Timeline for Reasons behind the "Transposition, docking and extraction" maneuver
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| Oct 24, 2020 at 18:05 | comment | added | Innovine | I believe these went around the heatshield, not through it | |
| Jun 25, 2017 at 15:07 | comment | added | Uwe | There were connections between CM and SM, for electric power, control signals, oxygen and water. These connections were made through the heatshield. These connections were cut just before reentry of the CM by a guillotine assembley in the SM. There was no hole cut in the heatshield, but the heatshield was build around the existing connections. It was not possible to separate CM and SM temporally. | |
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| Mar 16, 2014 at 9:20 | comment | added | mpv | Would cutting a hole through the heatshield remove the requirement for transposition? I think it would be very difficult to connect the CSM and the LM in this way, because below the heatshield there is the service module and the huge nozzle. Hole in the heatshield would help only if the service module would be below the LM, but that would require even more complicated transposition maneuver (to free the LM and connect the CM with the SM). The structural strength of the LM seems more plausible as a reason, but I'm not sure if this was the main reason. | |
| Mar 14, 2014 at 21:23 | history | answered | geoffc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |