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To: brytlea

I don’t believe we landed on the moon either. The technology didn’t exist at the time to land and take off. We can’t even do it today with the Mars rover. There’s no place to refuel and no structure to hold up the craft. When “we went to the moon”, we didn’t even have the technology to land back on earth - we had “splash downs”. Often missing the splash area by miles. No way we landed on the mood.


835 posted on 12/07/2008 4:46:10 PM PST by GOPJ (Perverse incentives birth nasty unintended consequences.)
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To: GOPJ
You must have missed the memo.

"There’s no place to refuel and no structure to hold up the craft."

They brought the take-off fuel with them, and the "structure" for launch as well. The part that landed was left behind. Only the launch pod took off from the moon.

It rejoined the orbiter, and all three astronauts returned to Earth.

The feat could easily be replicated today, for about a thousand times what it cost us then.

Or we could use what we've learned in the meantime, and do it in an even more efficient manner, along with a number of other things we should be doing in space, and should have been doing for some time.

836 posted on 12/07/2008 4:54:22 PM PST by NicknamedBob (When in the course of human events, if you can't swim, at least dog-paddle.)
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To: GOPJ

But, but, but I liked landing on the mood.....

Those little rings were kinda pretty.


837 posted on 12/07/2008 5:22:42 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: GOPJ

I just find it hysterical that you actually believe that. I’m not going to even attempt to argue the case with you. There will never be anything that will convince you you’re mistaken. I still have to just say...WOW!


873 posted on 12/08/2008 10:58:48 AM PST by brytlea (You can fool enough of the people enough of the time.)
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