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Topic: Photo of the week 266 (December 5, 2009)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 12-05-2009 04:04 AM
   
 Forty years ago, the Apollo 12 mission had been successfully completed and the next crew in line posed for their official crew portrait. Here is an ‘outtake’, showing Jim Lovell, Ken Mattingly and Fred Haise in a serious mood. Launch for Apollo 13 was scheduled for March 1970. Ed Hengeveld |
ASCAN1984
Member Posts: 1049
From: County Down, Nothern Ireland
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 12-06-2009 10:23 AM
Part of me wonders if Ken did fly 13, would the outcome been any different. |
robsouth
Member Posts: 769
From: West Midlands, UK
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 12-06-2009 11:20 AM
Yeah of course it would have been different, it would have been Ken Mattingly saying, "Hey we've got a problem here", and not Jack Swigert! |
MCroft04
Member Posts: 1634
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 12-06-2009 01:42 PM
I've often wondered if having Ken on the ground was an advantage, having trained for the mission. |
randy
Member Posts: 2176
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 12-06-2009 05:38 PM
I think having Ken on the ground was a definite advantage, what with his knowledge and training.
Randy
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music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 12-11-2009 09:09 AM
I wonder if the sextant and the astrolabe are genuine artefacts or repros? |
RichieB16
Member Posts: 552
From: Oregon
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 12-11-2009 07:23 PM
I don't know how big of an advantage it was to have Mattingly on the ground. It is true he was well trained and knowledgeable about the CSM... but so were a lot of other astronauts. It might have also been good to have him on board. Look at it from another perspective. On Apollo 13, the LEM was a critical piece of hardware that got the crew through the mission. Being able to stretch the LEM as far is it could go was critical. Haise was well known to be among the most knowledgeable with the LEM of the astronaut corps. Would they have benefited from having him on the ground problem solving rather than being on the mission? I don't think it mattered much. |
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