First US lunar lander in more than 50 years rockets toward moon with commercial deliveries

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[–]SMCAB 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

The last time the U.S. launched a moon-landing mission was in December 1972. Apollo 17’s Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt became the 11th and 12th men to walk on the moon, closing out an era that has remained NASA’s pinnacle.

Yet they threw away all the data and info or lost it all? A mother keeps her little rascals kindergarten paperwork in a tote for eternity, yet NASA lost all the data pertaining to its "pinnacle." I think their pinnacle is swindling 71 million dollars a day from you.

I'll bet anything those aren't private companies either. Friends of the program I say.

Edit: They now have engine problems and have the solar panels facing the wrong way? For fucks sake. Why would the propulsion system of the lander have anything to do with this? The lander isn't flying the rocket is.

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

They now have engine problems and have the solar panels facing the wrong way? For fucks sake. Why would the propulsion system of the lander have anything to do with this? The lander isn't flying the rocket is.

You're spot on.

Have you seen the evidence proving rockets can't function in space?
Rocket [exhaust] thrust pushes off of the atmosphere, and that's why they use second stage rockets. Analogous to a jet ski impeller forcing water out into/against a lake (body of water), etc.

The second stage rockets diffusers are tuned for efficiency the lower pressure environment of the upper atmosphere.

Zero atmospheric pressure in space = zero rocket efficiency. Period.

An inescapable fact of rocket propulsion.

I'm curious about the solar panel as they relate to engines. Maybe they have ion engines, or another tech. But probably not.

Like you said, They'll hoax away for $70 million a day (paraphrased).

[–]SMCAB 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I absolutely have. A rocket engine, or air propulsion cannot work in a vacuum. There is zero resistance to push anything forward. It's so crazy. I've seen all of the videos of true vacuums built and propulsion inside that can't even move a flag. Everything NASA(US Defense Dept) tells you dies under the weight of its own details.

It just baffles me how Mr. Pettit stands on a stage to this day and claims they can't solve the "Tyranny of the Rocket Equation", which is how to carry enough fuel for their payloads, and that we can't leave "low earth orbit", and yet here we are going to the moon again. It's astounding.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Tyranny of the Rocket Equation", which is how to carry enough fuel for their payloads, and that we can't leave "low earth orbit", and yet here we are going to the moon again. It's astounding.

This.

And they're completely omitting the zero propulsion in space detail.