Can you tell me anything about Apollo 13?
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Apollo 13 was a space flight mission that went awray.  While in space, some faulty electronics sparked some O2, thus causing no oxygen and electricty to come to the service module, they slingshoted around the mooon and landed back to earth.  The 2nd catrophse in the Manned space program
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Are you talking about the results of the Deep Impact mission?\n\nNASA has a web site about the results.  Taking time to analyze data isn't cloaking it in secrecy.
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Stop drinking the kool-aid. Watch the tapes from the moon-landing. All of that detail could not have been faked in the 60s. Also, what about the moon rocks that were recovered?
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Apollo 13 and From the Earth to the Moon are the only movie or TV programs I know of where the flight of spacecraft was accurately portrayed.
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I love the vomit comet statement.  I understand that Ron Howard used this when making Apollo 13.
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it's APOLLO.Niel Armstrong,buzz Aldrin,and Michael collins
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6 Apollo craft have landed on the moon each with 2 astonauts on the moon lander and one man in the orbital craft. Apollo 11,12,14,15,16,17 have all landed on the moon.\nThese 12 men are the only people to have landed on the moon.
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I think they did it. A friend of mine directed me to lunaranomalies.com and they had some interesting theories, yet each of these amateur theories were disproved. Look at it this way. In 1969 the americans and the russians were locked in a desperate bid to get into orbit and ultimately the moon. "Journey beyond selene" by Jeffery Kluger brilliantly documented this. The russian premier publicly mocked the americans and their various failures at even hitting the moon with a basic rocket. Enter 1969 and the pictures of Aldrin and Armstrong on the moon. No comment from Russia. They didn't even televise it. If there was even a hint of evidence that it was faked, the russians would have been all over it like a rash. If it was faked they did a really good job. A secret like that could never be kept, and not one reputable scientist has challenged it. All we have are diehard and paranoid lay people looking for attention. If you look up Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on the net you might find some hilarious footage of the day he left a conference to be accosted by one such person. He knocked him flat with one punch! Hilarious. Selene is the greek word for moon.
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In the 60s bij de Apollo mission control Of NASA. In the 60s they also had a kinda Mars-Pathfinder.
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The russians have lost atleast two cosmonauts in space as their spacecraft suddenly decompressed in orbit. This happened early in the spacerace in the sixties. Cosmonauts has also died because their parachutes failed to deploy as they were returning to earth. \nThe americans have never lost anyone in space but they have been very very close. Apollo 10 nearly crashed on the surface of the moon when the spacecraft suddenly started to spinn out of control. The pilot managed to take back control after a short while. Apollo 11 landed on the surface with only a few second of fuel left. The spot where they were supposed to land was full of big rocks and so they had to keep flying to find a better spot. Apollo 13 faced extreme danger when an oxygen tank exploded on the way to the moon leaving them with nearly no air to breath and no electricity to return to earth.\nSpace is a very dangerous place.
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A non-official website that deals with NASA related information is \n\nhttp://www.nasawatch.com/\n\nYou can learn alot there that you would not get from NASA itself.
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Twelve 12 American astronauts have walked on the moon.\n\nApollo 11: Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin\nApollo 12: Pete Conrad & Alan Bean\nApollo 13: << failed to land on the moon >>\nApollo 14: Alan Shepard & Edgar (Ed) Mitchell\nApollo 15: David Scott & James Irwin\nApollo 16: John Young & Charles Duke\nApollo 17: Eugene (Gene) Cernan & Harrison Schmidt
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Go to NASA at http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html?skipIntro=1 They have a ton of information about anything related to space
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in\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
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Here's information from NASA.\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/moon_worldbook.html\n\nHere's the wikipedia entry,\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
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Each Apollo mission made it possible for the next.  Even though Apollo 11 did what the program intended (land and walk on the moon), every Apollo mission was historic!\n\nNow, lets step back a bit....and I'll tell you this from what I remember as a 7 and 8 year old child!!!\n\n1.  Apollo 7 tested a brand new Service Module (SM) and Command Module (CM) during a week in orbit around the earth.  They tested everything they could on that system, including starting and stopping the hypergolic fueled 22,000lb thrust engine on the SM to ensure it would work once they got to the moon.  Apollo 7, although it is never talked about, paved the way for a mission to the moon with Apollo 8.  Apollo 7 was a phoenix that rose from the ashes of Apollo 1 where three of our astronauts died in a tragic fire.\n\n2.  