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My point is not that it cannot be done....

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Yes. That's why one ship will simply fly 600 feet over to the other one. Duh.



Yes. That's because a terminal error of 600 feet would be considered a direct hit.



For you to declare victory after repeating your colossal blunder from months ago merits one of these: :jaw-dropp



I assure you I've read NASA's documents on lunar orbit rendezvous and the LM control systems many, many times. Clearly you have not, because they describe a model of orbital operations that bears no resemblance whatsoever to anything you've stated or alluded to here.



Please do "explore" that. You pretty much just lost any credibility that you might have had that you know anything about how space works.



Wow. Just ... wow.



Actually we prefer a 10,000 foot "miss." You want the last nautical mile or two after TPI to be terminal maneuvering and braking, not an orbital coast that may result in inadvertent contact. Anything within about 2 nautical miles at is considered a direct hit.

And as others have noted, you seem to persist in the error of thinking that rendezvous and docking was a one-shot deal determined entirely by initial conditions. That's as absolutely wrong as it can possibly be, and if you had really read NASA's documents you would know this.

NASA expected significant dispersions from the lunar orbit insertion maneuver. That's why the rendezvous process was formulated stepwise, and why that's still the way we conduct orbital rendezvous today.

Further, the rendezvous process provides for several terminal rendezvous and docking attempts. It's not, nor ever was, a one-shot deal. Your concept of orbital rendezvous as a do-or-die one-time engine burn, lobbing the LM on a trajectory that has to intersect the CSM exactly the first time, is about as comically far off the mark as it can be.

And you know this. You've had the process explained to you in depth, and admitted at the time that it answered your dilemma. Why you choose to revisit it now is disappointing, but frankly expected.



The "top?" What part of an orbit is that? Are you actually assuming that an orbit's apoapsis and its anti-nodes are the same thing? Please take class or something!



No, orbital rendezvous is exactly not like a pass-fail test. It is exactly the opposite. It is a multi-step processes that allows accumulated errors and dispersions to be detected and corrected in an adaptively converging solution, with little or no time pressure involved.

While you claim to know "some engineering," you continually demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of some of its core principles, the one in this case being the idea of a tolerance. On an unadjusted grading scale, both a score of 92% and one of 100% qualify as an A letter-grade. 92 percent is "good enough." The guy who gets 92% gets the same outcome as the guy who gets 100%, but the former has more time to drink beer and chase girls.

Terminal phase insertion has a nominal distance of 2 miles, plus an RCS tolerance of many more miles. That is, a "hit" is to reach altitude within two miles of your docking target. Several miles out at the antinode is annoying but manageable. Alignment begins to occur at 600 feet, which is considered equivalent to a final approach.

If your TPI burn parks you at 2 miles out, you got an A. If it parks you 11 miles out, guess what -- you still got an A. That's the idea of a tolerance, and until you wrap your mind around it you won't be convincing any engineers that you know anything about their profession.



You do that. While you're at it, you can also investigate whether a brush is useful for applying paint, and whether there's some way to prevent air from rushing out of a balloon neck once it has been inflated.



No it isn't irrelevant. It's the question Loss Leader asked you to study and answer. Almost every spacecraft has a delta-v capacity. If you're arguing that the Apollo spacecraft can't have docked for such a great error, you are responsible for quantifying the error and showing the corresponding limit that is exceeded.

Real world machines have a tolerance to accommodate varying performance. The Apollo spacecraft was no exception.

The explicit out-of-plane correction maneuver was planned in case the plane error grew to be several degrees or more. For fractions of a degree, it's handled during ascent guidance simply by yawing into the correct plane. But when the error becomes too great, a separate maneuver is done at apoapsis. It's done there because a plane-correction maneuver is a pure delta-v maneuver, and the spacecraft's velocity is slowest at that point. Ironically it's more fuel-efficient to wait and correct the plane errors later, another counterintuitive aspect of space flight.



That's right. None was necessary and none was carried out. You're the only one who seems to think one was necessary, but only because you don't know the first thing about orbital mechanics or spacecraft dynamics, and so you're making up a bunch of properties and requirements that, in your naive understanding, might seem to be true, but which simply are not.

