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**Pat Flannery** · September 2nd 10, 08:11 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy

On 9/1/2010 5:34 AM, wrote:
On Sep 1, 2:27 am, Pat wrote:

I'm still trying to figure out what the windows on the side of the
nosecone are about, as it doesn't look like there's any way for the
astronaut to get up to the front part of the vehicle.
Maybe that's where the cameras are supposed to go?

Or maybe there's a way to go under the instrument panel to get to the
nose. Where's the toilet?

I know the details of the Apollo one, but how was that problem addressed
on the longer Gemini flights?

The concept of shooting something shaped like a giant penis at the
Moon...who is represented in Greco-Roman mythology by the virgin goddess
Diana/Luna, is something Sigmund Freud would have _loved_ to
psychologically analyze.

I had a girl friend who commented once that submarines were phallic.
I pointed out to her that anything that needs to penetrate a fluid or
a very flexible solid would be shaped that way. That would have been
a good start had I not been thinking like an engineer and had her
parents not been listening.

Dr. Helen Caldicott made that resemblence one of the main points in her
book "Missile Envy".

Pat