Thursday, May 27, 2010
Apollo 13 inconsistencies
Accident happened when the ship was shaken in a standard procedure of sensor checking. However, the same procedure previously applied on Apollo 11 and 12, and nothing has happened? Hilarious.
Seems that Apollo 13 was actually the first landing space ship moved out of Earth orbit to the Moon trajectory without early return possibility at all. That's is why Russians never made even a circle around Moon.
Nor anyone else, even 40 years later. Here is actually why.
The actual re-entry plane of Apollo was about 5 degrees, I think, as opposed to 0.5 degrees of the Shuttle. The faster, steeper approach of Apollo brought the temperatures (under the protective insulation of compressed air molecules) to about 2,750 C (5,000 F) degrees as opposed to the 1,650 C (3,000 F) degrees the Shuttle is designed handle. This is the primary reason thermal tiles prove so impractical for the Orion, and why it is so challenging to design a reusable outer surface for the Shuttle follow-on. The difference between 1,650 C (3,000 F) and 2,750 C (5,000 F) degrees is not a measure of subtraction but rather of exponential complications and challenges.
About the crew: The Apollo 13 crew were weakened like this for days. They were extremely sick and every activity took extreme mental will power to complete. I can only imagine what they went through after my brief exposure. Getting that reentry window right and being so close to death health-wise was a super human feat that amazes me every time I watch the Apollo 13 movie.
BAD HARDWARE: What kind of cold propulsion used Apollo 16 during Moon lift off ? Though I saw here ascending lunar module jettison from the Moon like launching pad, however without lift off engine ignition? Lunar orbiter was thus shot by ascending module only by jettison blast? Any physical explanation ? No, obviously not. The faked moon landings (and ascendings) actually have taken place at Langley on the moon crane. Apollo 13 module returned with fictional descend stage rocket even complete mother ship back to Earth using rule of thumb navigation? Hahahahha. This science fiction story should only convince us that Lunar module however had functional descending stage, thus Apollo 11 landing might happened. Oh yeah.
CONCLUSION: Energy in each pound of anything in orbit is enough to melt and vaporize a pound of iron four times over ! Launch out of orbit, and add a lot to that energy ! Remember that iron boiling point is 2750 C . Apollo capsules had shields made of phenolic epoxy resin, a form of plastic. Apollo heat shields were nearly 7 centimeters (2.7 inches) thick and weighed 1,360 kilograms (3,000 pounds).
Look at below Mars Phoenix lander. One descending retrorocket? Obviusly not.