Contact poles on LM

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:22:29 -0400, Jud McCranie
wrote:

I noticed that on the Apollo 9 and 10 LMs, there are the contact
poles
below all four footpads. On A11, the front leg doesn't have one.
Was
this to eliminate the possibility of it interfering with the
astronauts path up and down the ladder?


The landing probe was removed from the front landing leg of Eagle
and later LM's to prevent it being a hazard to the astronauts.

Here is a picture from Apollo 12 showing one of its probes that
snapped
off and was sticking up in the vacuum (can't say air). If this had
been on the leg with the ladder, its possible the probe might caused
them to fall or puncture a spacesuit.

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...12-47-6907.jpg

"That's one small goose for (a) man, one giant geese for mankind!"

8-/

- Rusty Barton

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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:22:29 -0400, Jud McCranie
wrote:

I noticed that on the Apollo 9 and 10 LMs, there are the contact
poles
below all four footpads. On A11, the front leg doesn't have one.
Was
this to eliminate the possibility of it interfering with the
astronauts path up and down the ladder?


The landing probe was removed from the front landing leg of Eagle
and later LM's to prevent it being a hazard to the astronauts.

Here is a picture from Apollo 12 showing one of its probes that
snapped
off and was sticking up in the vacuum (can't say air). If this had
been on the leg with the ladder, its possible the probe might caused
them to fall or puncture a spacesuit.

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...12-47-6907.jpg

Bah, see that proves the landing was fake. There's not crater! :-)

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:46:14 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:

Bah, see that proves the landing was fake. There's not crater! :-)

I think that's the best picture of a blast crater from the LM that
I've seen.


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