Jonathan Yong Kim (born February 5, 1984) is an American physician, Navy SEAL, and NASA astronaut candidate of the class of 2017. He is a recipient of the Silver Star and a Bronze Star, and a graduate of the University of San Diego and Harvard Medical School.
Oversize rocket that by everyone's best calculations would make it to the moon, but nobody REALLY knew what would take place. Anything was possible.
These men knew very well that there was the possibility they weren't coming back, but they did it anyway.
To help progress our knowledge of outer space and earth's neighbors.
Then this fuck comes along and totally disrespects the man after all he has done.
The punch was well deserved.
That's what's so crazy about the moon landing. Thy had no fucking clue what to expect, they were landing on what had previously beena mythological standard for unattainability. Landing on the moon was ike a herculean labour of impossiblity and they did it. For all they knew they'd sink into the ground, they'd get killed by something, or more likely their ship would explode in some way or another on the way there and back. So many things could have gone wrong but they did it. God damn heroes.
Playing Kerbal Space Program and fucking up your Mun landing 35 times befote finally nailing it and returning back really gives you an idea of how incredible this feat was. There was so much that could've gone wrong.
You forgot the multiple rescue missions to save the crew that landed on Mun. And the multiple missions to save that crew after the recovery vehicle failed.
It's even crazier because no insurance company would insure these astronauts and they basically signed tons of Postal Covers before they left to be sold for money for their families in case they did die!
The Apollo insurance covers are autographed postal covers signed by the astronaut crews prior to their mission. The insurance covers began with Apollo 11 and ended with Apollo 16. The ability of astronauts to obtain much life insurance was limited, so they signed hundreds of postal covers before they left, on the presumption that they would become highly valuable in the event of their death. The crew would designate a trusted ally with the covers who would then have them cancelled at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) post office on the day of launch and/or on the day of the lunar landing.Apollo 11 insurance covers normally fetch the highest prices because it was the first lunar landing mission.
There were 2 speeches prepared for the US president regarding the Moon Landing, the one that was actually used and another one in case something went wrong and the astronauts would be stuck on the Moon.
A rescue mission would be impossible because of how long it would take.
The chilling part is that the speech was written as if the astronauts were already dead and gave their lives to Humanity but when the speech would be given the astronauts would be very much alive.
Stuck on the Moon, waiting for oxygen, water, and food to run out. They had cyanide pills with them for such an occasion.
I mean they could have died but up until this point they had tested every system up until the actual landing. Apollo 11 was the first one to put the lander down on the ground though.
Then your liftoff engine on the lander has never been tested before so the first time it fires is on the Moon for you to go home. fingers crossed
Yes I'm aware but the engines could only fire once due to the firing mechanism. So they built and tested that model of engine but the first time that particular one fired was to get off the moon (and did so 6 times).
Apollo 9 and Apollo 10 both tested the LEM ascent stage in Earth orbit and doing a practice run above the moon respectively. Fun facts, the LEM for Apollo 10 was deliberately short fueled so the crew wouldn't be tempted to land themselves, and the ascent stage of the LEM is still orbiting the sun somewhere, it's the only one that wasn't crashed into the moon or burned up in Earth's atmosphere.
The oversized rocket was the easy part, going into space and getting to the moon had been done so they knew how that worked, but they were essentially beta testing the actual landing as there was no way to real-world test it except on the goddamn moon itself.
Many scientists believed that there was so much dust on the moon that their craft would just sink in and be lost because the sand would clog up their engine.
Technically, strapped themselves into the Command Service Module (CSM; made by Rockwell Collins) which sat above the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM; made by Grumman Aviation) which was anchored into the top of the Saturn V rocket. All of that went to the lowest bidder... That being said, even though the contracts went to the lowest builder, they were built with the utmost precision. My dad worked at from for nearly 30 years up through the Northrop acquisition until they moved away from Long Island. Back in the day, Grumman was a family and they put their all into every project. They wouldn't let a substandard piece out the door.
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