Exploring The Moon

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Exploring The Moon (NASA Animation)

Future astronauts return to the lunar surface in this animation.

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[jpsousa4]

It's very easy. Every couple of weeks we fire a laser up at an experiment left on the moon by apollo. The experiment shines the laser back nearly precisely where it came from. We measure the time it takes this laser to go to, and come back, and use the known speed of light to measure the distance of moon.

There are also hundreds of pictures, thousands of people who saw the rocket take off, the russians who listened in on radio chat, etc.

And if it /was/ faked, why did we go back 5 more times?

[Beamshipcaptain]

We enjpoyed spending more money on the Vietnam War, than exploring the moon and Mars. Nixon axed the manned-space program budget, increased spending on the War in Vietnam, and started FOR PROFIT health-care in America.

[provedroved]

i wonder what gonna happened if they crush into the earth

[Beamshipcaptain]

Obviously rocketry is impractical for deep-space propulsion. Field effect propulsion now comes int play, because there is no inertial mass, inertia or G-forces in forcefield propulsion.

[madzyzome]

20 minute burn duration and 0.5c!? Since it would take 38 days at 1g acceleration (9.80665 meters/sec^2) to reach 0.1c and 190 days to reach 0.5c. To reach 0.5c in 20 minutes you would need ~13680g acceleration. What material can take that kind of acceleration?

[Beamshipcaptain]

I found info about it in space propulsion books I read at the Yonkers Public Library in New York in 1972, and Stanton Friedman talks about working on them, and how they had long burn durations, and the fusion version was the size of a large refrigerator, and had THOUSANDS of times the specific impulse of any chemical rocket. Go to Stanton Friendman's website. You could build fusion rockets that could get you up to half the speed of light with a 20 minute burn duration.

[madzyzome]

I have been looking for any information about a fusion version and I cannot find one. Can you link to some documents or something? Where did you get "hundreds of times more powerful" from? The specific impulse that I got was about twice that of LH LO rockets.

[Beamshipcaptain]

I've been studying the NERVA project since 1972. The fission version was the size of a packing trunk and had hundreds of times the thrust of any chemical rocket. The fusion version had THOUSANDS of times the thrust of any chemical rocket. Dr. Stanton Friedman worked on them. The project, thousgh successful, was inexplicabley canceled in the mid 1970s, along with the rest of the public space programme.

[madzyzome]

I am not aware of any fusion NERVA rocket and unfortunately no working frying prototype of the fission rocket was ever made. A flightless test rocket was constructed (affectionately named Kiwi) was tested and only produced about 40% of it's theoretical thrust making it less powerful than contemporary conventional chemical rockets. So the project never got off but undoubtedly had mush promise.

[Snowman374th]

I wonder if the ride they left up there still works.. lol

[Beamshipcaptain]

And both the NERVA (Nuclear Engine For Rocket Vehicle Application) system, which was compact, and the fission version delivered hundreds of times the specific impulse of any chemical rocket, and the fusion version had thousands of times the thrust of the shuttle, and the missions to Mars, planned since the 195-s and 60s, weere curtailed because of these short-sigheted elected fools. Delaying the future depicted 42 years ago in 2001: a Space Odyssey, and the wondrous advanced way of life delayed.