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Offline Holden McGroin

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« on: October 27, 2007, 03:22:59 AM »


Where are the stars in the background?  

Not only was Apollo a colossal hoax, but apparently ISS and the Shuttle too.

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« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2007, 03:29:22 AM »
How did they get the NASA logo up there?
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« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2007, 03:31:43 AM »
I'd post some Apollo pics with stars in the moon sky if my HDDs hadn't crashed last weekend.. Some other space nerd probably has them too.

They should be somewhere in the recently digitized haystack of Apollo archives..
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« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2007, 03:44:04 AM »
I knew a guy that used to work with a guy that heard a guy say he was related to a guy that had an ex-brother inlaw that worked on the moon landing set in Kansas.

Until I can find him, here's a pic of Gordo Cooper...
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Offline Holden McGroin

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« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2007, 03:49:47 AM »
The Apollo stage was kid stuff to the stage and the Peter Pan flying wire rig they must have for the ISS / Shuttle set.

On the moon the didn't have to simulate zero g.  Just slow mo the video and it looks like 1/6 g.

The flying wire rig must be tremendous.
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« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2007, 03:56:07 AM »
RPM has a man-crush  ;) :p

But, as his quote says, the last 5 minutes of "The Right Stuff" is pretty sweet.
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« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2007, 04:07:37 AM »
At least I'm not building a life size replica.;)
(altho he was the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen)

It was the start of the greatest exploration man has ever achieved.
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Offline LePaul

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« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2007, 04:14:57 AM »
I've been reading Apollo 13 over the past 2 weeks.  I've found that many books that were adapted to movies were either just as good or better in text.  If you're into reading, the book is quite good, covering Apollo 8 in some detail, etc.

And frankly, if you're into space exploration as you seem to be, you'll like it.

As for R2...LOL...its just a fun project.  Almost as big a money pit as the kitplane was.
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« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2007, 04:23:04 AM »
I've been hooked on space exploration since I was a kid. I grew up during Mercury/Gemini/Apollo. It's a shame we have wasted so much time and money on the NASA we have today. We should have a base on the Moon by now.

Proud to say I have donated books by Allan Sheppard and Jim Lovell to my local school library.
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« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2007, 04:44:29 AM »
I've got a picture of someone sitting in the lunar module looking dirty, beat up and dead tired.. Somewhat smiling. A few different shots with unsteady hands from the inside making it look real casual, some shots of a pile of EVA suit parts piled up in a corner..
The sun looking like it's shining hard as hell on the outside.

Here we go, each from the command module in orbit:

Castor, Pollux & Venus from lunar orbit Apollo 15.

Pleiades & Aries from lunar orbit Apollo 16.

Jupiter & Sagittarius from lunar orbit Apollo 17.

And oh yeah! Check this out :D

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Offline Angus

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« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2007, 07:28:48 AM »
How did the people in the Baywatch series manage to run so slow in the beginning scene?:huh
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« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2007, 08:11:01 AM »
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Offline Gunslinger

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« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2007, 08:55:35 AM »
I saw a pretty good disc ch show that pretty much debunked every myth from the "faked the moon landing club".

I think the lack of stars can be explained by the photography types.  Something about central focus or something.
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« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2007, 11:44:09 AM »
Dunno about the moon landings and such but im telling you all the world is flat you can fall off the ends!!!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2007, 03:48:03 PM »
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I've been hooked on space exploration since I was a kid. I grew up during Mercury/Gemini/Apollo. It's a shame we have wasted so much time and money on the NASA we have today. We should have a base on the Moon by now.

Proud to say I have donated books by Allan Sheppard and Jim Lovell to my local school library.


I remember having pictures on my bedroom wall when I was 11, Ed White and his space walk, a Saturn V lifting off, Armstrong on the moon...

I recall my grandfather having an old grain or feed container, when I was 12 or 13 shaped almost excatly like an Apollo capsule.  My brother and I would pretend it was a space capsule and fly to different planets, it was a great summer...

Moon bases?  hell i think if NASA had kept up the pace we should have been to Mars by now, In person, not little rc cars.  I think they wasted way too much on all the shuttle stuff
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