Re: (ET) crap - started mowing, and lost forward speeds

["RJ Kanary" <rjkanary nauticom net>]

      Precisely. And the failure was in the Command Module, not with what 
was called in derision
"Cluster's Last Stand ", the mighty Saturn V.

{Might need to take this 'off list' if the moderators are watching. <VBG> }


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael S Briggs" <msbriggs alberti unh edu>
To: "RJ Kanary" <rjkanary nauticom net>
Cc: <noaddress drmm net>; <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: (ET) crap - started mowing, and lost forward speeds


> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, RJ Kanary wrote:
>
> > "(Mark Hanson calls them "Apollo Era") "
> >
> >
> >       And that technology made 11 half million plus mile round trips to 
> > the
> > moon, and NEVER lost a life in transit. The Saturn V launch vehicle NEVER
> > had an in service failure.
>
> Depends on what you mean by an in service failure - Apollo 1 resulted in 
> three casualties, but that was due to a fire during a training exercise, 
> not the actual mission.
>
> Mike