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Originally posted by ignorant_ape
reply to post by Mintwithahole.
err NO !
" APOLLO 18 " was the planed missiion to the MOON , intended to land in copernicus
what actualy flew was the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project ASTP [ Apollo-Soyuz Test Project ]
it used mostly the same launcher - but it was NOT an apollo 18 mission
(The ASTP is often referred to as "Apollo 18" although the original Apollo 18 was the planned Moon mission.)
Originally posted by ignorant_ape
reply to post by Mintwithahole.
ok -
cancelled Apollo missions
and i quote :
(The ASTP is often referred to as "Apollo 18" although the original Apollo 18 was the planned Moon mission.)
apollo was the manned mission to the moon - as distinct from the aerlier orbital mercury / gemini missions
i stand by my view that calling the ASTP ` APOLLO 18 ` is incorrect - and it seems that NASA has some varience of opinion too - you may wish to take it up with them
Apollo 18
1973 July. (Cancelled flight). Crew: Gordon, Brand, Schmitt. Support Crew: Allen, Henize, Parker. Program: Apollo. Apollo 18 was originally planned in July 1969 to land in the moon's Schroter's Valley, a riverlike channel-way. The original February 1972 landing date was extended when NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 mission in January 1970. Later in the planning process the most likely landing site was the crater Gassendi. Finally NASA cancelled Apollo 18 and 19 on 2 September 1970 because of congressional cuts in FY 1971 NASA appropriations.
www.astronautix.com...
Originally posted by ngchunter
reply to post by Mintwithahole.
Apollo 18
1973 July. (Cancelled flight). Crew: Gordon, Brand, Schmitt. Support Crew: Allen, Henize, Parker. Program: Apollo. Apollo 18 was originally planned in July 1969 to land in the moon's Schroter's Valley, a riverlike channel-way. The original February 1972 landing date was extended when NASA cancelled the Apollo 20 mission in January 1970. Later in the planning process the most likely landing site was the crater Gassendi. Finally NASA cancelled Apollo 18 and 19 on 2 September 1970 because of congressional cuts in FY 1971 NASA appropriations.
www.astronautix.com...
The only astronaut assigned to 18 originally was Brand, Safford and Slayton were unique to ASTP. ASTP did not even use 18's Saturn V, it used a Saturn IB. In no way was Apollo 18 the same as ASTP.
Originally posted by Mintwithahole.
What can I tell you? Please refer to the link above where NASA clearly state that Apollo 18 docked with Soyuz 19.
Soyuz 19 was officially referred to as Soyuz, just as the Apollo craft used was simply called Apollo (while some sources refer to the craft as Apollo 18, this was not the official designation).
Originally posted by ngchunter
Originally posted by Mintwithahole.
What can I tell you? Please refer to the link above where NASA clearly state that Apollo 18 docked with Soyuz 19.
en.wikisource.org...
Soyuz 19 was officially referred to as Soyuz, just as the Apollo craft used was simply called Apollo (while some sources refer to the craft as Apollo 18, this was not the official designation).
Chapter 27
To the moon and beyond-WERE WE ON THE MOON IN 2309 B.C.
Chinese historians in particular never tried to please their rulers at the expense of truth. Death was preferred to untruthful reports of history. As an example we have the fate of historians in the reign of Chi in 547 B.C. We should therefore take seriously the historical reports of China, even if they seem at first to he far-fetched.
There is a tendency in scientific circles nowadays to regard ancient documents and even mythology and folklore - as sources of history. Anthony Roberts expresses it this way: “Legends are like time-capsules that preserve their contents through ages of ignorance.”
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CHINA, 3rd cent. B.C.
12 (W): Chuang Tzu, in a work entitled Travel to the Infinite, relates a trip he made into space to 32,500 miles from the earth.
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YUNNAN PROVINCE, CHINA
17 (W): Engravings of cylindrical rocketlike machines, which are shown climbing skyward, were discovered on a pyramid which suddenly emerged from the floor of Lake Kun-Ming during an earthquake.
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CHINA
19 (W): “Desolate, cold and glassy”: In the year 2309 B.c. the engineer of Emperor Yao decided to go to the moon. The “celestial bird” provided him with information on his trip. He explored space by “mounting the current of luminous air” (the exhaust of a fiery rocket?).
Hou Yih flew into space where “he did not perceive the rotary movement of the sun.”10 (This statement is of paramount importance in corroborating the story because it is only in space that man cannot see the sun rise or set.)
On the moon he saw the ‘frozenlooking horizon” and erected a building, “the Palace of Cold”.
His wife Chang Ngo likewise flew to the moon, which she found a “luminous sphere, shining like glass, of enormous size and very cold; the light of the moon has its birth in the sun,” she declared. (Chang Ngo’s moon exploration report was correct. Apollo II astronauts found the moon desolate with a glasslike soil—and parts of it even paved with pieces of glass. Most of the moon, at any given time, is in the throes of extreme cold. It plunges to minus 250 degrees Fahrenheit at midnight.)
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CHINA
20 (W): A story from this same period states that an enormous ship appeared on the sea at night with brilliant lights which were extinguished during the day. It could also sail to the moon and the stars, hence its name, “a ship hanging among the stars” or “the boat to the moon”.
This giant ship which could travel in the sky or sail the seas was seen for 12 years.11
CHINA
21 (W): “The Shi Ching” book says that when the Emperor saw crime and vice rising in the world, “he commanded Chong and Li to cut off communication between the earth and the sky—and since then there has been no more going up or down.”12
Is this not a clear indication of the cessation of space travel in the past?
Originally posted by Maybe...maybe not
reply to post by Kratos40
G'day Kratos40
You have made an error in your YT code, as you have in your support for Apollo 20 being real.
If you can fix the link, I'll watch the video.
Kind regards
Maybe...maybe not
Originally posted by JohnnyRaincheck
www.revver.com...
Interesting? I don't know what to think...