Please take note of the following:
1.400,000 people worked on the American manned space program leading up to the moon missions – how do you fool all these technical people?
2.There were 27 manned missions from 1961 to 1972. 6 Mercury missions, 10 Gemini missions, and 11 Apollo missions.
3.Four Apollo manned missions preceded the moon landings, with 3 of them actually going to and orbiting the moon.
4.Why can’t we do it now? – quite simply, there is no Saturn V rocket. It needed the phenomenal power of this giant 360 foot rocket to get a manned probe beyond Earth’s orbit.
5.What happened to the Apollo? – read the history. Americans were wholly caught up in the Vitenam war, with massive and violent demonstrations going on. People saw the space program as a huge waste of money when there were so many social and international problems to attend to.
6.Apollos 18-20 were cancelled because of lack of taxpayer interest.
2006-09-25
10:25:20
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7.There would be no use for the Saturn V booster any more. It is not needed for putting men in orbit, or for sending relatively light unmanned probes to the planets.
Please read the history all you people who deny the moon landings. It is just the absolute height of ignorance to have an opinion on this without knowing the history. Also, it is a gross insult to all those who worked tirelessly to make happen the most fanstastic voyage of discovery ever.
2006-09-25
10:25:46 ·
update #1