Editor's Note: See also earlier Apollo 16 study: Computer reveals crude retouching of Apollo16 LEM. The point made by Jack White "...not a single photo of an LRV attached to the port side of a LEM can be located" may require clarification. It appears that he is referring to lunar surface photos of the stowed LRVs. The only photo of an LRV apparently on the port side of a LM is one depicted in flight against a black background AS16-118-18894. But as Jack White has demonstrated, the photograph is suspect because he has found that this 'in flight' image was retouched.

Editor's Note: Although there was TV coverage of lowering the Apollo 15 LRV from the port side, which was somewhat lacking in detail, there were no Hasselblad still photographs of this operation taken on any of the Apollo missions.

Editor's Note; The answer to 'What was in the package?' is that the starboard stowage bay, QUAD IV, was the location of the Modularized Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA). This is where a number of items were stowed. These are said to include camera lens items, geology tools, sample containers, communications equipment and so forth. Although there was lo-res, rather indistinct, TV coverage of lowering the Apollo 15 rover, there were no Hasselblad still photographs of this operation taken on any of the missions.

No doubt if there was the will, the unloading operation could have been halted for a few moments in order to photograph unstowing the LRV for posterity. Some may question whether the stowed LRV in the Apollo 16 image AS16-118-18894 in Chapter 2 on the previous page (compared with say AS16-116-18579) is consistent with the bulk of the folded LRV, as depicted in the above BW photograph.