Russia and India are Going to the Moon.

[swifty]

Didn't the US all ready do this before but with astronauts?

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071112234943.9wthyh4c&show_article=1

Let's just hope it goes better than last time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsZBpm2WDPo

[Jimbuna]

The Americans are far more advanced....this is how they get there now :lol:

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[Oberon]

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[bookworm_020]

Well NASA still has three complete saturn V rockets, so they could used them. They just have to take them back from the museum!

[Torplexed]

Maybe while they're up there they can take a few photos of the 1969-73 Apollo landings sites. It's been so long since the missions that nobody believes we actually went there anymore. :oops:

[swifty]

Well NASA still has three complete saturn V rockets, so they could used them. They just have to take them back from the museum!\

You mean this thing that has been outside in the salt air for 25 years?

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[IrishUboot]

Maybe while they're up there they can take a few photos of the 1969-73 Apollo landings sites. It's been so long since the missions that nobody believes we actually went there anymore. :oops:

I, for one, don't. :lol:

[Onkel Neal]

Don't forget the Japanese! (http://www.news.com/2300-11397_3-6218456.html?tag=nefd.top)

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[Reaves]

I've never given the 'moon landing was faked' conspiracy much thought but one thing does bother me. Why hasn't NASA used a telescope to have a look at the landing site and publish the photos?

Maybe the Japanese will put an end to the mystery. Personally I think it's an insult to the astronauts that people call them liars. On the other hand, if it was staged, the USA will not look good....

:hmm:

[Chock]

Anyone who actually believes the lunar landings were faked is a complete nutter. If the doubters knew anything about aeronautical engineering, they would be aware that building the BAC/Aerospatiale supersonic airliner, Concorde, was a far more technologically difficult task than building the Apollo rockets, do they think Concorde was faked too? And where do they think all the technology that made digital watches, pocket calculators etc possible, which started appearing not long after the moonshots, came from?

The Apollo moonshots were not as sophisticated as they could have been; had NASA had been given a few more years development time and the freedom to disregard the 'space race' with Soviet Russia it could have been a much more elegant operation, but there's no doubt they were genuine. Although, given the fact that most of the technology was based on German stuff from WW2 for both the Soviets and the US, that moon rocket probably should have had a Swastika on the side of it, the same is probably true of half the stuff on Concorde too:rotfl:

:D Chock

[Reaves]

I wish I had of flown in a Concorde, that would have been something to remember.

[Torplexed]

I've never given the 'moon landing was faked' conspiracy much thought but one thing does bother me. Why hasn't NASA used a telescope to have a look at the landing site and publish the photos?

Maybe the Japanese will put an end to the mystery. Personally I think it's an insult to the astronauts that people call them liars. On the other hand, if it was staged, the USA will not look good....

:hmm:
Artifacts as small as the Apollo lander (about 4 meters) - can't be resolved from Hubble nor from any ground-based telescope. There is a slim chance that the orbiting Japanese probe may be able to see a long shadow (sunrise or sunset).

About a year from now, NASA plans to launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. It's LROC system will be able to image the surface at 0.5 meter resolution, the best of any camera ever sent to the moon. The Lunar Module descent stage is 4.21 meters across so from directly above it might appear as roughly 9x9 pixels. The landing pads might also be visible. Shadows would make it bigger but it isn't going to be some high resolution image. For the last 3 missions, the Lunar Rover might appear as a few pixels parked close to the descent stage.

However, since it's a NASA mission any pictures it returns will be derided by conspiracy nutters as fake given the source. I've long given up changing any minds. :cry:

[Reaves]

Artifacts as small as the Apollo lander (about 4 meters) - can't be resolved from Hubble nor from any ground-based telescope. There is a slim chance that the orbiting Japanese probe may be able to see a long shadow (sunrise or sunset).

About a year from now, NASA plans to launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. It's LROC system will be able to image the surface at 0.5 meter resolution, the best of any camera ever sent to the moon. The Lunar Module descent stage is 4.21 meters across so from directly above it might appear as roughly 9x9 pixels. The landing pads might also be visible. Shadows would make it bigger but it isn't going to be some high resolution image. For the last 3 missions, the Lunar Rover might appear as a few pixels parked close to the descent stage.

