Apollo 15 Anniversary Expedition (A15X)

Yanick

Yanick
The Mercury 7 Explorers present...
The Apollo 15 Anniversary Expedition!
To celebrate fiftieth anniversary of Apollo 15 becoming the pinnacle of achievement in human exploration, we will be flying from the Hind Nebula to the breathtakingly spectacular worlds of David and Goliath in celebration of this amazing achievement.

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All Commanders of all levels of experience in exploration are welcome. From those who are totally new to exploration, all the way to those hardened veterans of Elite with millions of light years under their belts...all will find a place in the community of players that makes up the expedition.

This expedition is the successor to the popular Apollo 11 Anniversary Expedition (A11X), where 670 CMDR's celebrated the Apollo 11 Moon Landings 50 years to the moment after the Eagle touching down in the Sea of Tranquility. A11X remains the most successful player-base organised event in the history of Elite Dangerous after the epic Distant Worlds, and Distant Worlds 2 expeditions. We will be leaving the Bubble on the 10th of July 2021, and touching down at our destination on the 30th of July 2021...exactly fifty years after Apollo 15 landed at Hadley Rille!

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If you'd like to join us, follow this steps:

1) Sign up on EDSM - https://www.edsm.net/en_GB/expeditions/summary/id/131/name/Apollo+15+Anniversary+Expedition

2) Join the A15X Discord - https://discord.gg/rygeUukvft

3) Join up with the Private Group for your platform (PC, XBox, PS4),

For PC CMDRS, the expedition will be taking place within the FleetComm private group. So if you're not a member, and would like to join please click on the link below: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/474455
For Xbox and PS4 CMDRs there will be private groups available for the expedition.

I look forward to seeing you all there.

CMDR Yanick

Note: Waypoints and details subject to change.
 

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Orvidius

Orvidius
Zieman said:
Hope Odyssey launch doesn't change that!
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I was just about to point that out. While the new planet tech will be based on the same StellarForge output variables, the planet surfaces will be entirely different since that "layer" of the codebase has been replaced. So while it might still have tall mountains, we can't say that with any certainty. And even if it does, they'll probably look entirely different and may also be in different locations.

The expedition is scheduled to depart (and of course to get there) after Odyssey launches. ;)
 

Yanick

Yanick
Apollo 11 was humanities first step on to another world. It was a brave, bold, and risky move.
But one that succeeded spectacularly. And that was only the beginning...
Over the next two lunar landings, the Apollo program became greater and greater.
Reaching higher levels of scientific achievement and mission complexity each time.
But nobody at NASA quite predicted how successful the fourth landing would be.
This is the story of that mission...
The greatest achievement of the first 60 years of human spaceflight.
The high watermark of exploration in the first era of space.
With alien mountain ranges...ancient lava flows...the very origins of the solar system itself.
This dear reader is not science fiction, this and more happened on...Apollo 15!!

https://www.edsm.net/en_GB/expeditions/summary/id/131/name/Apollo+15+Anniversary+Expedition

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Yanick

Yanick
As featured in 'Sagittarius Eye' magazine, and talked about by many as the 'last great Horizons expedition'
This promises to be fun adventure!
Everyone is welcome to be a part of the Apollo 15 Expedition.
330 CMDRs have already joined us. Will the next one be you?

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Gazatronic

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What time is kick off on Saturday? Midday as per EDSM or is that just a placeholder?

Also are there planned meetup times at the waypoints? Thanks
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
iain666 said:
And everywhere else, that's what the U stands for... ;)
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Droll, too too droll! 😉
IGT = UTC

Europe PC meet up start - 1800 IGT

North American PC meet up - 2300 IGT

Pacific PC meet up - Sunday July 11th 0600 IGT

Playstation CMDRs Saturday July 10th – 2000 IGT

Xbox CMDRs Monday July 12th – 1800 IGT
 
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Yanick

Yanick
Tonight is the center piece of the Apollo 15 Expedition, when we celebrate 50 years to the moment when 20th century human exploration reached its zenith! Join us on Twitch for the official stream or for the many independent streamers who are with us.
Stream starts at 2150 UTC o7
https://twitch.tv/commander_yanick
 

Yanick

Yanick
Now that the expedition is over, I would like to thank all the mission control staff for organising this huge undertaking with me, you're all superb!

In Elite we have wonderful media people in magazines, radio stations, podcasters, YouTubers, and streamers reporting out here on what they see and helping spread the word of the expedition to the community at large. You're one of the reasons the Elite community is so rich and vibrant.

Additionally I want to thank the toolmakers/app designers of EDSM, EDD and the myriad of other great platforms that help us CMDR in the black do what we do.

Finally and most importantly I want to thank you...the Commanders of the Apollo 15 50th Anniversary Expedition, that were the expedition and made it all possible. From people who have been playing for only a few weeks to the most experienced veterans of Elite, you're in all the very lifeblood of this community. You're all stars to me.

I will end with a human being that has become very familiar to you all of late.
“As I stand out here in the wonders of the unknown at Hadley, I realize there's a fundamental truth to our nature. Man must explore. And this is exploration at its greatest.”
– David Scott, Commander Apollo 15


o7 CMDRs

Commander Yanick
Lead Organiser - Apollo 15 50th Anniversary Expedition
 

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