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Hilarious.

Perhaps you would also like to read the rest of that page and the top half of page 133 of the same book. I can read along with you to make sure no omit nothing as I have the book right here.

Page 133 starts with the words "On Apollo 13, the 'free return' options were limited." Pray continue....
 
I just looked up the Command/Service module on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Command/Service_Module

It says the maximum delta V was 2,800 m/s. That's 6,263 miles per hour.

I checked here - http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/SPS - in case I misunderstood the terminology, but it confirms that the service module's engine, the SPS, "provides the impulse for all velocity changes (ΔVs) throughout a mission".

So that implies to me that the SPS was capable of changing the CSM's velocity by a total of 6,236 miles per hour. In other words, it hadn't nearly enough fuel to slow the craft to a stop from 25,000 mph in one direction let alone accelerate it to 25,000 mph in another direction.

Patrick, are you quite sure you didn't miss off a vital part from your quotation? Something along the lines of "...but it couldn't do that, because there wasn't enough fuel"? Any help you can provide in explaining this discrepancy would be gratefully received.
 
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ApolloG, there is nothing to say that some or all of the moon rocks NASA has really are moon rocks AND none of them were brought here by Neil Armstrong. Just because we have the rocks, that does not mean Armstrong brought any of them. As a matter of fact, I do believe that to be the case, that he did not bring any of them. Whether or not they are really and truly moon rocks, I have yet to decide.
 
A quick back-of-the-envelope indicates the total Delta-V of the S-IVb is under 12,000 MPH. That's a fair bit shy of your 25,000 MPH bootlegger reverse.
 
Kid, the issue was whether the contingency existed or not, nothing else. As stated, I already showed it did based on a quote from a NASA document many posts ago. Your post hardy makes sense. What was being questioned if you would care to read my first post about aborts, was whether or not such a direct abort option existed. I have provided 2 references showing it indeed was considered an option.
 
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Little Grey, any ideas yourself? I have never been exposed to this issue previously. Would it not be the case, as here on Earth, the "Martian Air" is of a substance(s) which absorbs light of some colors. The balance of the light, the unabsorbed light, that is the Martian Sky's color. Perhaps I am being ever so simple minded here. Is it not a matter of knowing what the sky/atmosphere is made of?

Honestly? No idea. But I assume it is matter that should be fairly basic for someone informed on these space missions.

The only factoid I am aware of is
a. The atmosphere is approximately 1% the density of earth's and I believe most of it is CO2 - but I could be wrong on both points.
 
If I thought this wouldn't turn into another giant waffle I'd go and work out the max theoretical D-V of the "short stack" (dangit....why am I suddenly getting hungry again?) from given fuel and mass.
 
Oh , I think I get it. Perhaps you are suggesting I was suggesting a direct abort was part of the Apollo 13 scenario. Could that be correct kid? Anyway, perhaps you haven't been following along. I quoted Lovell to emphasize direct aborts were an option ON ALL APOLLO FLIGHTS. We are not concerned with context here, whether it was used or not. I believe we all would agree a direct abort has never been employed on any mission. It was discussed to the best of my knowledge in the cases of problems with Apollo 8 and Apollo 13.
 
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I copied down what was in Lovell's book nomuse. Obviously I would be the last person that would volunteer to support these claims as facts. Not to say I necessarily doubt such could occur with a 1970 vintage CSM. The point of the post was in response to a challenge. Look back to where I first brought up the idea of abort contingencies. Some forum members challenged the reality of a translunar coast abort contingency. I simply produced references showing per NASA's Apollo 8 prelaunch report and Jim Lovell's book, such a contingency was a reality. I have made no other claims about it, only I knew such contingencies existed and that in the case of Apollo 8 and Apollo 13, there was discussion about employing them.
 
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Oh , I think I get it. Perhaps you are suggesting I was suggesting a direct abort was part of the Apollo 13 scenario. Could that be correct kid? Anyway, perhaps you haven't been following along. I quoted Lovell to emphasize direct aborts were an option ON ALL APOLLO FLIGHTS. We are not concerned with context here, whether it was used or not. I believe we all would agree a direct abort has never been employed on any mission. It was discussed to the best of my knowledge in the cases of problems with Apollo 8 and Apollo 13.

