Graham2001
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The video linked to at the bottom of this post alerted me to something buried in the Apollo Handbooks, the final emergency procedure in the event of a failure of the ascent stage engine/pyrotechnics to fire.
Remove, from it's location a special jumper cable (Termed an ED Adapter Cable), pliers and scissors from their stowage places. Suit up, and using the backup oxygen intended for the Trans-Earth EVA attempt (On Apollo 15-17) to connect a descent stage battery to the ascent stage electronics. Options to reach the specific batteries needed included clambering around the LM support struts or retrieving the LRV (on Apollo 15-17) and using it as a 'step up'.
If this didn't work, all that was left was the 'Nixon speech' prepared for a possible failure of Apollo 11...
Harrison Schmit describes training for this procedure
30 Days & Counting
https://www.americasuncommonsense.c...he-12th-man/5-chapter-4-30-days-and-counting/
These two blog posts inspired by Harrison Schmit's description go into more detail of just what was being attempted.
The explosive guillotine in the Lunar Module
http://finleyquality.net/the-explosive-guillotine-in-the-lunar-module/
Don't get me started
http://finleyquality.net/dont-get-me-started/
Note: The author of these articles gets one thing wrong, there was no intention of using the LRV batteries in a last ditch attempt to get the LM off the lunar surface.
And for those who don't like to read, there is a short video discussing this scenario.
Remove, from it's location a special jumper cable (Termed an ED Adapter Cable), pliers and scissors from their stowage places. Suit up, and using the backup oxygen intended for the Trans-Earth EVA attempt (On Apollo 15-17) to connect a descent stage battery to the ascent stage electronics. Options to reach the specific batteries needed included clambering around the LM support struts or retrieving the LRV (on Apollo 15-17) and using it as a 'step up'.
If this didn't work, all that was left was the 'Nixon speech' prepared for a possible failure of Apollo 11...
Harrison Schmit describes training for this procedure
30 Days & Counting
https://www.americasuncommonsense.c...he-12th-man/5-chapter-4-30-days-and-counting/
These two blog posts inspired by Harrison Schmit's description go into more detail of just what was being attempted.
The explosive guillotine in the Lunar Module
http://finleyquality.net/the-explosive-guillotine-in-the-lunar-module/
Don't get me started
http://finleyquality.net/dont-get-me-started/
Note: The author of these articles gets one thing wrong, there was no intention of using the LRV batteries in a last ditch attempt to get the LM off the lunar surface.
And for those who don't like to read, there is a short video discussing this scenario.
