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Cotchas ! / Chap. 17 p. 149
(Aldrin) spoke of were made of common steel which has a working tensile strength of
20,000 pounds per inch square.
The Section Modulus (SM) needed to hold this load is found by dividing the MBM by
the tensile. Then SM = MBM / 20,000 or 4,950 divided by 20,000 which equals .2475. The
proper size rib to do that particular job is 2 x 2 x 1/4 inch steel angle iron which has an SM
of .25. Would you call a chunk of metal that is 1/4 inch thick paper-thin Neither would
Aldrin! Obviously, whatever ribs he was writing about would never, ever, hold the internal
pressure necessary to keep men alive and breathing in space.
Just a few words now to put the icing on this particular "Gotcha". Seven paragraphs ago
a direct quote was used to describe how "they repressurized their cabin." They went on to tell
how they did this long checklist. Here's the very next paragraph: "They removed their boots,
slipped out of the backpacks heavy with life-support equipment that had kept them alive on
the moon, reopened the hatch, and dumped them along with crumpled food packages and
filled urine bags onto the surface." 15
Not a word about spending another two hours or so venting the LEM, or about hooking
up air lines to stay alive once the hatch opened onto the vacuum of space. There was no
airlock on any LEM! Gotcha , NASA!
GOTCHA # 7
I finally found out why the early NASA engineers and scientists who wrote Astronautical
Engineering and Science in 1963 used 25 rem as a benchmark on their charts on hull
thickness versus solar activity. I ran out of gas at my daughters house and while waiting for
rescue I began to read some old "National Geographies" magazines. The May 1987 issue
held a feature story by Mike Edwards entitled "Chernobyl - One Year After". On page 640 I
found the following statement. "In general, 5 rem is considered acceptable for a nuclearplant
employee in a year, with 25 rem (the total countenanced for Chernobyl cleanup
workers) an allowable once-in-a-lifetime dose."
The Apollo 16 mission spent 13 days out from under the Van Allan radiation shield.
There had to be an average of 14.47 flares per day as found from the "Monthly Counts Of
Solar Flares" chart. This is a total of 188-flares and for arguments sake we will stipulate that
the better than 1 % of heavy flares didn't happen on this trip nor during the other 72 days
that the other Apollo missions were mooning the Earth. I will even stipulate that their ship's
hull and their suits were a centimeter thick. However, 20 % of these flares had to be of
intermediate activity and each dosed the crew with 25 rem. This represents 37.6 flares which
gives astro-nots John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charles Duke a grand total of 940 rem
apiece.
Three astro-nots went to the moon twice and for the following calculations we shall only
consider the intermediate flares. Astro-not Dick Lovell was allegedly present on Apollo 8
for 6 days and on Apollo 13 for 6 days. This 12 days of total exposure was 870 rem. Astronot
Gene Cernan supposedly was on Apollo 10 for 8 days and on Apollo 17 for 12 days for a
total of 20 days. This amounts to total of 58 flares for a total dose of 1445 rem. However,
astro-not John Young seemingly flew on Apollo 10 for 8 days and on Apollo 16 for 13 days,
for a grand total of 21 days. This gives us 61 flares and 1525 rem exposure. At this
NASA MOONED AMERICA! / Rene