If the Apollo 13 accident had happened on Apollo 7 instead....

If Apollo 7 had ended up with a damaged oxygen tank (similar to Apollo
13), and it failed as it did on Apollo 13......

Would the crew have been stranded in low earth orbit, or would they
have been able to fire SPS or RCS to start reenty before all Service
Module
power was lost?


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If Apollo 7 had ended up with a damaged oxygen tank (similar to Apollo
13), and it failed as it did on Apollo 13......

Would the crew have been stranded in low earth orbit, or would they
have been able to fire SPS or RCS to start reenty before all Service
Module
power was lost?

Engine bell was damaged on A-13. Ignition would probably have resulted in
the quietest explosion to destory a space program ever _not_ heard. RCS
powerful enough for de-orbit?

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Rusty B wrote:
If Apollo 7 had ended up with a damaged oxygen tank (similar to Apollo
13), and it failed as it did on Apollo 13......
Would the crew have been stranded in low earth orbit, or would they
have been able to fire SPS or RCS to start reenty before all Service
Module power was lost?

The SM didn't die right away. They'd have had time for an RCS deorbit.
(Under the circumstances, I would guess that Houston wouldn't have wanted
to risk the big engine, for fear that it might have been damaged.)

It was nearly an hour and a half after the accident before everyone
conceded that the CSM couldn't be saved and using the LM was going to be
necessary, and nearly another hour and a half before the CSM was finally
and completely closed down. That's plenty of time for an emergency
get-us-down-somewhere-right-away descent, which is a standard emergency
procedure for the shuttle and I'm pretty sure would have been one for
Apollo too.
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On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:25:51 GMT, (Henry Spencer)
wrote:

It was nearly an hour and a half after the accident before everyone
conceded that the CSM couldn't be saved and using the LM was going to be
necessary,

....Correct. One of the sad side effects of the A13 movie was that
we're given the impression that the time between BOOM and the full
transfer to the LM was only about 20-25 minutes max.

OM

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