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New Apollo landing site photos
On 9/6/2011 7:39 PM, Jorge R. Frank wrote:
There was a thermal and micrometiorite sheild - http://jeffreyellis.org/tlmp/files/facts/lm_descent.gif. I think it was also intended to prevent the Ascent Stage thrust from getting into all the tanks etc on the Descent Stage - no BOOM. Propellant was vented, but then there was the pressurising gas and any residual oxygen in storage. I knew about the shield but thought it only covered the tanks, not the descent engine compartment in the center. The cutaway drawing you linked doesn't make that clear either. There aren't many pictures of the descent stage from above, but this one shows an open hole http://www.apollomissionphotos.com/apollo12/108ksc69p220.jpg There's a drawing of the hole in the descent module he http://www.space1.com/Spacecraft_Dat...t_cutaway.html Pat |
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