First Spacewalk Complete; Focused Inspection to Proceed Fri, 20 May 2011 11:49:19 PM UTC+0100
Endeavour astronauts completed a 6-hour, 19-minute spacewalk at the International Space Station Friday, retrieving materials experiments and installing another, and installing an antenna.
Mission Specialists Andrew Feustel and Greg Chamitoff also installed a light on a station handcart, set up equipment for adding ammonia to a cooling loop and installed a cover on a rotary joint for solar arrays.
An issue with a carbon dioxide level sensor in Chamitoff’s suit caused replanning of the later part of the spacewalk. Removal of a micro meteoroid debris shield to access some cable connection points and to hookup some of the cables was put on hold to ensure Chamitoff would be back in the airlock early. The spacewalk ended at 9:29 a.m. EDT.
The Mission Management Team decided to proceed with a focused inspection of one damage site on Endeavour’s underside Saturday morning. The location is between the right main landing gear door and the External Tank disconnect door.
The rest of Endeavour’s heat shield has been cleared for entry from ascent debris damage.
Blues63: Hey Conrad Can you believe this childish moron? All talk and no substance.
as far as I am concerned,the Landing was real¨! Impossible to keep an International Conspiracy quiet this long! They couldn't even keep a BJ in the Oval Office quiet!
Conrad73: as far as I am concerned,the Landing was real¨! Impossible to keep an International Conspiracy quiet this long! They couldn't even keep a BJ in the Oval Office quiet!
Yeah, or a break-in. It's funny how people love this stuff.
curly28Perth, Western Australia Australia5,450 posts
tallman51: Of course it wasn't real !!! Science has proven many times that the radiation would have burned them up. All of the footage and photos look so fake. This is the one that I can't wait to see the americans finally explain !!! It was also very convenient that all the original footage went missing the day before it was to be inspected by experts.
Come on America !!!! Tell us the truth !!! You have lied to us for way too long on this one !!!!!
Yeah the mind boggels. I mean all these years gone by and they haven't really done much in space on other planets with all this advanced technolegy today spending millions or should I say billions or maybe zillions excuse me I made that one up At least I am honest. I don't think the world is any wiser. All those $$$$$ lost in space or are they hmmmmm
curly28Perth, Western Australia Australia5,450 posts
curly28: Yeah the mind boggels. I mean all these years gone by and they haven't really done much in space on other planets with all this advanced technolegy today spending millions or should I say billions or maybe zillions excuse me I made that one up At least I am honest. I don't think the world is any wiser. All those $$$$$ lost in space or are they hmmmmm
One thing that I dont think has been addressed in this hoax theory is this. I can understand the thinking behind NASA faking a moon landing, it was a race to beat the Russians and prove America was top dog in the space race. Now to do that obviously would involve unimaginable consequences and embarresment if it was ever found out that it was a fake, so why on earth would they fake it SIX TIMES, and also fake the Apollo 13 accident, what possible reason would they have to fake a mission that went wrong, after all, if the purpose of the hoax was to say that America put men on the Moon first, you only need to be first once, not 6 times.
Another point of interest is at the time, the Cold War was at it's height and both the USA and the USSR would jump at the slightest chance of showing up or exposing each other. To this day the Russians have not said a thing about any suspicious activity regarding the landings. Now various people have put forward reasons for the Russians "keeping quiet" ranging from "the CIA were pulling the strings",,, er sorry , even if the CIA were pulling NASA's strings, they most certainly were not in any position to pull the Russian's strings and if the landings were fake, you can bet your bottom dollar the Russians would have made it public knowledge straight away as it would have been the biggest propaganda victory they could ever hope for. Another reason put forward for the Russians keeping quiet is that they didn't have the technology to track a craft to the Moon, which is somewhat self contradicting seeing as the Russian's actually landed a small unmanned probe on the Moon several hours before Apollo 11 landed, that event was obviously overshadowed by the Apollo landing and not widely known about but none the less, in order to do that the Russians obviously had to have technology capable of tracking a craft to the Moon.
If the FAA are investigating the Moon landings, I dont think it's anything to do with the authenticity or otherwise of the Landings, it's more than likely they are investigating something like the financial aspect, or possibly something more sinister such as the true purpose of the landings (quite possibly a military purpose) or, perhaps even they found something on the Moon that we're not being told about.
To fake one landing, possibly, but to fake six landings, no way on earth can you keep 150,000 people quiet for 40 years, it's not going to happen.
Rockabillyrouge: One thing that I dont think has been addressed in this hoax theory is this. I can understand the thinking behind NASA faking a moon landing, it was a race to beat the Russians and prove America was top dog in the space race. Now to do that obviously would involve unimaginable consequences and embarresment if it was ever found out that it was a fake, so why on earth would they fake it SIX TIMES, and also fake the Apollo 13 accident, what possible reason would they have to fake a mission that went wrong, after all, if the purpose of the hoax was to say that America put men on the Moon first, you only need to be first once, not 6 times.
