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Originally posted by AgentSmith
Oh.. By the way... How did they track their first probe to the Moon back in 1959 then? Luna 1?.... oh and the 14 others after it too? (before the American landings). You know... know where they were, receive data and such... control them....
Originally posted by AgentSmith
Well I can't say I 'knew' they had done it to try and 'punch a hole in the Van Allen belt' - but I don't understand how this 'proves' anything one way or another to be honest.. And I doubt it would be 100 times more intesne, I apologise if I am incorrect in thinking this - linky (decent one) please?
Originally posted by HowardRoark
So you claim. The Russians had at least one large
Originally posted by HowardRoark
October 4, 1959 - Luna 3 translunar satellite is launched, orbiting the moon and photographing 70 percent of the far side of the moon. Blah blah blah..
Originally posted by SteveR
Fact 1: Yuri G. said they were very bright and prominent.
Source: "A delicate blue halo surrounds the Earth, merging with the blackness of space in which the stars are bright and clear cut."
As quoted from here.
Originally posted by jra
I have no doubt Yuri could see stars. I have no doubt the Apollo astronuats could see them.
Originally posted by jra
But when it comes to cameras, it's not going to be able to expose star light onto the film unless it gets enough exposure time.
Originally posted by SteveR
Originally posted by AgentSmith
Oh.. By the way... How did they track their first probe to the Moon back in 1959 then? Luna 1?.... oh and the 14 others after it too? (before the American landings). You know... know where they were, receive data and such... control them....
Incorrect assumption. They didn't "track" the probes, they communicated with them through radio waves. Tracking an object you have no communication with is something else entirely. See the link.
Originally posted by SteveR
The "real" moon pics show stars. The "fake" studio pics (mainstream) do not.
The article of a participant in the events of the 30- summer remoteness Of e.P.Molotova proposed to the readers shedding light on the unknown pages of "lunar race" and finally is shut an absurd question "were Americans on the Moon?" Have passed more than 30 years from that time, as the most expensive race between the Soviet Union and the United States of America for the superiority in the debarkation of man on the Moon was expanded. Who won this race of prestige - it is known. Many events occurred in this time... Very process of competition was repeatedly described both by American and Russian side. To us is interesting to describe about one of its earlier than not illuminated episodes. The programs of the preparation of the debarkation of man to the Moon in THE USSR (circling UR-SHCH00 - the l-th, landing the n-th - L -3) and in THE USA ("Apollo") conducted in parallel, and superiority had influential political value. Soviet management paid considerable attention to the state of the matters concerning the implementation of lunar program both in the Soviet Union and in America. For the objective control of the execution of American program the secretary of the CC CPSU D.F.Ustinov, that treated the defense industry of the country, at the end of 1967 gave commission to the chief designer OF RNII - SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF JET PROPULSION KP (at that time NII-885) M.S.Ryazanskomu to develop the special control radio-technical complex, with the aid of which it would be possible to assume signals from the American spacecraft of the program of "Apollo", which accomplished flight around the moon and landing on its surface. M.S.Ryazanskiy at that time answered for the creation of onboard and ground-based radio-technical means of control by the spacecraft of Soviet lunar program. Under his management for the control of the Soviet manned and automatic spacecraft for investigating the Moon was created the ground-based complex of control, which included two Mission Control Center, six ground-based and three ship control posts, equipped with the appropriate tracking stations and located on the territory of the Soviet Union and at the fixed points of world ocean. However, these means could not be used for the reception of information from the "Apollo" spacecraft, since they worked in other frequency range with the signals, which have another structure. Therefore it was necessary to create the special control complex, capable of ensuring the reception of data from the "Apollos". It was intended to assume from the American spacecraft not only telephone (vocal) and telemetric, but also television information. It was decided to include the antenna TNA -400 with a diameter of the mirror of 32 m, which was placed in the Crimea, near g.Simferopolya (Fig. 1), in control complex. It more lately was used as the receiving antenna of radio-technical complex "Saturn-mS", that ensured control of Soviet automatic automatic spacecraft for investigating the Moon: by "moon rovers", by apparatuses for the delivery of lunar soil to the earth, and also by lunar satellites. Ris.y. Antenna TNA -400 For the work in the composition of control complex the antenna TNA -400 was equipped with the low-noise receiving device, which worked in the range 13 cm (range S, in which they worked the transmitters of the lunar modules of the program of "Apollo"). Furthermore, into the composition of complex they entered: the demodulator of the transferred at the carrier frequency group signal and signals, transferred on the sub-carrier frequencies, equipment for the isolation of vocal, telemetric and television information, and also equipment for imaging and control of complex (Fig. 2). The control complex, created in short periods OF RNII - SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF JET PROPULSION KP in the cooperation with several industrial enterprises, was ready for reception of signals from the spacecraft of the program of "Apollo" during November 1968. Fig. 2. block diagram of the control complex In order to track ships with their orbital flight around the Moon and with the landing on its surface, it was necessary to have the ballistic data of these orbits for calculating the aim designations to antenna. However, such information was not published by Americans. Therefore data from the orbits of flight were