Re: From the Passenger seat...

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Henry Spencer <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Randall Clague wrote:
I'm am idiot! I only had Swigert on that mission, because he docked with the LM. But that crazy visual nav during the midcourse
sure as hell qualifies, and I forgot all about it. Who was
manning the stick during that? Was there more than one?

Yes. Lovell on pitch, roll, and throttle; Haise on yaw; Swigert on timing. It wasn't as wild and woolly as the movie version would have
it, but it was definitely not a one-man show. Flying an LM without
computer help was tricky. At least Lovell and Haise get points for
that one.

(Yaw -- which in the LM coordinate system was rotation around the
thrust axis -- might not seem critical, but Lovell was using Earth as
a reference for pitch and roll control, and Haise had to keep it
where Lovell could see it.)

At this point, was everything turned off in the LM except for the air
circulation fan and the S-band radio?

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Dave Michelson
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