Fly Me To The M00N
- Thread starter Arjun
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Wait 'till we hear about the first pregnancy in space
During a NASA Press Conference: "We can explain...."
Oceanslider
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And just wow, in Visalia California, if you ask someone what they think of the moon landings of the 1960s 1970s, you will get a response of "What's that?" "Never heard of um".
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Anybody know how long it took to tow the Orion to the ship? Or what the distance was? Unless the ship was really far away, I thought it was all for show to hoist the crew into helicopters instead of taking them away in a boat, or just leaving them inside the Orion until it was towed into the mother ship.
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I'm sure there is some reason, it made me wonder myself also. I wondered why they did not have the ship pull up real close right away and get the pod in the back by like the video I just posted above. Other than getting them out in the back bay of the ship would not be easy as the ship would need to keep maneuvering. Also from that back bay area of the ship the astronauts would have to walk through narrow corridors within the ship, possibly up stairways, etc. Their body went from zero gravity to quite a few G's on reentry (more than takeoff's 3-4 G's, something like 6-9 G's during reentry). NASA just wants to be safe. I would think from the flight deck after they went out of sight they went right into medical rooms on that decks level.
Also the reason they put them on a raft. The door to the pod is closed securely from inside. Unless someone wanted to go inside and close it. They would want to pull the pod away from the salt spray of the blades of the helicopter. Rather than getting a mist of salt air inside the pod.
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