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Artemis 2 Going back to the moon.


I was pissing mesell laughing listening to the news on the wireless this morning.

They had the captain of the Artemis mission on waxing lyrical about how great we all looked from up there. How you realise we're all one people, one race, one species etc. No sooner had he finished than they skip to the next story... "President Trump says he's going to bomb Iran back to the stone ages."
 
The news just showed an image of what they could see and it looked like something that was produced by one those cheap space themed light projector's a kid would use to help get them to sleep.
 
chriswallace85 said:
I was pissing mesell laughing listening to the news on the wireless this morning.

They had the captain of the Artemis mission on waxing lyrical about how great we all looked from up there. How you realise we're all one people, one race, one species etc. No sooner had he finished than they skip to the next story... "President Trump says he's going to bomb Iran back to the stone ages."
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Nobody has explained to him that Iran has one of the oldest civilisations in the world.
 
SAFCOldie said:
A serious question but can somebody tell me why when launching there is so much caffufle and potential problems with allsorts of experts on hand yet when moon landed they can just return back with little fuss. this is previous ventures I'm referring to Does not make sense.
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Which part of it do you mean? Leaving earths gravity takes a monumental about of thrust/force, so you have absolutely gigantic rockets to get up there. Big rockets means lot of flammable liquid and machinery and you have humans, so lotsnof checks and balances.

Leaving the moon, which has much less gravity and little to no atmosphere, means it doesn't take much to leave its gravity and its a tiny craft that is Leaving that gravity.
 
hairynaker said:
Which part of it do you mean? Leaving earths gravity takes a monumental about of thrust/force, so you have absolutely gigantic rockets to get up there. Big rockets means lot of flammable liquid and machinery and you have humans, so lotsnof checks and balances.

Leaving the moon, which has much less gravity and little to no atmosphere, means it doesn't take much to leave its gravity and its a tiny craft that is Leaving that gravity.
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Most of it is just having faith in Newtonian mechanics and Kepler's laws of planetary motion.

Apart from being sat on top of a rocket designed and built by the lowest bidding contractor.
 
Darlo1973 said:
Most of it is just having faith in Newtonian mechanics and Kepler's laws of planetary motion.

Apart from being sat on top of a rocket designed and built by the lowest bidding contractor.
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You've inadvertently thrown up another question. Thrust calculations are based partially on air density.

How did we know what air density was on the 69 mission in the thrust calculations?

Estimate of composition? Using gravitational force is quite an exact science yet we landed on a dime, took off from a qaurter and landed on a piece of dust when you use tolerances.
 
SAFCOldie said:
A serious question but can somebody tell me why when launching there is so much caffufle and potential problems with allsorts of experts on hand yet when moon landed they can just return back with little fuss. this is previous ventures I'm referring to Does not make sense.
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After Challenger they probably don’t take any chances.

If you are on the moon though there are no experts available to fix anything and a limited supply of oxygen which means when you need to go you go.

You also don’t need to have a massive explosion to get you off the moon surface like you do on earth so not as risky from that point of view
 
RokerLegend said:
After Challenger they probably don’t take any chances.

If you are on the moon though there are no experts available to fix anything and a limited supply of oxygen which means when you need to go you go.

You also don’t need to have a massive explosion to get you off the moon surface like you do on earth so not as risky from that point of view
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Let's run through the maths. How many lbs/thrust did Apollo lander pod launch with?
 
Why can't we (they) just believe in something and take wonderment from it and appreciate what is being achieved

Thread is full of them. Spoiling it.

I get you desperately need attention and validation for your bitterness, resentment, and twisted unhappiness, but then this isn't for you

Start your own f***ING thread about it being faked and a conspiracy and beat each other to oblivion on that

I want to enjoy it and see what rationale folks are saying and updating on here as am fascinated and in awe etc

There endeth my sermon
 
There’s a lot of posters including themselves in this and previous lunar related endeavours on this thread. We this and we that’s all ower. I nivver realised how involved some SMBrs are.
 
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