The Insanely Amazing Apollo Missions: the tech, the landings and the expeditions
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#3It feels like few people nowadays appreciate just how amazing Apollo was, some people even deny it happened at all.
I strongly recommend the book "How Apollo Flew to the Moon" by W. David Woods if you are interested in them, it covers all of the missions in detail, including beautiful photographs. I felt sad when I came to the end.
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#4It feels like few people nowadays appreciate just how amazing Apollo was, some people even deny it happened at all. I strongly recommend the book "How Apollo Flew to the Moon" by W. David Woods if you are interested in them, it covers all of the missions in detail, including beautiful photographs. I felt sad when I came to the end.
> some people even deny it happened at all.
In my experience it's one of those slippery slope things. I've had friends over the years tell me that yes, they believe people eventually went to the moon, but they know that the initial Apollo landing was performed on a soundstage.
You can find some pretty amazing footage on YouTube as well of folks with the gall to approach Buzz Aldrin and tell him he's a huckster. (Buzz punches the guy in the face, super satisfying)
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#5So many successful sequential starts at that time - it is far from normal. Even this only fact is very disturbing.
Not to count computer power equal of to simple desktop calculator...
Now 60 years later they struggle to return people from orbit with same ultramodern vehicle.
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#6It feels like few people nowadays appreciate just how amazing Apollo was, some people even deny it happened at all. I strongly recommend the book "How Apollo Flew to the Moon" by W. David Woods if you are interested in them, it covers all of the missions in detail, including beautiful photographs. I felt sad when I came to the end.
Of course it didn't. We know the moon is made of green cheese, yet they brought home rocks. Obviously staged.
The problem is the state of the Hollywood art could not come close to reproducing it and thus it had to be filmed on location. Even now it would take a lot of motion capture shot in the vomit comet with a lot of computer work smoothing the mess out into something that looked real. (Just look at how fake no-gravity scenes are in movies even today.)