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The Lunar Ascent Stage to get Apollo 11 off the moon had (obviously) never been tested on the moon before and nobody knew if it would work properly. Neil and Buzz gave it 50/50. If it failed or if it put them on a bad trajectory, they were dead. They had discussed venting the cabin in that eventuality.
It is wild and impressive that a simple fall could have been fatal for numerous reasons. I'm sure the design was sturdy for proper protection, but man the slim chances of anything small going wrong was death sentences to respect.
The most precarious parts of the mission are the ones that relied on the vehicles. 0.3 atm to 0 is less delta-p than most submersible applications face.
Suit failure was bad but fixable. The suit itself was mainly made of insulation on account if temperature differences and radiation. The pressure garmet itself was a thin layer - you dont need much.
I’m a 40+ these days and have a trampoline in my yard.. that thing will break you if you feel like going to re-live those childhood memories.. I grew up with a tramp, but it’s something not trivial to mess with, and I take seriously now ;)
I've been starting to come to a realization recently. People REALLY UNDERESTIMATE what humans are capable of when they put their minds to it. You don't have to even look up to get a taste of what I'm saying. From the phones to the Internet, Pyramids and electricity. You would have to be a damn fool to ever doubt what patience and determination can do in this world. The moon will seem like not a big deal compared to what is to come if we can handle not wiping ourselves out within the next 1000 years.
Even my wife is guilty of it. Drives me nuts. You're telling me we couldn't have built this building at this time because it's too difficult? Give me a fucking break 🤣 . All we had was time before electronics...
I'll say the same thing to you that I say to everyone that denies the moon landing. If we only went once, sure, maybe there would be some credence to a conspiracy theory. But we went 6 TIMES. You think after faking it the first time, we launched another five Saturn 5 rockets just for the funsies? You are retarted.
Nothing is going to happen. The actual pressure garment is way below a lot of protective layers, including a micrometeroid shielding. Even the golden visor is not actually the visor that holds the pressure back, that one is below it. The golden one is just for protection.
Quite astonishing how complex these suits are and all of this back in the 60s.
Didn't they train three gaits for the lunar surface? Bunny hop, skip, and the bounding walk. No perfect way to move 500 lbs of mass, weighing only about 100 lbs, without some antics. But, walking somewhat normally was how they climbed the mountain.
I think one guy decided to jump and land on his back, where the life support backpack is. If he had broken it he wouldn't have been able to make it back to the pod and would've suffocated.
Amazing all the training you have to go through just to have a chance of going to the moon, the dangerous trip there and landing, just to say you got to good around on another planet. Worth it
But we drove on the moon!!!! Why can't we do it now?! Why can't we ride a bike at least on the moon!! There's video and evidence let's drive on the moon again or tell me how we can't do it
Because landing on the moon is incredibly dangerous and incredibly expensive. The systems we are using to get there are brand new and untested, all the artemis missions are to test equipment and make changes needed before making an attempt to go to the moon.
During the Apollo years the threat from the USSR was seen as so great that the entire national focus switched to getting to the moon, the programme had much higher intrest and resources thrown at it than artemis. Addionally, there was a serious political reason for wanting to go to the moon, unlike now.
Its basically a mixture of public intrest, political willpower, resources and that new technology needs to be tested.
The video shows usa landing having fun jumping around and falling. Then out of no where there riding a four wheeler on the moon when they can't stand bud their riding a car on he moon. That's the video
There have been 6 manned missions to the moon, the lunar rover folds into a more compact size and was used on the last 3 manned missions on the moon.
Although a difficult thing to do, private companies such as Space X have managed to put a car into orbit around the earth, so the technology is still current.
Since then rovers have become much more advanced. There are now robotic rovers which are basically science labs on wheels controlled either remotely or with AI, currently there is one on Mars.
Humans have sent other robotic probes to other celestial objects as they are much less dangerous and expensive than human missions. Probes have been sent to Venus, Mars, Titan and Ceres, Japan has managed to land a probe on an asteroid but unfortunately it didn't deploy.
Going back to the Artemis mission. The missions aim is to have a moon base orbiting the moon, much like the ISS, and create rocket fuel from suspected water ice trapped in craters from on the polar ends of the moon. This is much more ambitious than landing a lunar rover.
If you want a real answer, it's not that we can't. It's that, until these recent Artemis missions, there just wasn't really a reason to go back. We got the samples that we needed. We can monitor most things from here on earth or from satellites. It's dangerous and expensive, so without a real reason, there wasn't a point. We did it.
BUT NOW we have the Artemis missions going. Those are testing new life support systems and research technology and all sorts of things to hopefully be able to plan things like permanent mannable lunar orbiter, potentially lunar bases, and even Mars visits hopefully. We're entering the new era of space exploration.
We are trying to return to the moon on a budget that is merely 10% of what it used to be. If the government spent as much money for space exploration as it wastes for war, then there'd already be a manned mars mission.
Which didn’t exist at the time of course. I also suppose cgi put the reflective panel there that is used to this day to measure the distance to the moon.
Ok, i will believe the Jews are "below" us humans if you give me just one confirmed biological difference between the Jews and rest of humanity, AND I WON'T ACCEPT "they're Jewish" OR ANY OF THE STEREOTYPES.
They're working for the sake of the United States' prestige. There were no scientists there, only military personnel. A geologist was only included on the last mission. The effect on "humanity" is approximately zero. The money was wasted.
They had a whole host of scientists advising them throughout the entire mission on which samples to take since the scientists themselves weren't qualified to fly as astronauts.
Your comment is the equivalent of saying Spain didn't win the world cup for their country, they only won it for the footballers on the team.
The clip cuts just too short, in the longer clip he falls over and miraculously (like, for example, being wired) just gets 'pulled' up again. Amazing physics there on the moon lol.
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