India’s Chandrayaan-2 orbiter has captured detailed images of the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 moon landing sites.
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Rick Fraser · February 20, 2025 at 7:10 am
Damn, so they finally convinced the Indians to help with the moon landing hoax.
Steve S6 · February 20, 2025 at 8:42 am
We can always send the skeptics there for a first hand look… on a Boeing ship. Toss in the flat earthers too.
Steve · February 20, 2025 at 9:32 am
Right. Like Indians have never heard of Photoshop. 😉
MN Steel · February 20, 2025 at 10:02 am
I can see the crater from their blast-off to get back to the orbiter!
Old Farmer · February 20, 2025 at 1:16 pm
It is interesting to read Herman Kahn’s “On Thermonuclear War.” It shows the great fear America had at the time of being nuked by the Soviets, and they strongly felt the need to show great technical superiority to the Russians during that era, to prevent a thermonuclear war. For the engineers in the group, try doing the calculations with the tools they had back then, and especially look at the fuel required for there and back, the stability required during moon touchdown, and the precision of the rendezvous required to get from moon back to the orbiter. Also, look at the shielding required to get through the Van Allen Belt and look at what they claimed to get through it with. I am old enough to still have my slide rule.
Bear in Indy · February 21, 2025 at 12:38 am
Watched it with my wife the day we were married. Will never forget it. Never doubted the authenticity of the Moon landing, then.
However, the marriage lasted only 5 years, the controversy is still here, almost 56 years later. Is it worth it to really give a damn, anymore?
The politicians screwed us then, and now, it has been totally proven: they have been screwing us for almost 56 (or more) years.
Their ain’t enough f***ing rope to even the score.
Bear in Indy
Bear in Indy · February 21, 2025 at 12:41 am
Correction: “There ain’t.” Not their.
JNorth · February 21, 2025 at 12:41 am
The calculations are by no means easy but they are at 3-400 level engineering class. My astrodynamics class was a 400 level but the math prerequisites were all 300 level. Our final project in that class was doing the flight calculations of one of the Apollo missions with the Hollmann Transfers and what not. The professor never actually said that’s what they were, he just gave us the lat. and long. of the take off and return on earth which turned out to be Cape Canaveral and somewhere in the Pacific. The funnier part of that class was one of the texts we used was from the Air Force Academy and all the examples and problems in the book involved launches from the Mid West and “landing” in Eastern Europe and parts of Asia.
Doug · February 20, 2025 at 1:55 pm
Totally waiting for the Monty Python-esque comment of “It’s only a model”
There are some that would have to be pushed out of a frick’n lander to believe the lander was out the window over there.
Chutes Magoo · February 20, 2025 at 3:24 pm
Where’s the car?
Divemedic · February 20, 2025 at 3:35 pm
Lunar rovers weren’t used until Apollo 15
Danny · February 20, 2025 at 5:13 pm
A few – not nearly all – things specifically about Apollo 11:
Everything went just perfectly – not even a close call.
The TV broadcast of the landing – I remember watching it with family. Grainy images and somewhat garbled audio. “Live” television – from the moon – in 1969.
The extremes of temperature … but …! they were wearing space suits that had been designed in a few months and the only test was the actual mission.
The guys looked remarkably refreshed in the photo where they are smiling in the window of the “airstream” isolation thing to “guard against unknown pathogens” from the moon. This after a grueling 8 days – in a tin can of a space ship.
Matt · February 21, 2025 at 7:05 am
The spacesuits had been developed and tested for years. Joseph Kittinger jumped from a balloon at 102000 feet in 1960 testing spacesuits.
12 men walked on the moon. I dont think that could have been kept secret for over 50 years.
Biggest thing for me is the Soviets never disputed it. Like us they had spies and informers everywhere. If they had known they would have said so. They lead the “space race” for a long time.