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To: bitt
While the Saturn V rocket was in testing, Wernher von Braun gave lectures and made videos in which he stated that the US would have to build a much more powerful rocket than anything in existence at the time (~'61-'62) to feasibly bring man to the moon.

In the years that followed, he laid plans for such a rocket, but that project was cancelled when the time schedule and budget grew out of control. No other more powerful booster was completed before Apollo 8, the three-manned mission that was claimed to have circled moon in a vehicle that was essentially the same as that which would be called Apollo 11.

Did Wernher get it wrong? Did Nixon and the desire to win the Cold War with the Soviets change the US and NASA's space plans that Wernher couldn't have contemplate? Why wasn't that someone else, whose vision must have outstripped Wernher's to be able to use Saturn V to do the Apollo moon missions put in charge of the has-been Von Braun?

No, Wernher wasn't replaced and no other rocket science genius took over. Hmmm.

Apollo 11 images such as this one below show a necessary lunar excursion wardrobe change that could not have occurred and was never claimed:

Then there are internal contradictions such as these among the official Apollo 11 photo imagery:

Here's the official NASA spokesman Donald R. Pettit, Ph.D. explaining why we haven't been able to go back to the moon for 50 years:

Priceless!

43 posted on 11/29/2022 8:46:37 PM PST by rx
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61 posted on 11/29/2022 10:06:50 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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