Given that only Apollo 11 landed near the lunar equator, obviously the later landing missions had to enter orbits of the Moon prior to landing which were inclined to the lunar equator.
What I was wondering was (and I'm going to apologise now for my lack of correct technical terminology) did the orbit's maximum latitude match the latitude of the landing site?
What I'm trying to get my head around is this: during PDI were the LMs always travelling west, with the Sun behind them and their shadow pretty much directly ahead of them? Or was it that (particularly for A15 and A17) they were travelling at a detectably different angle with their shadow noticeably off to one side?
The reason I'm asking is to get a sense of what PDI and landing for a Tycho mission would have been like, after reading this article:
http://www.wired.com/2012/03/apollo-mission-to-tycho-1969/Thanks very much.
