Non, je ne parle pas du dernier voyage de Neil. En fait, c\u2019est m\u00eame tout le contraire : et si Armstrong n\u2019avait pas \u00e9t\u00e9 le tout premier homme \u00e0 marcher sur la Lune ? Ce n\u2019est pas une question si farfelue que \u00e7a, c\u2019\u00e9tait m\u00eame un projet, d\u00e9voil\u00e9 l\u2019IAS en 1962, une tentative d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9e de distancer les sovi\u00e9tiques dans la conqu\u00eate spatiale :<\/p>\n\n
John M. Cord, a Project Engineer in the Advanced Design Division at Bell Aerosystems Company, and Leonard M. Seale, a psychologist in charge of Bell\u2019s Human Factors Division, developed a plan for a desperate mission to put a man on the moon ahead of the Soviets. They unveiled their \u201cOne-Way Manned Space Mission\u201d proposal in Los Angeles at the Institute of Aerospace Sciences (IAS) meeting in July 1962.<\/p>
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Cord and Seale explained that, since neither propellants for departing the moon nor parachutes and an Earth-atmosphere-reentry heatshield would be required, their new approach would slash lunar spacecraft mass. This would enable a rocket with between 450,000 and 1.1 million pounds of thrust to launch a one-man moon lander on a Direct-Ascent path to the moon. Such a rocket would, they estimated, be ready in the United States in 1964 or early 1965.<\/p>
Though they termed it \u201cone-way,\u201d Cord and Seale did not propose a suicide mission. They estimated that a rocket capable of launching a three-man Direct-Ascent Apollo mission to retrieve the One-Way Space Man \u2014 that is, a rocket with between 1.1 million and 3.5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff \u2014 would become available in the U.S. in the 1965-to-1967 period, between 18 and 24 months after his arrival on the moon.<\/p> <\/blockquote>\n\n
Cela n\u2019aurait donc pas \u00e9t\u00e9 une mission suicide, puisqu\u2019il s\u2019agissait de fournir au naufrag\u00e9 volontaire de quoi s\u2019abriter et survivre, en attendant que les USA soient capable de construire et lancer un engin capable d\u2019aller le rechercher et le ramener. Courrez lire l\u2019article, c\u2019est juste passionnant : on y pr\u00e9voyait m\u00eame de d\u00e9poser un petit r\u00e9acteur nucl\u00e9aire sur la Lune, pour fournir de l\u2019\u00e9nergie \u00e0 notre Robinson pressuris\u00e9 : One-Way Space Man (1962)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
Le projet ne s\u2019est jamais concr\u00e9tis\u00e9\u2026 Du moins, c\u2019est ce qu\u2019ils pr\u00e9tendent \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n
Edit: il me semblait bien que j’en avais d\u00e9j\u00e0 parl\u00e9<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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