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Topic: Photo of the week 223 (February 7, 2009)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 02-07-2009 02:59 AM
   
 Forty years ago today, the Apollo 9 crew was three weeks away from launch. They were to perform the first manned test of the Lunar Module in earth orbit, a flight for which they had been training for ages. Here CSM-pilot Dave Scott explains how he will dock with the lunar module, as LM-pilots Jim McDivitt and Rusty Schweickart listen. Note that the audiovisual tools were rather primitive in those days. Ed Hengeveld |
Tom
Member Posts: 1597
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 02-07-2009 07:00 AM
Ed, great photo. Times have definately changed...If I remember correctly, wasn't Apollo 9 the only Apollo (CSM / LM) docking in which the CDR did the "flying"? |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 02-07-2009 07:05 AM
I guess times have changed. Ashtrays on the table in a conference room. |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 02-07-2009 09:48 AM
I wonder if Dave is saying, "Now this model of the LM will someday be particularly valuable among collectors, fetching high prices at specialty auctions."  |
MoonCrater1
Member Posts: 85
From: Queens, NY, USA
Registered: Nov 2008
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posted 02-08-2009 10:40 AM
No, Dave is saying, "If we remove one of the thrusters on the LM we can carry 5000 space covers that we can sell in Europe." "Did I say that out loud." |
carmelo
Member Posts: 1047
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 02-08-2009 11:02 AM
Ah, the "Mad men" look! |
Apollo Redux
Member Posts: 346
From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Registered: Sep 2006
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posted 02-08-2009 03:27 PM
Jim looks like a proud Pop. |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 02-08-2009 04:33 PM
"Yeah, I KNOW the landing gear points down when it lands on the moon, but I'm talking about earth-orbit rendezvous and docking, ya pinhead!" |
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