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- From: davem@ee.ubc.ca (david michelson)
- Subject: Re: NASA Coverup
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.083058.8290@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- References: <Bx5wzL.Auv.1@cs.cmu.edu> <BxC0J7.DIz@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 08:30:58 GMT
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- In article <BxC0J7.DIz@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- >In article <Bx5wzL.Auv.1@cs.cmu.edu> amon@elegabalus.cs.qub.ac.uk writes:
- >>...things that weren't publicized. The trip back to Earth inside of Apollo 13
- >>was pure hell for one...
- >
- >Actually, some of the recent books on Apollo give a reasonably good picture
- >of just how close to the edge that crew came... It definitely didn't get
- >a lot of play at the time, though.
-
- I'll bite. To what recent books do you refer?
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- On a related topic (and it certainly wasn't an option on Apollo 13),
- I vaguely recall that there were some abort options after TLI that didn't
- take the CSM around the moon. Some mighty hefty burns from the SPS were
- enough to reverse course, so to speak. Can anyone remember the details?
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- --
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- Dave Michelson
- davem@ee.ubc.ca
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