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Gotchas ! / Chap. 17 p. 152
high speed. Just as you must apply the brakes while coming down a hill to round a sharp
curve, the service engine must deaccelerate the space craft as they zipped down the Moon's
gravity hill in order to make the turn around the Moon.
Well these men had "The Right Stuff, and had already begun to implement their sensible
retreat to the LEM while mission control was still dithering and blathering. 20 Mission control
finally agreed to allow them to use the LEM's decent engine to enter a lunar orbit and again
to blast for Earth. This also meant that any necessary mid-course corrections would also
depend solely on the LEM's 9 tons of fuel. Adding to the equation is the fact that, in addition
to the 20 or so tons of unburned fuel in the service vehicle there would be an additional
15,400 pounds of LEM, plus its 9- tons of fuel plus 33,000 lbs for the service vehicle. That's
over 100,000 pounds.
When the service engine performs the same job, Aldrin, says the lunar orbit burn takes 6
minutes. 21 Then Aldrin reports that, to send the craft back to Earth, it took a 2.5 minute burn
which consumed 5-tons of fuel. 22 This is a rate of 2 tons per minute and indicates that the
lunar orbit burn consumed 12 tons of fuel. Please bear in mind that the service engine has no
throttle. It's either all on or all off. When operating, the engine consumes the maximum fuel
per minute. This leaves us with the unalterable fact that 17 tons of fuel were needed to do the
job, without any later mid-course corrections and without all that extra mass.
And naturally, because of all the extra mass, it would logically have required much more
than 5 tons of fuel to accelerate up the Moon's gravity hill for the return to Earth. Still ... the
LEM only had 9 tons of fuel.
They didn't even complete the first burn, yet, they were short 3 tons of fuel. NASA
would later claim that, "On the first three lunar flights, Apollos 8, 10, and 11, the spacecraft
had been programmed so that the final engine burn launched the ship into a "free return
trajectory". Once the craft looped around the moon, it would be on the correct course for its
return trip to earth. No additional engine firings would be required." 23 This is suposedly a
trajectory that doesn't require any lunar deacceleration to round the Moon and return directly
to Earth.
I am having a problem with NASA's analysis. To get to the Moon you must travel away
from the Earth. If you skim by the Moon you are still going away from the Earth. If your
velocity is high you will then go a damn long way past the Moon before you will lose all
velocity and then be sucked back toward it. Falling back will take as long as going out did.
Apollo 13 didn't spend any extra days in space so how the hell did they rub off all that
velocity
Harry Hurt, the author of FOR ALL MANKIND is a most meticulous researcher and the
following was in his book which was published in 1988. "The first burn would sling
shot the spacecraft around the backside. The second and even more critical burn was the
Trans-Earth Injection or TEI, which would blast the spacecraft toward home."
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This is directly contradicted by THE FLIGHT THAT FAILED by Cooper which was
NASA MOONED AMERICA! / Rene