How about being concerned with the way you constantly refer to off-the-cuff comments made in biographies, publicity, third-party reporting, and other general-audience-friendly material and INSIST that these represent a more accurate description of NUMERIC data than any of the various forms and format in which TECHNICAL descriptions are given?

I don't care if fifty astronauts said they loved the CSM 'cause they could pull a bootlegger reverse at 25,000 MPH in the thing. What matters is the technical documentation which clearly shows the performance -- and THAT documentation is internally and externally consistent.

Do you really not understand the difference?
 
I copied down what was in Lovell's book nomuse. Obviously I would be the last person that would volunteer to support these claims as facts. Not to say I necessarily doubt such could occur with a 1970 vintage CSM. The point of the post was in response to a challenge. Look back to where I first brought up the idea of abort contingencies. Some forum members challenged the reality of a translunar coast abort contingency. I simply produced references showing per NASA's Apollo 8 prelaunch report and Jim Lovell's book, such a contingency was a reality. I have made no other claims about it, only I knew such contingencies existed and that in the case of Apollo 8 and Apollo 13, there was discussion about employing them.

Without the contexting paragraphs, as requested.
 
Jack, I copied Lovell's words verbatim. To be honest, I hardly care squat about it. I posted references cuz' the basic claim was challenged, the claim that a direct abort was an option.
 
I think you are misunderstanding me nomuse. I do not care what the space ship could do. If it could go 10 miles an hour, a million, a billion , turn around, not turn around. I mentioned abort as an option above. Direct abort was challenged by others. I copied the text of references. If direct abort is not an option fine. show me the reference. If it is an option , but the parameters are different, fine, show them to me. What is all the fuss? i am confused nomuse. What are you saying? I did not write the NASA prelaunch report. I did not write Lovell's book. Go argue with them. I could not care less.
 
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Jack, I copied Lovell's words verbatim. To be honest, I hardly care squat about it. I posted references cuz' the basic claim was challenged, the claim that a direct abort was an option.

So was it you or Jim Lovell who deliberately left out the fact that the CSM was absolutely incapable of performing the manoeuvre you described?
 
Hey DC,

Thanks for the videos. Those are funny, have seen them before. You have to be patient. I have only begun to present my case.

Here is a tiny example. Consider this; when I first brought up the abort notion, very recently, a few members simply didn't believe an abort was a consideration from the position of an alleged translunar coast. Well of course it is. It is a very main stream notion, nothing "way out" there about it or anything like that.

So in order to even begin to present my case about one of the Apollo inconsistencies, first I have to provide references to support my assertion with regard to something that really is not controversial at all, an abort contingency from a translunar coast vantage.

There are many official story supporters who of course know such contingencies are part of the mainstream story/view and they could pop in right now and say, "the Patrick guy is correct, there is such a thing as an abort contingency for a full fledged high speed turn around". But as it turns out, a discussion like this seldom goes that way. Rather, I actually have to show some official story advocates the truth with respect to features of the official story. In this case, the truth that a translunar coast vantage abort contingency did exist and was even "considered" in some of the Apollo scripts; Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 to my knowledge. There may be others.

So you can't really suggest I've failed in any fair sense yet, because the guys and gals arguing from the other side are first of all waiting for me to provide them with their own facts, the facts of the official story.

None of this I mind by the way. My point is only that it takes a great deal of time. It is a very slow process. I believe ApolloG commented above that my little abort reference from Chaikin's book debunked my own claim. I haven't even begun to present my best evidence for my claim yet. I am still in the process of first providing evidence there was such a thing as an abort from cislunar space.

So I am challenged every step of the way.

The NASA official story claims the Eagle's coordinates were not known with certainty until 08/01/1969. This is the official story claim. Nothing CT about it. Very mainstream, very much a part of the official story. Yet as you'll see, it will be me presenting NASA's own materials to support what others will view as a claim on my part, yet within the materials which stand as those of Apollo's official canon there is no big deal about this.

So DC, I'll proceed now with presenting a little about the abort thing in terms of references. You'd think I would not really need to as it is a part of the main, official story wise, but because it's not part of the main, public appreciation wise, it falls to me to point it out when arguing my case.

