1st Manned Moon Landing - 45 Years Ago

1st Manned Moon Landing - 45 Years Ago

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Eric Mc

121,769 posts

264 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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speedyman said:
I remember staying up watching the actual landing on tv, then having a long wait until they finally opened the hatch door, decended the ladder an then came the famous sentence. " That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"

speedyman
The landing wasn't actually shown live. There was no TV transmission "live" from the Lunar Module during decent and landing on any of the Apollo missions.

During each landing, all we saw was live TV from Mission Control, Houston and we heard, of course, live voice communication by radio.

Live TV from the surface of the moon only started with the deployment of the TV camera mounted on the outside of the Lunar Module - which was only possible once the LM was safely on the surface and the first astronaut was emerging from the egress hatch.

lukefreeman

1,492 posts

174 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Genuinely interested in why people say it never happened......please explain why.

I'm not feeding trolls either it just seems far too much evidence to ignore though.

jmorgan

36,010 posts

283 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Go look at the Icke forum. A threads will be in there. They know, they just know. Don't ask me why but they know. They cannot tell you why but they know. They know you know.

Eric Mc

121,769 posts

264 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Ignore them. There stupid comments can pollute interesting threads.

It reached a peak about ten years ago when that truly awful Sky documentary was shown. It was that programme that really captured the imaginations of the serially idiotic.

If I ever had one reason for detesting Rupert Murdoch (and I have plenty) it was the commissioning of that disingenuous piece of TV tripe.

youngsyr

14,681 posts

191 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Any update on the Chinese lunar programme?

Eric Mc

121,769 posts

264 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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No.

They'll let us know when they launch their next mission I'm sure.

V88Dicky

7,302 posts

182 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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If only there were some photos showing the landing sites, the equipment left on the surface, hell, even the footprints of the astronauts.............




Oakey

27,523 posts

215 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Yes but idiots will just claim those are fake too. Ideally we should launch them to the moon to check it out in person, one way obviously

V88Dicky

7,302 posts

182 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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hehe

Eric Mc

121,769 posts

264 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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It is interesting that since these LRO photos began appearing about 4 years ago the conspiracy nutjobs have gone very quiet - thank goodness.

Jimbeaux

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33,791 posts

230 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Eric Mc said:
Not quite - the landing was on 20th July.
I was aware, just getting ahead of the game. smile

Jimbeaux

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33,791 posts

230 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Eric Mc said:
We shall ignore the dopes... they always turn up for these threads.

Ti be fair, it's quite a while since any raised their heads over the parapet on PH. Maybe this is a new batch of idiots, wanting to throw their imbecilic and moronic notions into the discussion.
Hopefully, even morons of that stature eventually learn.

Jimbeaux

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33,791 posts

230 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Eric Mc said:
No.

They'll let us know when they launch their next mission I'm sure.
Their next successful mission you mean. They may crash and/or lose countless people first but we may never hear about that. Although it is harder to hide such things these days.

Eric Mc

121,769 posts

264 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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It's always been quite hard to hide a spaceflight.

Unless the rocket blows up on the pad, once it lifts off, telemetry tends to give you an idea as to what its mission is. And the further the spacecraft gets into its mission, the more obvious its task was.

gpo746

3,397 posts

129 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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V88Dicky said:
If only there were some photos showing the landing sites, the equipment left on the surface, hell, even the footprints of the astronauts.............



That proves nothing could just be a picture of a boil on my wifes bottom smile

I remember years ago a girl who worked for us her fella thought everything was a conspiracy. A rather intense chap I recall.

Now without incurring my mate Eric Mc's wrath can anyone remember an April Fool from the mid 70's TV Programme that suggested they had landed on Mars. I can find little mention of this programme but it was I think ITV and probably 1976 or so ? Done in a documentary style. I remember one of the "experts" interviewed saying "you don't need all that fuel just to put a bicycle on the moon" or something.

dirkgently

2,160 posts

230 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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NinjaPower said:
Thousands of men and women dedicated their entire lives to the science of space travel, and in many cases, actually gave their lives, all so that we would learn, discover and explore as a race.
statement.
I think that is why Buzz Aldrin punches the idiots in the face.

greygoose

8,224 posts

194 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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lukefreeman said:
Genuinely interested in why people say it never happened......please explain why.

I'm not feeding trolls either it just seems far too much evidence to ignore though.
Sadly the internet gives conspiracy nut jobs an audience, whereas in years gone by they would be the strange bloke talking to himself on the bus who you would avoid sitting next to.

jmorgan

36,010 posts

283 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Eric Mc said:
It is interesting that since these LRO photos began appearing about 4 years ago the conspiracy nutjobs have gone very quiet - thank goodness.
If you fancy getting banned from certain forums for speaking sense, they are still there. Only under their rules.

Eric Mc

121,769 posts

264 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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gpo746 said:
That proves nothing could just be a picture of a boil on my wifes bottom smile
Only if you don't know what you are looking at.

Or are you saying that you actually are one of the non-believing fraternity?

DJRC

23,563 posts

235 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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I like the conspiracy guys, they wind up the silly ppl who take all the space st too seriously.