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Topic: 2TV-1: Apollo vacuum chamber simulated mission
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Member Posts: 24
From: Laguna Niguel CA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 03-19-2007 11:45 PM
  
The Apollo 2TV-1 "mission" involved the crew of Joe Kerwin, Vance Brand, and Joe Engle staying in CSM test spacecraft (2TV-1) for 177 hours while the spacecraft was in a large vacuum chamber in Houston. A similar test (LTA-8) was run on the LM, with James Irwin and John Bull. The purpose of the tests was to verify the spacecraft were capable of operating in the vacuum of space, under the temperatures and lighting conditions that would be experienced during a space flight. In almost any astronaut book I have read, a comment is made that the reason anyone could live in a small spacecraft for so long was zero gravity (allowing all the nooks and crannies to be used, and reducing the strain on the body). How did these guys survive for over seven days in a CSM on Earth? Did they modify the interior of the CSM (removing the couches, etc.) to make more room, or do something else? |
heng44
Member Posts: 3413
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 03-20-2007 02:57 AM
For one thing, the central couch was removed so the astronauts could sit, more or less... | |
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