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Originally posted by AngryCymraeg
...the Australians tracked Apollo all the way there and back.
Erm the Parkes radio telescope was used to track Apollo 11, along with Honeysuckle Creek, both in Australia. So yes.
"We lost Apollo 8 in the west with a handover to Carnarvon who then handed over to Madrid who handed over to Guam for the final minutes of flight and the fall to Earth." Friday 27 December 1968 Source www.honeysucklecreek.net...
Originally posted by choos
there will be firsts for man every single time they begin to do something.. there was a first for man to start flying, there was a first for man to start driving..
Originally posted by choos
and anyway it did not take man 6months to orbit the moon, it took them about 8 years. saturn V rockets dont just magically appear.
Originally posted by choos
interesting about webb..
Webb was informed by CIA sources in 1968 that the Soviet Union was developing its own heavy N1 rocket for a manned lunar mission, and he directed NASA to prepare Apollo 8 for a possible lunar orbital mission that year.en.wikipedia.org...
strange no?? he plans the entire hoax.. but quits because he is afraid he would be held responsible??
Originally posted by turbonium1
Sure, but they weren't all done within a few days!
Apollo 8 was the 'first'...time they hoaxed a moon mission, and that's about it.
Of course they already had the rockets. So they magically fly these rockets beyond LEO for the first time, then go right off to the moon for the first time, and fly back to Earth, without a hitch. All within a few months?
Dream on.
Let;s see now,,,Webb tells NASA to prepare Apollo 8 for a possiblel lunar mission, and this somehow makes him the mastermind of the entire moon hoax?,
Is that what you're suggesting here?
It makes no sense at all.
All he does is tell NASA to prepare Apollo 8 for a possible alternate missio - which was a lunar orbit mission. That is all he is doing here. There is nothing to suggest Webb has any involvement in a hoax. You simply assume it does to help you make an argument.
Unless you can provide some evidence that Webb controlled or planned the hoax, we can move on... . .
The mission was officially changed from a "D" mission to a "C-Prime" Lunar Orbit mission, but was still referred to in press releases as an Earth Orbit mission at Webb's direction.[13] No public announcement was made about the change in mission until November 12, three weeks after Apollo 7's successful Earth orbit mission and less than 40 days before launch
en.wikipedia.org...
Even if he was the planner of the entire hoax, it doesn't matter. He left NASA before any hoax took place. Even if the hoax had been exposed, his replacement would take the hit for it. At most, Webb could face lesser charges for setting it up. If he was involved, that is. But there is no evidence to suggest he was involved..
Originally posted by turbonium1
They tested the 'space' environment with animals, because they weren't sure if it was safe for humans to go there.
And they already know deep space is not safe for humans. Obviously, they would send animals first, to test it out.
But they don;t. They send humans right off the bat, with Apollo 8!!
Nice little fable.
The End.
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Originally posted by choos
did you forget about all the previous apollo missions?? gemini?? mercury?? these were all lead ups to apollo 8's success.
Originally posted by choos
yes the USSR also sent animals into space before attempting anything.. your point here is kind of weird..
wait i worked it out.. you completely neglected the surveyor program.
Originally posted by turbonium1
There were NO lead-ups for any manned missions beyond LEO.
Originally posted by turbonium1
Just unmanned craft. No go.
The USSR also confirms what I said. Animals were sent on many missions before there was ever a single human flight.
What more do you need to see the elephant standing there in front of you?
Originally posted by turbonium1
Originally posted by choos
did you forget about all the previous apollo missions?? gemini?? mercury?? these were all lead ups to apollo 8's success.
There were NO lead-ups for any manned missions beyond LEO. .Apollo 8 supposedly flew humans into a hazardous environment they knew little about, and that we still don't fully understand today.
What were the lead-ups for manned LEO missions? Lots of animal missions. Why? They didn't know how it would effect humans.
What were the lead-ups for manned missions beyond LEO? They never used animals to test the environment beyond LEO. They had no lead-ups, period. They (supposedly) sent humans out,
So that's where Apollo 8 comes in.
Gemini, etc. were sent into LEO - and progressed within that environment. The environment(s) beyond is not even in the same ballpark.
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"If somebody else is going (to the moon, on a manned mission) , we (NASA, US? NSA? CIA?) will provide our engineering expertise and the only condition is that I be allowed to send an astronaut as a part of the crew," Bolden told an Institute of Medicine panel which is looking into ethics and health guidelines for future long-duration human spaceflights. Source www.space.com...
Engineers are looking for a relatively small asteroid about 7-10 meters in diameter, so that if it accidentally ended up on a collision course with Earth, it would burn up in the atmosphere and not cause any damage.
"I am told that if we screw it up, if we try to capture it and we perturb it and we deflect it toward Earth, we will not destroy civilization. We won't even hurt a car because it won't make it through the atmosphere," Bolden said.
The mission is envisioned as an early stepping-stone toward eventually learning how to alter the course of a larger, potentially threatening, asteroid in the future. Source www.space.com...
Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by SayonaraJupiter
You have a reading comprehension issue don't you. IF the US helps someone else get to the moon, using Apollo experience then they want to send an astronaut along. And why not? If someone else benefits from NASA experience why shouldn't we benefit too? I suppose we're supposed to just say "Here you go!", and give then anything they want? No one is forcing anyone to accept our help. If they want to figure it out for themselves then they are welcome to.
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by SayonaraJupiter
You have a reading comprehension issue don't you. IF the US helps someone else get to the moon, using Apollo experience then they want to send an astronaut along. And why not? If someone else benefits from NASA experience why shouldn't we benefit too? I suppose we're supposed to just say "Here you go!", and give then anything they want? No one is forcing anyone to accept our help. If they want to figure it out for themselves then they are welcome to.
Charles Bolden has set the condition, not me.
"the only condition is that I be allowed to send an astronaut as a part of the crew," Bolden
And you know what else? The moon is not NASA's property to "give them anything they want", according to your failed argument. Today's NASA is still covering up for the Apollo-Nixon moon landing hoax. NASA is desperately afraid that if any other countries get too close to the moon that they will discover the fake Apollo-Nixon landing sites. See the references to the von Braun asteroid threat that is followed by E.T. disclosure.
edit on 6/23/2013 by SayonaraJupiter because: color tags
Originally posted by Zaphod58
reply to post by SayonaraJupiter
They're not giving anyone anything on the moon, which proves a reading comprehension issue, they're talking about engineering support on getting to the moon.