Stanley: You also ask if I have any connection to NASA. Would it matter? If so, why, and if not, why ask? I suspect whatever I might say would distract the discussion. I would rather focus on evidence. The identity of X was not revealed in the CCCC thread for a similar reason.
OK, Stanley, so you’re going to hide behind X of CCCC fame. He hasn’t revealed his identity either, (though he said he would at the right time.) You, obviously, plan to do the same. So we are deprived of knowledge which might help some of us determine your real credentials. So, yes, it does matter.
I’ll simply assume that you have some kind of pedigree. I’ll ask you merely to comment on one tiny aspect, a specific event touching the Apollo 13 saga. Surely you can help clear up one little matter for me.
Since I am apparently numbered among the conspiracy nutters, who can only fall back on the information provided by an occasional youtube video, please, with your much greater and far ranging collection of knowledge and data, explain to me a seeming contradiction in the NASA record.
Let me set this up in an admittedly awkward manner. I have no formal training, and will probably misrepresent or screw up some of the details. But please bear with me.
The Apollo 13 crew makes it to the moon, or within striking distance of the Moon. Suddenly it all goes kaablooey. An oxygen tank explodes in the command module, or is otherwise disabled. Battery power is running out, and the water supply low. They have only enough power, (12 Amps) to run a kitchen blender, and that won’t last long. What do they do?
Well, to make a long story short, they shimmy their way up into the lunar landing module (LEM). That vehicle is still attached to the third stage of the Saturn rocket because the actual lunar landing never materializes and has to be aborted for the reasons explained.
The LEM is a rickety affair, a patchy looking piece of junk overlaid with the equivalent of multiple layers of Reynolds Wrap, (or is it mylar?). Total thickness of this dubious fabric, we are told, does not exceed 12 thousandths of an inch. With a little effort, one can poke one’s finger through the material.
Nevertheless, this is the tiny vehicle our valiant astronauts must now occupy and navigate 200,000 plus miles through space before splashing down on earth. Designed originally for two men, it now has three men crammed into its tiny quarters.
Leaving aside all the potential, (and obvious) radiation hazards in deep space, let’s focus only on the temperatures outside the capsule’s thin barrier, and inside the same. That’s the issue the video cited below addresses.
The ever ebullient and confident NASA astronaut Alan Bean, who allegedly walked the Moon’s surface on the Apollo 12 mission, tells us that temperatures, when hurdling through space, can soar to 250 degrees F. He should know. He’s been there, he says. Bean dies in 2018, so is not around to repeat the numbers.
NASA makes a video docuмentary about Apollo 13, as well. In this docuмentary we hear from NASA Project Manager, Gene Kranz, and at least one other experienced astronaut. They tell us that temperatures on board the LEM plummet to 34 degrees. That’s a 280 degree plus discrepancy in the two tales. So how are the astronauts keeping warm? Or, how are they keeping cool, as the case may be?
We assume that the LEM is probably not going to provide much protection from extreme space temperatures. It’s interior is separated only by a very thin outer skin. After all, this vehicle was constructed for a relatively short descent to the Moon’s surface, not for a 200,000 mile journey through space.
The video provided is admittedly pretty badly made and edited. It contains a view gratuitous obcenities, as well. Yet it does provide the recorded testimonies of both Alan Bean and Gene Kranz, and it’s pretty obvious that these two are not on the same page. Can you explain the discrepancy?
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