You're acting literally like a "surgeon" who has never studied anatomy and never seen the inside of an organism.

My point is not that it cannot be done Jay....

Of course it seems very reasonable that were any of this real, the active participant, the LM, could in fact "fly over" to the command module. My claim is not that this is impossible, it is that nowhere is a plane change discussed in the official records. They hide it, lie about its necessity(by omission) under the circumstances.

It is not simply 600 feet away Jay, the two birds are not in the same orbit, and were this thing real, we would see/find a discussion of this in the NASA documents; Voice Transcript, Mission Report, Press Conference Transcript. However, we do not read such an account in these documents, nowhere can it be found, and so one may confidently conclude the Apollo 11 Mission to be fraudulent.

At 05 02 53 26, the CapCom informs Armstrong that the crossrange, north/south distance from Collins' orbit, is 0017, or seventeen hundredths of a degree.

The AOT, per the Apollo 11 Mission Report Landing Site Coordinate Table 5-IV, has the Eagle at 0.523 north, or with the correction factor, 0.563 north. That puts Collins at 0.693 which is ALMOST EXACTLY the lunar module targeted north coordinate of 0.691 as also listed in the Apollo 11 Mission Landing Site Coordinate Table 5-IV. Now, if one takes into account the correction factors, 0.563 north plus the cross range of 0.17 gives 0.733. Converting to degrees/minutes/seconds yields; 00 43' 58", and as all recall, the targeted site north coordinate per the Apollo 11 Mission Report page 5-6 is 00 43' 53".

So according to the Apollo 11 mission Report, they knew exactly where the Eagle was, and knew this in multiple, contradictory and internally incoherent senses. Here, in the sense referenced specifically in this post, the LM landing site is located at 0.523 north and 23.42 east. The former north coordinate being 0.17 degrees south of the targeted site. As both the cross range figure of 0.17 degrees as given by the capcom in the transcript record and the AOT determined landing site coordinates are known in real-time within the Apollo 11 Mission's narrative, and since these figures add to give the targeted lunar lattitude of 00 43' 53 for all intents and purposes EXACTLY, differing by 5 seconds of arc or 138 feet, one may conclude that in this one of several mutually inconsistent and internally incoherent versions of landing site occurrences appearing in the Apollo 11 narrative by way of official douments, in this case the Apollo 11 Mision Report and Apollo 11 Voice Transcript, that the Eagle's position, contrary to the official story, was known and know quite accurately, and furthermore, that its position south of Collins' alleged track was known and known quite accurately. As these simple facts differ from the official narrative's mainstream telling, a telling characterized by a feature in which Collins, Houston and the moonwalkers themselves are all unaware of the landing site coordinates and the coordinates' relationship to Collins' track, one may conclude such an inconsistency, such an internal incoherence , such a bold faced DOCUMENTED LIE! means one and one thing only, THE APOLLO 11 MISSION FRONT TO BACK IS A BOGUS FRAQUDULENT CHARADE, Bernie Medoff in outer space, replete with a public rip off provision and a "so what" shrug of the shoulders in the wake of the heinous fallout.
 
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I do not know much yet about the issue as regards airplanes....

I agree wholeheartedly with the above.

Patrick, can you elaborate on the role and responsibility of the PIC on a commercial flight?

Can you elaborate on the lightening precautions installed on civil aviation aircraft, from privately owned aircraft down to microlights?

I do not know much yet about the issue as regards airplanes, relatively speaking. I know infinitely more than the man on the street....

Airplane lightning strike impact and in particular safety concerns as regards such strikes are of course subjects in which I have more than a keen interest and as such, subjects that I am actively investigating with great enthusiasm given the enormous relevance and your group's, my Apollo Fraud Theory detractors, palpable anxiety regarding the outcome of this ongoing investigation of mine.

That said, my argument does not hinge on how it might be that the FAA, or any aviation administration's safety body might routinely deal with airplane strikes in 2011. Not to say that such dealings are irrelevant, only what is all the more so relevant is the unique properties of the Apollo 12 bird, and the lack of lightning science, the paucity of awareness as regards strikes on flying craft back in 1969.

