Saturn V anecdote
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Benedict Cumberbatch reads the speech President Nixon would have broadcast in the event Apollo 11 became stranded on the moon.
Performed at the Royal Albert Hall followed by Anna Lapwood performing Cornfield Chase from Interstellar on the organ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VX7zYYA_Ec
Performed at the Royal Albert Hall followed by Anna Lapwood performing Cornfield Chase from Interstellar on the organ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VX7zYYA_Ec
Destin from Smarter Every Day gets a fascinating guided tour of a Saturn V by one of the original engineers:
https://youtu.be/1nLHIM2IPRY
Luke Talley worked on the flight computers for IBM that controlled the navigation, staging etc. He’s now a guide at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
https://youtu.be/1nLHIM2IPRY
Luke Talley worked on the flight computers for IBM that controlled the navigation, staging etc. He’s now a guide at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Edited by Beati Dogu on Saturday 31st December 14:31
Beati Dogu said:
Destin from Smarter Every Day gets a fascinating guided tour of a Saturn V by one of the original engineers:
https://youtu.be/1nLHIM2IPRY
Luke Talley worked on the flight computers for IBM that controlled the navigation, staging etc. He’s now a guide at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
That's superb, thanks for posting... thought I'd have a quick look and ended up watching the whole thing.https://youtu.be/1nLHIM2IPRY
Luke Talley worked on the flight computers for IBM that controlled the navigation, staging etc. He’s now a guide at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Edited by Beati Dogu on Saturday 31st December 14:31
From Stephen Coester
I don't think I've shown this photo before.
This tale is about a water test on the launch pad. Water for fire suppression and exhaust cooling was supplied to the pad through giant 36 inch pipes and at high pressure to reach all the way to the top of the Saturn rocket. One day I was performing some test on the LH2 Disconnect Tower and noticed techs configuring the water system. They connected a reducer to the 36 inch flange bringing it down to 12 inches. Then ran a pipe about forty feet from there over to the flame trench with an elbow pointing down into the trench (see photo). Obviously they were going to do some kind of flow test of the water system.
They cleared the immediate area and hit the button to start flow. The tremendous pressure hit that 12 inch pipe like a rocket engine and ripped the whole forty feet of big pipe off of the 36 inch flange. Two things happen at once. First we now had a column of water shooting hundreds of feet straight up. Secondly and more important to me standing just across the flame trench was that forty feet of pipe launching up a couple of hundred feet and slowly tumbling as it decided where to land. We had nowhere to go since we were 30 feet up on our little tower so we just watched. Thankfully the pipe fell into the flame trench missing us and our tower.
During the Apollo program a tech unbolted a 12 inch flange from the water system not knowing the system was pressurized. The flange broke the last few bolts, hit the man in the chest, killing him instantly. Everything was dangerous on the launch pad.
I don't think I've shown this photo before.
This tale is about a water test on the launch pad. Water for fire suppression and exhaust cooling was supplied to the pad through giant 36 inch pipes and at high pressure to reach all the way to the top of the Saturn rocket. One day I was performing some test on the LH2 Disconnect Tower and noticed techs configuring the water system. They connected a reducer to the 36 inch flange bringing it down to 12 inches. Then ran a pipe about forty feet from there over to the flame trench with an elbow pointing down into the trench (see photo). Obviously they were going to do some kind of flow test of the water system.
They cleared the immediate area and hit the button to start flow. The tremendous pressure hit that 12 inch pipe like a rocket engine and ripped the whole forty feet of big pipe off of the 36 inch flange. Two things happen at once. First we now had a column of water shooting hundreds of feet straight up. Secondly and more important to me standing just across the flame trench was that forty feet of pipe launching up a couple of hundred feet and slowly tumbling as it decided where to land. We had nowhere to go since we were 30 feet up on our little tower so we just watched. Thankfully the pipe fell into the flame trench missing us and our tower.
During the Apollo program a tech unbolted a 12 inch flange from the water system not knowing the system was pressurized. The flange broke the last few bolts, hit the man in the chest, killing him instantly. Everything was dangerous on the launch pad.
Sorry if this has been posted already. Possibly worth having again regardless...
Saturn V Flight Manual pdf
https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap12fj/pdf/a12_sa507-...
Saturn V Flight Manual pdf
https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap12fj/pdf/a12_sa507-...
Voldemort said:
Sorry if this has been posted already. Possibly worth having again regardless...
Saturn V Flight Manual pdf
https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap12fj/pdf/a12_sa507-...
Consulting the instruction book is admitting man failure I think.Saturn V Flight Manual pdf
https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap12fj/pdf/a12_sa507-...
paulguitar said:
Consulting the instruction book is admitting man failure I think.
Yes, just try all the buttons until you get the one you want, or if really stuck (eg Apollo 13) phone a friend.
I presume Artemis will be fitted up to the gills with automatic stuff, so perhaps all the astronauts will need is a big green button marked 'GO'...
In fact PH has such a reach that I almost wouldn't be surprised if one of them posted here (1 post, joined that day, occupation 'Astronaut') asking 'Hi, I wonder if any of you guys can...'
Voldemort said:
Sorry if this has been posted already. Possibly worth having again regardless...
Saturn V Flight Manual pdf
https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap12fj/pdf/a12_sa507-...
244 pages and my car's owner's manual is 308 pages.Saturn V Flight Manual pdf
https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap12fj/pdf/a12_sa507-...
And neither of them has a circuit diagram.
Halmyre said:
Voldemort said:
Sorry if this has been posted already. Possibly worth having again regardless...
Saturn V Flight Manual pdf
https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap12fj/pdf/a12_sa507-...
244 pages and my car's owner's manual is 308 pages.Saturn V Flight Manual pdf
https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap12fj/pdf/a12_sa507-...
And neither of them has a circuit diagram.
NASA Saturn V Manual 2016 (Haynes Manuals): 1967–1973 (Apollo 4 to Apollo 17 & Skylab) (Owners' Workshop Manual) https://amzn.eu/d/h8SZw2n
So I’m fine thanks. Still scouting eBay for the hardware though.
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