STS
Well-known member
Dear all,
On the coming up month of november I will embark again on a real time simulation adventure, this time with Apollo 7. I feel more and more comfortable with the rendezvous, wich I think is the most challenging part of the mission, but I have a few thoughts or questions that I would like to share with you before I launch.
On the coming up month of november I will embark again on a real time simulation adventure, this time with Apollo 7. I feel more and more comfortable with the rendezvous, wich I think is the most challenging part of the mission, but I have a few thoughts or questions that I would like to share with you before I launch.
- P23: Is it possible to be completed on LEO, and with the Apollo 7 (8) software? I understood that the crew had a lot of trouble with it and even they could not complete the tests for P23, if I understood the mission report correctly: https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a410/A07_MissionReport.pdf . Also I encountered problems when practising it on NASSP 8.
- Using VC: I understand that the VC is not supported at this moment, as it is not completed. During test runs of parts of Apollo 7 I encontered some issues (indicators not properly 'calibrated', and unknown switches being triggered when using right mouse button to move the view [seems like there are some clickspots not correctly mapped, but don´t know exactly where, so I couldn´t report them]) so: do you recommend me to use the VC for this mission or I should use the supported 2D panels? What is the worst that could happen when using the VC?
- About rendezvous and T&D demo: Did the crew perform a flyaround on the S-IVB or just stayed on keepstation when the rendezvous or the T&D demo finished? About the T&D I know that they couldn´t get very close to the S-IVB because a panel failed to deploy fully, but I don´t know if they intended to get very close to the S-IVB as to simulate a docking.
- How about recovering the Post-Splashdown Egress? Could we have it on a update by november? (https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/nassp-7-crew-egress-on-splashdown.39787/)