Another point of interest is at the time, the Cold War was at it's height and both the USA and the USSR would jump at the slightest chance of showing up or exposing each other. To this day the Russians have not said a thing about any suspicious activity regarding the landings. Now various people have put forward reasons for the Russians "keeping quiet" ranging from "the CIA were pulling the strings",,, er sorry , even if the CIA were pulling NASA's strings, they most certainly were not in any position to pull the Russian's strings and if the landings were fake, you can bet your bottom dollar the Russians would have made it public knowledge straight away as it would have been the biggest propaganda victory they could ever hope for. Another reason put forward for the Russians keeping quiet is that they didn't have the technology to track a craft to the Moon, which is somewhat self contradicting seeing as the Russian's actually landed a small unmanned probe on the Moon several hours before Apollo 11 landed, that event was obviously overshadowed by the Apollo landing and not widely known about but none the less, in order to do that the Russians obviously had to have technology capable of tracking a craft to the Moon.
If the FAA are investigating the Moon landings, I dont think it's anything to do with the authenticity or otherwise of the Landings, it's more than likely they are investigating something like the financial aspect, or possibly something more sinister such as the true purpose of the landings (quite possibly a military purpose) or, perhaps even they found something on the Moon that we're not being told about.
To fake one landing, possibly, but to fake six landings, no way on earth can you keep 150,000 people quiet for 40 years, it's not going to happen.
There you go applying logic. It always ruins a good fairy tale.
Most people believe it and most are horrified at the very suggestion that it may not be so. Not sure whether it is a patriotism thing or a romantic, ideallistic notion that they feel is being thwarted...?
For me, I certainly am sceptical...... sorry!
I don't really hold with the usual cliched conspiracy theories, although some of them have made what seem valid and plausible reasons ("excuses"?) for their argument but, that aside, I am with Tallman on this. We haven't the technology NOW let alone in 1969!!
There are arguments that hold water (for me, anyways) for it not being real and I do reserve the right to make my own mind up.
I choose...... NO, it wasn't true! (ducking from all the rotten tomatoes).
For a wee bit of entertainment, watch the film "Capricorn One". Just a thought...?!
xxDandelionxx: Most people believe it and most are horrified at the very suggestion that it may not be so. Not sure whether it is a patriotism thing or a romantic, ideallistic notion that they feel is being thwarted...?
For me, I certainly am sceptical...... sorry!
I don't really hold with the usual cliched conspiracy theories, although some of them have made what seem valid and plausible reasons ("excuses"?) for their argument but, that aside, I am with Tallman on this. We haven't the technology NOW let alone in 1969!!
There are arguments that hold water (for me, anyways) for it not being real and I do reserve the right to make my own mind up.
I choose...... NO, it wasn't true! (ducking from all the rotten tomatoes).
For a wee bit of entertainment, watch the film "Capricorn One". Just a thought...?!
The greatest and most incontestable proof that the moon landings were a hoax is the radiation problem.
Space is a very hostile environment for life. Not only is there no air and no gravity, there is intense radiation.
First there are the Van Allen belts of high energy charged particles that result from Cosmic Radiation.
A spacecraft shielded by 3 mm of aluminum in an expanding elliptic orbit designed to transfer the craft from earth orbit to lunar orbit would spend many hours within the Van allen belts and astronauts would receive a near lethal dose of high energy radiation.
Those who try to discredit this fact by citing the speed of the craft and the thickness of the belts are making a serious fundamental error of logic.
A spacecraft doesn't fly directly toward the moon in a straight line. It starts off in earth orbit and then accelerates elongating that orbit into an ellipse that continues to elongate and eventually lifts the craft into the gravitational field of the moon. It's not a straight line at all. Even the moon is in earth orbit so the spacecraft remains in earth orbit during the entire trip.
So its passage through the van allen belts is not a simple perpendicular crossing at full speed as the scammers imply. It is a slowly expanding circular passage through the belt that takes many hours.
And it must not be forgotten that the Van Allen belts actually protect the earth from the much more intense Cosmic Rays.
Once beyond the Van Allen shields, and for the entire duration of the journey, including the entire time they are on the moon, astronauts would be subjected to the full brunt of solar flares, and cosmic radiation.
When the Sun flares, it produces x-rays, gamma-rays, and energetic particles. The energetic particles are the worst, but they travel slower through space so astronauts might have a few minutes warning before they arrived. Perhaps enough time to get into a 'storm shelter' in the center of the ship, surrounded by water tanks and any metal gear. Without a storm shelter a single solar flare of even moderate magnitude would quickly kill the astronauts through radiation sickness.
Besides solar flares, Galactic cosmic rays are one of the most important barriers to interplanetary travel. Cosmic Rays threaten electronics as well as human health.
Of course the scammers say it isn't so. What else can they say? They aren't about to admit they have been lying. There would be no forgiveness for such lies. So, like it or not, they are bound to their stories.
One can chose to believe the hoax. One can choose to believe in the Easter Bunny too.
PEOPLE HAD SOMETHING called telescopes back then- even in Russia. They could track the landing all over the world. If we staged it they would know immediately and use it for devastating propaganda.
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This is very interesting stuff !!