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Well I am now doubtful having watched the video I posted, even the astronaut was confused and was obviously lying and he was on apollo 11
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I haven’t watched the video mate. If we’ve left the planet or haven’t it won’t change my life.
Watching Sputnik land is still funny though!!
I might be going to Florida in August so when I get to the Kennedy space center I'll ask for some proof.....
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I posted it for you to watch as it proves the moonlanding was set in a film studio.. OMG
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It was all destroyed,, they havent got any..Bizarre to say the least
I’ve been there, 2012 we watched a launch. It was very impressive. I was laughing the Mrs wasn’t happy as she knew why I was laughing.
It was still a great day out. Leonardo Decaprio narrates a space video and the space shuttle ride is 10/10
The moon lander was laughable though
Yep me too. ,
We wouldn’t pay the extra money to go over to the island so watched it when we left from the road side. A police car wallowed up next to us. Very polite chaps.Yep me too. ,
We got lost on the way back to international drive. There’s some very sketchy parts around there!
I had to make the call, watch it from 3 miles away at the famous countdown clock, and miss the rest of the attractions or watch it from 5 miles away at the main building and see everything else on offer.
The thing is you have to decide because it goes into lock down a few hours before and you can't not travel around the site.
So I went up to the countdown clock but headed back to the main complex to do all that was in offer there and saw the launch from there. It was a fairly big rocket with 2 boosters. And still impressive from 5 miles.
We've kept people alive on the ISS continuously for 26 years. That's built with leaky 1990s Russian hardware. Shipping sufficient food and air is nice and simple.
We've kept people in space for over a year multiple times. The danger for long stays in space is prolonged zero G, so in theory taking a layover on Mars would be beneficial.
But if you're worried about time then triple the fuel and you can cut the transit times to around 6 months each way, which also makes your return window more flexible. You send the majority of the kit (lander/return vehicle) into Mars orbit on a slow transfer and the people in a separate speedy unit.
It's a stones throw from earth. It's basically a satalite orbiting the planet. I have no doubt about our abilitry to put satalites into orbit or the incredible feat of doing a moon fly-by.
Sending a manned mission to Mars? A long long way off.
Quite.
Yep very close to Earth. Any one thing goes wrong way out there - death.
Which is why you have extensive testing especially of new versions of hardware, like doing a moon flyby. And for mission critical equipment you have backups.
When you're skimming the clouds, the only danger is zero G, you say.
Whatever, but that's not relevant to space travel, where you can add radiation exposure outside of the earth's magnetosphere.
Which, given a decent solar storm, won't give the astronauts cancer: it'll kill them in minutes, hours, or days.
100t payload, you say?
Impressive.
More impressive will be stopping it creating a mile - wide crater on Mars, seeing as there's no atmosphere there to slow it down.......
