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Topic: Apollo 13: Original (pre-problem) flight plan
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LM-12
Member Posts: 3688
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-03-2016 08:29 AM
  
The Apollo Flight Journal has the Apollo 13 Flight Plan up to the explosion, and a revised Flight Plan thereafter.Is the complete original Apollo 13 Flight Plan online somewhere? |
Andy Anderson
Member Posts: 115
From: Perth, Australia
Registered: Dec 2009
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posted 09-03-2016 07:32 PM
Try here.I also have the final update (Revision A) dated 27 March, 1970 which has some replacement pages and numerous "pen and ink" amendments and also, I have a copy of the flown flight plan that has pages that have in-flight notations by the crew. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3688
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-03-2016 07:58 PM
Thank you for providing the link, Andy.I could not find that Flight Plan on Scribd's long list of Apollo documents.
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LM-12
Member Posts: 3688
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-03-2016 10:52 PM
Note that it says "CM 7" instead of "LM 7" on the cover of the Apollo 13 Flight Plan linked. |
Andy Anderson
Member Posts: 115
From: Perth, Australia
Registered: Dec 2009
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posted 09-03-2016 11:53 PM
Thanks for spotting that.
For some reason that eludes me, at the time I also "cut" the "tab" sections index from the side of the original cover scan before uploading that early file to Scribd.(Edit - I have uploaded a later amended file to the original link) |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3688
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-04-2016 12:11 AM
A nice scan of the document, nonetheless. Thanks for making it available for others to see. |
oly
Member Posts: 1428
From: Perth, Western Australia
Registered: Apr 2015
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posted 09-04-2016 05:08 AM
For anyone interested in this topic, Apollo 13 Guidance, Navigation, and Control Challenges.
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Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3527
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 09-04-2016 02:38 PM
This document refers to the return (into the Pacific Ocean) of the plutonium cask which was to have powered the Apollo 13 ALSEP. This issue was raised, with interesting extra detail, in "Thirteen: The Flight that Failed" by Henry S.F. Cooper. Basically, the flight controllers not only had to aim the spacecraft in such a way that the command module would "thread the needle" of the narrow re-entry corridor, but the Atomic Energy Commission also expected them to aim the plutonium cask into deep water. That must inevitably have involved some compromises. I suspect we have never heard the full story about those compromises. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3688
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-04-2016 09:21 PM
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Originally posted by Andy Anderson:
I have a copy of the flown flight plan that has pages that have in-flight notations by the crew.
Item N0100 in the Apollo 13 CM Launch Stowage List is the "PLAQUE ASSY, LM LEG" in stowage location A8. I assume that is the replacement plaque with Jack Swigert's name on it. Does the flown flight plan you mention have any added (before the accident) notations about attaching the replacement plaque during the EVA activities, perhaps indicating when it would be done? |
Andy Anderson
Member Posts: 115
From: Perth, Australia
Registered: Dec 2009
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posted 09-05-2016 08:45 AM
No. The photocopy of the flown flight plan I have makes no mention of it.I do not have a photocopy of the flown LM Surface Checklist (the original is in the Space Center, Houston) which might have some info regarding what procedures were required to attach it. Both copies of the flown LM Activation Checklists make no mention of it except for mention of something called the "EC Flag". I have no idea what that was.  |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3688
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-05-2016 08:55 AM
The "EC flag" most likely refers to the Explorers Club flag which was to be carried and unfolded by Lovell during the EVA. The flag is mentioned in this thread. |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 09-09-2016 09:40 AM
There does not seem to be any reference to either the replacement plaque or the EC flag in Lovell's flown EVA cuff checklist. Haise's cuff checklist went down with the lunar module.
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taneal1
Member Posts: 273
From: Orlando, FL
Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 11-26-2022 01:41 AM
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Originally posted by LM-12:
A nice scan of the document, nonetheless.
Could I trouble you for a PDF of the original Apollo 13 Flight Plan? I recently cancelled my SCIRBD membership. Thanks! |
Andy Anderson
Member Posts: 115
From: Perth, Australia
Registered: Dec 2009
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posted 11-26-2022 07:33 AM
Here you go, the Flight Plan here and Revision A here. |
nasamad
Member Posts: 2183
From: Essex, UK
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 11-26-2022 01:04 PM
I just checked Haise's cuff checklist and there's no mention of the unveiling of the plaque (original or replacement). |
taneal1
Member Posts: 273
From: Orlando, FL
Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 11-26-2022 07:11 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Andy Anderson:
Here you go...
Thanks, Andy! Excellent copies. |
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