40 years to the day of the moon landing and look what we have restored!

[Orbinaut Pete]

From this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_Landing_hoax_accusations

A UK poll commissioned for the BBC in 2009 showed that 25% of Britons do not believe that the moon landings happened.

:WTF:

 

[Andy44]

Wow, isn't that higher than the US percentage? I thought we were dumber...guess we'll have to try harder!

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

I really don't understand why people think it's faked.

Landing on the Moon is not impossible. In fact, it would be considerably cheaper and easier to land on the Moon, than to attempt such a large hoax and subsequent cover-up.

Over 400,000 people worked on the Apollo program. Do people really think that every one of those people is still hiding the secret?? Even of only 3 people know the secret, at least one of them would have gone to the press by now, and made themselves a millionaire.

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Wow, isn't that higher than the US percentage? I thought we were dumber...guess we'll have to try harder!

A 1999 poll found that 6% of the American public doubted the Moon landing occurred, and 5% had no opinion.

 

[Star Voyager]

I quote astronaut Charlie Duke from the movie "The Wonder of it All":

"We have been to the Moon 9 times. Why would we fake it 9 times?"

 

[Ark]

I can't help but think that 40 years after the first landing, we shouldn't be sitting around watching CGI restored footage, we should be watching actual, live footage of people walking around up there.

 

[doggie015]

I can't help but think that 40 years after the first landing, we shouldn't be sitting around watching CGI restored footage, we should be watching actual, live footage of people walking around up there.

That is planned for the 50th anniversiry :rofl:

 

[Moonwalker]

I can't help but think that 40 years after the first landing, we shouldn't be sitting around watching CGI restored footage, we should be watching actual, live footage of people walking around up there.

Yes. It's 100% boring to watch something that is just being replayed 40 years later, something that Apollo and manned space flight fans know for many many years in detail anyway.

The first really great event of manned space flight which is going to take place within my personal life time will be the looooooooooooooong-awaited retirement of the Shuttle and the return to capsule design. I can't tell often enough how glad I am now that the Shuttle finally comes to its end and something new opens the door after three long and mostly boring decades of manned space flight, at least to my taste. I don't even watch the current mission at all. I did not even see the launch. It does (including the ISS) just bore the hell out of me after decades...

 

[tblaxland]

I can't tell often enough...

We know :dry:

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

I don't even watch the current mission at all. I did not even see the launch. It does (including the ISS) just bore the hell out of me after decades...

And you will find it boring when we eventually return to the Moon also. Because what you look for is excitement, action, adventure, and danger, which is something spaceflight seldom ever is, or ever will be.
Walking on the Moon will be exactly the same to watch as spacewalking outside the ISS, except that the ground below will be grey, not blue. All the same checklists, procedures, and steps will be performed just the same as they are performed currently. It will not be as most Hollywood movies depict - just putting on a suit & stepping out the airlock for an exciting adventure in little over 5 minutes.

Spaceflight is better when you are actually doing it, than when you are just watching it. But all Shuttle and ISS missions fascinate me. Not because of what I simply see on my screen - I agree that as far as entertainment goes, it is quite boring. What fascinates me however is more the spiritual and technical aspect of what is going on above the Earth right at this moment. I marvel at the technical and mechanical achievements of the Shuttle and the ISS, even if it is something that would seem to be boring to most other people.

If you open your eyes, I think you will find that the Shuttle and the ISS are a thousand times more complicated, sophisticated, and interesting than simply going to the Moon, picking up a few rocks, and flying home again.

I find every Shuttle & ISS mission thrilling and fascinating. And I don't quite know why...

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Just some interesting links regarding the Apollo 11 40th/The Moon in general:

-NASA Apollo 40th Anniversary page
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/index.html

-BBC Apollo Moon landing special
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2009/moon_landing/default.stm

-Moon rock secretly flown to ISS
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-072009a.html

-Pictures of Apollo 11 astronauts at event
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/sets/72157621720980882/

-BBC: President Obama hails Apollo 11 astronauts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8160209.stm

-BBC Neil Armstrong talks about the end of the space race
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8158476.stm

-BBC: Buzz Aldrin was relieved to be second to walk on Moon
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8156782.stm

-BBC: Moon astronauts urge Mars mission
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8158519.stm

-BBC: What the Moon landings did for us
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8156483.stm

-BBC: Why return to the Moon?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8158347.stm

-BBC: The new Altair Lunar Lander
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8154004.stm

-Buzz Aldrin's 1-page-PowerPoint Mars plan
http://www.onorbit.com/node/1249

-Explore The Moon in Google Earth
http://thelaunchpad.xprize.org/2009/07/tour-moon-in-google-earth.html

 

[Brad]

Just some interesting links regarding the Apollo 11 40th/The Moon in general:

-BBC: The new Altair Lunar Lander
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8154004.stm

I found the video on the Altair landing control system very interesting. I would be fantastic if someone could create an MFD the mimic this same system.

 

[Zatnikitelman]

Ok, it's 02:56 UTC, exactly 40 years to the minute that humanity first took the first tentative steps away from our native cradle of life and reached out into the unknown to land successfully on our nearest neighbor, the Moon!

 

[reject]

We know :dry:

:rofl:Classic!

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Here's some cool photos of a Moon rock brought to Earth by the Apollo 11 crew, that has now been put back into space aboard the ISS! :speakcool:

Hi-res: http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-20/hires/iss020e007383.jpg

Hi-res: http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-20/hires/iss020e014193.jpg

Hi-res: http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-20/hires/iss020e014196.jpg

Hi-res: http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-20/hires/iss020e014200.jpg