I'm very interested in physic and the big picture of space, it's
amazing. Anyhow I'm not a professor or any kind of professional. I just
want to find out a little more about EVERYTHING. Just keep me posted on
any discoveries. Please mail me @

I just wanted to try atest message.

JKF wrote:
I'm very interested in physic and the big picture of space, it's
amazing. Anyhow I'm not a professor or any kind of professional. I
just
want to find out a little more about EVERYTHING. Just keep me posted
on
any discoveries. Please mail me @

Why is the thread titled "Apoll 13 Hoax???"?

-Mark Martin

Mark Martin wrote:
JKF wrote:

I'm very interested in physic and the big picture of space, it's
amazing. Anyhow I'm not a professor or any kind of professional. I

just

want to find out a little more about EVERYTHING. Just keep me posted

on

any discoveries. Please mail me @


Why is the thread titled "Apoll 13 Hoax???"?

-Mark Martin


Because the guy is a conspiracy moron. Note the jumbled JFK in his sig?
He is not interested in learning, he is just setting up to spam the hell
out of s.p with conspiracy crap.

JKF wrote:

I'm very interested in physic and the big picture of space, it's
amazing. Anyhow I'm not a professor or any kind of professional. I just
want to find out a little more about EVERYTHING. Just keep me posted on
any discoveries. Please mail me @

(contributed by Dave Typinski)

Apollo 13 was screwed by a safety check of an O2 tank's internal
heater thermostat. KSC got re-engineered for 65-Volt power half way
through the space program. Somehow, North American never upgraded the
old 28-Volt heater thermostats in the Apollo Service Modules.

Apollos XI and XII both had the 28-Volt thermostats, but their tank
heaters were never used on the pad. Apollo XIII's O2 Tank 2
thermostat *was* used on the pad (to empty the tank by boiling off the
LOX), at 65 volts, and thus had its wiring's insulation fricasseed.

Having bare, charged wires in an O2 tank is bad juju. When Jack
Swigert turned on the O2 Tank 2 heater half way to the Moon, the
thermostat wires sparked - and you know the rest. Or so says Not A
Space Agency...

--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf

Uncle Al wrote:
JKF wrote:

I'm very interested in physic and the big picture of space, it's
amazing. Anyhow I'm not a professor or any kind of professional. I
just
want to find out a little more about EVERYTHING. Just keep me
posted on
any discoveries. Please mail me @

(contributed by Dave Typinski)

Apollo 13 was screwed by a safety check of an O2 tank's internal
heater thermostat. KSC got re-engineered for 65-Volt power half way
through the space program. Somehow, North American never upgraded
the
old 28-Volt heater thermostats in the Apollo Service Modules.

Apollos XI and XII both had the 28-Volt thermostats, but their tank
heaters were never used on the pad. Apollo XIII's O2 Tank 2
thermostat *was* used on the pad (to empty the tank by boiling off
the
LOX), at 65 volts, and thus had its wiring's insulation fricasseed.


Note that the cause of the fricasee was that the thermostat contacts
fused on.

Having bare, charged wires in an O2 tank is bad juju. When Jack
Swigert turned on the O2 Tank 2 heater half way to the Moon, the
thermostat wires sparked - and you know the rest. Or so says Not A
Space Agency...


Actually it was the stirring motor that he turned on. Personally, I
think it's bad juju to have any electrical wires inside a LOx tank.

Paul Cardinale

Paul Cardinale wrote:

Uncle Al wrote:
JKF wrote:

I'm very interested in physic and the big picture of space, it's
amazing. Anyhow I'm not a professor or any kind of professional. I
just
want to find out a little more about EVERYTHING. Just keep me
posted on
any discoveries. Please mail me @

(contributed by Dave Typinski)

Apollo 13 was screwed by a safety check of an O2 tank's internal
heater thermostat. KSC got re-engineered for 65-Volt power half way
through the space program. Somehow, North American never upgraded
the
old 28-Volt heater thermostats in the Apollo Service Modules.

Apollos XI and XII both had the 28-Volt thermostats, but their tank
heaters were never used on the pad. Apollo XIII's O2 Tank 2
thermostat *was* used on the pad (to empty the tank by boiling off
the
LOX), at 65 volts, and thus had its wiring's insulation fricasseed.


Note that the cause of the fricasee was that the thermostat contacts
fused on.

Having bare, charged wires in an O2 tank is bad juju. When Jack
Swigert turned on the O2 Tank 2 heater half way to the Moon, the
thermostat wires sparked - and you know the rest. Or so says Not A
Space Agency...


Actually it was the stirring motor that he turned on. Personally, I
think it's bad juju to have any electrical wires inside a LOx tank.

1) Have a goal.
2) Keep it simple, stupid.
3) Make it modular with consistent interface rules.
4) Ask the engineer, don't tell bim.
5) If it doesn't do anything, don't send it - and sure as Hell
don't bring it back.
6) Best efforts will not substitute for knowledge.
7) If you want to find the bottleneck, the first place to look is
at the top of the bottle.
8) An advocate makes virtue of failure. The worse the cure the
better the treatment - and the more that is required.
9) All shrapnel is addressed to "occupant."

--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf