After Apollo 13...

was the LEM saved for just in case something went wrong? Apollo 12
sent it to crash into the moon to check the seismic experiment, not
sure what 11 did with Eagle. Seeing how it saved Apollo 13, might not
hurt to keep it till re-entry.

PowerPost2000 wrote in news:baol429uu3mdndf58886510ipp1l8jlmrr@
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was the LEM saved for just in case something went wrong? Apollo 12
sent it to crash into the moon to check the seismic experiment, not
sure what 11 did with Eagle.

All the post-13 LMs were also crashed on the moon.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apolloloc.html

Seeing how it saved Apollo 13, might not
hurt to keep it till re-entry.

No, it would not have helped. 13 was a survivable failure *only* because it
happened early enough in the flight that the LM still had both stages.
That would not have been the case after the lunar landings.


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On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 21:24:06 -0500, "Jorge R. Frank"
wrote:

PowerPost2000 wrote in news:baol429uu3mdndf58886510ipp1l8jlmrr@
4ax.com:

was the LEM saved for just in case something went wrong? Apollo 12
sent it to crash into the moon to check the seismic experiment, not
sure what 11 did with Eagle.

All the post-13 LMs were also crashed on the moon.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apolloloc.html

Seeing how it saved Apollo 13, might not
hurt to keep it till re-entry.

No, it would not have helped. 13 was a survivable failure *only* because it
happened early enough in the flight that the LM still had both stages.
That would not have been the case after the lunar landings.

Didn't think of that. Ascent stage alone wouldn't have enough engine,
would it?

PowerPost2000 wrote in
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On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 21:24:06 -0500, "Jorge R. Frank"
wrote:

PowerPost2000 wrote in
news:baol429uu3mdndf58886510ipp1l8jlmrr@ 4ax.com:

was the LEM saved for just in case something went wrong? Apollo 12
sent it to crash into the moon to check the seismic experiment, not
sure what 11 did with Eagle.

All the post-13 LMs were also crashed on the moon.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apolloloc.html

Seeing how it saved Apollo 13, might not
hurt to keep it till re-entry.

No, it would not have helped. 13 was a survivable failure *only*
because it happened early enough in the flight that the LM still had
both stages. That would not have been the case after the lunar
landings.

Didn't think of that. Ascent stage alone wouldn't have enough engine,
would it?

That's part of the problem. The main problem, though is that almost all of
the life support was in the descent stage.


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On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 22:15:40 -0500, "Jorge R. Frank"
wrote:

PowerPost2000 wrote in
:

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 21:24:06 -0500, "Jorge R. Frank"
wrote:

PowerPost2000 wrote in
news:baol429uu3mdndf58886510ipp1l8jlmrr@ 4ax.com:

was the LEM saved for just in case something went wrong? Apollo 12
sent it to crash into the moon to check the seismic experiment, not
sure what 11 did with Eagle.

All the post-13 LMs were also crashed on the moon.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apolloloc.html

Seeing how it saved Apollo 13, might not
hurt to keep it till re-entry.

No, it would not have helped. 13 was a survivable failure *only*
because it happened early enough in the flight that the LM still had
both stages. That would not have been the case after the lunar
landings.

Didn't think of that. Ascent stage alone wouldn't have enough engine,
would it?

That's part of the problem. The main problem, though is that almost all of
the life support was in the descent stage.

Hmmm, didn't think of that, either.
Thanks for the link, that was good reading.

Eagle ws jettisoned into lunar orbit after the crew transfrerred.

There was no sense in keeping it for "insurance" since the ascent stage
engine did not have the propellant margins after LOI and add to that
the dead weight penalty of the ascent stage....it would have made no
sense to keep it docked for TEI.

Matthew Ota

later retrieval would be in the far distant future, too bad eagle is
splattered on the moons surface somewhere....