Re: Apollo 16 Flight Journal - First spinoff thread!

[OM]

On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 14:47:20 +0100, David Woods
> wrote:

>I would like to bring to the group's attention the first installment of the
>Apollo 16 Flight Journal now online at.
>
>http://history.nasa.gov/ap16fj

....Not 20 seconds into reading this one, I found this point of
question:

"In mid-November, the three main parachutes had to be replaced after
the failure of a connector link left Apollo 15 with only two of its
three parachutes operative at splashdown."

....IIRC, wasn't this determined to have been a burn-thru of one or
more of the tethers by RCS fuel, which compromised the chute
deployment?

OM

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[Derek Lyons]

OM <om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research _facility.org>
wrote:
>"In mid-November, the three main parachutes had to be replaced after
>the failure of a connector link left Apollo 15 with only two of its
>three parachutes operative at splashdown."
>
>...IIRC, wasn't this determined to have been a burn-thru of one or
>more of the tethers by RCS fuel, which compromised the chute
>deployment?


Check 295:11:36 of the 15 Flight Journal. While RCS burnthrough was
considered the most likely cause, failure of the links could not be
ruled out.

D.
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