On Monday, October 1, 2012 2:05:44 AM UTC-5, Joseph Nebus wrote:
In Jan Philips writes:

If A11 had failed to land, how soon could the next attempt have been?
One month, two months, other?

As I understand old Henry Spencer posts on the subject

....Ah, the good old days of consulting "The Writ of Henry's Wisdom" and the ICH T-Shirts

Oh, here we go. According to the Apollo Spacecraft Chronology,
as of April 18 1969 Apollo 12 was pencilled in to launch September 13,
and Apollo 13 to November 10. Apollo 12 was pushed back to November on
the 29th of July:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...4009/v4p3d.htm

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...4009/v4p3e.htm

I'm interested but don't read too much into the July 29, 1969
tentative planning schedule putting three moon shots in 1970 and 1972
but only two in 1971.

....Keep in mind that a lot of that initial scheduling was based on contingency of an A11 *and* an A12 failure that prevented a landing, as well as the fact that the decade - despite popular misconceptions - technically didn't end until after midnight of December 31st, 1970. So, had A11 been forced to abort the landing, there would technically be four more missions at the least that could be flown before the deadline set in JFK's speech to Congress after Al's flight on Freedom 7.

Yeah, 97.835% of the US population still believes Kennedy's deadline was the end of 1969, but if the IAU can demote Pluto, NASA could have claimed another year's leeway on when the decade actually ended...:P

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