calculated by ballistics on the basis of the time of launch and arrival to the Moon of the "Apollo" spacecraft, which reported on the American radio. According to these data the aim designations for guiding the antennas, which were refined on by control room by the complex adopted to signals from the lunar ships, were calculated. This approach to the calculation of aim designations made it possible to sufficiently reliably pick up signals from the "Apollos". The task of the search for signals was facilitated by the fact that the antenna radiation pattern covered practically half of the disk of the Moon. Tracking was conducted after the spacecraft of expeditions "Apollo-8", "Apollo-10", "Apollo-11" and "Apollo-12" from December 1968 through November 1969. From all these ships the telephone negotiations of astronauts with the Earth and telemetry data about the state of onboard systems started with a good quality. TV the signal adopted had low quality because of the insufficient level of the energy potential of radio link on the base of 32- meter antenna. It should be noted that the American network of tracking and control ensured practically twenty-four hour connection with the "Apollo" spacecraft, while Soviet control complex could pick up signals only in that part of its visibility range, which in the time coincided with the visibility range of Madrid tracking station. Lunar expedition under the management Of f.Bormana aboard the spacecraft "Apollo-8" during December 1968 accomplished the first manned space flight to the Moon, made 10 turns around it and, after returning to the earth with the planet escape velocity, it produced soft landing in the ocean. This flight served as base for the stoppage of works in the first stage of Soviet program entire l-th, although technology and crews to the manned flight around the moon by that time were finished. Fig. 3. spectra of the signals, accepted from the "Apollo" spacecraft The flight of crew "Apollo-11" with the outcrop of the Moon on 20 July, 1969, Of n.Armstronga and E.Oldrina finally stopped competition in the debarkation of man to the Moon. Fig. 3 presents the photographs of the spectra of signals, accepted by control station from the "Apollo" spacecraft, made from the screen of television monitoring system. Fig. 4 shows the image of the rise of the Earth above the lunar horizon, accepted along the television channel from one of the "Apollo" spacecraft. Fig. 4. image of the Earth, accepted along the television channel from one of the "Apollos" As is known, after this the Soviet Union directed its efforts to the study of the Moon by automatic automatic spacecraft, as a result of which the impressive results were obtained. Let us note in conclusion that the information about creation and functioning of Soviet special control radio-technical complex earlier was not published.
www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru...
Lunar and interplanetary programs brought new tracking requirements. IP-14 in Shchelkovo was first upgraded for the lunar program with the Kama-E distance measuring system. IP-41E (Simeyz) and IP-42E (Moscow) later received the same upgrade. NIP-16 at Yevpatoriya was equipped to handle interplanetary probes. The Pluton system sent commands to the probe, while the Saturn system received data. Saturn complexes were built at NIP-3, 4, 14, and 15. This consisted of a 16 m antennae with a 100 million km range. The RS-10-2M antenna was used, plus at NIP-10 the TNA-400. The Pluton Command-Tracking System was installed only at NIP-16.
www.astronautix.com...
Originally posted by SteveR
Incorrect assumption. They didn't "track" the probes, they communicated with them through radio waves. Tracking an object you have no communication with is something else entirely. See the link.
Originally posted by SteveR
Here's where the contradiction comes in...
Originally posted by jra
I have no doubt Yuri could see stars. I have no doubt the Apollo astronuats could see them.
Collins, Armstrong, Aldrin.. all said they didn't see any stars whatsoever.
Originally posted by jra
But when it comes to cameras, it's not going to be able to expose star light onto the film unless it gets enough exposure time.
The "real" moon pics show stars. The "fake" studio pics (mainstream) do not.
Originally posted by SteveR
Good find, and fair enough.
May I bring this up again?
www.ufos-aliens.co.uk...
Some of those moon photos don't have any strange shadows and they do have stars..
Originally posted by SteveR
May I bring this up again?
www.ufos-aliens.co.uk...
Some of those moon photos don't have any strange shadows and they do have stars..
Originally posted by AgentSmith
Originally posted by SteveR
The Domes?
They do look natural-ish... but then again, why would there be domes like that on the moon? They're like a crater that's inversed (upwards slope instead of downwards..)
Originally posted by cmdrkeenkid
What domes would you be talking about exactly? I know if you stare at the craters long enough or think the right way they can look inverted...
Originally posted by johnlear
Neil Armstrong in his speech at the 25th anniversary of Apollo 11 when
he told the science class what wonders they would discover when the layers of secrecy were removed.
Originally posted by SteveR
Here's where the contradiction comes in...
Originally posted by jra
I have no doubt Yuri could see stars. I have no doubt the Apollo astronuats could see them.
Collins, Armstrong, Aldrin.. all said they didn't see any stars whatsoever.
Originally posted by Halfofone
Well if you've seen the entire video you will notice that the blue light in the windows is there all the time. You are probably thinking EXACTICALY!!! because the were in low earth orbit the entire time....
However, if you know anything about orbiting earth, you would know that you are orbiting at about 45 min on the day side and 45 min on the night side. Therefore sometimes you would see black and sometimes earth, but this is not the case.
Originally posted by resistance
The movie has come and gone. It cost only $75 million and it was a big flop. So here I am admitting that I was wrong on that one.
Originally posted by cmdrkeenkid
Originally posted by resistance
The movie has come and gone. It cost only $75 million and it was a big flop. So here I am admitting that I was wrong on that one.
Do you have a title for that movie, maybe?