Re: LOR question

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:41:58 -0400, Jud McCranie
<youknowwhat.mccranie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:32:26 -0400, Jud McCranie
<youknowwhat.mccranie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

At http://oea.larc.nasa.gov/PAIS/Rendezvous.html it says "If
rendezvous had to be part of Project Apollo, critics of LOR felt that
it should be done only in Earth orbit. if that rendezvous failed, the
threatened astronauts could be brought back home simply by allowing
the orbit of their spacecraft to deteriorate. "

If the LM was allowed to reenter, the astronauts are dead anyway. Is
the point really that there is a chance of a rescue mission if the
rendezvous fails in Earth orbit?

I realized that they are talking about no orbit around the moon, and
really talking about a failure of the SM engine - not a failure of the
rendezvous.

....Ah, but the real "What The ***??" scenario is how the crew
would/could survive any combination of two failures following an SM
main engine *and* RCS failure:

1) What if the SM could not be detached?

....And/Or:

2) What if the LM could not be detached?

....Somehow I doubt the Glenn option would be applicable, much less
desireable.

OM
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