Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!mitel!testeng1!stanfiel
From: stanfiel@testeng1.misemi (Chris Stanfield)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: apollo 13
Message-ID: <5726@testeng1.misemi>
Date: 13 Dec 90 16:04:25 GMT
References: <90346.083237TACON019@ysub.ysu.edu>
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In article <90346.083237TACON019@ysub.ysu.edu> TACON019@ysub.ysu.edu (Fred Ullom) writes:
>I was just curious, is the LEM still orbiting the earth or did the orbit
>decay?
It re-entered, as did the CSM, burning up in the process (or at least
burning up a lot - I think that there was enough debris expected that
they aimed them into the Pacific, for safety). I seem to remember a
photograph taken at the time, I think by a high-altitude camera on a
NASA or USAF aircraft, that showed the three re-entry trails all in
the same frame (i.e. the CSM, the LEM and the capsule - the first two
burning up, and the latter having its heat shield ablated). The
picture was not unlike three meteorites in line-astern. Anyone
remember this, or am I out to lunch? Rumour has that I'm out to lunch
anyway. 

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