Spacecraft Diagrams

[mosaix]

Stumbled across this by accident. The page contains links to diagrams of multiple spacecraft: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo etc. Each diagram can be enlarged to show more detail. One or two aren't very clear but it's interesting nonetheless.

Welcome to Shuttle-Mir

history.nasa.gov

 

[Fiberglass Cyborg]

Very useful if you've misplaced the Haines manual for your Gemini capsule....

 

[Pyan]

Interesting that the measurements, even going back to the Mercury project in the 1950s, are all metric, not Imperial.

 

[BAYLOR]

Stumbled across this by accident. The page contains links to diagrams of multiple spacecraft: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo etc. Each diagram can be enlarged to show more detail. One or two aren't very clear but it's interesting nonetheless.

Welcome to Shuttle-Mir

history.nasa.gov

Great stuff Mosaix !

 

[mosaix]

Interesting that the measurements, even going back to the Mercury project in the 1950s, are all metric, not Imperial.

I seem to remember that a Mars(?) lander failed because one party were using imperial liquid measurement for the fuel usage and another party were using metric. Can’t find any reference to it though.

 

[Venusian Broon]

I seem to remember that a Mars(?) lander failed because one party were using imperial liquid measurement for the fuel usage and another party were using metric. Can’t find any reference to it though.

Might be this:

How NASA Lost a Spacecraft From a Metric Math Mistake | SimScale

How NASA lost a spacecraft due to a mistake with metric units and unit conversion. Learn about the Mars Climate Orbiter incident.

www.simscale.com

I'm pretty sure there was also a rocket launch that contained a space probe in the 70s-80s that had a similar metric/imperial mixup and caused it to 'explore' the Atlantic ocean instead of outer space.

 

[Pyan]

Then there was the 'Gimli Glider' incident, when the ground crew only filled the tanks of a Boeing 767 with half the amount to get to its destination, thanks to a pounds/kilograms mix-up...
Luckily, the captain was an experienced glider pilot!

When a metric mix-up led to the 'Gimli Glider' emergency