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Post by vq on Aug 18, 2009 23:15:55 GMT -4
While reviewing the mission notes of Apollo 15, I was reminded that the landing occurred with one of the three parachutes failed. Was failure of two of the three parachutes survivable?
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Post by homobibiens on Aug 18, 2009 23:31:33 GMT -4
While reviewing the mission notes of Apollo 15, I was reminded that the landing occurred with one of the three parachutes failed. Was failure of two of the three parachutes survivable? I was just reading something somewhere that stated that two parachutes were needed. Not able to find it at the moment, though . . . |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Aug 19, 2009 2:45:35 GMT -4
The capsule required two for the landing to be survivable, which is why they had three. It was redundancy in case of the loss of one, such as the incident when Apollo 15's reaction system cut through the lines on one causing it to collapse.
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