[FPSPACE] Apollo 15: The Case of the Missing Panels

[David Portree]

Hadn't heard of that one! 

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From: john.b.charles at nasa.gov
To: dsfportree at hotmail.com
CC: drwoods at stny.rr.com; fpspace at friends-partners.org
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:54:42 -0500
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Apollo 15: The Case of the Missing Panels

Plus remember that Gemini 6 contributed its re-entry control system to the Agena-replacement ATDA flown as a target for Gemini 9. (And Tom Stafford was on both 6 and 9.) 

JBCSent from my iPhone. Please forgive typos. 
On Apr 18, 2012, at 18:40, "David Portree" <dsfportree at hotmail.com> wrote:





Borrowing bits seems to have happened quite a bit, and not just on the human side. Magellan was a Frankenstein's Monster spacecraft, with a Voyager backup dish antenna and main bus structure, plus a Mariner 9 backup star tracker (the oldest item it included - from 1971!), among other bits and pieces. That was how they managed to cut costs to save VOIR after Reagan's attack on spaceflight in 1981-1982 (which he subsequently thought better of after the Shuttle started flying - space made for great photo ops). 

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> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:21:13 -0400
> From: drwoods at stny.rr.com
> To: fpspace at friends-partners.org
> Subject: [FPSPACE] Apollo 15: The Case of the Missing Panels
> 
> I came across an interesting article about how parts from historic 
> Apollo artifacts were taken from one spacecraft and used on another to 
> save expense, time, and certification: 
> http://www.space1.com/pdf/news0704.pdf
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