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You’re thinking of Apollo 17, not Apollo 11; there is no external footage of Eagle’s ascent.

The footage you’re talking about was captured by the television camera mounted on the lunar rover, which was controlled by technicians on Earth. To capture Challenger’s ascent, the technician in Houston tilted the camera manually; there was no automatic tracking. Despite training and practice, it still turned out to be a bit of a lucky shot, since the technician had to start the tilt about a second before the actual liftoff to account for the signal delay.

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Apollo 11 Conspiracy Theories

Wouldn’t the same
logic dictate the lighter the dust particle the SLOWER it will settle?

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Apollo 11 Conspiracy Theories

The space race absolutely started out as a dick-waving exercise between the US and the USSR. We justified and rationalized it ourselves as a scientific and technological endeavor, but at its root was a desire by each side to demonstrate …


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Who panned the camera?

His name was Ed Fendell, a controller in Houston in charge the remotely-controlled camera on the LRV.

Yes, he had to take the signal delay into account – he had to anticipate the liftoff and rate of ascent. …


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It doesn’t have to be pretty to work.

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Did you know that many of the people involved in the moon landing died from a car crash?

Upwards of 90 people die *every day* in car crashes in the US; it’s not at all surprising that a lot people “involved …


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It’s not a C, it’s an O.

And it *looks* like some kind of inclusion (a pebble embedded in a slightly softer matrix rock). It looks like the surrounding matrix has eroded a bit, leaving a small channel around the …