"Charleston" wrote in message
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And people here want us to go back to the moon and on to Mars? With the
attitude reflected in some of the posts above you'd never know men have
already piloted the Command/Service Module and performed spacewalks on the
way back from the moon. It is amazing what a crew can do when there is
only
room for three.

Apollo was substantially less complex than STS, sadly. The CMP spacewalks
were straightforward (go out, climb along the SM, get the film canisters and
such, come back in).

As far as the lunar EVAs, ISTR lots of little fubars made by pooped astros.
Nothing life-threatening as it turned out, but still lots of little
slip-ups.

--
Terrell Miller


"It's one thing to burn down the **** house and another thing entirely to
install plumbing"
-PJ O'Rourke