RoundupOver forty-one million people in the United States and abroad lined up in 1970 to look at samples of rocks brought back from the Moon by the crews of Apollo 11 and 12. Another two million visited NASA facilities in the United States.
Vol. 10 No. 8 – February 26, 1971, page 2
Over 40 million see moon rocks, visit space agency facilities
At EXPO '70 in Osaka, Japan, almost 14 million persons viewed a lunar rock sample which was one of the world fair's major exhibits.
In the Unites States, the rock samples were shown at some 128 events covering all 50 states with a total attendance of 12 million. Thirty-seven states had an opportunity to display a sample as part of a 50-state tour of the Apollo 11 command module and a lunar sample. The tour is due to end in May with Hawaii and Alaska the last two stops.
Outside the U.S., samples were shown to almost 30 million people in 110 countries.
During 1970, about three million visitors were attracted to NASA centers across the country. The largest numbers of people visited Kennedy Space Center and MSC, each of which was host to well over a million guests.
Once again hoaxers (hi Adrian and bewaremouse) prompt a search for information and a new source emerges. For info, it is a claim that somehow Apollo suits and other equipment were never tested in vacuum or at altitude.
My memory on this is foggy, but didn't someone come very close to dying while testing a suit in a vaccuum chamber?
Yeah, that was what I thought. I recall that the tech who saved him actually entered the chamber a liitle too early and risked his own safety to get him out. I can't remember where I saw it/read it...
Yeah, that was what I thought. I recall that the tech who saved him actually entered the chamber a liitle too early and risked his own safety to get him out. I can't remember where I saw it/read it...
Probably in the tv-series "Moon Machines - The spacesuit". The incident is shown there.
Btw, thanks for pointing out this series. Watched it the other day and enjoyed it. A little lightweight, but good.
One error that I spotted: they said that the SPS used hydrogen and oxygen instead of hypergolics.
Btw, thanks for pointing out this series. Watched it the other day and enjoyed it. A little lightweight, but good.
One error that I spotted: they said that the SPS used hydrogen and oxygen instead of hypergolics.
Which part was that? The one about the Command Module?
Probably in the tv-series "Moon Machines - The spacesuit". The incident is shown there.
Yeah, there's some nut on youtube demanding a vacuum chamber demo of the suit because he finds it hard to believe the ice sublimation system works the way it's described.
Yeah, there's some nut on youtube demanding a vacuum chamber demo of the suit because he finds it hard to believe the ice sublimation system works the way it's described.
The ice sublimation system exploits the vacuum (as we know). Ralph Rene did not understand this, and neither did Blunder Wonder when he parroted Ralph.
Yeah, there's some nut on youtube demanding a vacuum chamber demo of the suit because he finds it hard to believe the ice sublimation system works the way it's described.
The ice sublimation system exploits the vacuum (as we know). Ralph Rene did not understand this, and neither did Blunder Wonder when he parroted Ralph.
The classic logical fallacies of argument from disbelief (I find it difficult to understand, therefore it is not true) and argument from self belief (it it were true, then I would know about it. I don't know about it, therefore it must be false).
I can't imagine how a person could have an ego so large that it would stop them from learning new things.
Did Rene understand anything? From what I have read and viewed it wasn't much in the way of engineering/science for sure. I can remember his rubber glove in the vacuum chamber. To a casual observer it looked plausible, but when you think about the 14.6 psi difference versus the 3.8 psi usage, it all falls apart as most(all?) of Rene's thoughts.Yeah, there's some nut on youtube demanding a vacuum chamber demo of the suit because he finds it hard to believe the ice sublimation system works the way it's described.
The ice sublimation system exploits the vacuum (as we know). Ralph Rene did not understand this, and neither did Blunder Wonder when he parroted Ralph.
Did Rene understand anything? From what I have read and viewed it wasn't much in the way of engineering/science for sure. I can remember his rubber glove in the vacuum chamber. To a casual observer it looked plausible, but when you think about the 14.6 psi difference versus the 3.8 psi usage, it all falls apart as most(all?) of Rene's thoughts.All Rene did was to convincingly demonstrate why NASA doesn't use local hardware store gloves in EVA suits.
The Apollo astronauts did complain about tired hands, because the gloves were hard to flex.Yes, especially A 17, but that was probably because the length of stay and work loads.
The Apollo astronauts did complain about tired hands, because the gloves were hard to flex.Yes, especially A 17, but that was probably because the length of stay and work loads.
I wonder if spacesuits might want to take a cue from atmospheric diving suits and have the hands inside the spacesuit controlling basically short waldos.
Atmospheric diving suits have the much bigger challenge since the pressure differences across them can be huge. Spacesuits only need withstand about 260 mb or so, and much simpler solutions are feasible (though not necessarily easy).I've gone brain challenged, what does 260 mb mean?
Atmospheric diving suits have the much bigger challenge since the pressure differences across them can be huge. Spacesuits only need withstand about 260 mb or so, and much simpler solutions are feasible (though not necessarily easy).I've gone brain challenged, what does 260 mb mean?