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21-February-2005, 10:18 PM
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Thinking about Apollo (Smallville SPOILERS)
With ingenious subtlety, the latest episode of Smallville introduce the immature adolescent incarnation of The Flash, the fastest man alive. I got to thinking, who is the fastest man alive?
It would have to be an Apollonaut, but which mission? I know Apollo 13 has the altitude record. Does that translate into speed?
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21-February-2005, 10:47 PM
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I believe Apollo 8 holds the speed record.
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21-February-2005, 11:08 PM
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So Jim Lovell, Frank Borman and Bill Anders are the fastest men alive.
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21-February-2005, 11:14 PM
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Actually, this page figures Apollo 10 has the edge for speed, beating out Apollo 8 by about 700mph.
http://pad39a.com/gene/flights.html A John Young bio page I also found has the same info.
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21-February-2005, 11:28 PM
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So Tom Stafford, John Young and Gene Cernan are the fastest men alive.
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21-February-2005, 11:36 PM
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Right, Apollo 10. I remember it was one of the pre-landing missions.
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22-February-2005, 06:18 AM
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Just this past week I was contemplating the speed of the Apollo astronauts. Since "24000 mph" is a figure that I cannot really relate to, translating it to "miles per second" really brings it home. Apollo 10's speed of 24846 mph is just shy of 7 mps.
Salt Lake City has some nice big square blocks (about 7 to a mile) and it just amazes me that in a second's time, an Apollo spacecraft could travel almost 49 [SLC] blocks.
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25-February-2005, 12:21 AM
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This is an interesting take of fastest person...
On 16 August 1960, US Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger entered the record books when he stepped from the gondola of a helium balloon floating at an altitude of 31,330 m (102,800 feet) and took the longest skydive in history. Rocketing downward for 13 minutes, he falls at more than 600 miles per hour, almost breaking the sound barrier with his body. His later jumps were much more stable, and with a functioning 6 foot drogue, he achieved a terminal velocity of 702 MPH On the descent Kittinger became the first man to exceed the Speed of Sound without an aircraft or space vehicle
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