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Topic: Apollo 13: Lovell's and Haise's lunar boots
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cv1701
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Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 10-19-2012 06:11 PM
  
I was going through some of the in-capsule mission photography from the Apollo flights when something I saw from Apollo 13 made me remember something. In the LIFE magazine interview after the flight, Lovell had said, "Fred and I even put on our heavy lunar boots [because of the cold]. Jack didn't have any, so he put on extra longjohns."It wasn't until I looked at the unprocessed version of AS13-62-8988 that I realized that there was actually a photo showing this. Almost lost in the darkness, you can see the blue soles of Lovell's boots. One thing that I've always wondered... did the boots make the trip home? We know that Lovell's EVA visor and gloves made it back, in his possession, and are now loaned to the Alder Planetarium in Chicago. But I've never heard anything about either Haise's or Lovell's boots. The only lunar boots that I know made it back were Cernan and Schmitt's 17 boots, now in the custody of National Air and Space Museum. |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2458
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 10-20-2012 02:26 AM
I think that there was every chance that they did. If I remember correctly, didn't they have to load the command module with extra items that might have been discarded to compensate for the missing lunar rocks? |
Peter downunder
Member Posts: 57
From: Lancefield, Victoria, Australia
Registered: Apr 2012
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posted 10-20-2012 04:57 AM
Now, is that simply a movie MacGuffin, or did the astronauts really need to add extra ballast to the command module? Great pick on the photo, by the way. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3324
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 10-20-2012 08:16 AM
The ALSJ mentions the lunar boots in that image. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 43576
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-20-2012 08:28 AM
The movie combined two issues to form one plot point: the shallowing of the trajectory and the guidance computer being pre-programmed to expect an additional hundred pounds or so of moon rock to be aboard Odyssey at the time of reentry.The earlier had in fact been caused by "wisps of steam wafting from the cooling system" on Aquarius (per "Lost Moon"), though that wasn't figured out until after Odyssey had safely returned to Earth. The latter was addressed by having the crew move equipment from Aquarius to Odyssey, but it wasn't done in a haphazard way as shown in the movie. A revised entry stowage list was called up to the crew. "All right, we want you to carry over the two 70 millimeter Hasselblad cameras, the black and white TV camera, all 16 millimeter and 70 millimeter exposed film, the LEM data recorder, extra oxygen hoses, extra oxygen screen caps, the waste management system, chute and the LEM flight data file." Also, per "Lost Moon," Lovell and Haise retrieved a souvenir each before exiting Aquarius a final time: Haise grabbed the equipment netting, and Lovell unscrewed the optical sight and pocketed it. |
cv1701
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Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 10-20-2012 09:30 AM
At some point, Lovell and Haise also cut off pieces of their PLSS backpacks:  | |
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