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Primary objectives included:
1. Perform inspection, survey and sampling in lunar mare area
2. Deploy an Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package (ALSEP).
3. Develop techniques for a point landing capability
4. Develop capability to work in the lunar environment
5. Obtain photographs of candidate exploration sites
Secondary objective was to the retrieve portions of the Surveyor III spacecraft which had been exposed to the lunar environment since the unmanned spacecraft soft-landed on the inner slope of a crater on April 20, 1967.
This shift in public and political sentiment resulted in a modest program of human space activity--compared to the hey-day of the lunar landings. As the last lunar mission, Apollo 17, was completed in 1972, the nation settled in for a quieter era of space exploration. Two programs, using leftover Apollo rockets and spacecraft no longer need for moon journeys, symbolized this new era: Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
Prior to 2006 NASA had no plans to establish a presence on the Moon. In the 50's the army carried out a study into the establishment of a lunar base but the idea never got beyond that stage.
Then, Apollo is EXACTLY as was portrayed. Yesh, um-hyum, there might have been things seen, but not reported---but to infer that the Astronauts didn't accomplish their goals is, frankly, insulting.
Let's imagine you are in an EV suit, on the Moon....the Moon which has about a 28 EARTH-DAY 'sunlight' period and another, roughly '28 EARTH-DAY 'night' period....
Apollo landed, by design, in areas of the Moon that would (A) be facing Earth, so that there would be communication to Mission Control and (B) was timed so that the surface had not had a full 28 days to 'heat-up', as was, and is, the cycle of the Lunar surface.
I'm just assuming that people who might read this think that when the DeathStar from StarWars blew up, that it actually made a noise!?!?
That was Hollywood, kids!!!
Sound will NOT be conveyed through a vacuum....sound needs a medium, such as air, for instance, to find a conveyance. OH!!! AND, our ears are uniqely designed to work in an atmosphere that we EVOLVED in....---that would be an Oxygen/Nitrogen environment.
Here's the funny part....barring any really creative incredible technology, to keep and hold some aleged 'atmosphere' on the Earth's Moon (a planetary body about one-sixth the diameter of the EARTH....YET, puzzlingly, MARS is about one-fourth the size of hte EARTH, and somehow has lost her atmosphere)...
OK....just believe the nonsense, and ignore the science!!!!
Originally posted by jra
The difference between Stationary orbit and geosynchronous orbit? There's no difference, they're both the same thing.
Originally posted by ShiftTrio
Just wondering, Do you mean there is MORE gravity on the moon then there is. I mean there IS gravity on the moon that has never been disputed. The fact there were people walking and not floating off the moon would say there was gravity. I think 17% of Earths gravity to be exact.
Thanks for the work put into your posts though, You do a great job on all of them.
Originally posted by The Matrix Traveller
reply to post by Phage
Prior to 2006 NASA had no plans to establish a presence on the Moon. In the 50's the army carried out a study into the establishment of a lunar base but the idea never got beyond that stage.
Thank you for this information I really appreciate your help.
I am being inspired to look more into this subject now, because of this tread.
I am no expert and probably never will be, but there are some things that remain doubtful but for the reasons I am Not sure of.
It may be just the changing times and the psychology of the general public, is changing for whatever reason regarding the lack of moon exploration or for other reasons...
Originally posted by donhuangenaro
I don't know if anyone posted this here, but the Moon gravity and atmosphere 'theory' could easily explain what happens on this short clip:
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