Posted on 05/29/2023 10:12:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Computing power is indeed needed. Computers must apply that Newtonian physics to radar and inertial sensor readings in order to adjust the roll/pitch/yaw and axial thrust in order to make a soft landing in a flat spot. It does that by controlling burn timings of reaction control thrusters, gimbal angles and burn times of the larger engines. The LEM did most of those calculations with analog computers because the digital computers of that day were not fast enough.
Try paying attention
Like that fake video of a Chinese spacewalk ?
“too bad we didn’t capitalize on our moon landings so many years ago”
lol.
https://www.aulis.com/investigation.htm
Yeah, today’s computers are needed for things that NASA didn’t have during the moon landings. Robotic probes, automated landings, so forth. I read that the early astronauts sometimes double-checked the computer results by hand: good old pencil and paper. Computers do nothing that humans can’t do, except do it faster.
Are you under the impression that those things weren't a part of the Apollo program?
The Surveyor craft landed prior to the Apollo landings. They were robotic, semi-autonomous.
The Russians had one that was similar.
The LEM was an automated lander. The Apollo 11 landing had to be manually landed; however, the remaining landings were automated.
...and so forth.
That's not the hard part.
The hard part is getting them back alive.
“...Good luck with Chinese on the moon, they can’t even get an aircraft carrier to work... All words.”
Just like Japan in 1940?
China will put bodies on the moon. No return flight.
“Ground control to Major Wong, your circuits dead, there’s something wrong.”
Well, that’s a fact. I do, however, think the reliability will be better now with today’s electronics. Today’s space vehicles will not have to be “ground linked” in order to function.
China can do anything we have done. Furthermore, they have a lot more STEM students with good grades. Not only that, Chinese people regard their own nation much more highly than the current rank and file of Americans do theirs.
Can you support that with any sort of evidence?
Yes, that’s not in dispute. In fact computers can do some things humans can’t because of their quick speed. Neil Armstrong found it too difficult to land a test moon lander under earth’s high gravity, so they had to resort to a simulator instead. A computer can do that easily, however, as we’ve seen with SpaceX.
I had the privilege to fly the simulator at Huntsville. I did run the sucker off the track.
Buzz Aldrin never said any such thing. He’s the one who got into a fistfight with someone at a seminar for saying we didn’t land on the moon.
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