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Originally posted by 000063
C'mon, you came up with the LM numbers so easily. Why is the CM evading you?
Weird how the rest of my post vanished.
If it would've, he would've simply not entered the LM until they were past the belt, assuming that, for some reason, they were to unpack it and attach before passing through the VAB. According to the OS, they didn't even unpack the LM until they were in orbit around the moon.
Originally posted by FoosM
So what is the problem? Would it have been an issue if the Commander was in the LEM during their transit through the VABs? I mean, you agree that a paper thin hull would be a death sentence for anyone in the LM, right? Or do you think it wouldn't be a problem?
Originally posted by FoosM
Before worrying about the CM, Im more interested in the LM.
I want to establish the minimum shielding that was necessary to traverse the VABs.
Originally posted by nataylor
If you're somehow thinking Apollo 13 went through the VAB's with the crew in the LM, you'd be wrong, there. too.
Just as it would have taken an hour to completely traverse them on the outgoing trip, it would take an hour on the return trip. So they would only start to enter the VABs roughly an hour before atmospheric reentry.
Reentry was at MET 142:41. The LM had already been jettisoned by MET 141:30, so there wasn't even the potential for anyone to be in it when they started to enter the VABs.
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Four hours before landing, the crew shed the service module; Mission Control had insisted on retaining it until then because everyone feared what the cold of space might do to the unsheltered CM heat shield. Photos of the Service Module showed one whole panel missing, and wreckage hanging out, it was a sorry mess as it drifted away. Three hours later the crew left the Lunar Module Aquarius and then splashed down gently in the Pacific Ocean near Samoa,
Average Radiation Exposure
For Apollo Flight Crews
Apollo
Mission Skin dosage
(rads)
7 0.16
8 0.16
9 0.20
10 0.48
11 0.18
12 0.58
13 0.24
14 1.14
15 0.30
16 0.51
17 0.55
Think about that. The absurdity of Apollo 13 knows no bounds.
Originally posted by 000063
Say, FoosM, what is the thickness of the hull of the command module?
Allow me? If I may....(been following a bit, for last...oh, how many pages.....>sigh
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by backinblack
Oh...Apollo 13. Where, "the Astronauts spent a lot of time in the LM".
Yeah...know. And, I can see the inevitable silliness, and ridiculous claims.
Did you know?? They STILL had a radio, to stay in contact with Houston??
AND...did you realize, that IF a major SUN flare was predicted, or measured....there would still have been some warning???
AND, if needed, in that worst-case scenario, they COULD have (yes, all three) gotten into the CM, to ride it out???
BUT...didn't happen (THAT horrible, "deadly" ...which is a farce....CME. DID IT???)
Next?
Oh and......no CME would have "instantly" killed them, either. DO try to keep up, please?
Exactly what tools did NASA have in place to predict CME's etc back in 1970??