[meteorite-list] UA Science Team Readies For NEAR Landing

From: Stuart Forbes <stuart.forbes_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:41:07 2004
Message-ID: <001a01c091ae$e1e9b220$e89cbc3e_at_oemcomputer>

>
>Stuart originally wrote:
>
>> He had no hand holds, so every
>> time he touched the spacecraft, it pushed him back
>
>Stuart then replied:
>
>> Sure he had some handholds,
>
>Not to point out the obvious, but you just contradicted yourself.

The men on the ground put on the restraints. They never been in space, so
they don't appreciate the problems (oh look, people doing something they've
never done before and things going wrong thanks to the unexpected, isn't
this where we started?). Cernan's in a spacesuit. The spacesuit restricts
movement, so in places there are no handholds as he can't reach them (I
admit I generalised initially). In addition, some restraints are razor sharp
(nice quality control NASA!) and so can't be used.

Oh, and Lovell was talking about Gemini 9, and I recall John Young once
mentioned something similar about his flight on Gemini 10.

Again I ask, as Jim Lovell says that Newton's 3rd law was a problem on
Gemini 9 with Cernan's spacewalk, what evidence do you have to contradict
him?

Regards,

Stuart Forbes
Edinburgh, Scotland
stuart.forbes_at_dial.pipex.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: Meteorite Mailing List <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 4:50 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] UA Science Team Readies For NEAR Landing



>
>> Also from an interview with Jim Lovell where when he talked about
Cernan's
>> experience and the difficulties he had on Gemini 9 he said "Everyone
forgot
>> Newton's 3rd Law", and explained how without handholds you bounce off! So
>> are you saying Jim Lovell's wrong and you're right ?
>
>Jim Lovell is correct, without handholds you would bounce off. However,
>handholds were placed on Gemini 9 because Ed White in the first US
spacewalk
>noted they were needed. Your statement that there were no handholds on
>Gemini 9 is incorrect.
>
>To the other list subscribers, sorry about getting off-topic. I'll
>continue this discussion with Stuart in private email.
>
>Ron Baalke
>
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