4 months old at the time. Dont remember what I was doing. My brother on the other hand can tell you what he was doing before he was born.
Whippersnappers... I was a fortnight and 2 days shy of smearing chocolate cake all over myself in my highchair!
I saw it on TV </Creedence> Seriously, I grew up watching the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions and honestly believed by 1990 we'd have moon colonies.
We have only recently seen rockets returned to earth by landing vertically and there were many failures along the way, and that was using technology and computing power undreamt of back when we supposedly vertically landed a craft on the moon and did it flawlessly on the first attempt, using less computing power than a $10 watch. Sure. Not to mention the undisturbed soil under the lunar lander in the pictures taken. How did that happen?
Displacement of air on the moon is kind of difficult, what with that whole lack of air thing. First try? There were many missions tasked with proving the concept and the technology, manned and unmanned. Even with all that a man manually still had to take over to safely touch down the lander. The LLTV was instrumental in preparing the astronauts for the landing, and probably one of the most dangerous parts of the mission was practicing in that death trap.
Even our competitors (the Soviets) knew they'd been beat. They were desperately trying to beat us there. Would they seriously have let us get away with it if we'd just done it on a movie set? Why the hell didn't they just do the same thing before we did if that's all that ever happened? It's a hell of a lot easier to land softly when the gravity is only 1/6 of what is on Earth.
Propellers push against air. Rocket engines simply use the first law of motion (equal and opposite reaction). Fuel is ignited and the resulting gas is accelerated in one direction causing the vehicle to accelerate equally in the opposite direction (minus resistance encountered by atmosphere of course). Because of the lack of atmospheric interference a rocket is more efficient in space than in an atmospheric environment. A bullet fired from a gun operates on the same principle, accelerating the pistol backwards with the same amount of force with which the bullet is accelerated forwards. The fact that the gun and the individual holding the gun have considerably more mass than the projectile is the only thing that keeps both from moving away from each other with equal speed.
It's frightening how many of you on here think that we went to the moon. I believed what I was told in the Government Indoctrination System, and I had my own cognitive dissonance when I did my own research. Take some time to do some honest digging and you'll see we've been played. Regards, Chad
Truth! When I got older and read more about the true history of America from authors like James Alexander Thom I was majorly pissed off about all the crap they filled my head with in school.
Get a decent enough telescope, and you can see the landing sites with your own eyes. If we never went, how’d that stuff get up there?
