Apollo trivia questions

Just a few things I was thinking about:

1) Was there any footage of staging from the vantage point of Stage 1
of the Saturn V? We've all seen it from the vantage point of Stage 2.
Similarly, is there footage the staging from S-IV, since we've all seen
it from Stage II (or was it S-IB?).

2) During capsule re-entry, did the CM enter the atmosphere going in
the direction of earth rotation or against it? I heard the Apollo
re-entries were quit a bit quicker and more stressful than shuttle
entries, and I though part of the reason may have been that
earth-orbiting ships would have to re-enter in the direction of
rotation, while the Apollos would not necessarily have that
restriction.

wrote:
Just a few things I was thinking about:

1) Was there any footage of staging from the vantage point of Stage 1
of the Saturn V? We've all seen it from the vantage point of Stage 2.
Similarly, is there footage the staging from S-IV, since we've all seen
it from Stage II (or was it S-IB?).

See http://www.thebest.net/jduncan/cookcam/cookcam.htm
There was no footage of the staging from the S-IVB because it entered
orbit and the camera could not be recovered

In article .com,
wrote:
1) Was there any footage of staging from the vantage point of Stage 1
of the Saturn V? We've all seen it from the vantage point of Stage 2.

Hmm, not sure. I know it was done for the Saturn I and IB, but I've never
seen a complete list of the Saturn V camera pods.

2) During capsule re-entry, did the CM enter the atmosphere going in
the direction of earth rotation or against it?

Generally more or less with the rotation, but this wasn't a big issue.
The main reason the Apollo reentries were unusually hard and hot was that
they were coming in from deep space, moving about 40% faster than an
orbital spacecraft and hence hitting the atmosphere harder. Relative to
that, the difference between reentering with and against the rotation,
while not entirely insignificant, wasn't large.

I heard the Apollo re-entries were quit a bit quicker and more stressful
than shuttle entries...

There were also technological reasons for that. A capsule, like the
Apollo CM, can't generate as much lift as a winged vehicle like the
shuttle orbiter. (It can generate *some*, by flying tilted, and Apollo
did that.) So it descends more quickly into thicker air, and decelerates
more quickly and gets hotter in the process. On the other hand, its
ablative heatshield, which burns and boils off during reentry, can briefly
handle much harsher conditions than the shuttle's tiles can, so a short
sharp reentry works well for it.
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Paolo Ulivi wrote:
wrote:
Just a few things I was thinking about:

1) Was there any footage of staging from the vantage point of Stage
1
of the Saturn V? We've all seen it from the vantage point of Stage
2.
Similarly, is there footage the staging from S-IV, since we've all
seen
it from Stage II (or was it S-IB?).

See http://www.thebest.net/jduncan/cookcam/cookcam.htm
There was no footage of the staging from the S-IVB because it entered

orbit and the camera could not be recovered

Dead link.

wrote:
Paolo Ulivi wrote:
wrote:
Just a few things I was thinking about:


1) Was there any footage of staging from the vantage
point of Stage 1 of the Saturn V? We've all seen it
from the vantage point of Stage 2. Similarly, is there
footage the staging from S-IV, since we've all seen it
from Stage II (or was it S-IB?).

See http://www.thebest.net/jduncan/cookcam/cookcam.htm
There was no footage of the staging from the S-IVB
because it entered

orbit and the camera could not be recovered

Dead link.

Archive.org is your friend

This links to all the instances of that page:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://http://www.thebest.net/jduncan/cookcam/cookcam.htm

This links to the last archive of the page:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041022144134/http://www.thebest.net/jduncan/cookcam/cookcam.htm

"Paolo Ulivi" wrote in message
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wrote:
Just a few things I was thinking about:

1) Was there any footage of staging from the vantage point of Stage 1
of the Saturn V? We've all seen it from the vantage point of Stage 2.
Similarly, is there footage the staging from S-IV, since we've all seen
it from Stage II (or was it S-IB?).

See http://www.thebest.net/jduncan/cookcam/cookcam.htm
There was no footage of the staging from the S-IVB because it entered
orbit and the camera could not be recovered

That doesn't really answer his question though since the 1st stage obviously
did NOT enter orbit.

(and in any case, the film pods were to my knowledge separated from the
boosters and reentered separately.)

On Mon, 16 May 2005 18:35:41 GMT, (Henry Spencer)
wrote:

In article .com,
wrote:
1) Was there any footage of staging from the vantage point of Stage 1
of the Saturn V? We've all seen it from the vantage point of Stage 2.

Hmm, not sure. I know it was done for the Saturn I and IB, but I've never
seen a complete list of the Saturn V camera pods.

Wasn't that the job of the camera that was lost on Apollo (4? 6?)

Brian