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Originally posted by Pinke
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
John_Knoll
You have no idea who John Knoll is.
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
Basically John Knoll is so good at what he does (creating visual illusions for Hollywood) that NASA recruited him for a space conference on Thursday.
Originally posted by Pinke
It's just the usual shot in the dark casual logic that pervades this thread.
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
Why does NASA crash so many probes on the moon?
Why hasn't any human being ever been beyond Earth orbit, excepting the years when Nixon was president between 1969-1972?
We know that NASA is capable of displaying great precision in many scientific efforts however when it comes to taking pictures of Apollo landing sites... NASA is seemingly retarded. NASA fails to 'wow' us with Hi-Def pictures of any landing sites or artifacts remaining on the moon.
Originally posted by jra
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
Why does NASA crash so many probes on the moon?
It's not just NASA, so don't accuse them alone. The ESA, JAXA, Russia India and China have all crashed probes into the Moon as well. Just about every mission that has gone to the Moon, eventually ends in it crashing into it. From my understanding, it's because they generally don't have enough propellant to break Lunar orbit and with the uneven Lunar gravity, the orbits are unstable and they will eventually crash on their own. There have been a few missions that do leave the Moon, but they're more uncommon.
Originally posted by FoosM
It basically puts in doubt that any nation has the capabilities of landing craft on a foreign body and bringing it back.
Its strange that both the US and the USSR have only been able to perform such a feet in the 60-70's.
By Ralph Vartabedian and W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times
September 14, 2011, 6:19 p.m.
After more than a year's delay, NASA on Wednesday unveiled its plan to build a heavy launch vehicle capable of sending astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit by 2025, but it would be only slightly more powerful than the 1960s-era Saturn V that launched Americans to the moon.
NASA officials have discussed a trip to circle the moon without landing. a trip to an asteroid and an eventual journey to Mars. But those discussions are far from a concrete plan with a well-defined schedule.
William H. Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for space operations, said that the rocket would make its first unmanned flight in 2017. The first launch would achieve only half of the intended lifting capacity of the system into low-Earth orbit, which is 130 metric tons.
By contrast, the Saturn system could send 119 metric tons to low-Earth orbit or 45 tons to the moon — which is about what the Apollo capsule, its service module and the lunar landing module weighed.
Other analysts were similarly unimpressed.
Marco A. Caceres, space analyst for the aerospace research firm Teal Group Corp. of Fairfax, Va., said there was little about the rocket to generate excitement.
"There's nothing new here," he said, comparing it to the Constellation program. "They're repackaging the same old product that was canceled because of cost overruns and a lack of a defined mission and trying to sell it to the taxpayer again."
Caceres said there was a lack of detail about the most difficult aspects of the exploration mission. Wednesday's announcement, he said, was simply a ruse to fill the void of the retired space shuttle fleet and a trick to make Americans feel as though they're in the space race again.
"NASA's not aiming to develop any cutting-edge technology here," he said. "This is a jobs program, pure and simple. A lot of engineers have lost their jobs. This program appears to address that."
Source www.latimes.com...
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
It was only 7 years from JFK's moon speech to the alleged Apollo 8 moon orbit with 3 astronauts.
Building and testing this "new" rocket will take twice as long.
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
It was only 7 years from JFK's moon speech to the alleged Apollo 8 moon orbit with 3 astronauts.
Building and testing this "new" rocket will take twice as long.
Originally posted by Exuberant1
reply to post by FoosM
The carrot idea was ww2 psy-ops,
Originally posted by jra
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
It was only 7 years from JFK's moon speech to the alleged Apollo 8 moon orbit with 3 astronauts.
Building and testing this "new" rocket will take twice as long.
NASA of the 60's was strongly focused on the Apollo program with a lot of its budget going towards it. NASA today has a smaller budget and it gets divided up between a lot of other projects and missions. Only a portion of NASA's budget is spent on the new rocket and capsule per year, so the development of the new hardware has to be spread out over many more years.
Former National Aeronautics and Space Administration Data and Photo Control Department manager, Ken Johnston, who worked for the space agency's Lunar Receiving Laboratory during the Apollo missions has been fired for telling the truth.
Johnston asserts NASA knows astronauts discovered ancient alien cities and the remains of amazingly advanced machinery on the Moon. Some of the technology can manipulate gravity.
He says the agency ordered a cover-up and forced him to participate in it.
Originally posted by FoosM
Originally posted by Exuberant1
reply to post by FoosM
The carrot idea was ww2 psy-ops,
want moar info!
A replica of the lunar lander is on display at the National Air and Space Museum.
The lunar landers - officially called lunar modules - were designed to fly only in the vacuum of space. They did not have to be streamlined like an aircraft or carry a heat shield for protection during reentry.
Once a lunar lander was launched into space, it could not return to Earth.
Lunar lander had two stages:
Silver-and-black ascent stage with the crew's pressurized compartment and cluster of rockets that controlled spacecraft.
Gold-and-black descent stage, like the ascent stage, contained a rocket engine and tanks of fuel and oxidizer.
Lunar lander specifications:
Weight: Empty: 8,650 pounds
Crew & Propellant: 32,500 pounds
Height: 22 feet, 11 inches
Width: 31 feet
NASA officials have discussed a trip to circle the moon without landing.