British NASA - 22/12/2005 11:47 AMHow fast did Apollo 10 re-entry at?
Stardust9906 - 23/12/2005 3:44 AMAccording to the Apollo 10 press kit it was 36310 feet per second which is 24747 miles per hour.
SimonShuttle - 23/12/2005 1:06 PMThis probes got your name alllll over it
Justin Space - 23/12/2005 4:41 PMThat is an amazing speed to re-enter at. What sort of G did Apollo 10's crew have to suffer?
Stardust9906 - 23/12/2005 11:39 PMQuoteSimonShuttle - 23/12/2005 1:06 PMThis probes got your name alllll over it Actually you probably didn't realise how right you were when you posted that. Before the launch of Stardust NASA decided to foster public interest in the mission by asking people to send in their names to be etched on to a couple of microchips and attached to the spacecraft. Mine was one of over a million names sent in which were attached to the spacecraft before launch.
Chris Bergin - 24/12/2005 1:01 AMQuoteStardust9906 - 23/12/2005 11:39 PMQuoteSimonShuttle - 23/12/2005 1:06 PMThis probes got your name alllll over it Actually you probably didn't realise how right you were when you posted that. Before the launch of Stardust NASA decided to foster public interest in the mission by asking people to send in their names to be etched on to a couple of microchips and attached to the spacecraft. Mine was one of over a million names sent in which were attached to the spacecraft before launch.That's such a clever idea they should do more often!
Dana - 23/12/2005 6:05 PMAfter 8 days in space that probably felt like a ton of bricks.No human beings have ever travelled faster than Tom Stafford, John Young, and Gene Cernan. And given that John Young also holds the lunar land speed record at around 12 MPH-Stafford never landed on the moon and Cernan never went that fast with his own LRV-I guess John Watts Young can legitimately claim to be the only human being who is the fastest man alive on two different worlds!
David AF - 24/12/2005 1:51 AMNearly 7G after days of zero G. Damn, that's what I call the right stuff.
Davros - 23/12/2005 7:38 PMDoes not shock me in the slightest about John Young. Has he ever written an auto biography?
DaveS - 24/12/2005 12:13 AMQuoteChris Bergin - 24/12/2005 1:01 AMQuoteStardust9906 - 23/12/2005 11:39 PMQuoteSimonShuttle - 23/12/2005 1:06 PMThis probes got your name alllll over it Actually you probably didn't realise how right you were when you posted that. Before the launch of Stardust NASA decided to foster public interest in the mission by asking people to send in their names to be etched on to a couple of microchips and attached to the spacecraft. Mine was one of over a million names sent in which were attached to the spacecraft before launch.That's such a clever idea they should do more often!Well, they did it for the MERs, Deep Impact and New Horizons. So they have done it a few time recently.
Stardust9906 - 24/12/2005 2:14 PMThey are now asking for names to go on the Dawn spacecraft for it's upcoming mission to the asteroid belt. If anyone here is interested on getting their name on a spacecraft go to http://www.dawn-mission.org/getInvolved/index.asp
t walker - 14/1/2006 8:03 AMEntered my name for Dawn!Where will Stardust land?
DaveS - 24/12/2005 4:10 AMWell, Expedition 6 beat that with their unexpected ballistical entry when they came home. Six months of zero G and experienced 6(?, pretty sure it was 6)G's
rsp1202 - 24/12/2005 10:56 PMRe: Expedition 6 and a 6g re-entry:Looks like it was closer to 9.http://www.nasaexplores.com/show2_articlea.php?id=03-067
DaveS - 24/12/2005 4:10 AMdue to the wrong entry program being loaded into the computer
braddock - 15/1/2006 9:22 PMDid it end up snowing at the landing site?
Avron - 15/1/2006 3:27 PMCongrats, JPL/NASA, very nice work... was a little worried back there with the drouge, but it work out just prefectly.Amazing, seven years and worked like a charm... these Capsule designs are very flexible.. that was one hot reentry..