Skipping off the atmosphere

On Dec 13, 8:42*am, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article id,
says...



In sci.space.shuttle message
raweb.com, Sun, 9 Dec 2012 14:14:52, JF Mezei jfmezei.spamnot@vaxinati
on.ca posted:
I am just curious as to why even during Apollow 13 (based on movie),
they apaprently mentioned the risk of Apollo bouncing off the atmosphere
(instead of saying it would fail to pass through sufficiently dense air
to slow it down out of orbit)

You need to realise that the vast majority of space movie producers
understand even less about what they are showing than you do. *And they
dumb that down to suit US moviegoers. *But they are smarter, because
they get richer than you.

True, true...

Jeff
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the bounce possiblity was even described by walter cronkite during
apollo, and the heat shield of apollo CMs were built to allow some
flying, they werent uniform, the center wasnt in the center