Because of Apollo 7's resounding success, and some worries about the Russians beating us, they threw the dice and came up with the plan to send Apollo 8 to the moon. So on December 21, 1968 (I was 7 and remember watching this on the TV), Apollo 8 was launched and became the first manned spacecraft to break away from the bonds of Earth's gravitational field. Apollo 8 was the FIRST manned flight of the Mighty Saturn V rocket with its first stage (SV-1) and 5 F-1  engines pumping out 7.5 million pounds of thrust; its 5 J-2 engines, the first engines designed to operate on liquid hydrogen and oxygen in the vacuum of space,  on the 2nd stage (SV-2), and finally its lone J-2 engine on the 3rd stage (SVB-IV) that placed them in a parking orbit around the earth, and then restarted and sent them on their merry way to the moon.    They were put in a free return trajectory meaning that once they got to the moon, they could if they wanted to, slingshot around its backside and then come home.   They didn't do that.  At the precise time the 22,000 hypergolic engine on the SM fired and placed them in orbit around the moon!  For the first time ever, man saw the backside of the moon!  They orbited the moon 10 revolutions during Chrismtas eve and Chrismas day, re-fired that 22,000 engine to break away from the moon's gravitational field and came home and splashed down close to the Christmas Islands.\n\nWho says Apollo 8 is not remembered.  Just look at that picture of earthrise.  That was a first from Apollo 8's cameras & astronauts.   Who can ever forget them reading from the book of Genesis as they orbited the moon.  I certainly won't!\n\n3.  Apollo 9 was the 2nd flight of the Saturn V rocket and they placed a brand new Lunar Excursion Module (LEM, shortened to LM for Lunar Module) in Earth's orbit and proceeded to test the LM until they were satisfied it worked properly.  This meant 2 astronauts leaving their mother ship (CM) and riding around above our atmosphere in a ship with no heatshield and a ship that's walls were made of mylar about as thick as a trojan rubber!  The mission was a resounding success.\n\n4.  Apollo 10 was the 3rd flight of the Saturn V and they took a LM to the moon and tested it.  Part of the mission called for using the descent stage of the LM and getting very close to the surface, but not landing.  They did that and then fired the ascent stage to see if it would work.  Unfortunately, a switch was in a wrong position and the craft started bucking and wobbling all over the place, leading Gene Cernan to say "son-of-a-b!tch" in response to the wild gyrations of the LM.  Needless to say, NASA was not happy with that, but they were glad the 2 astronauts found the switch, changed its position, and then docked with the Apollo 10 CM and came home.\n\n5.  So with Apollo 7's success came Apollo 8, then 9, then 10 and because they were all resoundingly successful in proving the rockets and the equipment, they (Apollo 11)  were able to land on the moon and walk on its surface 6 months before the end of the decade and fulfilling John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon and re
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1) Twelve 12 American astronauts have walked on the moon.\n\nApollo 11: Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin\nApollo 12: Pete Conrad & Alan Bean\nApollo 13: << failed to land on the moon >>\nApollo 14: Alan Shepard & Edgar (Ed) Mitchell\nApollo 15: David Scott & James Irwin\nApollo 16: John Young & Charles Duke\nApollo 17: Eugene (Gene) Cernan & Harrison Schmidt\n\n\n2) Why haven't we been back?  \n\na) American astronauts visited the moon on six occasions.\n\nb) The "moon race" was an extension of the cold war. It was mostly about national prestige. We got there first and achieved our primary objective. There was some good science: surveys, measurements, sample collection. But it was mostly about being there first. Once we achieved our primary objective, there was no political will to go back. There still isn't.  Perhaps, if we discover He3 or something else valuable, there will be.\n\nc) I used to travel to Crested Butte, Colorado every year to ski. Because I don't go anymore, does it mean that I never went?\n\n\n3) What about the Van Allen radiation belts?  Wouldn't it have killed the astronauts?\n\nThe existence of the Van Allen radiation belts postulated in the 1940s by Nicholas Christofilos.  Their existence was confirmed in *1958* by the Explorer I satellite launched by the USA. \n\nThe radiation in the Van Allen radiation belts is not particularly strong.  You would have to hang out there for a week or so in order to get radiation sickness.  And, because the radiation is not particularly strong, a few millimeters of metal is all that is required for protection.  "An object satellite shielded by 3 mm of aluminum will receive about 2500 rem (25 Sv) per *year*."\n\n"In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. [6]. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation."  When the astronauts returned to Earth, their dosimeters showed that they had received about as much radiation as a couple of medical X-rays.\n\n\n4) The U.S. government scammed everyone?  \n\nIn 1972, there was a politically motivated burglary of a hotel room in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. There were only about six or eight people who knew about it. However, those people, including Richard M. Nixon, the President of the United States, failed to keep that burglary a secret. It exploded into a scandal that drove the President and a number of others from office.\n\nIf six or eight people couldn't keep a hotel room burglary a secret, then how could literally thousands of people could have kept their mouths shut about six faked moon landings? Not just one moon landing, but six of them!\n\n\n5) What about the USSR?  \n\nEven if NASA and other government agencies could have faked the six moon landings well enough to fool the general public, they could NOT have fooled the space agency or military intelligence types in the USSR. The Soviets were just dying to beat us. If the landings were faked, the Soviets would have re-engineered their N-1 booster and landed on the moon just to prove what liars Americans are. Why didn't they? Because the landings were real and the Soviets knew it.\n\n\n6) Why does the flag shake?  Where are the stars?\n\nTake a look at the first two websites listed below.  They deal well with all of the technical questions.\n\n\n7) Finally, please tell us what you would accept as definitive evidence that the six moon landings were real. Is there anything?