Rocket hitting the moon?
358887
Yes I did.\n We have built this multi billion dollar rocket so we can crash it into the moon.\n And,yes, they are looking for the presence of water or at least evidence that water was once present.\n A big idea now in the science world,by the belief that all life here started in the seas, that if there is water there might be life. Or if there WAS water there might have been life at one time.\n This is just another way for the government to waste tax dollars. Plus it gives these scientist a paycheck. They have run out of theories on how the dinosaurs may have looked. And who built Stonehinge. So this water/life study has opened up a whole new avenue for them to collect research grants.\n But between you and me...It really is to search for underground alian spaceports that may be on/in the moon.
1036837
The shuttle can't go to the moon.  It has never been.  It does not have the rocket energy to break the gravitational pull of the earth and reach a speed of approximately 25,000 mph to leave the earth!\n\nThe Apollo spacecraft would leave the earth at a velocity close to 25,000mph  and rapidly lose speed as they approached the moon.  At a precise point in the trajectory, the earth's gravitational field and the moon's would be equal their speed would be about 3000mph, and after that point, the moon began accelerating them toward itself until they fired the rockets and dropped into a lunar orbit!  The journey from Earth to moon using that method, is about 3 days.\n\nBTW, the max speed of the shuttles in LEO (low earth orbit) has probably never exceeded 18,000mph!  A LEO of 100 miles requires a speed of 17,500mph to stay in that LEO.\n\nAnd to the one that said it would take 10 hours, don't plan on being a physics major!  Leaving the earth's gravitational field is like throwing a rock to infinity.  Once it reaches infinity, the speed is zero.  When it leaves the earth it is doing 25,000mph but rapidly loses speed thereafter departing!
328052
NOT sure how mankind's dearm gets fulfilled by blowing up moon!
698020
No.  NASA is not going to bomb the moon.  There are no explosives involved.\n\nThey are going to crash a spacecraft on the moon to see if they can observe ice crystals in the ejecta.  "Ejecta" is the cloud of debris that is created by a crash or meteor impact.\n\nNASA has done this before.
273995
thats a deep question today.\n\nTicker tape to the moon is a clue ;) to a  wide part of it
531032
Why do morons insist on making something out of absolutely nothing?!  OF COURSE WE LANDED ON THE MOON!  Do you think all those incredible images from space were a hoax as well?!  Ask Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and all the men who have been on the moon to show you their private photos and to share their recollections!  Must we continue to perpetuate these ignorant and unfounded stories of hoaxes??!!  Take a deep breath, switch to decaf, and join the REAL world!!  ANY of our satellites can pinpoint EXACTLY where each of the remnants of our Apollo landing equipment is, and all the flags and instruments that were left behind!!  For God's sake, people: remove the poles that have long been residing in your rear ends, as well as the remnants of retardation that were left behind in your brains!!!
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Right now, the moon is not visible from Ireland. It set in the West shortly after sunset. It would be a thin crescent if we were able to see it.\n\nIn addition it's pretty cloudy here in Ireland tonight, so it's a double strikeout I'm afraid!
1040803
Explain how a 600 yard wide rock could cause the 2,160 mile wide Moon to wobble, without touching it? It'd be like throwing a golf ball at a bus and expecting it to tip it over....\n\nIt doesn't matter what the moon does as far as wobbling and spinning, it's gravity isnt affected (unless it breaks up) and therefore the end result means zip to us. We may just get to see the far side!
906377
The moon would eventually collide with the Earth if it weren't for the fact that both the Earth and the Moon will be incinerated by the expanding Sun before that happens, making this kind of question academic.
682577
To have sex in the moon.
1145075
In order to send a satellite around the moon it would take a lot stronger rockets than currently used to bring them into orbit. Geostationary orbit is at a mere 36000km altitude, 1/11 of the distance to the moon. Satellites brought into geostationary don't have to overcome the escape velocity of earth.\n\nAny launch anomaly that could send a satellite around the moon has sufficient fuel and power left to send it into the wanted orbit.
9896
More then One Try going golfing on the moon. There's way less gravity up there. In 1971, astronaut Alan Sheppard took his game to the moon. He wasn't a great golfer but he still managed to smoke a ball more than 200 yards, using just a six iron, while he wore a space suit. But unfortunately, the moon is still waiting for its first \n\n There are now golf balls on the Moon
370625
China has Started a manned Space programme and has said it's aim is to land on the Moon.\n\nSo the Yanks will Try to get get there first.\n\nBut their Space programme is still not up and running properly since the Columbia disaster.
325229
Although it is possible, It would take a lot of effort and materials to do this. There is also the chance the rocket could fail and could even explode in midair, and I don't think we want to see that.\n\nThere could be a better but similar plan though.
142572
We landed on the moon, for sure!
30984
sure, you just have to leave earth.  the acceleration on the moon is about 1.6 m/s^2.  so you'd need to go somewhere slightly larger than the moon, but not quite as large as the moon.  perhaps mars?  aha, on mars it is 3.7 m/s^2.  close enough?\n\nhttp://hypertextbook.com/facts/2004/MichaelRobbins.shtml\nhttp://hypertextbook.com/facts/2004/JahshirahRossi.shtml
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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.