usatoday.com — The first footsteps on the moon ? made by Armstrong on July 20, 1969, on the mission known as Apollo 11? came 3? years before the last ones. Since then, astronauts have been stuck close to the Earth, mostly circling a few hundred miles overhead in a spacecraft that's little more than a glorified cargo truck.
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Closed AccountSep 23, 2009
THOSE were steely-eyed missile men.
garmonbozziaSep 24, 2009
I would have done it for free.Scratch that. Paid all the money I could come up with. Not for the glory, just for the experience.
garmonbozziaSep 24, 2009
Just to clarify a point on slide 3: They are using the KC-135 Vomit Comet to simulate moon gravity. The KC-135 can simulate any quantity of lessened gravity between 1 and zero, and in this slide they are clearly only at the 1/6 G that is present on the Moon.