Preparations
When post-landing checks were completed, ground controllers woke up the dormant rover and instructed it to reach the kerbonauts at the landing site.
Even though a night landing represented no problem for the Apollo 3 crew, it was deemed that surface operations would be much safer during daylight. Kerbol would rise in a few hours and the kerbonauts had enough life support provisions to last until then, so they waited.
With enough ambient light, the true mission could commence.
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