http://www.btinternet.com/~ursine/LMhandbook.pdf (Warning: 37 megabyte PDF file)
Starting today at 0800 hours, all hoax believers will be evacuated to temporary internment camps for re-eductation duties. You will be required to study this entire document and hand in your comprehensive point-by-point refutation by Thursday, September 21st.
Seriously, though. I'd really love to read a woo-woo "de-bunking" of this training manual.
Edit: Somebody please tell the guy who scanned this that it's really difficult to read improperly cropped block diagrams. :roll:

Thanks for the link. Yet another item to place on my reading list...

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And if anyone knows the whereabouts -- digital or print -- of the other parts to this documents, please let us know.

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What parts are missing?

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According to Rick Sternbach, the 804-page document is merely one part of volume 1. Volume 1 itself runs to several thousand pages, and there is no sign of volume 2.

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They really didn't need to fly to the Moon. They could have just have stacked up that one document alone and climbed there.

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The landing was obviously a fake, since in the 60's NASA did not have the word processing technology that would be necessary to produce such a document. Kinko's would not be invented until 1970, after Apollo 11! AHA!

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Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test

Brilliant! =D>

If you've never worked on a project whose operations handbook won't fit into the trunk of your car, you've let the best in life pass you by.

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Let's see - are you talking about a 1960's trunk? Ee gads man!

That's a lot of operations handbook!
"Thank you for purchasing your new ThingaMaBob. Please read this manual fully before using to ensure years of enjoyment."

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"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!"
Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test

It's a rule in the space field that you're not ready to fly until the mass of your paperwork exceeds the mass of your spacecraft.

IIRC, that's a phrase coined by Wernher von Braun.

Harald

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That's been a common phrase in engineering for a very long time.

Part of the engineering dilemma these days is that we're creating systems so complex that not only do the instructions not fit into your car, they won't fit into your brain either. "Operator error" in many cases means that the system exhibited behavior that the operator couldn't fully comprehend. Systems are getting too complex to be fully grasped by even a highly-trained and astute human mind.

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We've got a couple of microwave ovens at school. One is fancy and expensive, and one isn't. They both have the same power output, so both cook the food as fast.

The expensive one has a clock, and a touch pad and LED display. When you plug it in, you have to set the clock. Otherwise it doesn't work. This task isn't at all intuitive. It's one of those where you have to press and hold some unrelated button for 5 seconds, then punch in the time. We have to set this every time we want to use it as, being a school, we turn the power off when we've finished to stop the kids microwaving CDs or each other. Then you set the power. Another 3 button presses. Then the time. Beep beep beep beep. Then START. But what if you want to increase the time? Or lower the power? While it's going? Forget it. Press cancel and start again.

The cheaper one? Two knobs. One for power, one for time. The Power and the Time are painted round the knobs and there's a little arrow on each. Put food in, close door, turn knob and we're off. Oops, power is set to defrost and we want high. No problem, turn it up as it's going. Not plugged in? Plug it in and it starts up with the settings on the dial.

Guess which one we use?

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A bit of a tangent, but it's interesting you should say that....an article appeared in the SMH just this morning, describing the findings of the psychology experiments at Stanford & Columbia Unis. It makes findings about a human preference for more choice, but an inability to cope with it!


(edited to remove a url that led to a registration screen - sorry! ops: )

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That was a big file; it took five minutes to download!

Those folks in the space field have always had it easy! Back in my Naval Nuclear days, when we finished a power unit, three rail cars were necessary to deliver it to the shipyard: one flatbed for the power unit in the shipping container, and two full-sized boxcars for the certification paperwork. 8-[

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I've always been suspicious of manuals and other documents that list the first of April as their publication or revision dates. If the organization is big enough, you know there's got to be at least one clown in there somewhere. And, based on the technical writers I've known, they would be among the usual suspects. For example, consider Bill Kaysing.

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Kewl, I've just found my new wallpaper! No, not for Windows... for my house \/

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A quick Copernic search brings up a few citations to LM790-3-LM, such as page 7 of NASA's REPORT OF APOLLO 13 REVIEW BOARD.

The NASA Center for Aerospace Information has the following listing for LMA790-1, Lunar excursion module familiarization manual:

This is obviously not what you're looking for but I posted it FWIW.

I'm guessing you have done a pretty thorough search (by the tone of the post quoted above), but I'll do a little checking on my own - not that I'm pretending to be an authority though I have a some (nightmarish) experience running down some fairly obscure technical references.

Has anyone contactd the NASA History Office or maybe Northrop Grumman Media Relations. Those are the ideas that come off the top of my head, anyway.

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"When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the aircraft, the mission can depart the station." -- oft-repeated and anecdotally quite accurate statement from yr obdt svt's USAF career 30+ years ago...which means a lot of trees gave their lives to get them BUFFs off the ground...

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