14/ We almost had an in space catastrophe w the Agena target vehicleshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agena_target_vehicle …
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15/ (speaking of, we didn't fully understand the implications of orbital mechanics until the attempted rendezvouses w the target vehicle, bc speeding up did NOT close the gap, as every reader of Heinlein [ now ] knows)
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16/ The lunar lander "worked" the first time in Apollo-11 because that was not the first time, it was the sixth time. LEMs had been flown on Apollo 5, 6 , 8, 9, and 10.https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1487171316436418560 …
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17/ Also, there were MULTIPLE problems w the LEMs. Windows broke in testing, things shorted out. During Neal Armstrong's descent in Apollo 11 the LEM's AGC overloaded, crashed, and rebooted dozens of times bc of data from the descent radar.
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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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Cary Bleasdale @Cary_BleasdaleReplying to @MorlockP @RealCandaceOIt wasn't actually flown though. Like I said, that's the part you would and could easily fake, I see reasonable room to doubt that happened without being an idiot dumdum. Especially given that it's the underpinning of the entire modern technopriesthood.3 replies 1 retweet 32 likesShow this thread -
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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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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 ago
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I think I now better understand why Buzz Aldrin punched that guy in the face instead of trying to explain it to him.
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