After a long period of inactivity, Björkman has updated his page again. I really shouldn't be doing this, but...
He is still amazed by the transposition, docking and extraction maneuver. He has added a picture (
AS09-20-3064) of the docked LM and CSM with the following caption:
Photo of Service Module and Command Module, CSM, taken by somebody sitting on the Lunar Module, LM, fitted on top of Commande Module after release of LM and flipping CSM 180° and reconnection of LM to CSM!
He still has no idea of how relative velocity and spacecraft maneuvers work in space. Oh, and that "someone" making the picture is
Schweickart. The mission is
Apollo 9 - it was a test flight, and both the LM and the CSM never went further than low Earth orbit during the mission. One of the test objectives was the docking and re-docking of the CSM with the LM.
Björkman also has managed to find someone as ignorant of spaceflight as he is:
Imagine that - manually checking the computer calculations! How to steer an LM with only one big rocket engine is described here! It looks as if it is impossible.
The linked page repeats a common (and long-debunked) claim: that the LM was inherently unstable, because of the LLRV/LLTV crashes, with the Delta Clipper experimental vehicle thrown in. The author appears to rely extensively on Gerhard Wisnewski's book. He also tries to claim that photos of the LLRV/LLTV in flight are faked, alleging inconsistencies between photos. Hello, there are
videos of these thing flying! There's also a picture of the LM in lunar orbit, after separation, with the following curious caption:
"A Lunar Module floating through the black background, probably on a crane, surely not in "space" because the engine flame is missing." Does this guy really think that spacecraft need to be firing their engines all the time to stay in space?
Back to Björkman. He has discovered retroreflectors, adding a whole new paragraph:
But they allegedly left an experiment on the lunar surface to prove that they had been there, which (2004) continues to work as well as it did the day it got there, 1969. The Apollo 11 lunar laser ranging reflector consists of 100 fused silica half cubes, called corner cubes, mounted in a 46-centimeter (18-inch) square aluminum panel. Each corner cube is 3.8 centimeters (1.5 inches) in diameter. Corner cubes reflect a beam of light directly back toward its point of origin. Anyone can send a laser signal to it on the Moon and the signal will bounce back - ergo - the cosmokrauts were on the Moon. However, in 1969 they forgot to tell anybody about it. Imagine that! A whole or half silica cube with a diameter that bounces light!
No, the retroreflectors were left to measure precisely the distance to the Moon, not to be a "proof". They do work as evidence that someone left them there, though. And their existence was known from the very beginning. Seriously, does he really think that this is some modern invention?
And I have no idea what the last sentence is supposed to mean.
