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Originally Posted by mynameiscd
I havent seen it yet but i know what you mean by overdoing it whith the instrument console shaking violently.
During apollo missions this only happended for about 2 minutes with the first stage of the saturn 5. The rest of the flight was pretty smooth even though they were pulling up to 4 gs. There was a bit uf a rough ride (up to 6 gs ) in reentry and maybe a jolt of 12gs as they hit the waves at spashdown but no real shaking more of a gentle rocking and swaying as the rcs and main engines were fighting against each other to keep the craft balanced.
During accent from the moon, because the LM was built with the centre of gravity offset the pilots decribed the motion like a gentle rocking horse as each automatic system corrected the other.
But it makes good drama having everything shake.
The only real time there would have been abit of shaking (more rolling and swaying) was when Neil Armstrong and David Scott were in an uncontrolled spin docked onto agena during tye Gemini 8 mission and had to undock and stabilize the Gemini which was spinning at about 1 rev a second and getting faster.
Armstrong closed one eye and tilted his head so he could see the now blurry pannel and started an automatic sequence which blew the mission and get ready to deorbit but saved their lives.
Cheers
Andy
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Apollo 10 had pogo during the first and second stages but violent shaking the whole time during the TLI while S3 burn was occurring...
But we digress, I enjoyed First Man a lot but agree that it was far better to know the ‘Who’s Who?’ .