An icon from my childhood. During bad times, I often thought of what Neil actually did on humanity's behalf and it helped knowing he was around. RIP.
RIP Neil Armstrong.....but do you 'really' believe they went? Why has no one been back? What created the shadows in the photos? How did the flag blow with no wind? Where's the buggies they left behind? Conspiracy? I dunno, but there's lots of questions to this day.
With the likes of Spielberg, Ardman and CGI our boundaries are endless, we've now sent things to Mars. We'll be getting 3D pics back soon with Dolby sound.
It is sad........... but it was wrong taking performance enhancing drugs and doinG/winning the Tour de France too. :frown: :wink:
Yes. They have: Apollos 12,14,15,16 & 17. Apollo 13 famously never made it & Apollo 18 was cancelled due to budget cut backs. Apparently, for some reason, it is ferociously expensive to send men to the Moon, go figure. The Sun, the camera flash, the Earth. It didn't. there was a wire in the top of the flag so it would display properly. It never fluttered, no photo/film ever showed it "blowing". It was unfurled & that's it. Still there, obviously, along with the landing craft & all the other stuff they left behind. They are quite small (a car & a big shed size respectively for the buggy & lander) & the moon is quite a long way away (1/4 of a million miles). They're pretty much impossible to see even using the most powerful optics on the planet. But you can see them using satellite photography: BBC News - Probe pictures Moon landing sites There's always a conspiracy, whatever the subject. And all the answers are there, unless you can't be arsed looking. Me thinks someone has watched Capricorn One too often.
Pretty hard to fake loading a load of blokes into a huge rocket and firing into space... on the quiet....
All the astronauts from the early Gemini, Mercury and Apollo projects were my boyhood heroes. I remember watching the first moon landing on the T.V knowing this was something very very special. Neil Armstrong certainly proved he was 'The right stuff' when he manually overrode the computers abort signal coming in to land on the moon as they were running on empty. Cool as a cucumber, his heart beat stayed at a steady rate throughout the descent.( mine was about triple ). His partner on the first walk, Buzz Aldrin was hospitalized for psychiatric treatment 2 years after the event ,suffering from the mind blowing experience ! Worth a read for those interested, is the book -Return to earth, the story of his tragic crack up. R.I.P Neil.
With regard to conspiracies........ Where did the computer stuff fit inside the capsule?.....In those days they were an effin sight bigger than Margaret Thatcher's handbag..... ...and then there is Van Diemens Belt which the capsule would have had to pass through....that thing puts millions of holes through helmets, bodies, metal etc etc etc........2'-0" thickness of lead is the only protection, so where was that in the capsule.......??? There is plenty to say they got there and there is plenty to say it was a scam to beat the Russkies to it. AL
Solid State technology wasn't even new in 1969. The computer they put in there wasn't that small, but only about the size of an old CRT telly. Plenty of room for that in the Command Module & landing module. Do you mean the Van Allen belt? There's only radiation there, which can be shielded against fairly simply for the amount of time the Apollo missions would have been transiting that area, and it's bang in the area that most satellites ply their trade. Not many of them have a solid 2' casing of lead, they would be too heavy to launch economically. Van Allen radiation belt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I don't care if they went or not, but I knew the space nerds who based their childhood dreams around a poinless excersise would bite and have ALL the answers.
