chris l
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Important Lift off - NASA moon mission.
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chris l
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When I was a young lad I wrote to NASA and received a whole bunch of 10x8" colour photos by return
Found them again clearing Dad's house a couple of years ago....
Inca
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What a fantastic resource Mike @Outkastmike, thanks for posting it, there’s hours of viewing there (providing I can remember where I put the URL)
round
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It’s not what they can see on the far side of the Moon …..it’s who they can see 
Manley JP
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I wont be watching the new live moon landings.. the1960s missions were amazing, any one want book title recommendations , type my forum name to ping me or something and I can lists some great titles.. while the new lunar rover looks fab- it was the then cutting edge but by todays standard , very basic tech which makes the 1960s so epic.. without being neg, there is a whole lot of earthbound project the states ( non political statement) as I mean all past and present administrations, could have spend the cash on.. is L.A fully re built after the fires. Could have re built L.A for the Artemis budget maybe.. one thing that would be fab- seeing Buzz Aldrin go back in space, at 95 or whatever. he would be totally up for it, I bet.
Edit wonder what the mission risk was in the 60s- 33% chance of a total loss in space- 33% of an aborted landing.. something like that.
For sure it was Von Braun the WW2 German V1/V2 scientist, who enabled the missions. Book I read decades back- The Paperclip Conspiracy- operation Paperclip- the US rushing to grab German tech, which basically gave the US its first truly great fighter, the USAF F86- swept back wings and slats that opened at slow speed, to gave lift on landings.. right off the German ME262 jet fighter. Plus the V2 tech and the science behind it.. liquid rocket fuel, was the background behind the moon rocket tech..
Pressure to perform and achieve the 60s missions must have intense.. all the crews having "The Right Stuff" being mainly ex fighter pilots.
The most amazing VHS I ever had was a 25th anniversary , off the TV- now very sadly lost - of the 60s crews and what they were doing post NASA careers, with Al Bean NASA crew, turning to Art and painting stunning work. often including using drill bits and tools from his moon mission, like his little rock pick and drill bit, to make impressions and dents on his paintings.. he even looked up at his NASA suit badges one day which were framed on the wall, looked at the very light dust on them and ground some of the badges up for texture to put on his paintings.. in effect some of his paintings had a dab or moon dust and ground up NASA badge on them..
Edit wonder what the mission risk was in the 60s- 33% chance of a total loss in space- 33% of an aborted landing.. something like that.
For sure it was Von Braun the WW2 German V1/V2 scientist, who enabled the missions. Book I read decades back- The Paperclip Conspiracy- operation Paperclip- the US rushing to grab German tech, which basically gave the US its first truly great fighter, the USAF F86- swept back wings and slats that opened at slow speed, to gave lift on landings.. right off the German ME262 jet fighter. Plus the V2 tech and the science behind it.. liquid rocket fuel, was the background behind the moon rocket tech..
Pressure to perform and achieve the 60s missions must have intense.. all the crews having "The Right Stuff" being mainly ex fighter pilots.
The most amazing VHS I ever had was a 25th anniversary , off the TV- now very sadly lost - of the 60s crews and what they were doing post NASA careers, with Al Bean NASA crew, turning to Art and painting stunning work. often including using drill bits and tools from his moon mission, like his little rock pick and drill bit, to make impressions and dents on his paintings.. he even looked up at his NASA suit badges one day which were framed on the wall, looked at the very light dust on them and ground some of the badges up for texture to put on his paintings.. in effect some of his paintings had a dab or moon dust and ground up NASA badge on them..
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Inca
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Space exploration and furthering our knowledge and capabilities I understand and can get the juices flowing but manned space exploration I just don’t understand. What are these 4 incredibly brave, courageous and even heroic individuals bringing to the party that modern technology can’t (apart from the medical effects on the human body)? Technically there’s nothing that can’t be achieved today which, as @Manley JP refers to above, makes the achievements of 60s so amazing.
Mark E Smith
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I can definitely see the ME262Great idea, I've got their number on speed dial.Than
And the Me 262 borrowed the slat idea off the Me 109 fighter which IIRC was the first aircraft to utilise them circa 1935. However, automatic slats were patented by Gustav Lachmann and Handley Page in the early 1900's.
You can definitely see the ME262 ancestry in the F86 Sabre.
Bill.B
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up. 
Willz22
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Inca
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I asked in all seriousness what the 4 individuals on board were bring to the party that technology couldn’t achieve. A recent interview on the BBC with an astrophysicist has just answered it with a ‘not quite’ tongue-in-cheek comment. They are there to test the toilet. The toilet appears, like those on the aircraft carrier USS General R Ford, not to be fully functioning. Unlike the carrier however they can’t just tie-up to to get them fixed.
Tosh
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I find it all ludicrously pointless
The colossal waste of money and resources
Why??’
Ah…ego’s
The colossal waste of money and resources
Why??’
Ah…ego’s
Mark E Smith
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Are we there yet ?
Dudd I
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See they're just getting their first look at the far side. Wonder if Pink Floyd are there to greet them
HW42
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Have they found the Germans mining helium3 yet 
rocketdogbert
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Historically, it hasn’t been a waste of money. Apollo returned approximately 8 times the US expenditure in the first decade following investment.
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As a child I was fascinated by space, so much that a prize won in 'Junior 2' class of 1966 was the Eagle Book of Rockets and Space Travel. Three years before the moon landing it mentioned, of course, Yuri Gagarin and his 17,000mph journey around Earth and went into detail about designs of rockets and what space travel conditions would be like. Now I'm a bit more realistic. The universe is a very big place, somewhere? So we are going to find another planet and then trash it, just like this one. Can't get excited by that.
Mark E Smith
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Broadly similar to the mileage covered by most Private Hire Orion's before they eventually bit the dust !Orion is currently approximately 304,316 km (189,000 miles) from Earth and accelerating toward the Moon.
