On Apr 24, 11:06 pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:
"kevin willoughby" wrote in message

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Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
History says that Apollo 8 was launched to the Moon despite the risk,
w/o
an LM since the LM wasn't ready.

What exactly wasn't ready? I suspect it was more than simply being
overweight (since it was overweight as late as Apollo 10).

I strongly recommend "Digital Apollo" by David Mindell. Especially if y
ou
have any interest in computers, either hardware or software.

Mindell makes clear that the software to actually land the LM wasn't re
ady
until fairly late, certainly not for Apollo 8. Heck, there was a scramb
le
to complete the non-landing lunar software in time for Christmas 1968.

Umm, why? The LM wasn't used by then.

But that's sort of my point. Forget using the LM for anything other th
an a
lifeboat, pretty much as it was used during Apollo 13. Were there tech
nical
issues that would have prevented that?

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Greg Moore
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It wasn't ready, meaning behind schedule