I had to get rid of the OP of the Moon Landing thread as he was given a chance, but his second post made me totally suspect he was a hoaxer. Not having any of those types on here. Saved the responses, removed quotes of his posts and merged them into here
At the time of the Apollo 204 fire was the inward opening hatch on both the Block 1 and Block 2 command modules?
There would not have been enough propellant left in the Ascent Stage to push both vehicles into Trans Earth Injection. The SPS engine was very necessary to initiate the Trans-Earth Injection burn. If the TEI SPS burn terminated early for some reason, there were very few scenarios where the RCS system could make up the necessary delta-v to get them on course for even a slow, low energy return to Earth.
Thanks in advance !
While the Block II CSM serials were impeccable and most vehicles were build and flown - the Block I numbering looks like a total mess. https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/apollo-csm.htmSo we have a 009, 0011, 0012, 0014 (dismantled for Apollo 1 inquiry) 0017 and 0020. Well then, how many Block I CSM was NAR supposed to build in 1963-64 ? and what happened to the "holes" in the sequence ? CSMs 0010, 0013, 0015, 0016, 0018, 0019 ? Anything build before 009 ? The boilerplates were BP- numbers, are they part of that list ? Thanks in advance !
thank you. I found this browing Google books. It is a montage from a NASA hearings document. I'm left wondering, what happened to CSM-013, CSM-015, CSM-016, CSM-018, and CSM-019.
Related to DM-2: What were the downrange abort constraints as far as weather went for Apollo?
It's well known that control of Apollo-Saturn missions transferred from the Launch Control Center at Kennedy to Mission Control Houston upon tower clear. But the LCC's role did not just end right then, did it? What flight roles did the LCC play after tower clear? Did they process launch telemetry and send it on to Houston or Goddard? Did they stay active in a support role through the last Saturn S-IVB operations?