I like your videos and do not feel offended by the way because I am confident about all of this, as I was with my point about telescope magnification. But each point takes a great deal of time to make. So in building my case, a day, two, three, four may pass before in the context of this forum everyone agrees on something as fundamental as aborts from a cislunar vantage.

You'll see I have many interesting things to say, all from NASA's own story. Here's one to consider for example. In the Apollo 11 Post flight Mission Report, in the section on LASER RANGING RETRO-REFLECTOR it says;

"The Laser Ranging Retro-Reflector(LRRR) experiment is optimally designed for lunar night operation and has consequently not yet been acquired by any laser ranging stations".

Well this report is from July 24 1969. We know that the LRRR was not successfully targeted until 08/01/1969 per NASA and the Primary Investigators of the LRRR experiment. The experimenters published their reports in the professional journal Science. We also know that it was still "daytime" on the moon on 08/01/1969. We know from NASA itself and the Apollo experimental scientists that Lick Observatory was not able to find the location of the LM at 00 41 15 north and 23 26 00 east until 08/01/1969 because they could not provide the Lick Observatory scientists with their best estimation of the LRRR's position until they analyzed trajectory data and photo data from the mission.

All this being the undisputed case, we also know that someone from Houston gave Lick Observatory the numbers 00 41 15 and 23 26 00 east on the evening of 07/20/1969.

Taken together, the above facts as presented by NASA, the Apollo Lunar Scientists and the Lick Observatory staff constitute an utterly incoherent narrative. I of course will suggest it is the NASA piece that is out of place, that is the BIG LIE because I see no reason for the Apollo Lunar Scientists to lie, nor a reason for the Lick Observatory Staff to lie, nor a reason for the LRRR primary investigators to lie, but many reasons for NASA to lie.

In my presentation of the above. I will only use primary sources in presenting the facts as outlined, nothing conjectural. But each point I imagine might take days if I so care to work at it. I say that because I will be the one presenting to my challengers NASA's own official story, and I will be challenged every step of the way, as you can see I was when I first suggested there was such a thing as a cislular abort consideration/contingency.

So you may want to withhold your opinion about my abilities for a bit in fairness since the process is so very slow going. But if not, that is OK too, you may keep sending the videos. I think the astronauts are sort of funny too.

before you even started building your case it is a failed case.
if you would claim some missions were faked, ok, but you have the even more insane idea that ALL misions to the moon were faked.
and reality debunks your claim already, and you will never be able to provide evidence for the claim that all missions were faked.

Not even the Russians were crazy enough to make those claims.
they knew it is real.
 
I do not care what the space ship could do.
Then perhaps you should refrain from telling people what you think it could do.
What is all the fuss?
You appear to be dissembling. It makes people cross.
I could not care less.
Yet you're still here pontificating on a subject about which you either know next to nothing or are attempting deliberately to mislead. Why is that?
 
Jack, I think its fake, OK. Get it! I don't think any of this is real. Get it! I wrote down what was in Jim Lovell's book and also wrote down what was stated in the Apollo 8 prelaunch report because some forum members claimed such statements, by NASA and Lovell, not to mention others, with respect to a direct abort option from cislunar space even existed. I believe none of it, if that is what you are asking me. Well I believe it is in their reports and when others said it was not, I wrote it down for them to see. I have never been so confused in all my life.
 
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I have a great idea! You guys decide on the abort stuff. Since I am neutral, I'll prove it by leaving this topic. Bicker amongst yourselves about this nonsense. No more telescope debates for me. Whatever the group decides, fine.
 
Jack, I think its fake, OK. Get it! I don't think any of this is real. Get it!
Yes. I get that. It's not relevant to my question, though.
I wrote down what was in Jim Lovell's book ....
You selected a quote from Jim Lovell's book. You have the book; I don't. It appears to me that either Jim Lovell had no grasp of what his spaceship was able to do or you have selectively quoted his book to make it appear that Jim claimed the CSM could do something which it could not possibly do. Is it unreasonable of me to ask you to tell me which it is?
I believe none of it, if that is what you are asking me.
No. that is not what I'm asking you.
I have never been so confused in all my life.
If your posts so far are sincere, then you appear to be so easy to confuse that I find even that claim hard to trust.
 
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