Who filmed the moon landing? Neil Armstrong first steps?

*GHETTOBLASTER » 05 Mar 2025, 3:11 pm » wrote: ↑
05 Mar 2025, 3:11 pm
All of the copper wiring carries a lot of weight too.
There has to be a certain amount of redundancy..so plan on added weight with more wiring and electronic gizmos for that too.
As I type this it makes me wonder of they used aluminum cable anywhere to save weight...?
At White Sands Missile Range was where they did the destructive "Torture Chamber" testing of this sort of electro mechanical equipment before it got the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval..
A big source of trouble early in the Jet / Rocket Age was the over use of soldered connections. Soldered copper strands tend to "work harden" due to vibration and break.
This is what led to the use of solderless "crimp" style connectors called "Cannon Plugs" . The male and female connectors are gold plated brass.
Reliability / survivability / maintainability testing was a huge success and this technology trickled back into commercial aviation.

I would bet they used aluminum where they could. Only house inspectors **** their shorts over aluminum wiring. But, you're right - everything had to be over-engineered from the ground up.

About 20 years ago, I was in Cocoa Beach, Florida. There was a rather large exhibit by NASA of electrical panels and equipment used in the Hubble Telescope and some from the Space Shuttle, and I believe some stuff from the space station as well. It was a big, outside exhibit on one of the hotel grounds. This stuff was fascinating. None of it was like the circuit boards or electrical equipment you'd find on earth. Nearly everything was made so that it could be repaired/replaced in space. Sort of big, oversized and made to be manually manipulated. Mostly plug-and-play modules. Not delicate at all. Some of it was designed to be repaired/replaced outside of the craft during space walks. They even had engineers there to explain how each piece of equipment or panel was used.

They had some really cool Hubble Telescope posters - snagged a few of those - still have them somewhere. Wish I could have snagged a piece of that equipment - nogo on that.

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