Apollo 12, were the mission a genuine manned mission, would simply not be allowed to fly to the moon.

Fake indeed, very very very fake, embarrassingly so.....
 
Apollo 12, were the mission a genuine manned mission, would simply not be allowed to fly to the moon.


1. All real elephants have been hunted to extinction for their ivory.
2. The Bronx Zoo claims to have elephants which tens of thousands of people have seen with their own eyes.
3. But if they were real elephants, they\d be extinct.
4. Thus, the Bronx Zoo has animatronic robot elephants to fool people.
5. And I am smarter that all the world because I can see that these are not real elephants.
6. And I am smarter than YOU because I know about the robot elephants and you continue to be taken in by the Zoo Elephant Conspiracy.
7. I AM SO SMART! S,M,R,T!

Patrick, is the fact that nobody agrees with you evidence that you are right? How does it feel when nobody believes a word you say? Does it cause a good emotion? Have you ever felt rejected because of your singular beliefs? Would you like to feel more like everyone else?
 
I do not know much yet about the issue as regards airplanes, relatively speaking. I know infinitely more than the man on the street....

Airplane lightning strike impact and in particular safety concerns as regards such strikes are of course subjects in which I have more than a keen interest and as such, subjects that I am actively investigating with great enthusiasm given the enormous relevance and your group's, my Apollo Fraud Theory detractors, palpable anxiety regarding the outcome of this ongoing investigation of mine.

That said, my argument does not hinge on how it might be that the FAA, or any aviation administration's safety body might routinely deal with airplane strikes in 2011. Not to say that such dealings are irrelevant, only what is all the more so relevant is the unique properties of the Apollo 12 bird, and the lack of lightning science, the paucity of awareness as regards strikes on flying craft back in 1969.

Apollo 12, were the mission a genuine manned mission, would simply not be allowed to fly to the moon.

Fake indeed, very very very fake, embarrassingly so.....

So what specific issue came to light after the lightning strike that should have caused the mission to be scrubbed?
 
...THE APOLLO 11 MISSION FRONT TO BACK IS A BOGUS FRAQUDULENT CHARADE, Bernie Medoff in outer space, replete with a public rip off provision and a "so what" shrug of the shoulders in the wake of the heinous fallout.

Nope...you have no evidence.


See, Patrick, the thing I don't think you understand is how ideas are "overturned". It isn't done by handwaving "it's all fake...it didn't happen". That "tactic" is recognized as "typical" for hoax believers...it means less than nothing.

No, to actually overturn an established idea, the proponent of the new idea MUST BE CONVINCING to others...it must "stand out" as special. If your (so called) evidence were relevant, then we should be jumping up and down excitedly because of how "right" you are.

Yet no one here agrees with your ideas, or your "methods"....doesn't that tell you something??
 
Not fair, I supply good references to support my claims Loss Leader....

1. All real elephants have been hunted to extinction for their ivory.
2. The Bronx Zoo claims to have elephants which tens of thousands of people have seen with their own eyes.
3. But if they were real elephants, they\d be extinct.
4. Thus, the Bronx Zoo has animatronic robot elephants to fool people.
5. And I am smarter that all the world because I can see that these are not real elephants.
6. And I am smarter than YOU because I know about the robot elephants and you continue to be taken in by the Zoo Elephant Conspiracy.
7. I AM SO SMART! S,M,R,T!

Patrick, is the fact that nobody agrees with you evidence that you are right? How does it feel when nobody believes a word you say? Does it cause a good emotion? Have you ever felt rejected because of your singular beliefs? Would you like to feel more like everyone else?

Not fair, I supply good references to support my claims Loss Leader....

Show me where my claims about the AOT star sighting issue is off base, that such numbers would not yield an inaccurate LM attitude. I say the numbers do and have the references to back it up. You are making up stories. This is not fair, simply so.
 
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I do not know much yet about the issue as regards airplanes, relatively speaking. I know infinitely more than the man on the street....

