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originally posted by: turbonium1
Think about it, now..
Future manned missions in deep space would likely be short, as well as long, correct?
So, when they mention no future manned craft will be built for deep space missions, with aluminum shielding, it should exclude short missions, right?
Now, you have short missions being safe, we will have short missions in future, like Apollo did, but it's not worth mentioning how Apollo was safe, because we all 'know' it is safe, so what's the problem?!?
originally posted by: FlyingFox
However, the greyest area is the "alternate endings" planning. That is, a back-up crew doing the full mission while the "real" astronauts remain behind. If there is a disaster / tragedy, all it takes is a little studio editing of the canned footage, and out pop the "real" astronauts with a parlor trick, and boom...there's your successful mission. This area of investigation and theory is the most interesting, imo.
I respect the work on the imaging of the Apollo 8 referenced earlier. The backtracking of the stars and weather images in itself is convincing, interphase radiation and materials science is not convincing, it's a distraction.
All I was talking about is that the image of the can doesn't mean humans inside, and passing the baton...
originally posted by: choos
the problem is still long duration missions..
what you are suggesting is that they design two completely different crafts for two different mission types. they have already stated that they want the single craft to be able to do all missions.
when boeing are researching about a new next gen passenger jet, they must absolutely have an indepth section about the cessna 172??
originally posted by: turbonium1
Brutal analogy, as usual..
We have cessna's in use, and many other aircraft, like passenger jets. We have no spacecraft capable of manned deep space missions, whether for short or long stays.
We are trying to build a craft capable of manned deep space missions. We tried to 'return' man to the moon, and it failed miserably.
They said the initial lunar missions would be short, Apollo-length visits.
Everything they did, and are still trying to figure out right now, is a manned mission which can safely go into deep space.
Of course, they called it a 'return' to the moon. They can't say we haven't left Earth orbit yet, because they work for the agency who said we landed on the moon.
And now, they talk about problems not solved for
a 'long term' mission, to Mars, etc.
The story goes on and on...
At first, they landed men on the moon, over 40 years ago. Then, they go back to Earth orbit for the next 30 years.
And then, they decide to try landing men on the
moon again. It was a disaster, as we know.
So they goofed it up, and now, they want to figure out how to send humans to Mars, someday in future...
How could they land on the moon over 40 years ago,
dump it like trash, spend the next 30 years in LEO, due to a lack of money. They actually spent more money on the Shuttle program than on the Apollo program..
And it was a lack of money again, causing the failed attempt to 'return' man to the moon, supposedly.
They gave an estimate of the total cost, and got it, but spent it all, and got even more money, but spent it all, soon after.
Anything is a lack of money, in the same way, because it is impossible to be proven wrong. 'Money solves all problems'.
The lack of money excuse gets even better, when it gets spent trying to develop...
....technology...required to land on the moon..
They were told to use 'heritage' technology, as much as possible, because it is Apollo's technology.
No excuse.
originally posted by: OneBigMonkeyToo
a reply to: turbonium1
The 'blobs and specks' are clearly identifiable pieces of hardware, exactly where they should be. They also show rocks and craters and trails exactly where they should be.
India and Japan pictured them too. India, Japan, China an Russia also all took images showing surface features that corroborate Apollo images.
All you're proving is how willing you are to ram your head in the sand.
originally posted by: choos
your opinion that it failed miserably. but to date we have not tried to return yet, it is still in development.
They said the initial lunar missions would be short, Apollo-length visits.
initially, then it will progressively get longer and longer..
and keep the astronauts safe for the longer missions.
originally posted by: turbonium1
Constellation's goal of 'returning' to the moon by 2016, then by 2020, was truly a miserable failure.
That is not a matter of opinion, it is a fact.
The goal was to land men on the moon, by 2020.
It was not required to be capable of long stays of a month, or a year, on the moon. It was not designed to go to Mars, either.
All it was intended to be was capable of doing what Apollo supposedly did, and that's it.
The Constellation Program (abbreviated CxP) was a human spaceflight program developed by NASA, the space agency of the United States, from 2005 to 2009. The major goals of the program were "completion of the International Space Station" and a "return to the Moon no later than 2020" with a crewed flight to the planet Mars as the ultimate goal. The program's logo reflected the three stages of the program: the Earth (ISS), the Moon, and finally Mars
This is why they were told to use Apollo's technology, which supposedly worked so well before.
You said Apollo's technology worked for short missions, but not long missions, right?
So when they were told to use Apollo's technology as much as possible, they were working on a short mission, and not long missions, for it could not go on long missions..true?
This was supposed to be something that cannot fail, because it was believed, proved, to have worked superbly, several times.
The mission without an excuse, that we had done before, could not fail...
Except it did fail, so miserably.
originally posted by: turbonium1
I think the dots and specks are really there, but the 'footprints' were put in the images later on...
This is what I think they did..
originally posted by: turbonium1
Blobs and specks of sand, right?
This is the first time I've ever heard of blobs and specks being "clearly identifiable pieces of
hardware"!!
How do you know the blobs and specks are pieces of equipment? Because they match up to their equipment, which they left on the moon, right?
Is it possible to put blobs and dots in these images, to match up with equipment they say is on the moon?
For sure, they could fake all, or some, of these dots and blobs, as needed.
