Yeah, but considering what NASA does now, like the Mars rover landing which hurts the brain when you think about it, you'd think they'd be testing interns on cocktail napkins regarding the processes involved in going to the moon.
Did they ever state how they solved the Van Allen belt problem in the original moon landings?
They didn't solve the problem they drove through it and the Astronauts willingly took the risk.
and interesting sheet that calculates the radiation dosage of the Belts
to me, the sheer number of people required to fake a moon landing and to date nobody has talked about it.....
Not just that, but first the USSR had publicly acknowledged it and now the Chinese don't question it. With how many hackers they have attacking US systems, if it was fake they would have found something buried somewhere and use it for their propaganda purposes
Not just that, but first the USSR had publicly acknowledged it and now the Chinese don't question it. With how many hackers they have attacking US systems, if it was fake they would have found something buried somewhere and use it for their propaganda purposes
The only thing I question was this article back in 2004 when President Bush said he wanted to return to the moon by 2020. I thought to myself 2020? We went in the 60s we should have been able to go yesterday. Anyway I'm pretty sure we went just seems a little weird we would have to wait another 14 years to go.
I remember that as well and also recall thinking the same thing.
Didn't we do that already like 35 years ago? Should be easy now, no? 15 years to do something NASA did in, what, 8? In the effing 60's.
God that guy was a moron.
Come on Matty it was a different mission definition.
First of all the Apollo missions were pretty much rush jobs, fairly expensive for the time and they didn't use re-usable technology. The idea this time was to emulate the shuttle program by using technology and craft that could be used over and over again.
On top of that these were going to be longer term missions, the establishment of a platform to further explore the solar system and to possibly exploit minerals on the moon.
Saying that this is the same technology as the 60's is equivalent to saying that a model T is the same as a Porche.
Come on Matty it was a different mission definition.
First of all the Apollo missions were pretty much rush jobs, fairly expensive for the time and they didn't use re-usable technology. The idea this time was to emulate the shuttle program by using technology and craft that could be used over and over again.
On top of that these were going to be longer term missions, the establishment of a platform to further explore the solar system and to possibly exploit minerals on the moon.
Saying that this is the same technology as the 60's is equivalent to saying that a model T is the same as a Porche.
Yeah I hear you, and maybe that was a conservative estimate for Bush. Still seems like a heck of a long time.
The guy is/was a moron regardless.
BUT on a side note: Today in 2011 was the last landing of a NASA space shuttle.
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On this day in 2011, NASA’s space shuttle program completes its final, and 135th, mission, when the shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During the program’s 30-year history, its five orbiters—Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour—carried more than 350 people into space and flew more than 500 million miles, and shuttle crews conducted important research, serviced the Hubble Space Telescope and helped in the construction of the International Space Station, among other activities. NASA retired the shuttles to focus on a deep-space exploration program that could one day send astronauts to asteroids and Mars.
I was told that the moon technically is a planet, and doesn't actually orbit the earth. The two snake around a common centre of mass (which is fairly close to earth) and are actually dual planets.
This was from my physics 20 teacher, who was a bit of a loon.
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