No. As an engineer in the relevant field and as a former teacher of engineers, I can say that you are not an expert. You know considerably less than a typical engineering student. You may not presume to speak from the position of expertise.

...subjects that I am actively investigating with great enthusiasm given the enormous relevance...

No. Policies that govern private and commercial aviation have nothing to do with Apollo. You continue to throw out topics in those areas so that you don't have to deal with the actual facts. This is what's called the Framing Bias.

Not to say that such dealings are irrelevant...

They are. You are trying to argue that policies that arise in one form of aviation ought to apply to another form, without considering the important properties of either form.

...only what is all the more so relevant is the unique properties of the Apollo 12 bird

Changing horses. Your argument as recently as yesterday was that Apollo was just like an airplane and should follow all the rules laid out for airplanes.

One of the relevant unique aspects of Apollo spacecraft is their in-flight diagnostic ability. You have simply dismissed that as irrelevant.

You have been given specific information regarding the structural design of the spacecraft and how it achieves reasonable safety from lightning. You simply dismissed it as "wrong" without further explanation.

You have been shown the well-informed, well-studied analysis of fully qualified experts regarding the details of the Apollo 12 spacecraft, the specific damage incurred, and the rationale behind the decision to continue the mission. You have failed to address any of it, and have alluded that you don't need to do so because "they are the perps."

The evidence pertaining to the unique design of the Apollo spacecraft has been presented, ignored by you, and works entirely in favor of Apollo.

...and the lack of lightning science

False. The subject-matter experts' 1969 report on the Apollo 12 incident actually goes into greater detail about the specific effects of lightning strikes than does your 2005 report for GA aircraft. It covered in 1969 the same subjects that we believe in 2005 to be the most noteworthy effects of lightning strikes.

There is no evidence that the judgment of the experts in 1969 regarding lightning strikes was made on the basis of immature science.

the paucity of awareness as regards strikes on flying craft back in 1969.

You're not qualified to judge whether aerospace engineers now or in 1969 had a "paucity" of awareness. And you have already further dismissed the evidence of their expertise.

Further, your judgment on this point has been shown repeatedly to be logically flawed, factually correct, technically shallow, and based entirely on an alarmist emotional approach. You don't get to set up your uninformed opinion as the universal standard by which the actions of experts are judged.

Apollo 12, were the mission a genuine manned mission, would simply not be allowed to fly to the moon.

In your uninformed opinion. The contrary judgment of experts has been presented at length. You have either ignored it or simply dismissed it as "wrong" without further explanation.
 
3. But if they were real elephants, they'd be extinct.
Not fair, I supply good references to support my claims Loss Leader...


Really? Here are just a few examples where you claim that your particular conclusion is the only possible way to interpret whatever data you've quoted:


It should be east/west BEFORE the rotation. Proof positive of fraud abaddon, as simple as that. There are no experts to appeal to here. Party is over.
Once the dust settles, Tranquility Base is just west of Little West Crater, no big deal the perps, the fraud artists, would say.
Fraud, undeniable and inescapable, now revealed in all of its horrendous glory by way of this simple map/image analysis. Apollo as truth is now dead. Historically, this map has now become more important than Armstrong's once famous, and as of today, infamous words, "One small step....."
As such, I concluded NASA had to be military from the get go. You couldn't ask for this kind of cash, get it for a civilian project. Disagree all you like, my numbers are correct regardless of your opinion as to what they mean.
This guy, Phillips, is as military as they come Loss Leader. So in 1964 he gets appointed as NASA Program director. This is as Military as it gets Loss Leader, no question.
In 1966 the NASA budget constituted 4.41 % of federal spending. Our budget this year was/is roughly 3.7 trillion dollars give or take. So 4.41% of that would be 163,170,000,000, ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THREE BILLION DOLLARS. A ton of money. This is all military Loss Leader, has to be.
Why does anyone even make the claim that the Eagle's coordinates are uncertain to begin with? There is no reason at all for this claim. No rationale. It comes out of nowhere because it was scripted.
Sounds killer to me, and this stuff is just for openers Loss Leader. They had to be working this angle, both the Russians and US must have equipment in these "L places" now, and "Apollo" must have been the method whereby the US first positioned the equipment there. I am sure of it. Has to be the case. We would never pass on this opportunity.
Now given the option in this case of having the plane return for safety's sake, wouldn't one have expected the very same in the case of Apollo 12? Hit by lightning on the way up and they allow it to go to the moon, systems checking out aside? It is nothing less than preposterous!
All considered, one may confidently conclude that the landing site coordinates as they appear in the Apollo 11 Mission Report are fraudulent and very much not those Lew Wade and the Apollo Program Mapping Specialists worked with on the evening of 07/20/1969 and morning of 07/21/1969. Given the fraudulence of the Apollo 11 Mission Report, we may fairly assume fraudulence for the trip in its entirety.


