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apollo 11 through 14 where they never found cone crater were missions where they never took pics of anything that was a definite like a cone crater would be
many of us believe the apollo missions were covers for programs to place military equipment on the moon and elsewhere by unmanned means
well for openers you can not take it out
the navy bounced transmissions off the moon before apollo was fully hatched
the LRRR gives the earth moon distance and so the earths gravitational field strength which is needed for ICBM targeting
you can use the moon as a relay base
if you put equipment in the libration points you can see the whole earth pretty much except for a little of the backside 24/7 good for surveillance and reconnaissance and can't take those satellites out
there are physical constants useful for weapons systems such as gravitational variations over the earth and so forth that can only be determined from space at least then
did you know even before we had equipment there we heard the russian ICBM telemetry as it bounced off the moon ?
Every detail of the experiment was examined carefully. It took weeks to finally locate the source of the error within the computer program JPL had used to generate the expected timing for the return signal. They quite reasonably had assumed that Lick Observatory (LO) was where the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac (predecessor of the Astronomical Almanac) said it was, which in turn and equally reasonably listed the observatory location as given by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USCGS). USCGS thought LO was where their Lick Observatory benchmark was placed. Their benchmark was in the parking lot west of the Main Building, 1700 feet from the 3m telescope.
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by decisively
they never go to an identifiable place on the moon so they do not have to image it or even be imaged in a reverse sense by a laser from McDonald Observatory
Explain this:
www.nasa.gov...
Picture on the left was created by JAXA software CGI in 2008.
Picture on the right is a front screen projection from 1971.
Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by SayonaraJupiter
Picture on the left was created by JAXA software CGI in 2008.
Picture on the right is a front screen projection from 1971.
I'll give you 25 out of 100. The image on the left is a digital visualization. We have discussed why the image on the right cannot be front projection elsewhere.
121:08:05 Evans: And when the LM does his P22 on your transponder, well then, that'll be our last shot at the LM's position.
121:08:14 Collins: Rog. Understand. (Pause)
[The LM crew will track the Command Module as it passes over the landing site for the last time prior to launch and, with the Command Module orbit well known, in principle the tracking data will help pin down the landing site. At 123:55:23, about a half hour before liftoff, Ron gives Mike a final LM location of J.5/7.7, which is only about 200 meters from the actual landing site at J.65/7.54. Mike will be too busy during that pass over the landing site to look for the LM.]
The Doppler residual was computed by comparing the
velocity measured along the earth-moon line-of-sight by ground tracking
with the same velocity component computed by the primary system. As the
lunar module approached powered descent initiation, the Doppler residual
began to increase in magnitude to about 13 ft/sec. Since the earth-moon
line-of-sight vector was almost normal to the velocity vector at this
point, the residual indicated that the primary system estimate of its
state vector was approximately 21 000 feet uprange of the actual state
vector. This same error was also reflected in the real-time comparisons
made using the powered flight processor previously mentioned.
i study apollo a lot mostly because i learned it was sony when i read parts about how the astronauts said they sighted stars i am a sailor but mostly a navigator and have won many awards with my sextant even when i was a little boy and this is how i learned apollo was fony comparing the astronauts stores with how i do things and know about sighting stars