Yeah. He did, didn't he.
Posted on 12/11/2014 2:52:45 PM PST by BenLurkin
The last lunar landing was Apollo 17, which took place on Dec. 11, 1972. Commander Eugene Cernan and lunar module pilot Harrison Schmitt did three moonwalks in the Taurus-Littrow valley, scoping out the highlands to try to get a geologic sense of the area. Among their more memorable findings are orange soil.
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We had more Saturn Vs. Nixon was not a fan of American exceptionalism.
As Inspector Harry Callahan would say “Yeah, right”.
NASA got 20 billion a year, but now Obola’s
importation of disease takes trillions,
and NASA is relegated to improving Moslem something or other.
Maybe true, but Nixon had a lot of issues to deal with.
The big problem is that no one had a real plan for NASA once we got there. While we could put men on the moon, we did not have the tech to leave them there for more than a few days, so basically, each flight was more or less moon tourism.
Also, for some reason, NASA decided against BDRs (big dumb rockets) for the space truck, I mean Space Shuttle. I guess the aeronautics side of NASA was not feeling the love, so NASA needed a glider to appease them.
Sad. Just sad.
Man did he, I didn't, and don't like Nixon, but the guy was up to his neck in alligators, and never got a breather, that was without question one of the toughest 8 years of the presidency.
So how’s that stopping moon landings working out, Gil Scott-Heron?
Maybe you had the problem misdiagnosed, eh?
Not a Nixon fan. Wage and price freeze et al He was not a conservative (well he was compared to the current marxist in chief). An elitist by any standard though
So much could have been done. Even Skylab was put together from spare Saturn V stages. Quick and dirty. I love it. A habitat for the moon might have been built launched and landed remotely for future astronauts to utilize with supplies coming in priodically. Much could have been done utilizing the Saturn V as a platform.
The truck you spoke of was interesting but a waste of resources.
The moon is a toxic place for humans to work. They probably came to the conclusion that it is too dangerous for humans to visit for more than a day or two. Mars is is almost just as bad. Mars gets more interest, because it has visible geological processes. It is cheaper to send a probe. No return flight..
If you ever visit the Manned Spacecraft Center, renamed for Johnson, be sure to visit Rocket Park. No cost, just a few early rockets, Nike, Atlas, Little Joe,etc. The real attraction is the restored and enclosed Saturn V vehicle. It’s horizontal on transport trailers. The whole thing from the first stage to the LES (launch escape system)is 364 feet of incredible might. The fueled vehicle on the launch pad weighed 6,000,000 pounds. Stage 1 had 7,500,000 pounds of thrust.
Stage 1 had 5,000,000 pounds of kerosene and LOX. It burned all that in two and half minutes. Each of the five rocket engines burned 1,000,000 pounds of fuel in 150 seconds, nearly 7000 pounds per second. Helluva roman candle.
Yeah, I worked there at that time. Great memories.
I remember that in 1972. I was delivering newspapers as a kid. I went to my drop and saw the headline “Nixon Opens China!” and let out a scream of rage at 4:00 am in the ‘hood. Pissed at RINOs ever since.
The Saturn V was one of the greatest accomplishment of mankind, and I congratulate you for your work on it.
We have a similar rocket park here in Huntsville.
Yep. Now we have the party of traitors and the party of perverts with both saturated by lawyers and funded by tens of millions of state and local government employees, pensioners and connected businesses determined to commit genocide.
We drove to Florida and watched the Apollo 16 launch. The video does not even do 1% justice to the actual event.
The ground vibrates and shock waves roll over your head as it breaks the sound barrier in a thunderous roar.
One of the huge problems that have to be overcome is the muscle loss and resulting bone loss from the 0g environment during travel and on the Moon’s 1/6g surface.
Then there is the gamma radiation that our atmosphere filters out.
This is why our next Lunar missions should be dedicated to sending a nuclear powered tunneling robot to the Moon.
It doesn’t have to be fast, just methodical, maybe just a few inches of hard rock a day. The only time it stops is when people arrive and need the nuclear power for energy.
Even the robot’s lander is cannibalized to provide pressure doors, reinforcing rod, walls, doors and ceiling for the tunnel. It can even seal the tunnel against microfissures, and insulate it with foam. Once it installs the pressure door, it can pressurize it, and heat it, to see how long the pressure and heat will last.
It will continue to work for several years in between manned missions, allowing astronauts to brings less habitat and more supplies and equipment with each mission, as well as staying longer.
I like!
Nixon understood that we were exceptional - the world presented more important issues than another ride on the expensive merry-go-round.
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