NASA targeting launch of giant moon rocket for late August
The moon landing is my favorite conspiracy because I just can't imagine the technology needed to do it back in 1969. I could have accepted maybe flying to the moon but the premise of landing, dancing around and taking pictures just doesn't seem possible to me.
Now 2022 NASA is launching a giant rocket heading for the moon but unmanned with 3 mannequins? Surely if we made so many trips back then we have the means and technology to not waste a launch on 3 mannequins.
If Orion's trip to the moon and back goes well, astronauts could climb aboard in 2023 for a lunar loop-around and actually land in 2025.
We'll its a whole new platform, using more modern technology, so of course they're going to do a test trip with dummies on board and not risk human lives on a untested rocket.
These are extremely complex machines, where even a mis aligned bolt can cause a catastrophic failure with next to no hope for rescue.
They're not just going to jam three guys in and fire them to the moon because it worked in the late 60's.
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I get that, I'm going on the premise that they did indeed land on the moon in the 60's and early 70's, though. I've never seen anything that convinces me that the moon landings were faked.
I mean, man landed on the moon in the early 1940's when Hitler set up moon base eva.
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I think he's suggesting it didn't work in the late 60's...
I mean I also don't understand how Voyager can be travelling for 45 years and still sending communications back but obviously it does. I'm not saying it didn't happen I'm just saying its easier to think technologically it didn't. Also quite the gap since a new lunar mission but also if they did go the 4 or 5 times why would they need to go again and not focus on other targets like Mars.
Trillions of public and private dollars spent on space research out of pretty much nothing but curiosity, while billions of people on earth are living in extreme poverty. Blows my mind.
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Trillions of public and private dollars spent on space research out of pretty much nothing but curiosity, while billions of people on earth are living in extreme poverty. Blows my mind.
Estimated cost to end homelessness in the US: $20 Billion
Cost of a new telescope that takes prettier pictures of space: $10 Billion
Trillions of public and private dollars spent on space research out of pretty much nothing but curiosity, while billions of people on earth are living in extreme poverty. Blows my mind.
The poor will be sent to work the mines on the moon soon enough.
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The moon landing is my favorite conspiracy because I just can't imagine the technology needed to do it back in 1969. I could have accepted maybe flying to the moon but the premise of landing, dancing around and taking pictures just doesn't seem possible to me.
Now 2022 NASA is launching a giant rocket heading for the moon but unmanned with 3 mannequins? Surely if we made so many trips back then we have the means and technology to not waste a launch on 3 mannequins.
If Orion's trip to the moon and back goes well, astronauts could climb aboard in 2023 for a lunar loop-around and actually land in 2025.
The tech that didn’t exist (still doesn’t) in 69 was a lighting array that could hit a “set” with enough fully undiffused light to cast the crisp long shadows seen in lunar landing photos. You’d need a wall of light set up kms away and then no atmosphere to diffuse it. They never had such lights.
Faking the moon landing was impossible, not getting there.
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I found this awhile ago, absolutely incredible restored photos of the Earth from the Moon missions. Probably not faked. Interesting little stories about each of them if you click no them.
Wouldn't returning to the moon reduce the difficulty of a manned mars mission.
You could create a assembly and launch facility for assembling the type of craft that could get people to the moon without dealing with earth's gravity on launch.
I'm no rocket scientist but we'd have to probably build a lot larger of a habitual space. I mean you'd have to pack food and water, for 9 months x 2 as well as the power generation to do it. I would expect that a trip to mars wouldn't be a landing on for a few days and returning home. That it would be a long term mission. So just based on that, you'd probably need to assemble something in orbit, and fuel it in orbit. Or send it to the moon and assemble it there.
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We have had submarines since essentially the Civil War, underwater pressurized dives suits since before then. ballistic rockets took massive leaps in technology since the V2 and the development of ICBMs right after that.
The bones of a moon landing were always there. The Cold War assisted in the technological leaps of rocketry and geo-positioning (Operation Paperclip). Coupled with an intense rivalry over landing on the moon, and it makes sense that a country would poor time and resources into sending a few people to the moon.
Why do it now though? is this related to future manned space flights to mars etc?
NASA targeting launch of giant moon rocket for late August
