It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: BrianFlanders
Well, do you believe they have never sent sensitive electronics to any of the planets? They seem to send unmanned probes to other planets all the time and the electronics usually still function.
I think Buzz Aldrin said he even saw the radiation flying through him! Back in the day that was fine, just like breaking up Asbestos.
Why didn't we park a shuttle in orbit, attached to space station. Big rocket with fuel cell and 4 astonaugts replenishes the shuttle, quick trip around the moon.
originally posted by: planetyeck
Anyone who believes that we landed on the Moon in 1969... or ever for that matter...is just the kind of sheeple the government loves. Well done Uncle Sam, well done.
originally posted by: Kandinsky
a reply to: MerkabaMeditation
We must solve these challenges before we send people through this region of Space.
It's an accurate statement of fact and doesn't negate the other fact that people have been sent through that region of space. VAB radiation is a challenge that's waiting for a more elegant solution than increased shielding which demands increased payloads and higher costs.
Just getting a payload into orbit is a constant challenge and fraught with failures even though we continue to do so.
Challenge isn't a synonym for 'impossible.'
originally posted by: Chadwickus
originally posted by: planetyeck
Anyone who believes that we landed on the Moon in 1969... or ever for that matter...is just the kind of sheeple the government loves. Well done Uncle Sam, well done.
Ever you say? So how did they get those retro reflectors up there?
How about the rocks and soil that was brought back? Did you know that the Russians returned almost identical soil samples too?
What about the ham radio operators who eavesdropped on radio transmissions from the moon's surface?
What tests would you conduct?
not like I will ever be given the oppertunity to test if those remaining are real
False. Here is just one source (Florida State University). There are many more:
Those that have been tested have turned out to be identical to terrestial basalts.
What makes you think he went to Antarctica to collect meteorites? It wasn't until 1969 that it became known that it's a really good place to look for them. You think he picked up 850 pounds of lunar meteorites one trip? You think lunar meteorites have the same external characteristics as the returned lunar material?
And then you have Wernher von Braun that went to Antarctica a couple of years before Apollo 11 to pick up rocks supposedly from metorites that came from the Moon
originally posted by: Chadwickus
originally posted by: planetyeck
Anyone who believes that we landed on the Moon in 1969... or ever for that matter...is just the kind of sheeple the government loves. Well done Uncle Sam, well done.
Ever you say? So how did they get those retro reflectors up there?
How about the rocks and soil that was brought back? Did you know that the Russians returned almost identical soil samples too?
What about the ham radio operators who eavesdropped on radio transmissions from the moon's surface?
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Sparkymedic
They didn't solve it with Apollo, they worked around it. They found a workable solution that allowed them to get past the obstacle, and they used it.
originally posted by: ParasuvO
Are you claiming that HAM radio operators were able to tell where the signals were coming from, on the surface of the moon?
originally posted by: Zaphod58
originally posted by: ParasuvO
Are you claiming that HAM radio operators were able to tell where the signals were coming from, on the surface of the moon?
It's called triangulation. Ham radio operators were able to triangulate the signals coming from Apollo as being from a location near the moon. You can't pinpoint an exact location down to coordinates, but you can get a pretty close location.