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re: What if Apollo 11 wasn't able to come back from the moon?
Posted on 6/22/14 at 7:35 am to GEAUXmedic
Posted on 6/22/14 at 7:35 am to GEAUXmedic
That studio they filmed the landing at must have been really far out in the middle of no where
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Posted on 6/22/14 at 7:47 am to GEAUXmedic
Damn, it says after the President's address that a priest would say a prayer and then NASA would cut off communication. Am I reading that right? That's cold.
Posted on 6/22/14 at 7:59 am to GeauxxxTigers23
I'm not 100%sure any of that ever happened.
Posted on 6/22/14 at 8:02 am to GEAUXmedic
I hate space. I wis we would leave it alone.
Posted on 6/22/14 at 8:03 am to Sir Drinksalot
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I hate space. I wis we would leave it alone.
What!?!? Space is awesome.
Posted on 6/22/14 at 8:04 am to GeauxxxTigers23
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What!?!? Space is awesome.
Agreed.
Posted on 6/22/14 at 8:28 am to GEAUXmedic
Would have been an awkward flight back for Michael Collins too. Wonder what the public would have made of the guy who came back
Posted on 6/22/14 at 8:36 am to engvol
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Would have been an awkward flight back for Michael Collins too. Wonder what the public would have made of the guy who came back
The survivor's guilt would've been crushing, I'm sure.
Posted on 6/22/14 at 8:38 am to Godfather1
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The survivor's guilt would've been crushing, I'm sure.
I would have to agree, but imagine how he felt not being chosen to land on the moon. Neil Armstrong was the obvious choice cause his handling of the lunar module was superior, not sure about what differentiated buzz and michael
Posted on 6/22/14 at 8:40 am to GEAUXmedic
BTW, at the WW2 Museum in New Orleans, there's a similar contingency letter on display. It was written by Ike, and in it, he accepts full responsibility in the event the D-Day landings were a failure.
This post was edited on 6/22/14 at 8:41 am
Posted on 6/22/14 at 8:43 am to Godfather1
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BTW, at the WW2 Museum in New Orleans, there's a similar contingency letter on display. It was written by Ike, and in it, he accepts full responsibility in the event the D-Day landings were a failure.
I've never been to the museum, but I definitely wanna check this out
Posted on 6/22/14 at 8:54 am to GeauxxxTigers23
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Damn, it says after the President's address that a priest would say a prayer and then NASA would cut off communication. Am I reading that right? That's cold.
Yeah. NASA would have shut the voice radios of the lunar lander off irreparably from Earth with no way for the astronauts to turn them back on from the moon. Everyone involved knew that in the event of catastrophic failure there was no way that allowing panicked voice transmissions of two doomed men to be broadcast for the world to hear was acceptable.
EDIT: Actually I think it was the other way around. At the moment NASA would cut communications, the astronauts would be considered lost, then the priest would begin the burial at sea type thing.
This post was edited on 6/22/14 at 9:00 am
Posted on 6/22/14 at 7:39 pm to TigerstuckinMS
So, with about 1 min of air left, do you die slowly, or say f'it and open up the hatch?
Posted on 6/22/14 at 8:26 pm to GEAUXmedic
The sheer amount of these speeches I would have given while playing Kerbal Space Program is ludicrous. So many lost Kerbonauts.
Posted on 6/22/14 at 9:14 pm to DirtyDawg
Wonder if decomposition would be different on the moon.
Posted on 6/22/14 at 9:37 pm to Isabelle
This scenario was very unlikely- they could have easily died in an accident, but simply being stuck on the moon was a low likelihood. The LLM had a binary fuel with a manual valve, making a dud impossible.
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