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Topic: Photo of the week 243 (June 27, 2009)
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heng44
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From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 06-27-2009 02:31 AM
   
 Forty years ago this weekend, Apollo 11 lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin was training on the Lunar Landing Research Facility at Langley. This contraption allowed a tethered LM-type vehicle to practice the final 50 meters of a lunar landing while hanging from moving cables. Commander Neil Armstrong had flown the trainer in February. Ed Hengeveld |
Lasv3
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From: Bratislava, Slovakia
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted 06-27-2009 03:09 AM
Looks like the flight manual has been deleted from the photo.  |
garymilgrom
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From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 06-27-2009 09:07 AM
Ed, are you sure he's not dancing to the "Rocket Experience"? Great shot, as always. |
ilbasso
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From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 06-27-2009 10:37 AM
This got me to wondering about how many LMPs ever flew the LLRV/LLTV "Flying Bedstead." If the idea was that the LMP should be able to take over and land the LM at any point that the CDR was unable to do so, one would think that the LMPs should have as much training in flying the LLRV/TV as possible. sci.space.history quotes a document which says that up through the end of 1969, eight astronauts had flown the LLRV/TV. The person making the post is relatively certain that these included CC Williams, Armstrong, Anders, Borman, Aldrin, and Conrad. He believes that Scott, Lovell, and Young may have also flown the vehicle before the end of 1969. What is interesting is that he is certain that Bean did NOT fly the LLTV, even though policy was that both the CDR and LMP should be capable of flying the LM. Also, Stafford, McDivitt, and Schweickart were not among those who flew the LLTV. |
heng44
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From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 06-27-2009 11:50 AM
I think all of the names above are correct, except Aldrin. I don't think he ever flew the LLRV/LLTV. LMPs only trained on the LLRF, except Anders and Williams. |
dtemple
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From: Longview, Texas, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 06-27-2009 02:50 PM
Did anyone notice the Gemini XII patch on Aldrin's flight suit? |
MCroft04
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From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 06-27-2009 08:47 PM
I can't believe they didn't let the geologist fly it! |
ilbasso
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From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 06-27-2009 09:16 PM
quote:
Originally posted by MCroft04:
I can't believe they didn't let the geologist fly it!
Maybe they were afraid the geologist would have said, "Oh, looks like I'm accelerating toward that outcropping of schist - or is that granite? No, maybe it's a plageo..." BOOM! |
FFrench
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From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-27-2009 10:21 PM
quote:
Originally posted by ilbasso:
Maybe they were afraid the geologist would have said, "Oh, looks like I'm accelerating toward that outcropping of schist - or is that granite? No, maybe it's a plageo..." BOOM!
Yeah, that wouldn't make for a gneiss landing. |
MCroft04
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From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 06-28-2009 06:35 PM
quote:
Originally posted by FFrench:
Yeah, that wouldn't make for a gneiss landing.
Absolutely! You can take it for granite. |
ea757grrl
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From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 06-28-2009 06:56 PM
These comments make me want to go back into my shale.jodie |
blue_eyes
Member Posts: 165
From: North Carolina, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 06-28-2009 07:16 PM
Heehee, you all are so funny! Now I can see the schist of where this thread is headed. |
FFrench
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From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-28-2009 08:15 PM
quote:
Originally posted by blue_eyes:
Now I can see the schist of where this thread is headed.
Indeed - this thread totally rocks. |
spaced out
Member Posts: 3110
From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 06-29-2009 01:16 AM
It mica been easy to start with but finding more geological puns for this thread is really getting tuff. |
Matt T
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From: Chester, Cheshire, UK
Registered: May 2001
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posted 06-29-2009 04:36 AM
Oh dear, cS is just to full of puns these days - I'm off to onorthosite... |
space1
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From: Danville, Ohio
Registered: Dec 2002
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posted 06-29-2009 05:38 PM
We've hadley even started. This site craters to a massif audience.------------------
John Fongheiser
President
Historic Space Systems, http://www.space1.com |
328KF
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posted 06-30-2009 01:02 AM
This is rilley getting out of hand. I'll check back framorrow. It's all I can tek-to-nite.
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Lou Chinal
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From: Staten Island, NY
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 06-30-2009 06:14 AM
I believe this thread was started almost 40 years ago by Gene Cernan. During training in the lunar rover, Jack Schmitt bounced out. He happened to be near the mock-up of Fan crater. Cernan remarked, "the Schmitt hit the fan". |
micropooz
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From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 06-30-2009 03:49 PM
I'll breccia that nobody thought this thread could get so convoluted... |
mikepf
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From: San Jose, California, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 06-30-2009 06:08 PM
Some of you guys should be charged with basalt and battery.Sorry, couldn't resist.
Mikie |
AstroAutos
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From: Co. Monaghan, Republic of Ireland
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 06-30-2009 06:22 PM
This thread is soooo coal-I decided I'd join in as I've spent too long marble-ing at these comments.. |
alanh_7
Member Posts: 1252
From: Ajax, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 07-01-2009 08:57 AM
Could anyone tell me where the Lunar Landing Research Facility landing module is now? Or was it reduced to 'rubble' at the end of the Apollo program? |
GACspaceguy
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From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 07-01-2009 10:22 AM
It is on display at the Virgina Air and Space Center.  
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Lou Chinal
Member Posts: 1306
From: Staten Island, NY
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 07-01-2009 12:38 PM
I thought it was on display at the Bedrock Air and Space Center. Head curator is Barney Rubble. |
micropooz
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From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 07-01-2009 12:54 PM
This thread is just soooo geoillogical!!! |
413 is in
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From: Alexandria, VA USA
Registered: May 2006
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posted 07-01-2009 12:55 PM
I hope that I'm not too slate to the party butte just wanted to say I have really been enjoying this thread. |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 07-01-2009 01:35 PM
quote:
Originally posted by 413 is in:
I hope that I'm not too slate to the party butte just wanted to say I have really been enjoying this thread.
You beat me to it, because I was about to say alluviy'all too... |
NovaRob
Member Posts: 242
From: Tucson, Arizona, USA
Registered: Nov 2008
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posted 07-01-2009 03:36 PM
This seems to beg a new thread, "You might be a geology geek if..." |
E2M Lem Man
Member Posts: 846
From: Los Angeles CA. USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 07-01-2009 07:35 PM
And I thought this was only for Rock-it geeks!JM Busby |
blue_eyes
Member Posts: 165
From: North Carolina, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 07-01-2009 10:23 PM
You all are the greatest -- I've been busting up all day reading these puns! But now my side is just killing me from laughing so hard... oh gosh, pumice me you won't write another one!!(Actually I hope someone does...) |
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