My dear markjo...
You really are a condescending prick, aren't you?
...this is not the first time you are asking me to answer as if I knew what NASA's doing. How should I know?
Obviously you know that NASA had to wait almost 3 years for a report to be published so that they could use their own test data, so it sounds like you know NASA's doings much better than I do.
My dearest
markjo and
rabinoz,
You've switched to my humble personality again, which apparently means you've run out of your ammo. Of course, I might have followed the gracious advice most kindly given by our dear
Papa Legba and meekly remark that you both are but imbecilic dumbass morons, to begin with...

However, (i) it's so perfectly clear; (ii) you seem to understand that yourself and (iii) I have little doubt that
Papa Legba will gladly, with his usual persuasive mildness, help you in realizing that, should you still have any doubts. Besides, his battle skills are far superiour to mine.

So, let's us go back to the topic and briefly summarize what all of us have found. Namely, you, dear
markjo, provided the link that points to that NASA technical note:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19680021275.pdfIt is dated August 1968 and says that the material for the Apollo heat shield catastrophically failed and the hole in the model spaceship appeared after 95.5 seconds of flight, which had the maximum velocity of about 3 km/s (3,139 m/s or 10,299 ft/s) and maximum height (apogee) of about 23,178 m (76,045 ft).
This is what NASA had, as of August 1968.
If I am not mistaken, the first lunar mission was launched on July 16, 1969, at 9:32 am EDT.
Any ideas how they managed to come back and re-enter at 11 km/s?