Your facts do not support your conclusions. It doesn't matter how many elephants have been killed for their ivory. It doesn't matter how small the natural habitats for elephants have shrunk. Every expert on the planet will tell you that the elephants in zoos are real. And every expert on the planet will tell you than man walked on the moon.

You. Are. Not. Special.
 
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My point is not that it cannot be done Jay...

That was indeed your point until you realized how foolish you had been to claim it. Do you think we're not reading your previous posts? Do you believe we can't see you change horses?

My claim is not that this is impossible, it is that nowhere is a plane change discussed in the official records.

A flight of 600 feet is considered a terminal braking maneuver, even in the context of an orbit. In fact a flight of 2 miles and more is considered a terminal braking maneuver, still in the context of an orbit. It is one of dozens of similar maneuvers that form part of terminal braking and are performed ad hoc by the pilot wiggling the joysticks to operate the RCS. The pilot does not have to ask Mother-May-I every time he translates or or rotates the spacecraft.

They hide it, lie about its necessity (by omission) under the circumstances.

No one is lying. You simply have no feel for the magnitudes of the different maneuvers you're discussing, and how they fit into an Apollo mission. You seem to think that the only way a spacecraft can close a crosstrack gap of 600 feet is by means of some elaborate plane adjustment procedure, mentioned in the flight plan.

The plane adjustment maneuver mentioned in the flight plan is meant for dispersions and errors several orders of magnitude greater than the one you contemplate here.

It is not simply 600 feet away Jay, the two birds are not in the same orbit...

Any two objects in orbit are "not in the same orbit," even if they're six inches apart. Loss Leader is trying to get you to see this.

The reason spacecraft have engines is so they can alter their orbit. The entire science of accelerated spaceflight is exactly nothing but changing orbits. What makes you think this doe

You say "orbit" as if it's some mysterious thing. Orbits are as familiar to some of us as a sphygmomanometer is to a family physician. That said, orbital mechanics is one of the counterintuitive sciences. If you approach it with nothing but common sense, you will get it wrong.

Here's a quiz for you, so that you can assure your readers that you know enough about orbital mechanics to discuss this. Let's say that the dispersion you mention actually occurred, and that the LM was out of plane by about 0.1 degree, although at the same altitude in all respects, and that this amounts to a crosstrack range of 600 feet at the anti-node. After 30 minutes, would the LM still be 600 feet away from the CSM? Yes or no.

To the properly trained, it's child's play to compute how much delta-v it would take to convert one orbit so that it is exactly coincident with the other, including out-of-plane maneuvers to correct crosstrack dispersions.

You want that to be a huge difference, resolvable only through a special big-to-do burn. It simply isn't. And you've been presented with a correct calculation for how minor a change it is -- so minor that it's negligible among all the other terminal-phase maneuvering that ordinarily happens.

...and were this thing real, we would see/find a discussion of this in the NASA documents

No. You're not going to see every wiggle of the joystick discussed in transcripts. That's like rolling down your window and announcing to passers-by that you're going to adjust your parallel-parking position to get a little closer to the curb.

Your expectations are uninformed and naive.

such a bold faced DOCUMENTED LIE! means one and one thing only, THE APOLLO 11 MISSION FRONT TO BACK IS A BOGUS FRAQUDULENT CHARADE...

