"The Eagle has landed." 55 years ago today

[gtb1943]

I’m honestly shocked the OP believes we actually landed on the moon.

I am honestly shocked your post showed you knew the difference

 

[SlammedZero]

I'm more awed that we now have 2 probes in interstellar space. That, to me, is the greatest scientific achievement to date.

Yes, that is another amazing achievement. In fact, I just watched a cool documentary about how they recently (and successfully) had to reprogram some code on Voyager 1, because a chip had stopped working, so it could continue to send data back to Earth. Absolutely cool stuff!!

 

[Runwildboys]

Yes, that is another amazing achievement. In fact, I just watched a cool documentary about how they recently (and successfully) had to reprogram some code on Voyager 1, because a chip had stopped working, so it could continue to send data back to Earth. Absolutely cool stuff!!

Imagine trying to do something like that, when it takes more than 32 hours to get find out if it worked?

 

[Passepartout]

Five years before I was born. Really would had loved to had seen it as my parents were recently married at the time and still are to this day!

 

[Hardline]

I’m honestly shocked the OP believes we actually landed on the moon.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I expose conspiracy theorist. I'm surprised you believe we landed on the moon. My beliefs are based in reality more than yours are. If I was allowed to circumvent certain forum rules I would crush you in any debate topic you would care to have.

 

[IMGumby]

Yet NASA says they lost the technology to go back to the Moon. That makes absolutely no common sense.

Every blueprint and design document for the Apollo program still exists in NASA archives but that is trivial compared to other issues -

The spacecraft was hand made in an era before CNC machines. The Saturn V rocket had around 3 million parts and after the Apollo program was shut down the factories were repurposed, molds destroyed/sold as scrap, and the individuals who made these parts went on to other jobs. A prime example is the first stage F-1 engine of which only about 180 were ever made and each one had 5600 parts. The engineers and machinists would add hand written notes notes to shop drawings for changes and these documents were lost/destroyed.

Here is an article that explains it better than I can-

 

[gtb1943]

Every blueprint and design document for the Apollo program still exists in NASA archives but that is trivial compared to other issues -

The spacecraft was hand made in an era before CNC machines. The Saturn V rocket had around 3 million parts and after the Apollo program was shut down the factories were repurposed, molds destroyed/sold as scrap, and the individuals who made these parts went on to other jobs. A prime example is the first stage F-1 engine of which only about 180 were ever made and each one had 5600 parts. The engineers and machinists would add hand written notes notes to shop drawings for changes and these documents were lost/destroyed.

Here is an article that explains it better than I can-

not really surprising when you think about it.
Computer tech has immensely improved but not a lot else has when you get down to it
same rocket motors and pretty much the same rocket fuel

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I expose conspiracy theorist. I'm surprised you believe we landed on the moon. My beliefs are based in reality more than yours are. If I was allowed to circumvent certain forum rules I would crush you in any debate topic you would care to have.

Luuulz, you’d do no such thing bumpkin.