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July 20, 1969 - The First Manned Moon Landing (Read 7328 times)
Reply #45 - Aug 7th, 2009 at 9:06am

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4_Series_Scania wrote on Aug 4th, 2009 at 10:50am:
And the implications of 40 years of Lies being told as truth?

That wouldn't be unique by any stretch of the imagination. Politicians tell lies all the time. That's what they do. Wink

At least there were valid reasons for going to the Moon in the 60s. Can someone please give me one good reason for going back there now.
 

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Reply #46 - Aug 8th, 2009 at 10:47am

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Hagar wrote on Aug 7th, 2009 at 9:06am:
At least there were valid reasons for going to the Moon in the 60s. Can someone please give me one good reason for going back there now.
Departure: Terra Loony Base, 1st Quarter
Destination: Mooned Lunar Base
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3rd Phase Layover: Lunar Orbit (degradable or w/vacuum-packed dinner, which should come up shortly before final descent)
Disembark ETA: Once, with a Full Moon.

Considering current events? Give me a ticket.

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Reply #47 - Aug 13th, 2009 at 3:37am

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Roll Eyes What happened last time, 34 Pages and a locked thread
 

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Reply #48 - Jul 20th, 2010 at 9:05pm

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Tranquility Base here.  The Eagle has landed.

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Reply #49 - Mar 18th, 2011 at 2:12am

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I believe it happened but the only part that has me wondering is something I didn't know about before. About 500 miles out to space out to about 50,000 miles is some extremely high radiation.  I'm just curious know how we were able to shield ourselves from it?

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Reply #50 - Mar 18th, 2011 at 7:37pm

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NASA knew about Van Allen Belt radiation.

It is not a fatal radiation zone.

NASA shielded spacecraft and avoided the Van Allen Belt.

More here but I'm not going to swear by it.

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The Van Allen belts are full of deadly radiation, and anyone passing through them would be fried.

Needless to say this is a very simplistic statement. Yes, there is deadly radiation in the Van Allen belts, but the nature of that radiation was known to the Apollo engineers and they were able to make suitable preparations. The principle danger of the Van Allen belts is high-energy protons, which are not that difficult to shield against. And the Apollo navigators plotted a course through the thinnest parts of the belts and arranged for the spacecraft to pass through them quickly, limiting the exposure.

The Van Allen belts span only about forty degrees of earth's latitude -- twenty degrees above and below the magnetic equator. The diagrams of Apollo's translunar trajectory printed in various press releases are not entirely accurate. They tend to show only a two-dimensional version of the actual trajectory. The actual trajectory was three-dimensional. The highly technical reports of Apollo, accessible to but not generally understood by the public, give the three-dimensional details of the translunar trajectory.

Each mission flew a slightly different trajectory in order to access its landing site, but the orbital inclination of the translunar coast trajectory was always in the neighborhood of 30°. Stated another way, the geometric plane containing the translunar trajectory was inclined to the earth's equator by about 30°. A spacecraft following that trajectory would bypass all but the edges of the Van Allen belts.

This is not to dispute that passage through the Van Allen belts would be dangerous. But NASA conducted a series of experiments designed to investigate the nature of the Van Allen belts, culminating in the repeated traversal of the Southern Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly (an intense, low-hanging patch of Van Allen belt) by the Gemini 10 astronauts.
 

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Reply #51 - Mar 18th, 2011 at 11:50pm

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Thanks Webb.  That helped me understand a lot more!

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Reply #52 - Apr 17th, 2011 at 7:05pm

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well I'm glad somebody else has posted recently on this, I've always believed they went.
The Life magazine mentioned in this thread? I have that copy.
NASA helped me when at college and i've always belived in them.

Photos taken in space of the landing sites show the bottom half of the lander and the equipment and rovers they left behind, and the tracks made.
 

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