OT: Moon Landing

An idea that was never implemented. Both the US and Soviet military considered and cancelled manned spaceflight programs. Both realized that unmanned spacecraft made more sense for them.

Must have been a mistake, since it never did return such a lab.

The entire Shuttle program was a mistake.

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Youtube has videos of various whacky amateur pulse rockets.

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Their "involvement" such as it was, was to be in positions of high leadership when we were caught totally unprepared with our pants down. They weren't sharp enough to see it coming much less be involved themselves. Other people did but they were ignored.

and then instead of sparing no expense or delay to capture and bring the primary evidence-based conspirator to face trial for his crime as expediently as possible started wars against two almost entirely uninvolved countries in the Middle East because...reasons.

LOL-That may change now that we have a "Space Force", for a little while anyway, until the lunatic fringe is ejected from control.

The video was slow scan, due to the transmit power requirements. Higher bandwidth required more power than was available. It was also heavier than they could take on the mission. You can only get so much gain from the antennas.

Slow scan allowed the video to be transmitted on an audio channel. Once it was received on earth, it was scan converted, to let the public see it. It was crappy video, or nothing.

Amateur radio operators still use Slow Scan video on the HF and VHF bands.

It's been decades, but I think it was eight seconds per frame for Amateur radio, to fit into a 5KHz audio channel. One commercial product was 'Robot'?

Some use NTSC video at higher frequencies. Some old CATV modulators are on the proper bands, and are used with an amplifier for ATV.

Oh but I thought you'd enjoy my revisionist history! You didn't like it. :(

The guys at HoneySuckle Creek who ran the equipment that showed the world the First Step are having the (last?) big reunion this weekend.

450 Apollo tragics (including moi) will be there with them. Mike Dinn was station manager at the time, and there are others still around who were present at the time. So if you want to know any technical details, now would be a really good time to ask! Also Andrew Tink's book "HoneySuckle Creek" has most of the details.

Clifford Heath.

But more likely you would have just spent that $$ bombing Vietnam for a few more years.

America could have saved us all by investing the $T's war budget on something useful, but instead it has killed us all.

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No. It was in the late 1800s and by a different person, GoogleTard.

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Bloggs is grounded... in a pile of sub-human feces.

Hey, BloggsTard... it is muckin' up yer vision, boy!

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John Larkin is an immature child.

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I've never met Connie Linghus. She must be up on the Mars base.

Scratch-resistant lenses A sunglasses manufacturer called Foster Grant first licensed a NASA technol ogy for scratch-resistant lenses, developed for protecting space equipment from scratching in space, especially helmet visors.[

Space blanket So-called space blankets, developed in 1964 for the space program

3D foods printing BeeHex developed 3D food printing systems for pizza and later desserts and icings following an SBIR grant that began as a NASA-funded project.

Fire-resistant reinforcement Built and designed by Avco Corporation, the Apollo heat shield was coated w ith a material whose purpose was to burn and thus dissipate energy during r eentry while charring, to form a protective coating to block heat penetrati on. NASA subsequently funded Avco's development of other applications of th e heat shield, such as fire-retardant paints and foams for aircraft, which led to an intumescent epoxy material, which expands in volume when exposed to heat or flames, acting as an insulating barrier and dissipating heat thr ough burn-off. Further innovations include steel coatings devised to make h igh-rise buildings and public structures safer by swelling to provide a tou gh and stable insulating layer over the steel for up to 4 hours of fire pro tection, ultimately to slow building collapse and provide more time for esc ape.

Firefighting equipment Firefighting equipment in the United States is based on lightweight materia ls developed for the U.S. Space Program. NASA and the National Bureau of St andards created a lightweight breathing system including face mask, frame, harness, and air bottle

Enriched baby food Commercially available infant formulas now contain a nutritional enrichment ingredient that traces its existence to NASA-sponsored research on bread m old as a recycling agent for long-duration space travel. The substance, for mulated into the products life?sDHA and life?sARA and based on microalgae, can be found in over 90% of the infant formulas sold in the United States, and are added to infant formulas in over 65 other countries .

