[Flick Lives]

The Apollo 10 mission was a dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 moon landing, which took place two months later in July 1969

What's interesting is the rapidity with which NASA was able to move toward its goal back then, 50 years ago.

[Rurudyne]

The DNC wasn’t full of Cultural Marxists and the RNC full of afraid of any shadow Quislings back then.

[Dixie Yooper]

The article is about the lunar module, Snoopy, but of all the pictures they presented, not one single picture of Snoopy or any lunar module...

[jimtorr]

What's interesting is the rapidity with which NASA was able to move toward its goal back then, 50 years ago.

It is surprising what can be done, when a project has unlimited funding and support.

[IronJack]

I’ve had it in my basement all this time. I didn’t think they wanted it back.

[PAR35]

Did someone move it from the Nevada desert?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Wikipedia: The ascent stage of the Apollo Lunar Module Snoopy was jettisoned into a heliocentric orbit. Its current location is unknown.

The article seems to claim that Snoopy was ejected into a selenocentric (moon-centered) orbit. It appears to have been recovered by radar, not visual search. It would be very difficult to recover it by radar it is was in a selenocentric orbit. Besides they state "The approximate distance it travels in its orbit is 940 million kilometers.". That's a heliocentric orbit at earth distance from the sun. A selenocentric orbit 50,000 feet above the surface would be about 11,000 km (6800 miles).

[Political Junkie Too]

Wow! I just had lunch with General Stafford yesterday. I was one of 150 people at the event.

-PJ

[Tallguy]

“What’s interesting is the rapidity with which NASA was able to move toward its goal back then, 50 years ago.”

It is. But most of the technology was already there, or close to being there, within the existing aerospace industry. All that it took was the political will and some brute force engineering to make up for those technologies that were still immature — like computers and solid state electronics.

The lunar module was scary. Building a spacecraft that could not be fully tested on earth? Test flying that thing on Apollo 10, 11 & 12 must have kept those astronauts, engineers and mission control guys up at night. What they were able to do with it by Apollo 13 was flat-out incredible.

[precisionshootist]

" What's interesting is the rapidity with which NASA was able to move toward its goal back then, 50 years ago. "

It was the pinnacle of American Greatness and it's been down hill ever since.

The truth is the NASA that landed Americans on the moon does not exist anymore and likely never will again.

Visit the Houston space center if you have never been.

[Ditto]

I was at the Cape back then. I got to see Apollo 10 on the launch pad. It was the impressive!

[outofsalt]

I believe the Apollo 10 crew holds the record for the furthest that humans have been from earth.
Snoopy did a, “burn to exhaust” test of its engine to see how much fuel it could waste. It’s out there somewhere.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[Paulie]

“What’s interesting is the rapidity with which NASA was able to move toward its goal back then, 50 years ago.”

Indeed.

From Project Mercury to Gemini to Apollo, that was an absolutely fascinating part of our history. Despite the societal changes and Vietnam war, landing men on the moon and walking in space for the first time (essentially doing the impossible) was a great source of national pride.

It is extremely encouraging to see what man can do when he wants to, but at the same time very sad how soft in the belly the USA has become.