Texas Iron
12:12 Sun May 31
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Big Deal...NOT...
YAWN YAWN...
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Hammer and Pickle
12:22 Sun May 31
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Oh good - Bolty will be posting from outer space now.
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yngwies Cat
12:31 Sun May 31
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Managed to see the ISS and Elon's trocket tonight in the Sky tonight..
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side effect
1:03 Sun May 31
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Looked like it was going down over woolwich or else it was an sr71
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chim chim cha boo
1:13 Sun May 31
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Stood on the patio for 45 minutes and and didn't see shit.
Want my money back.
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zebthecat
1:18 Sun May 31
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I have a bloody great hill in the way so wandered out and it was all below the horizon.
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zebthecat
1:20 Sun May 31
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The SR71 is up there with the Vulcan in beautiful aircraft. The Victor gets the Emprorer Ming award for looking evil.
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Northern Sold
1:41 Sun May 31
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As longas Trump will let us in will be paying KSC another visit this september...one of my most fav places in the world
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zebthecat
1:47 Sun May 31
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We were living in Miami in 1969 as my Dad took a sabbatical there. One of the few things I remember (that and almost severing three toes on my right foot) is seeing Apollo 11 in the hangar when we went on a tour shortly before it blasted off.
It was unbeleivalby huge.
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Sydney_Iron
3:18 Sun May 31
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Lizards in space? This will be another opportunity for the conspiricy nut jobs to claim its all a hoax and fake, which they have already done BTW!!!!
https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/nasa-spacex-launch-cancelled-because-22099811
Or perhaps its some secret time travelling mission, Musk himself said he is a 3000 year old Vampire.....
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/elon-musk-twitter-conspiracy-time-travel-a9361361.html
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yngwies Cat
7:31 Sun May 31
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Well they gave docked and just sorting out the keys to open the hatch...I think they may have left them on the.nasa mantelpiece.
Talking of NASA, Cap Com is a bit shit these days.
Wheres the rows and rows of blokes smoking and computers.
Plus the bits who's the current mission controllers isno Gebd Kranz. Modern space dogs ect..
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Far Cough
7:43 Sun May 31
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Gene Kranz was great as was Chris Craft, it's in no small amount due to Gene Kranz' expertise, that the Apollo 13 crew were brought back safely
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Far Cough
7:44 Sun May 31
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"Failure is not an option"
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Golden Oldie
8:09 Sun May 31
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At this rate we may one day witness man land on the Moon in our lifetimes, and not just in cartoons and CGI.
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Far Cough
8:15 Sun May 31
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What makes you think no one landed on the moon, then?
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Golden Oldie
8:26 Sun May 31
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Faryk Hoff
Cos you never ever heard the question posited before?
...sigh
okay, I'll play
Here's a ladybird book on the Moon landings, the first stop for any discerning gent or Doris
https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie/
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Bungo
8:38 Sun May 31
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zebthecat 1:47 Sun May 31
I was there when Atlantis was in the Vehicle Assembly Building before they built the exhibit around it. As NASA were between space programmes at that point, the KSC bus tour stopped there and we could go inside.
Strangely, Atlantis looked really small in one corner of that huge space. Can't imagine what an Saturn V would have looked like in there!
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Far Cough
8:57 Sun May 31
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We've been through this before, are you going fucking senile?
The first paragraph from your link states quite clearly that...
“It is commonly believed that man will fly directly from the earth to the moon, but to do this, we would require a vehicle of such gigantic proportions that it would prove an economic impossibility.
It would have to develop sufficient speed to penetrate the atmosphere and overcome the earth’s gravity and, having traveled all the way to the moon, it must still have enough fuel to land safely and make the return trip to earth.
Furthermore, in order to give the expedition a margin of safety, we would not use one ship alone, but a minimum of three … each rocket ship would be taller than New York’s Empire State Building [almost ¼ mile high] and weigh about ten times the tonnage of the Queen Mary, or some 800,000 tons.”—Wernher von Braun, the father of the Apollo space program, writing in Conquest of the Moon
BUT that is not the solution NASA used, a DIRECT ASCENT as stated above by Von Braun was indeed correct and unfeasible.
NASA came up with two alternatives to the above procedure, one was an Earth orbit rendezvous where various parts of the lunar rocket including fuel etc would be assembled in LEO or Low Earth Orbit by several missions. The other was a Lunar Orbit rendezvous, which was the one used for all the manned Apollo missions to the moon.
This doesn't require a massive rocket as was outlined by Von Braun in your link, not that the Saturn V wasn't massive, indeed it was massive but not prohibitively so, you see the Saturn V was a three stage vehicle, each stage being jettisoned as it's fuel ran out or close to running out. Therefore no dead weigh is being carried by the vehicle. The lunar lander and ascent stage were separate vehicles also, the lander being left behind on the moon, and the ascent stage was jettisoned to land on the moon later on.
NO DEAD FUCKING WEIGHT
Does that make it clear to you, you fucking imbecile?
I fear not?
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Westside
9:37 Sun May 31
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So moon landings at the height of the cold war.
NASA, I can't believe didn't have at least one Russian spy in it. If the moon landings didn't happen, don't you think it would be front page news on Pravda?
To say nothing of Russian signal intelligence, showing the telemetry was false. Which of course it wasn't.
Read one of GO's links.
Utter garbage.
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yngwies Cat
9:43 Sun May 31
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If you ever watched the Clangers you'll know that the Moon landings happened. To suggest otherwise is claptrap.
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Bungo
10:28 Sun May 31
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Don't forget Wallace and Gromit too....
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