To: prisoner6
Someone correct me if I'm wrong. My understanding of the crew compartment, it is simply a pressure vessel within the space frame. Could the pressure vessel could survive re-entry?
To: OneLoyalAmerican
To: OneLoyalAmerican
The crew module from 51-L survived the explosion at 73 seconds. The module is structurally designed to survive higher g-loads than the rest of the vehicle, so the crew module emerges from the rest of the vehicle as a cannon-ball would.
The question is if the crew module can be on a trajectory that can slow to a few hundred miles an hour prior to impact.
I doubt it.
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02/01/2003 8:19:55 AM PST by
bonesmccoy
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