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Originally posted by jetpilot
Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
The Lunar Landing Research Facilty (LLRF) at Langley was NOT used to test the LEM, but was instead used to simulate THE PROCEDURES for landing on the Moon and controlling the LEM down to the surface of the Moon, which has 1/6 the gravity of the Earth.
This is your interpretation. I think instead Langley crane had to be used to test LEM and other probes. But NASA engineers were not able to build a spaceship that could land going backwards, then they faked all the story.
Imagine LEM running fastly towards the ground of the Moon. What should you do to brake its run? You have not the foot-brake. Then you turn the LEM and run going backwards, switch full throttle and begin to whirl
crashing on the ground. I'm a jet pilot, I know aerodynamics.
Originally posted by ngchunter
Aerodynamics? There's no "aero" to the dynamics on the moon. There's nothing to make the LEM whirl at all, the engine is installed directly under the center of gravity. It's no different than for the various unmanned probes that have gone to various planets and used thrusters for landing. Are those all faked too?
Originally posted by jet.pilot
Put a coke can on your finger...
From: space.com
The Poway, Calif.-based firm, SpaceDev, launched the lunar lander prototype approximately 35 feet (10.7 meters) into the air on a tether, where it hovered before descending for a careful landing. The test represents the first ever for a hybrid rocket powered lander vehicle.
Originally posted by jet.pilot
Originally posted by ngchunter
Aerodynamics? There's no "aero" to the dynamics on the moon. There's nothing to make the LEM whirl at all, the engine is installed directly under the center of gravity. It's no different than for the various unmanned probes that have gone to various planets and used thrusters for landing. Are those all faked too?
LEM is running fastly towards the ground of the Moon going backwards. You switch on full throttle to brake its run.
Put a coke can on your finger and move your hand down, then stop it.
The coke can falls off with an incredible quickness. You can't control its attitude. In the space LEM would whirl like a whisk if you tried to brake its run.
[edit on 21-12-2007 by jet.pilot]
Originally posted by Gazrok
Here's a possible end to the conspiracy...
www.space.com...
Rocket blast
Using Clementine photos taken of the Apollo 15 touchdown zone, several anomalies can be seen. "All of them but one are related to small, fresh impact craters. The only one not related to any crater, exactly coincides with the landing site," Kreslavsky said.
The disruption in the structure of the lunar regolith is caused by the landing, Kreslavsky said. He contends that the alteration has been created by the lunar modules engine during touchdown.
The anomaly is within a 165-foot (50-meter) to 490-foot (150-meter) radius around the landing site, Kreslavsky said. "Unfortunately, the Clementine data do not allow similar studies for any other landing sites."
Originally posted by jra
Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
You have been posting in this thread for over a year, but have NOT provided any SPECIFIC EVIDENCE of a hoax.
And I've been trying to get swimmer to debate the subject for that long, but he just seems to avoid debate and would rather insult and attack others.
Here's hoping he has a change of heart. I'm all for debating and researching further into the topic. Are you swimmer?
Originally posted by ngchunter
Aerodynamics? There's no "aero" to the dynamics on the moon.
Originally posted by jra
The Poway, Calif.-based firm, SpaceDev, launched the lunar lander prototype approximately 35 feet (10.7 meters) into the air on a tether, where it hovered before descending for a careful landing. The test represents the first ever for a hybrid rocket powered lander vehicle.
Originally posted by SpijkerMuis
How can they spot traces of a rocket blast on a picture taken from miles above the surface if there wasn't a trace of one on pictures taken on the surface of the moon of the actual lander?
But hey, you can always say that I'm just being paranoid!
Originally posted by swimmer
Originally posted by jra
Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
You have been posting in this thread for over a year, but have NOT provided any SPECIFIC EVIDENCE of a hoax.
And I've been trying to get swimmer to debate the subject for that long, but he just seems to avoid debate and would rather insult and attack others.
Here's hoping he has a change of heart. I'm all for debating and researching further into the topic. Are you swimmer?
jra, sorry, but I have no interest in having any debate with you or anyone like you. I just don't have time for that any more. I have posted links with scientific explanation of why IT NEVER HAPPENED. Other people have, over and over again, proved that it absolutely could not have happened. Enough.
I might start a topic for those people who simply know that NASA's "Moon Landing" never happened , just talk about HOW it was faked. I am totally not interested any more in any discussion about IF the mission was faked or not. I KNOW that it was faked, and it was not too hard to figure it out. I leave this topic to you jra, and your band of NASA dummies.
[edit on 21-12-2007 by swimmer]
Originally posted by jet-pilot
Originally posted by jra
The Poway, Calif.-based firm, SpaceDev, launched the lunar lander prototype approximately 35 feet (10.7 meters) into the air on a tether, where it hovered before descending for a careful landing. The test represents the first ever for a hybrid rocket powered lander vehicle.
[edit on 22-12-2007 by jet-pilot]
Originally posted by ngchunter
Originally posted by SpijkerMuis
How can they spot traces of a rocket blast on a picture taken from miles above the surface if there wasn't a trace of one on pictures taken on the surface of the moon of the actual lander?
But hey, you can always say that I'm just being paranoid!
That interpretation of clementine's data is just plain wrong imho. In my opinion, there is no trace of any apollo missions from clementine...
Originally posted by SpijkerMuis
It was impossible then (and still is) to get human beings past the Van Allen radiation belts without it resulting in their dead,.
Originally posted by jet-pilot
Originally posted by jra
The Poway, Calif.-based firm, SpaceDev, launched the lunar lander prototype approximately 35 feet (10.7 meters) into the air on a tether, where it hovered before descending for a careful landing. The test represents the first ever for a hybrid rocket powered lander vehicle.
I think that is not a big test, I see a cable that sustains the rocket.
Originally posted by SpijkerMuis
How can they spot traces of a rocket blast on a picture taken from miles above the surface if there wasn't a trace of one on pictures taken on the surface of the moon of the actual lander?