I think the dots and specks are really there, but the 'footprints' were put in the images later on...
This is what I think they did..
They already had satellite images of the lunar surface, before Apollo 'landed' there, as we know.
There are countless dots and blobs seen in these images, of course.
They simply find the areas of dots and blobs that will fit as 'the equipment', the 'LM', of each landing site.
Iirc, there is an image taken before Apollo landed, showing the exact same dots and blobs attributed to Apollo equipment, and the LM...
It is denied, of course, after being caught. Not a chance.
This trick is used by magicians, who claim they read minds, or can see the future..
It is just an illusion, of course.
The key is to make everyone think he can read minds.
In the Apollo example, it is an illusion of equipment and landers being left by astronauts on the moon.
Although we realize they look like little dots and
blobs, we accept their claim of being equipment they left on the moon.
They all match up to the exact spots where they landed, where the LM's landed, and where equipment was left.
A perfect match, and matches images from other countries, too.
What you don't realize is that the same exact dots and blobs were already identified as features of the moon, well before Apollo came along.
This explains why they will never show close-up, high resolution images of any equipment, since it is not there. In fact, it would show there are actual features of the surface, which would truly confirm they did not land on the moon.
The images do not even match up, with the surface images.
The Apollo 15 LM is a great example of this..
Images show a large blob where the lander came down, disturbed soil on the lunar surface, which is shown in the images, taken from lunar orbit.
The problem is that the images supposedly taken on the lunar surface show no disturbed soil around the lander, which is simply impossible.
A real disturbance seen from orbit is obviously going to be seen in many images taken from the
lunar surface.
The area beyond this disturbance is seen in surface images, but there is nothing different about it.
I think
they assumed the blobs should be large enough to portray a lander, with the engine disturbing the soil around the craft during its
descent.
But they forgot to make the same disturbance for their surface images, and they've shown that it was all just a hoax.
originally posted by: choos
was it launched or was the spacecraft even constructed??
originally posted by: choos
really??? a simple, quick search of the constellation program gives me this:
The Constellation Program (abbreviated CxP) was a human spaceflight program developed by NASA, the space agency of the United States, from 2005 to 2009. The major goals of the program were "completion of the International Space Station" and a "return to the Moon no later than 2020" with a crewed flight to the planet Mars as the ultimate goal. The program's logo reflected the three stages of the program: the Earth (ISS), the Moon, and finally Mars
originally posted by: choos
you might have had a point except you ignored the ultimate goal of constellation, which is to have a crewed flight to mars... so yea, you kind of wasted your time on this post, as well as mine with this.
originally posted by: choos
think they did?? you sure seem sure of your conviction that they definitely fake the lunar landings.
oh BTW how do you suppose they should fake the footprints back in 69-72 when they could not possibly know who or even when the next country would send a rover to the moon and find that there are no footprints?
originally posted by: turbonium1
Not even close to building anything yet...
You're referring to their vision of future human space exploration, as the ultimate goal being a manned Mars mission..
It was not their goal, then or now, to try a manned Mars mission...
It was a manned moon landing, as Apollo supposedly did, and that's all it was intended to be, period.
End.
Again, it was not yet a real goal, it was/is a dream goal, in going to Mars, some day in future, that's all...
What else would you suggest, then? Faking it without faking any footprints?
I don't get your point, here...
If they faked the landings, it doesn't matter if they faked footprints, or not!!
And yes, I think the images show real features on the lunar surface, it makes perfect sense to me...but I can't prove this beyond any doubt, as yet..
originally posted by: turbonium1
Nothing gets through to you, about Constellation's failure...
Another moon landing, with Apollo's technology, being done by 2020.
It would prove Apollo, as genuine, because the very same technology is used, as before...
Likewise, it could only fail if it was not genuine technology, as it cannot work, and proves the hoax...
Deny the truth, or admit the truth, but it is still the truth...period.
A mission to Mars is no excuse. It is an ultimate goal we hope to reach some day, in the distant future...
They were supposed to use Apollo's technology, as much as possible. It means they had no excuse, they could never fail, because they were simply using all the same technology as Apollo used.
Constellation's mission had the same goal, and had the same technology, as Apollo.
It had no excuse.
As you all know, too..
originally posted by: choos
thats great.. so how did it fail??
originally posted by: choos
with a CREWED FLIGHT TO MARS BEING THE ULTIMATE GOAL.
i didnt think your denial would go this deep.. you know when they say the ultimate GOAL is to get man to mars and you have the ability to deny that getting man to mars was not a GOAL.
so when they say the ultimate goal is a crewed flight to mars, its not part of their goal at all???
and you have authority to decide that do you??
originally posted by: choos
you are saying that they needed to "add in the footpaths" in images taken of the Apollo landing sites.
obviously you think they faked the moon landings, you didnt say they needed to add in the "blobs" for the equipment only the footpaths.
you are suggesting they had to add in the footpaths after imaging the lunar landing sites with satellites such as the LRO.
why would they need to photoshop in footpaths as you have suggested?? because they are not physically there.
if the footpaths are not physically there, then it will be plainly obviously to see from satellites or rovers.
NASA landed man on the moon between 69-72.
so how could they possibly know when the next country would send a rover to the moon and image the landing sites back in 1972?