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Offline gwiz

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Re: LM1
« Reply #15 on: December 17, 2014, 09:36:03 AM »
Yes, it burned up some time after the mission. It had staged, so the ascent and descent stages burned up separately.
The Ascent Stage burned up about ten minutes after its last manoeuvre, which lowered the orbit to intersect the atmosphere.

...and I was 24 and already an aerospace engineer at the time of Apollo 11.
Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind - Terry Pratchett
...the ascent module ... took off like a rocket - Moon Man

Offline raven

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Re: LM1
« Reply #16 on: December 18, 2014, 03:18:54 AM »
Wow! :o
What were you working on?

Offline gwiz

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Re: LM1
« Reply #17 on: December 18, 2014, 05:51:04 AM »
Wow! :o
What were you working on?
I was in Hawker-Siddeley's Advanced Projects Group, several projects on the go at the time including reusable space vehicle studies.  That led to me being part of the HS team that in the following year went out to St Louis for McDonnell-Douglas' Space Shuttle Phase B effort.  Unfortunately, MDAC lost out to NA Rockwell and then the US decided they didn't need foreign help anyway.
Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind - Terry Pratchett
...the ascent module ... took off like a rocket - Moon Man