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Topic: A13: What if Haise had no immunity to rubella?
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spaced out
Member Posts: 3117
From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 06-30-2008 08:25 AM
   
Here's an Apollo 13 what-if that's probably been discussed before, but new to me:What if Mattingly had had childhood rubella exposure but Haise had not and would therefore have been susceptible to infection after Duke was exposed? With both the LMP and backup LMP out of the running what would have happened to the flight? |
capoetc
Member Posts: 2178
From: McKinney TX (USA)
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 06-30-2008 08:27 AM
28-day mission delay, I would suspect.------------------
John Capobianco
Camden DE |
kr4mula
Member Posts: 642
From: Cinci, OH
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 06-30-2008 11:21 AM
Or what if Lovell was the only one of the three with no immunity? Would they have been as willing to swap out the commander as they were one of the "secondary" positions? Cheers, Kevin |
Tom
Member Posts: 1610
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 06-30-2008 03:25 PM
I don't think NASA would ever break up the landing crew on such short notice. |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1624
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 07-01-2008 12:42 AM
I agree, esp. since Lovell had already agreed to switching from Apollo 14. |
Max Q
Member Posts: 399
From: Whyalla South Australia
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 07-01-2008 05:19 AM
Funny you guys should mention that about Lovell he always struck me as the accidental Astronaut (My favorite BTW) they swapped him into just about every mission he ever flew, or at least thats how it seems. |
robsouth
Member Posts: 769
From: West Midlands, UK
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 07-09-2008 04:54 PM
In Stafford's book, 'We Have Capture', he writes, "Had it been Fred Haise who would be flying the lunar module Aquarius and working on the Moon with Jim, we would probably have delayed the mission by a month". |
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