The third reason is that it’s still really *hard*. It’s not trivial to engineer manned spacecraft and man-rated launchers, even with the last 40 years of experience, and getting out of Earth’s gravity well is no easier now than it was then. Getting off the ground and to Earth orbit is literally more than half of the battle of any space mission. We’ve squeezed every ounce of performance out of conventional liquid and solid rockets we can get. There are systems that can feasibly be built with current technology and offer greater performance to orbit, but tend to be *very* environmentally unfriendly (nuclear thermal, pulsed nuclear).
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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. …
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, …
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 …
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Apollo Moon Landing Hoax – Why Fake a Moon Landing?
I think I’ve answered this exact question several times already.
In a nutshell:
1. It’s expensive. Apollo wound up costing over US $170 bn in 2005 dollars, which is a lot for any single program. We weren’t …
Apollo Moon Landing Hoax – Why Fake a Moon Landing?
Water is *rare* on the Moon; in fact, it’s pretty limited to craters at the poles that are constantly in shadow. There are elements on Earth that are rare enough that if you aren’t sampling in the exact right …
Apollo Moon Landing Hoax – Why Fake a Moon Landing?
@Ozzy Moron:
Sorry, no, that’s not how it works. NASA has made its claim (we sent people to the Moon), and has backed it up with physical evidence (samples, science data from instruments left on the Moon), documentary evidence (film, …