The preliminary design for Europe’s service module, to be used with the Orion spacecraft, has come in about a half ton too heavy.
The preliminary design for Europe’s service module, to be used with the Orion spacecraft, has come in about a half ton too heavy.
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The preliminary design for Europe’s service module, to be used with the Orion spacecraft, has come in about a half ton too heavy.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
That’s .5 metric ton. Or 17143 lbs…
They have all the components needed already sitting on the shelf and flight tested.
That part did they forget to include in the preliminary estimate of weight?
Let me guess. I bet its the airframe itself.
No, your math is off. 0.5 metric ton equals 1,104 lbs. It is a half ton in metric, and it is “about” a half ton in English weights, since the metric and English tons are only about 10% different.
You’re correct, clicked the wrong itme in the conversion program…