7/ I don't understand what's pat about this. I've read dozens of books on the topic from retired engineers and others (out of the 100s that exist). It was an INSANE amount of hard work with thousands of failures along the way.https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1487167720969936899 …
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18/ It's not an argument that Apollo was real. The argument for Apollo being real is that you can buy a laser, point it at the Apollo-11 landing site, and get bounces off of the cats-eye-reflector they left behind. It's an argument for >>>https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1487172840948637697 …
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19/ ...how we managed to do it in "just" 10 years. The answer is that it wasn't 10 years. It was 10,000 + people working in parallel for 10 years.
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20/ > It wasn't actually flown though. Please stop saying dumb and false things. LEMs were flown into orbit (or beyond) on all of those flights, and humans piloted LEMs in space on Apollo 9 and 10 LEM was flow in Earth orbit on 9 and lunar orbit on 10https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1487173497554194433 …
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22/ not a complete list, but from one bookshelf here in the officepic.twitter.com/vmx8QvT0gZ
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23/ [ re the bookshelf photos above ]
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24/ On that note, I was chatting in a private forum with
@robkroese earlier today about his work on Mammon book 2 and he asked a question about the kinetic energy / damage from an object falling from orbit ...so I uploaded a spreadsheet I'd made for Aristillus vol 2 years agoShow this thread
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On an institutional level it should also be mentioned that they had the "our astronauts will die on the moon" speech ready to go.
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He took a hatful of fuel and a lifetime of piloting experience and God alone how knows how many hours simulating/practicing/studying how to land the LEM and turned them into a by-God Miracle. A dragon amongst men.
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