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Topic: Apollo 7
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Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1624
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 08-19-2004 06:45 PM
   
Since it's almost football season, let's play Monday morning QB. Since he didn't like long-duration missions with experiments, would it have been better to give Schirra Apollo 8 or 9, which were more of a test pilot's flight. Perhaps Borman, Cooper or Lovell would have been better suited for an 11-day earth orbital mission. That might hve led to fewer problem with Mission Control that happened on Apollo 7. |
Yanksman2001
Member Posts: 24
From: Long Island City, NY, USA
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted 08-19-2004 07:02 PM
I think Apollo 7 was a perfect example of a test-flight; the first flight of a new spacecraft.
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Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1624
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 08-20-2004 08:57 AM
In many ways it was but, for example, in Gemini6, Schirra wanted the flight tobe brief and he didn't want a Stafford EVA. |
Tom
Member Posts: 1610
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 08-20-2004 04:48 PM
Schirra didn't want Stafford to do EVA on the original Gemini 6 mission involving the first Agena docking. However, when the flight plans changed to rendezvous with Gemini 7, Schirra thought it was a good idea for Stafford and Lovell to swap spacecraft. Borman wanted no part of that. |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1758
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 08-20-2004 05:33 PM
Now knowing how little they knew about EVA...it's a good thing cooler heads prevailed. |
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