Gar bear on Nostr: never heard of this angle. are you saying there was no people in that thing, or there ...
never heard of this angle. are you saying there was no people in that thing, or there were people who didn't make it back?
i was just thinking about how hard the SpaceX reusable landings were to get perfect.
then I realized that we supposedly did one of these reusable landings on the moon, took off again without any maintenance up there, and then intersected again with the orbital module before flying back to earth. all of that happened with technology from 1960s...
the intersection thing with the orbital module really blows my mind. maybe it's easier than i realize, but it seems like an impossibility. it would be hard to do with airplanes, let alone with somehting that's just using it's velocity alone to regulate gravitational pull and thus distance to the moon's surface.
not to mention the fact that they would have to perfectly intersect the orbital modules orbit, otherwise they would have virtually no chance of ever intersecting it again.
i was just thinking about how hard the SpaceX reusable landings were to get perfect.
then I realized that we supposedly did one of these reusable landings on the moon, took off again without any maintenance up there, and then intersected again with the orbital module before flying back to earth. all of that happened with technology from 1960s...
the intersection thing with the orbital module really blows my mind. maybe it's easier than i realize, but it seems like an impossibility. it would be hard to do with airplanes, let alone with somehting that's just using it's velocity alone to regulate gravitational pull and thus distance to the moon's surface.
not to mention the fact that they would have to perfectly intersect the orbital modules orbit, otherwise they would have virtually no chance of ever intersecting it again.