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Post by banjomd on Sept 2, 2011 7:56:33 GMT -4
No Apollo crew would ever have had to die from CO 2 toxicity. If you run out of LiOH canisters, simply open up a small cabin vent and let the ECS regulators maintain the cabin pressure. It's just like recovering from a PLSS failure during an EVA: open up the purge valve and turn on the OPS. Of course you'd quickly deplete your O 2 supply with this method, but I didn't say you wouldn't die -- only that you need not die from CO 2 toxicity. Agreed. I should've added "if nothing was done"!
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Post by banjomd on Sept 1, 2011 9:58:28 GMT -4
Aw, Bob B., not to worry; the CO2 buildup would probably kill you long before the O2 runs out!
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Post by banjomd on Aug 26, 2011 6:56:01 GMT -4
Also don't forget that an atmosphere, oscillations will be undampened so will continue for longer. . . .that (WITHOUT) an atmosphere. . .
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Perigee
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Post by banjomd on Aug 16, 2011 7:21:03 GMT -4
ka9q: this is distinct from a "skip reentry", correct?
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Post by banjomd on Aug 13, 2011 10:13:03 GMT -4
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Post by banjomd on Aug 11, 2011 7:29:12 GMT -4
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Post by banjomd on Aug 10, 2011 13:34:09 GMT -4
. . .Is there any proof I can give him to convince him the technology DID exist to get to the moon?. . . I liken it to getting a huge tree in your yard; the most successful way is to plant a sapling(seed) and watering it periodically.
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Post by banjomd on Aug 3, 2011 7:06:33 GMT -4
. . . much like another fantastic book I know about dealing with the TV cameras... But the TV camera book is only in English! ;D
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Post by banjomd on Jul 4, 2011 7:32:07 GMT -4
. . . BTW, a diagram of the escape facilities labelled "exploded view" doesn't sound good. ;D
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Post by banjomd on May 27, 2011 8:27:55 GMT -4
Sure, you can train almost anyone to fly but a seat-of-the-pants hot shot pilot is a special person. There's a great anecdote by Joe Allen about Deke Slayton in the book "Deke". Highly entertaining!
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Post by banjomd on May 27, 2011 7:44:17 GMT -4
This is something Cernan said in the ALSJ that I think is relevant. Most people who want to fly big-time or fly off aircraft carriers, if they're not a little arrogant and don't think they're the best pilot in the world, they should get in some other business ... To be a great pilot, you've got to think you can do it better than it had ever been done before. You know your limitations, but you have to be a little arrogant. I used to say, 'I dare the guidance system on the Apollo Saturn V to fail, because I can get us into orbit.' And if I didn't think I could get us into orbit, then I shouldn't have been there. And I knew I could land that lunar module closer than anybody else had done to their desired landing point. Whether I'm a few feet long or short, really didn't matter, but I had to go into that mission thinking that. It's the kind of arrogance - not egotism - that you have to have. www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17.prepdi.htmlConrad said he would precision-land near Surveyor III and did it! Shepard implied that a lunar landing without landing RADAR would be easier than a night carrier landing with swelling seas!
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Post by banjomd on May 26, 2011 11:38:54 GMT -4
"Who's the best pilot you ever saw?. . . You're looking at him, babe!" ;D
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Post by banjomd on May 26, 2011 9:51:01 GMT -4
I'm traumatised from reading the bit on the EVA. I think I need a dramm. Ha, an appropriate response! (paraphrasing: "Tom if we don't get the hatch closed and the cabin repressurized, I'm gonna die!")
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Post by banjomd on May 25, 2011 8:25:17 GMT -4
I always enjoy reading his recounting of the Gemini EVA. Good book choices, Glom!
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Post by banjomd on Apr 25, 2011 11:44:14 GMT -4
An Open Letter to Former Astronaut Frank Borman: ... Your Apollo flights have been. . . Borman's only Apollo flight was 8.
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