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Apollo Discussions => The Reality of Apollo => Topic started by: onebigmonkey on January 08, 2016, 02:16:13 AM

Title: Apollo redundancy - hypothetical question
Post by: onebigmonkey on January 08, 2016, 02:16:13 AM

I'm currently reading Mailer's 'A fire on the moon' and have reached the part where he describes, in detail, the number of spare circuits, pipes, valves and so on that formed a part of each Apollo rocket assembly.

I got to wondering: If they could have been absolutely certain that nothing would go wrong, and that every part would work flawlessly and no accidents or emergencies would happen, how much smaller could the rocket have been? How much mass did all the extra safety mechanisms amount to in the system?

Apollo 13, obviously...

Title: Re: Apollo redundancy - hypothetical question
Post by: Allan F on January 08, 2016, 08:55:40 PM

One could speculate that some of the redundancy could be taken out and the main components engineered a little bit bigger and stronger.