antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov — On July 20, 1969, only four days after leaving planet Earth 250,000 miles behind them, Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon - the first humans to reach another celestial body. But the Saturn V rocket which took them there actually "began" the journey two months before traveling at a blinding speed of one mile per hour.
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Closed AccountFeb 27, 2009
Wow...
godlikeFeb 27, 2009
How you uh, how you comin' on that novel you're working on? Huh? Gotta a big, uh, big stack of papers there? Gotta, gotta nice litte story you're working on there? Your big novel you've been working on for 3 years? Huh? Gotta, gotta compelling protaganist? Yeah? Gotta obstacle for him to overcome? Huh? Gotta story brewing there? Working on, working on that for quite some time? Huh? Yea, talking about that 3 years ago. Been working on that the whole time? Nice little narrative? Beginning, middle, and end? Some friends become enemies, some enemies become friends? At the end your main character is richer from the experience? Yeah? Yeah? No, no, you deserve some time off.
tehwhispFeb 27, 2009
For the year this was build, that is some bitch-ass engineering.
angus5Feb 27, 2009
It's not like it's rocket sci- oh wait...
richmondphotogFeb 28, 2009
I know what you mean. The shuttle looks like a real spaceship. But to me, a pretty boring spaceship besides the look. It just goes into orbit and then, it comes back from orbit. Yay, space exploration. Its been like that for 30 years.
coondog35Feb 28, 2009
What about the Gimbal drives? I'm pretty sure those moved... and I'm pretty sure the thing would not be stable without them.
didgitalFeb 28, 2009
Nice that you went to this effort. You should look up what the fuels were, you are off. Also, the trajectory to the moon is not a straight line, it's rather helical. Without looking it up, I'd approximate it it by 1 circumference of a circle with a diameter that's the distance from the center of the earth to the orbit of the moon.