Moon Landings - How in the actual hell did they....

Get the Lunar Rover up there, unpack it and then bolt it all together. Seems to me the first landing they had "the" lunar lander craft, big enough for a couple of men (yea lunar lander door too small for their giant backpacks, but that is another conversation)

Then, they returned, in the SAME model lunar lander and OH! - suddenly it has room for a little car too! - ZERO images of unpacking it or assembling it - you know, with those giant space suits and they are just going to slap that baby together like an Indy pit crew.

Says here, the Rover was stored in Quadrant 1 [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]
"Each LRV was carried to the Moon folded up in the Lunar Module's Quadrant 1 Bay. After being unpacked, each was driven an average of 30 km, without major incident. These three LRVs remain on the Moon."

Yea, have a look at little Quadrant 1 (same size as Quadrant III facing the viewer of the image) - that whole car fits into that huh? [link to history.nasa.gov (secure)]


Oh right, as they unload it, it unfolds and builds itself!! Hell we all knew that right


[link to history.nasa.gov (secure)]


[link to upload.wikimedia.org (secure)] buying that?

This is GLP - come on people? - no comment about this?

the stars just disappear

My only question is this: with all of today's technology and sending rover to Mars, why haven't they been back to the moon?

Years ago I read the account by Jim Lovell who said it was more like a skin or film and very thin. He is fairly tall and had to fold himself up to sit on what amounted to a rowboat type seat and keep from punching through the bottom of the LM. It's just too laughable.

But, the OP is spot on. They tried to sell the public on some hand-wringing about keeping their rock and soil samples to UNDER 8 lbs. Then as he notes, they send up the next one supposedly identical and it's got a car in the garage of the tarpaper shack Lander. Pathetic that every media person still pretends this is all real.

according to eric dollars you cannot see stars in free space, only when gross matter is involed

Why go to mars?

There’s a made-up name if I’ve ever heard one.

I'm thinking it's just another pissing contest.

on the other hand,

If we are intent on "saving the race", Mars makes way more sense than the moon. We could actually manage to have a self sustaining colony there at some point. Much easier than the hard vacuum of the moon.

Heh-heh…Heh-heh…Heh-heh… You said “hard vacuum”.

Diamonds are forever was released just prior with the moon desert fake scene etc.
This was so if anyone doubted the moon landing all the believers could say bs you have been watching too much James BOND.

Deployment of the LRV from the LM quad 1 by the astronauts was achieved with a system of pulleys and braked reels using ropes and cloth tapes.

The rover was folded and stored in quad 1 with the underside of the chassis facing out. One astronaut would climb the egress ladder on the LM and release the rover, which would then be slowly tilted out by the second astronaut on the ground through the use of reels and tapes.

As the rover was let down from the bay most of the deployment was automatic. The rear wheels folded out and locked in place and when they touched the ground the front of the rover could be unfolded, the wheels deployed, and the entire frame let down to the surface by pulleys.

The rover components locked into place upon opening. Cabling, pins, and tripods would then be removed and the seats and footrests raised.

After switching on all the electronics the vehicle was ready to back away from the LM. The image at right shows an earlier version of the planned deployment which does not exactly match the final sequence, note for example that the rover is facing away from the LM after deployment.

[link to nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov (secure)]

India is sending a Monolith and 7 Monkeys to walk on the Moon...Fox News

India is sending a Monolith and 7 Monkeys to walk on the Moon...Fox News

the stars just disappear

according to eric dollars you cannot see stars in free space, only when gross matter is involed