Portable cordless vacuums For the Apollo space mission, NASA required a portable, self-contained dril l capable of extracting core samples from below the lunar surface. Black & Decker was tasked with the job, and developed a computer program to optimiz e the design of the drill's motor and ensure minimal power consumption. Tha t computer program led to the development of a cordless miniature vacuum cl eaner called the DustBuster.

Freeze drying In planning for the long-duration Apollo missions, NASA conducted extensive research into space food. One of the techniques developed in 1938 by Nestl

rcialized this technique for other foods, concentrating on snack food resul ting in products like Space ice cream.

Air-scrubbers Based on a discovery made in the 1990s at the Wisconsin Center for Space Au tomation and Robotics where Researchers, with the help of the Space Product Development Program at Marshall Space Flight Center, were trying to find a way to eliminate ethylene that accumulates around plants growing in spacec raft and then found a solution: light-induced oxidation. When UV light hits titanium dioxide, it frees electrons that turn oxygen and moisture into ch arged particles that oxidize air contaminants such as volatile organic comp ounds, turning them into carbon dioxide and water. This air scrubber also e liminates other airborne organic compounds and neutralized bacteria, viruse s, and molds.

Water purification NASA engineers are collaborating with qualified companies to develop system s intended to sustain the astronauts living on the International Space Stat ion and future Moon and space missions. This system turns wastewater from r espiration, sweat, and urine into drinkable water. By combining the benefit s of chemical adsorption, ion exchange, and ultra-filtration processes, thi s technology can yield safe, drinkable water from the most challenging sour ces, such as in underdeveloped regions where well water may be heavily cont aminated.

Pollution remediation NASA's microencapsulating technology enabled the creation of a "Petroleum R emediation Product," which safely cleans petroleum-based pollutants from wa ter.

Remotely controlled ovens Embedded Web Technology (EWT) software?originally developed by NASA for use by astronauts operating experiments on the International Space Sta tion

Food safety Faced with the problem of how and what to feed an astronaut in a sealed cap sule under weightless conditions while planning for human spaceflight, NASA enlisted the aid of The Pillsbury Company to address two principal concern s: eliminating crumbs of food that might contaminate the spacecraft's atmos phere and sensitive instruments, and assuring absolute absence of disease-p roducing bacteria and toxins. Pillsbury developed the Hazard Analysis and C ritical Control Point (HACCP) concept to address NASA's second concern.

Smoke detectors - NASA's connection to the modern smoke detector is that it developed one with adjustable sensitivity as part of the Skylab project; t his development helps with nuisance tripping.

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ust more circus for the nitwits, and nerd welfare of course.

till be trying to use a scaled up Estes pressurized water rocket...

"Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American engineer, professor, physicist, a nd inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first li quid-fueled rocket. Goddard successfully launched his rocket on March 16, 1

926, ushering in an era of space flight and innovation."

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Wasn't the V1 the one with the kludge engine? It had shutters that opened and closed rapidly which gave it the name "buzz" bomb. I can see where that might be hard to reverse engineer.

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You mean like autos driven by the average person... and the not-so-average person? We seem to be ok with that in spite of the fact that 35,000 people a year die in the US from auto accidents, most of which are caused by people.

"Inevitable"? Perhaps, but that doesn't mean it would have been created the way it was. What if Bill Gates had been the one to invent it?

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The Soviets had the Almaz (a.k.a Salyut 2/3/5) military space stations. At least one had a 23 mm cannon, apparently for self defense:-)

The Spacelab concept was similar. It was taking down for reconfiguration / rebuilding between missions. t would have made more sense to send up a new lab for each mission.

The LDEF material testing spacecraft was one of the few missions, in which a heavy load really needed to be returned for result analysis..

Agreed.

We'd all be using Compuserve or Fidonet or something like that instead if he had.

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