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- From: clj@ksr.com (Chris Jones)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Space suit research?
- Message-ID: <18910@ksr.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 07:17:10 EST
- References: <BxwA7z.LsH.1@cs.cmu.edu>
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- Organization: Kendall Square Research Corp
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- In-reply-to: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts)
-
- In article <BxwA7z.LsH.1@cs.cmu.edu>, roberts@cmr (John Roberts) writes:
- >I believe the astronauts normally moved between the Command Module and the
- >Lunar Module via a pressurized docking adapter. However, while two of the
- >astronauts were on the moon, a camera mounted on the Service Module was
- >busy taking beautiful stereo aerial photos of the lunar surface.
-
- (Aerial?) This was done on the later flights, which spent more time in the
- vicinity of the moon. I recall this started with Apollo 15, but I don't have a
- reference handy to confirm that.
-
- > When the
- >astronauts came back from the moon, one of them had to do an EVA to
- >retrieve the film. This is depicted in the NASA Select video of Apollo 16
- >(a great video, if you ever have a chance to see it).
- >
- >I'm not sure whether this was done before or after unsealing the Lunar Module -
- >Command Module adapter - I would guess before, so the Command Module would
- >not have to be depressurized.
-
- As I recall, the EVA was done on the return trip to earth, after the LM upper
- stage had been discarded. The CM, naturally, was depressurized. It was the CM
- pilot who got to do the EVA (he was owed, after all!).
-
- >Question: was the Lunar Module normally pressurized before takeoff?
-
- Yes. It was repressurized basically immediately after every EVA so the
- astronauts could take off their helmets and gloves.
-
- > And
- >after the film EVA, was it pressurized again before unsealing the docking
- >adapter?
-
- See above.
- --
- Chris Jones clj@ksr.com
-