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35th Anniversary of Apollo 13 Splashdown
orac2 writes "35 years ago today, the crew of the Apollo 13 mission splashed down in the Pacific, after a harrowing four days following an oxygen tank explosion aboard their spacecraft. If you've only seen the Ron Howard movie, IEEE Spectrum has an article about what really went on in mission control to save the crew, with interviews with Gene Kranz, etc,and including a previously unreported hack the lunar module controllers had to come up with in real-time just to turn on the LM."
The old NASA geeks were true geeks. They had to solve incredible problems on the fly. For example, like in the film, where a roomful of geeks sit down at a table, a bunch of random stuff is dumped on a table, and they have to get a square peg into a round hole using nothing but what was there. Imagine having to debug a remote system failure that's floating in space, using nothing but radio communications and screw instrumentation data?
The movie is a dramatization as Ron Howard points out, but I saw an Apollo 13 documentary that played actual recordings from the transmissions, and the film used a lot of the dialogue word-for-word. "Let's not make things worse by guessing."
I have proof. In the 2002 playboy, NFL running back Marshall Faulk dispells all the myths about landing on the moon. We were in an arms race, and the US government turned to hollywood insiders to produce films that made it appear we were more advanced than the USSR, in a hopes the USSR economy would implode. Think about it, this is a football player poking holes in the NASA propoganda.
According to Faulk, there is no wind on the moon. But if you look at the picture of the two astronots with the flag, there is a breeze shown in the picture.
If you look at many of the pictures taken while on the moon, you will notice no stars. That is because all these pictures were taken indoors, in a studio in hollywood.
There is also a picture of a rock on the moon with the letter "C" on it. Obviously, every rock in the studio was lettered and was meticulously put in place.
Now the truth is, we are not alone in the universe. Aliens have visited earth, and we even have one of their spaceships. It is kept in Area 51, in the Nevada desert at a top secret Air Force base. How secret is it, not even you elected Senators can gain access. Before his death, US Senator Paul Simon asked for all information about area 51, his request was denied. He traveled to the gates of the compound with another senator, a US Army General, and 3 memebers of congress, and they were all turned away at gunpoint. Furthermore, the people who work there are not regular Air Force enlisted and officers. They all come from a seperate agency, on the public does not know about.
I'll leave one more bone to chew on. If NASA could make a space ship, fly it to the moon, develop suits for astronots to be protected from extremem heat and cold, along with radiation, how come the camera's they took with them are all so shitty? The video is horrible. It is like someone made it that way on purpose, like someone who counterfits money and then rubs dirt on it and tries to make it look used.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
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.. the US government in a lie? Ever? If you have, then why would you believe the government when they told you we actually landed on the moon. I don't know about you, but if I catch someone in a lie, their credibility is ruined and I can never trust anything they say.
Oh, we went to the moon? Yeah, sure.. and I have some ocean-front property in Arizona I'd like to sell you.
What a perfect little world you must live in where you can pick and choose what is true and what is not.