Moonlanding. Building a lander

[BlisterHiker]

Always fun to watch those images from good old times, when science and exploration were properly funded, though for political reasons.

People of Apollo program achieved amazing things.

[Rob260259]

Thousands of pages about the Lunar Module on

w w w . landingapollo . com/documentation/lunarmodule . php

[obaeyens]

Nice video, I really like the engineering part. Very interesting how they managed to put everything together.

[Boozyscientist]

Nice.

I've come to believe that in many cases showing how it was done is likely to be more effective in persuading the undecided than technically complicated (and dull) refutations of hoax nonsense.

[Rob260259]

@Boozyscientist

Yep. And I was doing the 'technically complicated' for a while Boozy, which always ended in name-calling or idiocy.

I'm going to keep this course for a longer time, planning to make some more videos.

Thanks.

[Astrobrant2]

Thanks again, Rob. Because so much hoax debunking depends on photos from the moon, we may tend to overlook much of the pre-flight photo-documentation.

Boy, these guys sure went to a lot of effort to pull off this hoax, didn't they? (gag)

[TremorHellborn]

Well done Rob. I very much enjoyed it.

[Karsten1948]

Hi Rob,

Alweer mooi gedaan, met opnieuw een behoorlijk aantal vrij onbekende foto's.

Dank voor je goede wensen voor 2010 en uiteraard voor jou en je gezin eveneens de allerbeste wensen voor dit jaar.

Groet,

Karsten

[Astrobrant2]

Hey, Karsten, I don't speak droid!

(Crap, I'm sorry. I couldn't resist. You multi-lingual guys just don't know how that looks to someone whose only language is English.)

[rawmonkno1]

Well at least you have the good fortune of speaking English natively.

Not a bad thing on todays Internet at least. :)

[Karsten1948]

Your Americans have your culture and language, so have the Dutch.

If there is a serious discussion, well of course people must use the same language, otherwise they dont understand each other.

But if thats not the case, I prefer to use my own language and I have the freedom to do so !!

Already in the sixties, there was a tendency here to copy the American culture and I hated that.

So I defend my culture and language in those cases I can do that.

And for this, I am not sorry !

[Astrobrant2]

Karsten, please don't be put off. It is understood that it is my ignorance of your language which makes it look funny to me. No offense intended.

Of course, I know you and Rob speak the same language and since it's his video, I have no say in the matter. I was just joking around.

[BruceRFID]

Nice mash-up tune. One of the funniest documents about the landers I found was the bill sent by the makers of the LEM to the makers of the command module for "towing and accommodation for an extra person" for the Apollo 13 flight. Happy New Year.