Why on earth would a Mercury capsule have range safety charges? It's hardly bigger than a man. Even if the retro rockets stick with fuel, it would all likely tear to pieces.
Why on earth would a Mercury capsule have range safety charges? It's hardly bigger than a man. Even if the retro rockets stick with fuel, it would all likely tear to pieces.
CO2 poisoning would suck.
Hold your breath - that pain isn't from lack of oxygen, it's from too much CO2.
O2 deprivation would be the way to go.
you can easily reach 3-5% CO2 in depressions at night and up to ten times higher than local average in "air-tight" tents.
Not really talking about AP13 specifically, but surely there were some "plans", if not actual procedures, for all Apollo missions just in case they'd never be able to get back. Thinking specifically about AP8....what if they trajectory was off? They miss the moon. Were they just expected to maintain radio contact until they ran out of air/power?
And someone mentioned a contingency for AP11, but didn't say what it was. Anyone know?
Weird subject, I know. But this thread got me thinking and now I'm curious. I can't imagine NASA (especially at that time) not having a plan for EVERYTHING.
Well, since everything was filmed in Area 51 anyway, there were no plans required for something which wasn't in the scripts :lol:
And someone mentioned a contingency for AP11, but didn't say what it was. Anyone know?
And someone mentioned a contingency for AP11, but didn't say what it was. Anyone know?
I wonder if there was indeed a moon disaster; the world would be a better place today? Or would the worldwide unity have dissolved as quick as anything else?
But the technology wasn't something special. Not even back then. Only the economic and structural efforts, just to get three people to the Moon, was something special.