However, since it's a NASA mission any pictures it returns will be derided by conspiracy nutters as fake given the source. I've long given up changing any minds. :cry:


Well that answered my question. Cheers!

I'll have to visit Nasa Tv more often when that operation starts up.

[Foxtrot]

And where do they think all the technology that made digital watches, pocket calculators etc possible, which started appearing not long after the moonshots, came from?

Alien tech. from crash sites? :hmm:

[Chock]

Oh yeah that's right, I forgot that the US has several crashed flying saucers. Klaatu, Baraada, Ni... Erm, Nickel, Necktie... Noodle.... It was definitely an N-word.....:rotfl:

:D Chock

[danlisa]

Which Moon are they going to?

You know we have 2 right?:smug:

I'm very impressed if they are going to Cruithne.

[IrishUboot]

The whole thing was probably filmed in Nevada.

[Sea Demon]

Maybe while they're up there they can take a few photos of the 1969-73 Apollo landings sites. It's been so long since the missions that nobody believes we actually went there anymore. :oops:

Our big mistake was not building a permanent base on the moon, and a more reliable way to get men and materials there. That should of been the next logical step that stemmed from the Apollo program.

[micky1up]

about time someone went becasue no one ever has so far the faked moon landings in the 60's which the uS achieved with less computing power than a modern calculator and even now with all this technology we can even get the trafic lights to work properly

[joea]

The whole thing was probably filmed in Nevada. :roll:

[Subnuts]

So when we return to the Moon in 2018ish, and perhaps land close to one of the original Apollo sites, photograph and film the hell out of it, and possibly even return small samples from the spacecraft to see how they've reacted to 45 years on the Moon...

Will all of the conspiracy theorists commit mass sepaku? :rotfl:

[STEED]

Why India? :-?

Russia on the other hand will claim the Moon as there's and construct a tactical inter planetary nuclear first strike platform. ;)

[Sea Demon]

So when we return to the Moon in 2018ish, and perhaps land close to one of the original Apollo sites, photograph and film the hell out of it, and possibly even return small samples from the spacecraft to see how they've reacted to 45 years on the Moon...

Will all of the conspiracy theorists commit mass sepaku? :rotfl:

No. They'll claim those were carried onboard the spacecraft and planted there before the photos were taken. That's how those nutcases operate.

[Kapitan]

My question is will the indian and russian government have to pay for parking permits to land on the moon?

[goldorak]

Maybe while they're up there they can take a few photos of the 1969-73 Apollo landings sites. It's been so long since the missions that nobody believes we actually went there anymore. :oops:

Last Apollo mission on the moon was in december of 1972. :D

[goldorak]

Our big mistake was not building a permanent base on the moon, and a more reliable way to get men and materials there. That should of been the next logical step that stemmed from the Apollo program.

Of course from a scientific pov that would have been the correct choice, but by late 1971 the political imperative was just not there anymore.
So what's the next best thing ? : the shuttle of course. :rotfl:
A version 1.0 hardware that has been flying more or less the last 30 years and has kept us in leo.
What a drawback if you think about it, even the Gemini missions went higher than the shuttle. :damn:

[baggygreen]

As far as im concerned, any exploration of space is a good thing. Just think of the possibilities that can open up from establishing a bit of a foothold in space!

Obviously though, the first trouble comes from what to do with the moon? One reason its meant to be so popular to try get there is there are immense reserves of valuable elements and i believe there is even some sort of extremely-high-energy source that can be mined. Personally though, i think it should be left like Antarctica, with nations staking a claim having a responsibility to the rest of the world to keep it in its pristine state. Policing that, of course, will be next to impossible....:shifty:

[Reaves]

My question is will the indian and russian government have to pay for parking permits to land on the moon?

If they land on my acre they sure as hell will be!

:shifty:

[SteminDemon13]

I told you we were going to share that acre that I have the deed to....where do you get off maiking it like it's YOUR acre:shifty: . Keep that up and I'm not sharing:p .

[Reaves]

I told you we were going to share that acre that I have the deed to....where do you get off maiking it like it's YOUR acre:shifty: . Keep that up and I'm not sharing:p .

haha you have an acre as well? Maybe we're neighbours!!!


btw... GET YOUR DAMN KIDS OFF MY LAWN!!!