Re: aborting a lunar lander

From: Henry Spencer (henry_at_spsystems.net)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:15:01 GMT

In article <qd2ki05d8lo42lon6op9kfjfpse7lj1u6a@4ax.com>,
Jud McCranie <youknowwhat.mccranie@adelphia.net> wrote:
>Several times I've heard that aborting a lunar landing would have been
>the most complicated maneuver ever done in space. Did they practice a
>lunar abort on Apollo 9 or 10? Go through all of the motions and drop
>the decent stage, etc?

Kind of, especially on Apollo 10. It lacked some of the complications,
not to mention the time pressure, that would have been found in an abort
at low altitude, mind you. 

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