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originally posted by: Maverick7
Some interesting parts, but I wonder if they used the same methods to rotate the lander around to the front. Seems risky to use a set of swing arms.
originally posted by: Maverick7
As I mentioned before, I find it difficult to believe that in less than one orbit the LEM reached 60 miles and close to 4,500 mph from a dead stop to rendezvous (not once but six times) with no errors. A nimble little craft, sure, and low gravity of the Moon, still with a tiny amount of time, fuel and distance it strains the imagination for 1969.
originally posted by: Maverick7
As I mentioned before, I find it difficult to believe that in less than one orbit the LEM reached 60 miles and close to 4,500 mph from a dead stop to rendezvous (not once but six times) with no errors. A nimble little craft, sure, and low gravity of the Moon, still with a tiny amount of time, fuel and distance it strains the imagination for 1969.
originally posted by: Maverick7
As I mentioned before, I find it difficult to believe that in less than one orbit the LEM reached 60 miles and close to 4,500 mph from a dead stop to rendezvous (not once but six times) with no errors.
originally posted by: choos
originally posted by: SayonaraJupiter
a reply to: choos
whats so hard to understand that the public was getting bored of Apollo?? that is what i believe.. if you want to claim that the public was NOT bored then you need to show me the public perception.. i dont want to know what a handful of well positioned people believed, they dont tell me what the public perception is..
Mmmmm, yeah. Public perception cancelled Apollo? Is that your argument?
it played its part in Apollo's cancellation..
quote "a whole new space program" for America in the decade after Apollo. quote. Source Beaver County Times Feb 14 1969
originally posted by: SayonaraJupiter
The public perception is a by-product of the machinations of insiders at NASA, e.g. Julian Scheer; the three television news networks "the small group of men" from the Eastern establishment; Nixon's well placed appointees, e.g. Frank Shakespeare and Thomas O. Paine, Frank Borman, et al.;
Nixon also had solid help from his OMB appointees, Caspar Weinberger and George Shultz constantly nagging NASA to reduce it's budgets. In fact the Nixon administration was eager to get the ball rolling toward, in the words of Lee DuBridge,
quote "a whole new space program" for America in the decade after Apollo. quote. Source Beaver County Times Feb 14 1969
It's obvious Nixon was already scheming for ways to cancel Apollo less than a month after he was inaugurated. That it was reported in the papers is a fact... that's why I am so surprised that Apollo Defenders do not want to find out the real answer to the question:
"Were the America Public Bored! of Apollo Moon Landings?" the answer to that question is a resounding "NO!".
Estimated 500,000 viewed the Apollo 16 launch which happened on a Sunday. That's better than Apollo 14's mid week launch which it was estimated 400,000 travelled to the Cape to view it.
It really is outrageous for Apollo Defenders to argue that the public was bored with Apollo moon landings but that's exactly what they did in this thread.
Obviously, there is a lot more at play than just a "bored" American public.
Unfortunately the Apollo Defenders are now tar-babied to that notion that the public boredom is to be blamed for the cancellation of Apollo and manufacturing of Saturn V rockets....
those are the same Saturn V's that could take America to Mars by the 1980's according to Wernher von Braun and Spiro Agnew. All those ideas can be laid to rest now in the cemetery of moon hoax Disclosures.
originally posted by: SayonaraJupiter
It's obvious Nixon was already scheming for ways to cancel Apollo less than a month after he was inaugurated. That it was reported in the papers is a fact... that's why I am so surprised that Apollo Defenders do not want to find out the real answer to the question:
originally posted by: SayonaraJupiter
Nixon cancelled Apollo because he was about to get caught (along with Howard Hughes).
originally posted by: onebigmonkey
The TV footage of Apollo 17 ascending taken by the rover camera shows how quickly it travelled once the rather small LM ascent module was given a kick in the pants by a big engine.
What is outrageous is your inability to accept the truth: they were bored. The overwhelming majority of the American public, as evidenced by opinion polls and lack of coverage in the media (so lacking it caused the dismissal of the person responsible for organising that, remember) proves that they were bored.
