Another Apollo question - CM/SM systems interface.

[Icerigger]

I don’t remember a similar connection on Gemini with their Service Module, they must have had one. Yes?

A good pic of the connection on the Apollo 13 SM.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.daviddarling.info/images/Apollo_13_damage.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/A/Apollo_13.html&usg=__Y4ynG_TaHISA3HWiOQ0V1wpl-ys=&h=508&w=342&sz=39&hl=en&start=7&um=1&tbnid=__mX-WS1bdpgbM:&tbnh=131&tbnw=88&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dapollo%2B13%2Bservice%2Bmoduel%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG%26um%3D1

[MrFloppy]

This diagram shows some contraption that ‘overlaps’ the actual Gemini module and could house the umbilical: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/diagrams/gemini5.gif

Down on the right hand side at the 3 o’clock position.

[postcards]

@USCDiver

Another reason that photo couldn’t possibly be Apollo 13 is because there wasn’t a time while they were circling the moon when the LEM wasn’t attached to the CM. Likewise, who would’ve taken that picture with the moon in the background?

Here’s a shot of 13’s CSM.

[USCDiver]

@postcards

Here’s a shot of 13’s CSM.

Yeah, that’s a picture the crew took after they’d jettisoned the CSM.

[Cliffy]

@USCDiver

Yeah, that’s a picture the crew took after they’d jettisoned the CSM.

Nitpick – that is, of course, the Service Module alone, not the CSM. Tough to get home after you jettison the Command Module.

–Cliffy

[Ponderoid]

Nevermind. I had an old copy of the thread still open.