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Gotchas ! / Chap. 17 p. 146
tion and keeps the scope precisely and automatically on a target.
If one centers a bright star that is low in the east at midnight, when daylight breaks the
scope would still be pointed at the target, provided the tracking device was working properly.
At that time one would either see the star or not.
Before I could make any arrangements for this experiment the "SAT & TELESCOPE"
magazine came to my rescue. In the September 1994 issue on page 99 is a two page article
entitled "How to See Stars in the Daytime". It goes on to say that only the bright stars and the
planets are visible under 50-power magnification. This is not exactly naked eye visibility
that I had heard about, but it does prove that here at the bottom of the murky, polluted, dusty,
water laden fluorescent well we call the atmosphere, people can see stars in the daytime.
This question is for you, Buzz Aldrin. How could you, and every other astronaut not be
able to see the stars in the daytime from a vantage point 160 miles above the Earth's surface,
where the remaining atmosphere is so tenuous that it might just as well be the vacuum of
space Gotcha NASA!
GOTCHA # 3
On each of the 9 Apollo missions, which allegedly rounded the Moon, the command
capsule and the service vehicle had to separate from the last stage of the Saturn booster's
now dead carcass. This was accomplished by using explosive bolts and cable shears called
"Pyros". After this separation, which was done as they neared the Moon, the command
module would be turned around so that the command capsule could probe the LEM's drogue
and connect up the access tunnel. Once attached the hatch covers on both LEM and command
capsule could be removed, allowing free, if cramped access. Without any real practice,
except in simulators, these men did this nine times in a row without a problem.
Which also means that nine (repeat 9) times in a row the vital, pyros must have worked
flawlessly. If one exploding bolt "hung-fire" for even a millisecond, or if the exploding shear
left even one wire not completely severed, the delayed and uneven force would induce a
motion contrary to the rest of the impulses. The carcass would begin to rotate and by the
time the command capsule reversed its attitude, linkup would no longer be possible. It would
be like taking a flying probe at a rolling drogue. How could such perfection be possible nine
times in a row It wasn't! On Apollo 13 the blasts that separated the service module not only
rocked the craft but caused a rippling movement. 8
Remember the Apollo mini-disasters that I spoke of in "No Business Like Showbiz"
Here's one that Apollo 14 was supposed to have gone through. Stu Roosa had the Apollo
capsule thrust its probe into the little LEM's drouge only to meet with total rejection. Over
the next hour or so he backed off and tried again and again. But each time, his probe was
refused entrance. He had only enough steam for one more attempt when Shepard told him,
"This time, juice it!" 9 On the sixth attempt he rammed it with all his might and the probe
latched inside the drouge real tight.
Are we supposed to believe that on every attempt to drive that probe home longitudinal
axes of both ship and carcass were dead in line So matched that not one dyne of force was
NASA MOONED AMERICA! / Rene