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basically Apollo 11 astronauts slept on the floor and complained, so Apollo 12 took hammocks up. and slept in luxury
https://airandspace.si.edu/collectio...ollo%2012%20on.
basically Apollo 11 astronauts slept on the floor and complained, so Apollo 12 took hammocks up. and slept in luxury
I doubt they slept in luxury since one side of the hammock was rubberized.Originally Posted by Tikker
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better than sleeping on top of a heat sink.
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No bugs at least
Probably the worlds most expensive hammock! And the lightest at 0.0 ounces.
Ambulo tua ambulo.
If hammocks were used in the lunar module (LM) then it must have been while they were actually on the moon. They wouldn't have slept in the LM when making the transit to the moon and besides, there is no "floor" to sleep on in space where there is no noticeable gravity.
What caught my eye is the dimensions of the hammock. Are those dimensions correct? That hammock is roughly 5-2/3 feet by 1-3/4 feet. You're not getting a diagonal lay on that. Even for a bridge hammock, that's pretty small.
I realize that he LM was really compact and cramped, but ... WOW ..., am I right?! Those must have been some really short and skinny astronauts. Or maybe they just let their feet hang off?
I wonder how they hung them. The only way I can think of would be to stack them one over the other like old seafaring sailing vessels used to do.
I also wonder if the NASA engineers actually calculated the increased lateral forces at the hammock anchor points. Admittedly, the gravitational force on the moon is 1/6 that on earth, but the LM was built to withstand the forces of the internal pressurization from blowing the sides of the LM outward. It wasn't designed for resisting the pressure of two hammocks pulling the sides inward. It must have worked since we didn't crush any astronauts on the moon. But I'd still want to know whether they did the math.
~ All I want is affordable, simple, ultralight luxury. That’s not asking too much is it?
Yes, they were that small. The astronauts slept in their suits (which were pretty stiff) so letting their legs hang off the end wasn't a problem. And the hammocks were stacked one over the other but at right angles to each other. LM10f1-6Hammocks.jpg
Nonsense! They slept 1) in a hammock 2) had the best view when they woke up!
and no bears neither!
In zero gravity wouldn't you need a body bag just to stay in it?
Without gravity you don't have a hammock you have a flag?
I'm obviously not understanding something, but my space travel has been rather limited, I mean not overnight anyway..............
Zero gravity in space isn't a real thing. On the surface of the moon when astronauts hop, they come back to the ground. Inside a ship orbiting earth you are technically in free fall.
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I think they were really just utilized once they were actually on the lunar surface doing experiments and such. Not sure about enroute, but id say probably just floating around.
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