It doesn’t have to be pretty to work.
The foil acted as a thermal blanket, reflecting as much of the sunlight as possible to keep the base of the LM from overheating. The foil was only about 125 microns thick, making it extremely lightwaight (always a plus), and since it was only ever meant to be used in a vaccuum, it didn’t need to be streamlined.
Even the Shuttle orbiters used blankets instead of tiles where they could get away with it.
Most real-world spacecraft aren’t “pretty”.
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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. …
Apollo Moon Landing Hoax – Scientific Evidence
The blueprints *weren’t* destroyed; they’re on file at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. Not that it matters; we couldn’t build the Saturn V today if we wanted to, because most of the technology it used is …
Apollo Moon Landing Hoax – More Photographic Proof
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 …
Apollo Moon Landing Hoax – Camera Problems
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 …
Apollo Moon Landing Hoax – More Photographic Proof
Some futher googling indicates that the original Saturn V plans are stored at MSFC in Huntsville, AL (which would make sense); however, the source I found isn’t authoritative (it’s a forum discussion with no links), so don’t take that as …
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I would love to watch you space walk at higher altitude than the space station orbit cause its electronics fail at higher altitudes
So what about unmanned probes like the Mariners, Pioneers, or Voyagers? What about the Messenger mission …
Apollo Moon Landing Hoax
If you’re talking about the LM, you’re absolutely right that it was not designed the survive the kinds of pressure and thermal loads that launch and re-entry would have subjected it to.
Therefore, during launch, it was kept in a protective …
Apollo Moon Landing Hoax
@Canadian Light:
Why haven’t we sent anyone back to the Moon?
1. It’s expensive. Really, really expensive. The total Apollo program cost is estimated in the range of $170 billion in 2005 dollars (yes, not much compared to what …
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@Arindam:
“1) The onus is on NASA to refute each and every argument challenging the moon landings.”
That is exactly backwards. NASA has already presented all the evidence it needs to: physical samples from the lunar surface, data from the science …
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Baratacus:
“The lunar orbitor that recently took photos of the landing sites was only able to take low resolution pictures where the craft appeared as 6 pixel^2 blob and could not be readily identified. The fact that you can see a …