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On July 20.1969.....
janet santana wrote: DrPostman wrote in message . .. On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:35:18 -0400, "Jonathan" wrote: [snip great old memories] We copy you down, eagle. Houston, tranquility base here. The eagle has landed. I was 10 years old, it was after Midnight, my dad and me watched with rapt attention. Great memories all the way around. Thanks for the reminder. I was 17. I watched it live in Central Park. I was 9, moving across Canada with my family. At the time not all hotels had television. It was always absolutely necessary to make sure that we would have a television set available for the next major event of the mission. So when we were in low population density areas we wouldn't take any chances and stop at a hotel with televisions even if the next major event was still hours away. That would allow us to travel only small hops on most days. Great memories. Alain Fournier |
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On July 20.1969.....
"DrPostman" wrote in message ... On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:35:18 -0400, "Jonathan" wrote: SNIP .... I was 10 years old, it was after Midnight, my dad and me watched with rapt attention. Great memories all the way around. Thanks for the reminder. -- Dr.Postman USPS, MBMC, BsD; "Disgruntled, But Unarmed" Member,Board of Directors of afa-b, SKEP-TI-CULT® member #15-51506-253. You can email me at: TuriFake(at)hotmail.com I was in my late 20s. We were having dinner in Big Piney, Wyoming, USA after having roamed all day in God,s Country with Ma T paying the bills. God I miss the fishing we did, after a days work, just before going in to eat. ;-) Bob |
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On July 20.1969.....
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 23:08:40 GMT, vonroach
wrote in alt.fan.art-bell in message : On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:35:30 GMT, "Alan Erskine" wrote: Alan Erskine We can get people to the Moon in five years, not the fifteen GWB proposes. But can we afford their tickets? Give NASA a real challenge Do it with maximum safety, not just speed. Actually, that depends on who we're sending first. (Not sure why this was cross-posted to poetry groups, so I snecked 'em) -- V.G. Change pobox dot alaska to gci. "I wanted a car I could run down pedestrians with. But one with a comfy ride, like a sofa on wheels." - Father Haskell "No doubt about it, 9-11 was orchestrated by Lockheed." - *lexa 'connects the dots' ) (This sig file contains not less than 80% recycled SPAM) Sarcasm is my sword, Apathy is my shield. |
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On July 20.1969.....
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:58:31 GMT, Rand Simberg
wrote: Though now you've piqued my interest. Goat? Sheep? What was it? Had to be a cat. :-) |
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On July 20.1969.....
Now officially, if you reached that point and
weren't actually on the ground yet, you were supposed to abort -- otherwise you lost your escape route -- but in practice, most of the Apollo CDRs would probably have said "don't bother me, I'm busy landing" and carried on to touchdown. We're talking about a surface that no one was familiar with. Not totally unfamiliar, in that a few surveyor landing moon probes (and some of the Russian probes) demonstrated that the lunar surface could in fact support spacecraft. There was some concern that that Moon might be covered by a thick layer of fluff. But Neil had to hunt around some to find a clear spot without big rocks to land on. How bad a landing could the LM take and still have a flyable ascent stage? Say the legs got busted up so forget about the moon walks. |
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On July 20.1969.....
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 00:27:45 GMT, Robert Casey
wrote: Now officially, if you reached that point and weren't actually on the ground yet, you were supposed to abort -- otherwise you lost your escape route -- but in practice, most of the Apollo CDRs would probably have said "don't bother me, I'm busy landing" and carried on to touchdown. We're talking about a surface that no one was familiar with. Not totally unfamiliar, in that a few surveyor landing moon probes (and some of the Russian probes) demonstrated that the lunar surface could in fact support spacecraft. There was some concern that that Moon might be covered by a thick layer of fluff. Or thick with cheese But Neil had to hunt around some to find a clear spot without big rocks to land on. That's what I was addressing. The first spot turned out to be too rough. How bad a landing could the LM take and still have a flyable ascent stage? Say the legs got busted up so forget about the moon walks. I bet they could have made adjustments if the legs snapped. With the low gravity it wouldn't have been that difficult to set up the LM so that it could return. -- Dr.Postman USPS, MBMC, BsD; "Disgruntled, But Unarmed" Member,Board of Directors of afa-b, SKEP-TI-CULT® member #15-51506-253. You can email me at: TuriFake(at)hotmail.com "Did the Venus transit occur during sunset, idiot?" - Grant,on the GLP web board, explains to us how sunrise happens in NY and Asia at the same time. |
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On July 20.1969.....
In sci.space.policy Robert Casey wrote:
Now officially, if you reached that point and weren't actually on the ground yet, you were supposed to abort -- otherwise you lost your escape route -- but in practice, most of the Apollo CDRs would probably have said "don't bother me, I'm busy landing" and carried on to touchdown. How bad a landing could the LM take and still have a flyable ascent stage? Say the legs got busted up so forget about the moon walks. I should probably look this up... Is the LM light enough that it could be manhandled to a flat spot, if (for example) a leg broke, it it landed intact on a large rock. How vertical did the ascent stage need to be? |
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On July 20.1969.....
I should probably look this up... Is the LM light enough that it could be manhandled to a flat spot, if (for example) a leg broke, it it landed intact on a large rock. I don't think it was that light, even under lunar gravity. Also the astronauts might not be in great shape if they did take a hard landing... How vertical did the ascent stage need to be? IIRC something like 10 degrees off vertical. Which doesn't seem like much considering that the landing field isn't a paved airport. Must have been more than that. |
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On July 20.1969.....
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Robert Casey wrote: How bad a landing could the LM take and still have a flyable ascent stage? Say the legs got busted up so forget about the moon walks. If you were willing to make an emergency departure, leaving at once, I believe there is basically nothing in the descent stage that has to be working after touchdown. (To a considerable extent this is by design: the ascent stage is the backup for various kinds of descent-stage failures.) About the only real requirement is that the LM not be tilted too badly. -- "Think outside the box -- the box isn't our friend." | Henry Spencer -- George Herbert | |
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