Hello, :tiphat:
Someone asked me, so I wanted to be sure. Was it possible for the Apollo crew to have 2 astronauts performing an EVA in the same time while in Earth Orbit ? Especially before Skylab experience, in the context of lunar expeditions flight-tests in Earth Orbit (like Apollo 7 or 9).
That was'nt performed by NASA, and in my opinion it is a really dangerous and unrealistic idea. The advantage of having only one astronaut in EVA is that he can be rescued by another crewmember, should he encounter a serious problem. But I don't imagine the last CSM member letting all the systems manage themselves, and trying to help out the two others if they are both EVAing at the same time and experience the same difficulites.
In that case, I think that his best chance would be to detach the life lines, repressurize and try to reenter alone. This is of course an horrible situation, that nobody wanted to happen.
Just curious to have your opinion on the level of safety of such a "dual EVA".
Someone asked me, so I wanted to be sure. Was it possible for the Apollo crew to have 2 astronauts performing an EVA in the same time while in Earth Orbit ? Especially before Skylab experience, in the context of lunar expeditions flight-tests in Earth Orbit (like Apollo 7 or 9).
That was'nt performed by NASA, and in my opinion it is a really dangerous and unrealistic idea. The advantage of having only one astronaut in EVA is that he can be rescued by another crewmember, should he encounter a serious problem. But I don't imagine the last CSM member letting all the systems manage themselves, and trying to help out the two others if they are both EVAing at the same time and experience the same difficulites.
In that case, I think that his best chance would be to detach the life lines, repressurize and try to reenter alone. This is of course an horrible situation, that nobody wanted to happen.
Just curious to have your opinion on the level of safety of such a "dual EVA".