You could also explain why the rusians gave up all efforts to get to the moon are you dumb enough to think they would just give up.
From the Wikipedia page on the N-1 booster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_%28rocket%29):
The N1-L3 version was developed to compete with the United States Apollo Saturn V to land a man on the Moon. The basic N1 launch vehicle had three stages, which carried the L3 lunar payload into Low Earth orbit. The L3 contained an Earth departure stage and a lunar landing assist stage, in addition to the single-cosmonaut LK Lander spacecraft, and a two-cosmonaut Soyuz 7K-L3 lunar orbital spacecraft.
N1-L3 was underfunded, undertested, and started development in October 1965, almost four years after the Saturn V and the project got badly derailed by the death of its chief designer Sergei Korolev in 1966. After four launch attempts all failed to reach orbit, the program was suspended in 1974, and in 1976 was officially cancelled. The N1 program (along with the rest of the Soviet manned moon programs) was kept secret almost until the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991; information about the N1 was first published in 1989.
Frankly, the Soviet government under Brezhnev cared more about extending military influence on Earth than sending people to the Moon.
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His name was Ed Fendell, a controller in Houston in charge the remotely-controlled camera on the LRV.
Yes, he had to take the signal delay into account – he had to anticipate the liftoff and rate of ascent. …
It doesn’t have to be pretty to work.
The foil acted as a thermal blanket, reflecting as much of the sunlight as possible to keep the base of the LM from overheating. The foil was only about 125 microns thick, …
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The blueprints *weren’t* destroyed; they’re on file at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. Not that it matters; we couldn’t build the Saturn V today if we wanted to, because most of the technology it used is …
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Did you know that many of the people involved in the moon landing died from a car crash?
Upwards of 90 people die *every day* in car crashes in the US; it’s not at all surprising that a lot people “involved …
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It’s not a C, it’s an O.
And it *looks* like some kind of inclusion (a pebble embedded in a slightly softer matrix rock). It looks like the surrounding matrix has eroded a bit, leaving a small channel around the …
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Who panned the camera?
His name was Ed Fendell, a controller in Houston in charge the remotely-controlled camera on the LRV.
Yes, he had to take the signal delay into account – he had to anticipate the liftoff and rate of ascent. …
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Did you know that many of the people involved in the moon landing died from a car crash?
Upwards of 90 people die *every day* in car crashes in the US; it’s not at all surprising that a lot people “involved …
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Some futher googling indicates that the original Saturn V plans are stored at MSFC in Huntsville, AL (which would make sense); however, the source I found isn’t authoritative (it’s a forum discussion with no links), so don’t take that as …
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Paper copies were destroyed because storage costs money; many (not all) documents were saved to microfilm for long-term storage. Some of these documents are available online, such as:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-LMdocs.html
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-CSMdocs.html
http://klabs.org/history/ech/agc_schematics/
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ApolloDescentGuidnce.pdf
http://contentcat.fhsu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/cosmosphere
That’s far from a complete list; I’m sure there …
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Even one picture of the stars while the ship was on the way to or circling the moon.
I’ve explained this before, multiple times. You simply cannot expose for the sunlit surface of the Moon and the stars at the …