That's the only thing it can possibly mean? It can't possibly mean instead that one guy who admits still learning about Apollo has made a mistake and, motivated by a deep desire to prove Apollo false, simply ignored the contrary expertise of people who fly orbits for a living?
 
Abbaddon, of course the rocket goes up...

Here is a list of the abort modes. Which would be appropriate in the event of a lightning strike, and why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_abort_modes

Once that Saturn is burning, it's burning, lightning or not.

Abbaddon, of course the rocket goes up...

But after a lightning hit, you do not send it to the moon. Any responsible decision maker would bring the thing down from earth orbit. Were Apollo 12 legit, the mission would have been aborted right then and there. This thing is so fake, front to back and every which way FAKE, pathetic really.....
 
Not fair, I supply good references to support my claims Loss Leader....

Show me where my claims about the AOT star sighting issue is off base, that such numbers would not yield an inaccurate LM attitude. I say the numbers do and have the references to back it up. You are making up stories. This is not fair, simply so.
Here you go Patrick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve6XGKZxYxA

It is known as the skin effect.
 
Well then thank you very much RAF.....

No...you can not demand that we prove you wrong. the burden of proof is yours alone.

Why do I and others have to keep repeating this????????

Well then thank you very much RAF.....

As I am the only one that has presented NASA based evidence as regards this attitude determination error, it would appear I must be correct.

We are in a debate here RAF. You are free to introduce, or not introduce evidence in support of your own claims, to be sure. But as it stands, your claim is that I have introduced no evidence. On the contrary, I have introduced excellent evidence suggesting the inaccurate AOT measurements would have resulted in a misaligned IMU and a rendezvous disaster unless appropriate out of plane correction maneuvers were effected and brought to bear on the situation.

We can go 'round and 'round with this all day, by my point more than stands RAF unless yopu yourself can find something in the Voice Transcript, Mission Report, Press Conference Transcript to show me wrong. I have used those very documents to present a strong strong case for Apollo 11 fraudulence.
 
The attitude of the spaceship is determined by star sightings RAF....This is of course a simple fact.

Wrong. It is determined by the inertial guidance system. The slight drift over time of that guidance system is corrected by star sightings.


If the star sighting data gives inaccurate/incorrect landing site coordinates, then that same data will result in the provision of an inaccurate/incorrect attitude determination as well. An inaccurate landing site determination as made by way of inaccurate star sightings must be linked to an inaccurate attitude determination as well. It can be no other way.

If the sightings are "wrong," they won't match up with the circle of probability of the INS. It isn't a go/no go; the process is comparative. Each checks the other.

An inaccurate attitude would mean a launch that would result in an orbit out of plane with that of Michael Collins as related in the Apollo 11 narrative.

Even without considering that the spacecraft may have some way of determining RELATIVE position (aka the position of the CS/M, as opposed to a position in some arbitrary reference both are expected to adhere to), you need to determine the magnitude of the error.

As has been pointed out, first, two orbits out of plane with each other will still contain two nodes. You haven't shown that these nodes are not accessible within the maneuvering margin of the combined spacecraft. Second, each spacecraft carries fuel (and has specific systems dedicated to) ALL translations of orbital position. You have to show, again, that the necessary change of relative orbital parameters is beyond this capacity.
 
My point is not that it cannot be done Jay....



That was exactly your point until your complete and profound ignorance of spacecraft maneuverability was exposed and now you're trying to backpedal. Again.


Of course it seems very reasonable that were any of this real, the active participant, the LM, could in fact "fly over" to the command module.



Sure, it's "very reasonable" now that you've finally realized spacecraft can maneuver. Your retrofitting won't save you from your 10 foot error is the same as a 10,000 foot error comment.



My claim is not that this is impossible, it is that nowhere is a plane change discussed in the official records. They hide it, lie about its necessity(by omission) under the circumstances.

http://history.nasa.gov/ap11fj/19day6-rendezvs-dock.htm
125:59:57 Evans: Eagle - Eagle, Houston. We copy. Any plane change? Over.

126:00:04 Aldrin: No. There was no plane change on CSI, and CSM had a 2.3 foot per second burn. We had a 2.9, and we elected to postpone that. Over.