"The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is understood to be under heavy pressure from the Nixon administration to cut its next budget so sharply that it might have to cancel the remaining two Apollo moon landings." - Bangor Daily News Nov 19 1971
"Agnew added: "The public and government interest in the program has not diminished." And he called Sunday's launch (Apollo 16-SJ) "the best of the seven Apollo shots I've witnessed." - The Spokesman Review Apr 17 1972
There is no moon hoax, there is nothing to disclose. Claims Apollo was hoaxed are lies. You have demonstrated nothing to the contrary.
quote "a whole new space program" for America in the decade after Apollo. quote. Source Beaver County Times Feb 14 1969
"The real reason for the sharp reductions in the NASA budget is that NASA is entirely within the 28% of the budget which is controllable." Weinberger, Aug 12 1971
"The purposes of the program are multiple. The - first - accomplishment would bolster the sagging aerospace industry, providing work for thousands of unemployed. The cost will be high but the benefits, in the long run, far greater." - Virgin Islands Daily News Jan 8 1972
"But, taking first things first, Space Administrator James Fletcher notes that the program will achieve the direct employment of 50,000 persons in the aerospace industry. It has been especially hard-hit by the phasing-out of the Apollo Moon missions, of which the end is almost in sight." Virgin Islands Daily News Jan 8 1972
the LM ascent looks a bit unrealistic to me.
originally posted by: SayonaraJupiter
I have so far not found any references of a "bored" American public playing any substantive role in the cancellation of Apollo.
Religious denial is not going to convince anyone in this thread. I wish that you would set that aside because flat out denials belong in the religious forums.
I have demonstrated that the Nixon administration was interested in shutting down Apollo less than a month after he was inaugurated, according to Dr. Lee DuBridge, he was tasked to come up with,
"a whole new space program" for America in the decade after Apollo."
I have demonstrated the "heavy pressure" that the Nixon administration put on NASA, through Nixon appointees in the OMB.
"The real reason for the sharp reductions in the NASA budget is that NASA is entirely within the 28% of the budget which is controllable."
I have demonstrated Agnew's sustained attack on the networks which took place one day before the Apollo 12 launch, which had to have a strong effect on that "small group of men" who decided what stories go on the nightly news programs. Was it just a coincidence that Apollo 12 was the only Apollo launch that Nixon attended?? I don't think so. Nixon was only at the cape for about 90 minutes but the network news cameras followed him around like he was the star of the show.
I have demonstrated that Nixon's speech writer William Safire admitted on the 20th anniversary of Apollo 11 that Nixon "enjoyed offending these editorialists" and "planned to use the American space triumph to override the public preoccupation with Vietnam."
I have demonstrated that Nixon's selection of the space shuttle first week of January 1972 would accomplish,
"The purposes of the program are multiple. The - first - accomplishment would bolster the sagging aerospace industry, providing work for thousands of unemployed. The cost will be high but the benefits, in the long run, far greater."
"But, taking first things first, Space Administrator James Fletcher notes that the program will achieve the direct employment of 50,000 persons in the aerospace industry. It has been especially hard-hit by the phasing-out of the Apollo Moon missions, of which the end is almost in sight."
I would surmise that Nixon's "heavy pressure" on NASA caused the cancellation of Apollo which led directly to space industry lay-off's; And his announcement of the shuttle (still on the drawing boards!) caused some heart beats to flutter when he announced 50,000 new aerospace jobs.
I have so far not found any references of a "bored" American public playing any substantive role in the cancellation of Apollo. It's all Nixon and NASA.
originally posted by: onebigmonkey
No-one said that Apollo was cancelled solely because the public were bored with Apollo. They simply stated that they were, which is a well known, well reported and easily verifiable fact.
originally posted by: wildespace
originally posted by: onebigmonkey
The TV footage of Apollo 17 ascending taken by the rover camera shows how quickly it travelled once the rather small LM ascent module was given a kick in the pants by a big engine.
I'm a believer that the landings happened, but the LM ascent looks a bit unrealistic to me. The LM seems to acquire instantaneous speed rather than gradually accelerating from being stationary (as we always see in any rocket launch footage). It looked like the LM has very little mass and popped off like a champagne bottle cork. I wonder what it felt like to the astronauts inside, they must have been punched into the LM's floor by the sudden g-forces.
By the way, in what position were they during the launch? I'm not familiar with the inner structure of the LM, were they sitting somewhere, or standing?