If you still think this tin foil paper mache piece of shit landed humans on the moon, you are not a real truther and you may have some sort of disability.

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[–]zyxzevn 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Those foils have a clear purpose. They still use it. It is very light and is to protect against heat. Like the "space blanket". It is used for heat management.
They use a tent-like construction to keep everything light. Mass is the only real restriction for a spacecraft. The exhaust is close to interfering with the blanket, so it should be very heat resistant. You have to check the engineering details to see what that sheet is made of.

The car is from a later mission. Do not know the details, but it does not need much strength, because the gravity is very low. Notice that the tires are full, which can be done with just a little bit of air. It would kick up a lot of dust, so I don't know how practical it really is. There should be some logs explaining what it was used for.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yep.

I when to a satellite factory in the UK and they put together a whole modern state of the art piece of machinery and then cover it all in the same metallic blankets they put on marathon runners when they finish.

Tech doesn't look like scifi films in real life because it needs to work.

[–]zyxzevn 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. It just needs to work with minimal weight, no need to look stylish.
Here is hubble with foils around it (I think image is from the space shuttle)
Shield for Webb telescope