Gar bear on Nostr: Very cool if the Silent Generation managed. I agree they may have had the nerves and ...
Very cool if the Silent Generation managed. I agree they may have had the nerves and skills to maneuver like that if any generation did.
However, Taking off again from the moons surface and rejoining with the orbiting rocket... This seems sooo difficult.
It seems much more difficult than landing the rocket on the surface a la SpaceX, since the orbiting module is moving so the lunar ascender had to follow exact orbital path as the orbiter.... No ellipses, no slight angle to the 2 orbits and no difference in altitude...
Then they have to run into each other without bouncing off...
I'm not sure what controls they had to maneuver and how they could see where they were in orbit and how close to the orbiter...
It almost seems more likely that aliens saw the ship and were like " we will get you there and back, you guys just figure out the parachutes and water landing".
These feels like such a huge psyop rn.
However, Taking off again from the moons surface and rejoining with the orbiting rocket... This seems sooo difficult.
It seems much more difficult than landing the rocket on the surface a la SpaceX, since the orbiting module is moving so the lunar ascender had to follow exact orbital path as the orbiter.... No ellipses, no slight angle to the 2 orbits and no difference in altitude...
Then they have to run into each other without bouncing off...
I'm not sure what controls they had to maneuver and how they could see where they were in orbit and how close to the orbiter...
It almost seems more likely that aliens saw the ship and were like " we will get you there and back, you guys just figure out the parachutes and water landing".
These feels like such a huge psyop rn.