal-like pattern—to examine the unlikely nature of the most famous experiment on this game, the results of the Compte de Buffon\u27s playing the game 2048 times