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Old 22-May-2002, 06:31 PM
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It is paper - just not made from wood pulp.
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More precisely the paper is composed of 25% linen and 75% cotton.

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Besides, it's hardly certain that any money has been taken into space. Last time I checked, Wal-Mart doesn't have a store up there...
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Somebody onboard the MIR had a wooden guitar, it was on TV when the MIR started to seriously fall apart. He didn't play it in outer space, though...

I don't think anything spectacular would happen to wood in space... Any water that's left in the wood will be sucked/pushed out, and it may break because of great thermal stress. But besides that, it will just float around. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
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More precisely the paper is composed of 25% linen and 75% cotton.

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I always wondered why you could wash your jeans with a dollar bill in the pocket and the bill would come out fine, but the receipt that was in the same pocket would be reduced to pocket lint!

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Didn't the Chinese (or possibly the Russians) use a heat shield made of oak or something like that? I seem to remember Henry Spencer posting something about it on sci.space many years ago.
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Didn't the Chinese (or possibly the Russians) use a heat shield made of oak or something like that? I seem to remember Henry Spencer posting something about it on sci.space many years ago.
I can't see how anyone could make a heat shield out of combustible material!

I didn't read the first page of posts but if no one else mentioned it, was there any wood in the golf clubs taken to the moon? That is unless you think that shot was faked. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] Just kidding.
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Old 29-May-2002, 12:04 AM
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Didn't the Chinese (or possibly the Russians) use a heat shield made of oak or something like that? I seem to remember Henry Spencer posting something about it on sci.space many years ago.
I can't see how anyone could make a heat shield out of combustible material!
I think it may have been treated not to burst into flames before it ablated away.
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I didn't read the first page of posts but if no one else mentioned it, was there any wood in the golf clubs taken to the moon?
There were no golf clubs taken to the Moon. The head of a golf club was taken which the guy attached to some other instrument. Don't know what kind of golf head, but I think it was an iron.
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I think it may have been treated not to burst into flames before it ablated away.

There were no golf clubs taken to the Moon. The head of a golf club was taken which the guy attached to some other instrument. Don't know what kind of golf head, but I think it was an iron.
I can't think of any way to treat wood to make it resistent to as much heat as re-entry, and if it was possible, would it really be practical?

I'll wait for someone else to answer the golf club thing, I don't want to guess.
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I can't think of any way to treat wood to make it resistent to as much heat as re-entry, and if it was possible, would it really be practical?
On this page, it says:

An example of a natural material is the oak wood heat shield used on the Chinese FSW reentry vehicles.

It's not the only page I could find reference to their oaken heat shield. None say anything about treating the oak, so possibly they didn't have to.
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Old 29-May-2002, 10:53 AM
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With regards to Al Shepard’s 6 iron:

From the ALSJ Apollo 14 EVA-2 Close-out and the golf shots

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135:08:17 Shepard: (Facing the TV) Houston, while you're looking that up, you might recognize what I have in my hand as the handle for the contingency sample return; it just so happens to have a genuine six iron on the bottom of it. In my left hand, I have a little white pellet that's familiar to millions of Americans. I'll drop it down. Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little sand-trap shot here. (Pause)
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Old 29-May-2002, 01:06 PM
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I think that parts the lunar probe Ranger were made of wood.

Balsa is a very lightweight material, and properly treated it could be a good space material, to be used in specific parts.

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