Tell me about the LEM

The Lunar Lander has always fascinated me.

The first (and only) manned spacecraft to
land on another world.

Not being a part of that part of history,
I don't know much of it's true history.
Just what has been presented in the press.
So please pardon my silly references?


One episode of From the Earth to the Moon
was about the development of the LEM.
Some 6 or 7 years crammed into half an hour.
Which left half an hour to go out and fly it,
so no complaints about the show. :^)


In the movie Apollo 13, the LEM guys are
depicted as a bunch of incompetent jerks.

But the book has a whole different flavor.

So I'm curious.

Here is a machine that would be any obsessive
compulsive engineer's dreamiest nightmare.


And it never failed in service.


How did they do that?


Richard

Richard Lamb writes:

Not being a part of that part of history,
I don't know much of it's true history.
Just what has been presented in the press.
So please pardon my silly references?

Track down a copy of "Angle of Attack" by Mike Gray. It's out of print,
so you will probably have to visit your local library.


-- Gordon D. Pusch

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"Gordon D. Pusch" wrote:

Richard Lamb writes:

Not being a part of that part of history,
I don't know much of it's true history.
Just what has been presented in the press.
So please pardon my silly references?

Track down a copy of "Angle of Attack" by Mike Gray. It's out of print,
so you will probably have to visit your local library.

-- Gordon D. Pusch

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Thank you, sir.

In the movie Apollo 13, the LEM guys are
depicted as a bunch of incompetent jerks.

But the book has a whole different flavor.

So I'm curious.

Here is a machine that would be any obsessive
compulsive engineer's dreamiest nightmare.


And it never failed in service.


How did they do that?


Look for _Moon Lander_ too. Tom Kelly wrote it; it should still be in print.

The book is avilable from Amazon i ordered it yesterday
"Gordon D. Pusch" wrote in message
...
Richard Lamb writes:

Not being a part of that part of history,
I don't know much of it's true history.
Just what has been presented in the press.
So please pardon my silly references?

Track down a copy of "Angle of Attack" by Mike Gray. It's out of print,
so you will probably have to visit your local library.


-- Gordon D. Pusch

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Am Tue, 06 Apr 2004 17:50:49 GMT schrieb "Richard Lamb":

The Lunar Lander has always fascinated me.
[...]

Try to get following book; it is worth reading:

Thomas J. Kelly: Moon Lander - How we developed the Apollo lunar
module; Smithsonian history of aviation and spaceflight series;
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London; 2001; 274pp,
Hard cover; ISBN 1-56098-998-X; Retail price 27.95 US$; Amazon 19.95$.
For details see
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/156098998X/qid=1081371196/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/104-8027172-2934332?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Hope it helps.


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