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The LEM's Problems / Chap. 11 p. 89
edly he was speaking about a conditioned internal environment. Doesn't that mean the suits
acted as insulation Of course they did.
Obviously this entire story was scripted by the NASA "space opry" writers trying to
obfuscate the fact that NASA claims that the LEM's cooling system could only cool the
electronics. That system, if it ever existed, operated on batteries. Yet, there was no way to
power the additional drain of an air conditioning system, had it been present. Murray & Cox
writes this: "Because the LEM used batteries instead of fuel cells, oxygen didn't figure in the
calculations about power supplies." 6 Thinking about it, electronic equipment turns almost all
the input power into heat. I don't believe the LEM system as described could ever cool that.
During the Apollo 13 mission NASA tells us about an explosion in an oxygen tank
which bled out the other tanks and thereby depriving the fuel cells of the needed oxidizer.
This left the astronauts totally dependent upon the LEM's batteries. As Murray and Cox
report, "Bit by bit, the Lent was powered down to 15 amps per hour, and the astronauts,
wearing thin clothing designed for a long trip in a confined space at 70 degrees, began to get
cold as the temperature dropped below 60 degrees and kept going down." 7
A prelude to this exciting story occurred on the Gemini 5 mission launched August 21,
1965. With astronauts Pete Conrad and Gordon Cooper on board, the fuel cells had an
oxygen pressure reduction that went from 800 down to 120-psi. They powered down which
meant they turned off the capsule's air conditioner. It fell to 55-psi on the next orbit and
then, "The miracle happened: the pressure began to stabilize, though at a very low level."
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It was later determined that the fuel cell heaters had failed and then the Sun's radiant
heat had begun to warm the cells. Wasn't the Sun shining for the first 3 orbits On that same
page we find Cooper and Conrad complaining to ground control, that it was still too cold in
the capsule. "We've been sitting here shivering for the last few hours."
During Gemini 7, Frank Borman, complained that the suit was too warm and that, "The
cabin remained warmer than we wanted..." 9 This was after they had turned down the cabin
heat to as low a setting as possible. First question, why didn't Borman, the man who taught
thermodynamics, insist on a simple on/off switch to the heat Have you ever seen a vehicle
where it was impossible to turn off the heat The heat certainly had to be electrical. Why
wasn't there a simple switch
Second question, why didn't NASA use common thermostats such as we use in houses
and cars Third question, how could this capsule get so warm when it spent half its time in
the Earth's shadow while the Apollo 13 got so cold spending all its time in the direct sunlight
Let's review what NASA claims:
1. On the pad, the entire ship is air-conditioned by conventional air-conditioning powered
from the ground at Kennedy.
NASA MOONED AMERICA! / Rene