"Nighthawkwill7, Hoon Depot Manager" (Nighthawkwill7)
05/18/2014 at 15:50 • Filed to: Spacelopnik
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"Nighthawkwill7, Hoon Depot Manager" (Nighthawkwill7)
05/18/2014 at 15:50 • Filed to: Spacelopnik | 10
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The Transporter
> Nighthawkwill7, Hoon Depot Manager
05/18/2014 at 17:48 |
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Ah Apollo 10, spaceflight's biggest cock tease. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't NASA purposely not put enough fuel in the LEM to keep Stafford and Cernan from "accidentally" beating Armstrong and Aldrin?
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Nighthawkwill7, Hoon Depot Manager
> The Transporter
05/18/2014 at 17:53 |
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I think NASA always intended it to be a trial for getting to moon later with Apollo 11.
996C2
> The Transporter
05/18/2014 at 21:25 |
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I'm reading John Youngs book right now and in the book he states that the LEM on this flight was not a landing worthy unit in that it was overweight and the need to gain experience with it led to them to flying an overweight model that could validate decent and assent engines along with docking techniques. The flight (landing) validated models were a couple of weeks behind schedule and NASA needed to test the assent engine in order to validate that this engine would fire successfully. Even though the engineers could see no reason why the hypergolic fuel wouldn't ignite when they came into contact they had the fear of what they didn't know could kill the crew. They whet as low as 40000 feet - a height where the command module could lower its orbit with a special burn and still retrieve the crew if anything went wrong. They also learned a lot about their com systems and radar altitude systems. Many NASA people including the crew of Apollo 11 say that the success of the Apollo 11 mission was the direct result of issues found on 10's flight and solutions to these problems corrected in order for Armstrong and Aldwin's mission to be successful. The only thing 10 missed that they didn't realize was a large issue at the time was the radar altimeter dish pointing off the moon surface and then reading infinity numbers as it was briefly pointed out to deep space. As Apollo 10 wasn't landing the on-board computers were not slaved to the altimeter. In Apollo 11 this altitude data came in from the same oversight and mistaken radar mode and the computer was overwhelmed with data and began to give up those famous error codes that mission control barely was able to figure out wasn't an abort issue.