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To: Glad2bnuts

There’s a nice big optical and radar reflector on the moon you can see with a home telescope. Apollo missions left it there.

Observatories all over the world watched the moon landings via their larger telescopes at the time.


57 posted on 02/06/2018 11:22:52 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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According to NASA.....The Falcon Heavy can lift over double the payload, or cargo, as the next closest rocket, as it is designed for potential human spaceflight—perhaps back to the Moon or even Mars in the future. To put it in perspective, the rocket’s first stage is composed of three Falcon 9 nine-engine cores, totaling 27 Merlin engines. Additionally, the second stage’s engine can be restarted many times, making multiple orbits possible.


58 posted on 02/06/2018 11:24:34 PM PST by caww
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