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How much power does that TV camera draw? Not much. They had the radios running at the time all you need to do is put your low power tv signal on the private radio loop that was already powered up.
With only 15 minutes of power left in the CM, CapCom told the crew to make their way into the LM. Fred and Jim Lovell quickly floated through the tunnel, leaving Jack to perform the last chores in the Command Module. The first concern was to determine if there were enough consumables to get home? The LM was built for only a 45-hour lifetime, and it needed to be stretch to 90. Oxygen wasn't a problem. The full LM descent tank alone would suffice, and in addition, there were two ascent-engine oxygen tanks, and two backpacks whose oxygen supply would never be used on the lunar surface. Two emergency bottles on top of those packs had six or seven pounds each in them. (At LM jettison, just before reentry, 28.5 pounds of oxygen remained, more than half of what was available after the explosion).
Power was also a concern. There were 2181 ampere hours in the LM batteries, Ground controllers carefully worked out a procedure where the CM batteries were charged with LM power. All non-critical systems were turned off and energy consumption was reduced to a fifth of normal, which resulted in having 20 percent of our LM electrical power left when Aquarius was jettisoned. There was one electrical close call during the mission. One of the CM batteries vented with such force that it momentarily dropped off the line. Had the battery failed, there would be insufficient power to return the ship to Earth.
“Now, let’s everybody keep cool. The LM is still attached, the spacecraft is good. So if we need to get back home, we have the LM to do a good portion of it with. “Let’s make sure that we don’t blow the [remaining] command module electrical power with the batteries, or do anything that would cause us to lose fuel cell 2. We have to keep the oxygen working and would like to save the attitude control propellants. We are in good shape to get home. “Let’s solve the problem, team . . . let’s not make it any worse by guessing.”
Again, the world of swimming , the world of Sport is a world of very limited purview, but at least it is a real world, a genuine world, a legitimate world, a world of meaningful achievement.
Is Kranz's comment reasonable given what you hear during the first 15 minutes of the EECOM tape ?
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
How much power does that TV camera draw? Not much. They had the radios running at the time all you need to do is put your low power tv signal on the private radio loop that was already powered up.
The sorry boy, Armstrong, is indeed nothing more and nothing less than a garden variety pimply faced Eagle Scout. And to be sure, none of those clowns, those pretenders, those ain'tstronauts, ever really flexed their muscles, not really, now did they ? Think about that .
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by decisively
Is Kranz's comment reasonable given what you hear during the first 15 minutes of the EECOM tape ?
Absolutely. Gene Kranz himself uses the expression "fog of war." Why don't you quote bits like that?
For all those following this thread, keep in mind how very important this point is. If any of this is real, they have to know EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS THAT HAPPENED TO PREVENT IT FROM HAPPENING AGAIN. IF THEY SAY ALUMINUM BURNED, OR MIGHT HAVE BURNED, THEY MUST SHOW US ALL, WHAT KIND, HOW MUCH AND HOW IT WAS THAT THE ALUMINUM STARTED TO COMBUST. IF THEY CANNOT SHOW THIS, AND THEY DID NOT, APOLLO IS FULL ON FRAUDULENT, AND SO IT IS IS IS ...
As I shall show, and in a sense already have, as those posting in opposition to me will not be able to find the requisite experimental support in the Cortright documents, Apollo must be phony, as they are claiming to be able to remedy a problem(potentially burning aluminum) they do not understand. How can they send Apollo 14 into space if they don't know what blew 13's tank, if they have no experimental evidence to support their claims ?
Originally posted by decisively
reply to post by sputniksteve
Try this on for size sputniksteve, as you seem to enjoy a direct challenge; the Cortright Commission(Apollo 13 Accident Investigation Commission) claimed that aluminum may have burned in O2 tank two, and that aluminum fuel may have served in providing some of the requisite energy to blow the tank(Teflon being the other alleged fuel candidate). I say this is a bogus claim about aluminum possibly burning. I say that the Cortright Commision provided no substantive evidence to support this claim. What kind of aluminum did the tank feature ? How much of said aluminum type would be required to burn in order to heat the oxygen enough, heat the tank enough, to increase its pressure and cause it to blow ? How is it possible for 10-20 joules worth of spark(Cortright Commission's claim regarding the energy available from the exposed wires to set the tank off) to ignite aluminum ?
The tank is in your court. The Cortright Report is a Public Document, simply google it, and be sure to pay special attention to the appendix that features the details of the experiments they did in support of their claims.
I say it is all BULL , and I OFFER THE CORTRIGHT COMMISSION'S OWN REPORT TO PROVE MY CLAIM. No where in those experimental details do we find anything to support what they alleged may have been true as regards aluminum burning in the context of the Apollo 13 "disaster"/accident.
the full commission report is available here
the report does NOT say that 1.1lbs of Teflon burned.
It says that 1.1lbs of Teflon was available as fuel as part of the O2 tank (Table 4.1 Materials Available within Oxygen tank), along with .8 lbs Al, 2.2 lbs stainless steel, and 1.7 lbs inconel alloys.
A detailed list of the makeup of every component inside the tank (motors, fans, sensors) etc is given in Appendix D, pages 49-58.
so the amount of aluminium is given, as is its location. However it was not necessary for it to burn in order to cause the rupture - the amount of teflon there was perfectly adequate to cause that - on page 4.38 it says that this amount of teflon was "more than sufficient" to acount for the recorded temperature and pressure changes, and that the time frame for them (relatively slow increases taking over 1 minute) weer consistent with the burning of teflon.
Appendix F is "Special tests and analysis" and includes analysis of the energy requirements for ignition and combustion of teflon, and a master list of all tests and analysis performed.
Wherever you got the idea that 1.1 lbs of teflon represents some sort of mystery is unknown - but that source is just plain wrong.
I understand the issue as regards "possibility " very well here. My point of course is that they must launch Apollo 14 with any potential aluminum problems corrected.
Originally posted by decisively
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
Tearing 'em a new one
Read this first; www.google.com... QTdprCRAg&usg=AFQjCNEGuLxdWUAWwfhsrLMeGiwXBaEgVg&sig2=1Nqk1yeB9jF0E-YnjjAX1Q
I understand the issue as regards "possibility " very well here. My point of course is that they must launch Apollo 14 with any potential aluminum problems corrected. And we can clearly see they never made an attempt to identify such problems, the Cortright Report of course being a sham.
Let's proceed now to the commission scientists' major claim, that the burning of 1.1 pounds of Teflon was more likely than not responsible for the blowing of the tank.
First of all, the commission's story is that the tank started with 1.1 pounds of Teflon and was heated for an extended period of time to roughly 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. It was this heating that allegedly exposed the wiring by way of the Teflon insulation's "removal".
Now any genuine forensics specialist would have obtained such a tank and heated it to 1000 degrees F for that very same, alleged, prolonged period of time. This, to determine if said Teflon insulation could in fact be lost from the wiring surface by the process of heating, and so expose the underlying metal.