126:00:18 Evans: Roger. We copy, Eagle. Thank you. [Pause.]

To reiterate what Jay said about out-of-plane correction burns is this paragraph from the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous essay on the Apollo Flight Journal website: http://history.nasa.gov/afj/loressay.htm

Another check is performed by the LM crew to see if there is a large out-of-plane component to the LM's orbit that would be corrected by a plane change burn. As the LM is now approaching the point where the two orbital planes intersect, the crew must decide wither the out-of-plane component is sufficiently large to justify a special burn, or if the error can be eliminated during subsequent maneuvering. As a rule of thumb, if there is less than a 5 feet per second plane change requirement, later maneuvers can be used to match the two orbital planes. In almost all cases, there is a small amount of out-of-plane maneuvering performed during most of the maneuvers, so there are no special procedures or additional workload involved.
 
I do not know much yet about the issue as regards airplanes, relatively speaking. I know infinitely more than the man on the street....

Airplane lightning strike impact and in particular safety concerns as regards such strikes are of course subjects in which I have more than a keen interest and as such, subjects that I am actively investigating with great enthusiasm given the enormous relevance and your group's, my Apollo Fraud Theory detractors, palpable anxiety regarding the outcome of this ongoing investigation of mine.

That said, my argument does not hinge on how it might be that the FAA, or any aviation administration's safety body might routinely deal with airplane strikes in 2011. Not to say that such dealings are irrelevant, only what is all the more so relevant is the unique properties of the Apollo 12 bird, and the lack of lightning science, the paucity of awareness as regards strikes on flying craft back in 1969.

Apollo 12, were the mission a genuine manned mission, would simply not be allowed to fly to the moon.

Fake indeed, very very very fake, embarrassingly so.....

Patrick - here's something to help you with your "extensive research" - links to the current FAA advisory circular (AC) covering part 23 aircraft (non-transport category, "transport category" being commonly called "commercial"), along with the relevant Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR's) related to lightning protection that were in effect in November, 1996 1969:

http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgAdvisoryCircular.nsf/0/4507a096e937e68f86256e51006929d4/$FILE/AC23-15A.pdf

http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_G...B3D2B2871C0447CF85256687006E8F5B?OpenDocument

http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_G...940FBCAF926B0CB485256687006FF8F4?OpenDocument

http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_G...CE054AFECEE197F3852566870070C554?OpenDocument

As you can see, back then, the issue of electrical isolation and carry-through had been addressed, even for non-transport category aircraft. And, as Jay has pointed out so well, the FAR's at that time did not apply to manned space flight (there are some current ones covering commercial manned spaceflight), just as the civil regulations do not apply to military aviation. And, as Jay further pointed out, the systems in the Apollo were electrically isolated by the nature of their installation.

So, as someone that teaches people how to fly aircraft, not how to design or build them, I do understand what the engineers are saying and believe that, in a properly designed system, a lightning strike is not a catastrophic event. With the telemetry available to the ground controllers, the Apollo 12 strike was even more a non-event than one in an airplane.

For further reading on the aviation side I highly recommend Weather Flying by Robert Buck and Severe Weather Flying by Dennis Newton.

Errata: corrected 1996 to 1969.
 
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But after a lightning hit, you do not send it to the moon.

Why not? There was nothing consequentially wrong with it.

Any responsible decision maker would bring the thing down from earth orbit.

Begging the question.

Responsible decision-makers did make a decision, and wrote an elaborate rationale for it that you simply dismissed without comment. Your uninformed personal opinion is simply irrelevant.

Were Apollo 12 legit, the mission would have been aborted right then and there.

Repeating your uninformed belief over and over again does not make it true.
 
Any responsible decision maker would bring the thing down from earth orbit.

Here is a great pic of the decision makers in the Kennedy Space Center Firing Room during a test. These nice folk monitored the health and performance of the Saturn V from before launch to staging. I count about 50 of em. Any one of which, if they had seen a problem with Apollo 12's rocket from looking at the tons and tons of telemetry, could have called for an abort.

http://images.ksc.nasa.gov/photos/1969/medium/KSC-69P-0325.jpg
 
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