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OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote: ...Had a full quarantine been desired, once the CM was in the water, the first thing the frogmen do is douse the hell out of the apex docking port(*) with betadine, then latch on the chopper tethers and, with crew still safe inside and sealed up, hoist the CM to the carrier deck... If (dim) memory serves, that *was* originally the plan... but then they found out, on one of the pre-landing test flights, that under just the wrong sea conditions, it was possible for the carrier's crane to *drop* the capsule back into the water. At which point, crew safety trumped quarantine thoroughness. (There was a lot of lip service to the quarantine stuff, because many people found it impossible to take seriously, given the surface conditions of the Moon. It would have been easier to insist on doing it right if there had actually seemed to be a significant chance of trouble.) -- "Think outside the box -- the box isn't our friend." | Henry Spencer -- George Herbert | |
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