We've heard the team confirm Odysseus has successfully landed near the South Pole of the Moon, a monumental moment for US firm Intuitive Machines and for the wider US space sector. With the landing, Intuitive Machines has become the first private company to successfully land a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. It's also a big day for Nasa and the US air and space community, which has not launched a successful mission to the Moon in over half a century. Moon landing live: US spacecraft Odysseus successfully touches down - BBC News
3rd launch of Starship should be happening today. As I post it has been put back 1/2hr. Due to launch now at 1pm UK Time.
I binge watched 3 Body Problem over a few nights last week. Decent watch but it also drew me into this explanation of the Fermi Paradox: The Fermi Paradox - Wait But Why
Well that's humanity put firmly in its place. Just waiting for the inevitable gamma-ray burst to bugger everything up really . . .
No point planning anything long term now knowing what’s coming. Stupid ****ing space. I actually prefer the theory that we are just special because after driving round Grimsby every day I can confirm that there are some very erm… ‘special’ people about.
All the moon landing deniers are going to be coming up with more conspiracies now. India’s moon orbiter has taken photos of the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites and as you can see, there are the lunar modules.
It just goes to show the massive risk and achievement neil armtrong took in manually taking that landing on and how close they were to having to abort
I'm not a fully fledged 'denier' but I still have my doubts. Looking at the 'Eagle' lander, it's very, very small, and carries oxygen for 2 men for 24 hours, as well as fuel for take-off back to the command module (though it doesn't seem to have any engines), as well as the 2 men themselves and all their kit. In later missions, Apollo 15, 16 & 17, this same set-up is also carrying a small, battery operated car? However none of that is my main concern. What is astounding is the fact that the computing power they had back then was minuscule compared to what we have now, and the technology practically stone-age, yet they made 6 successful moon landings and one aborted manned mission (Apollo 11 - 17) without losing a single craft or astronaut, all over 50 years ago! Absolutely incredible. Yet it seems here in the 2020s the likes of Musk, the Chinese and Indians are getting 50% failure rates with their efforts to send even unmanned craft to the moon.
The Engine is fully visible and it wouldn’t take much fuel to brake and get back into orbit. As for the computing power required it was enough given that it was manned. To make a comparison, humans were driving cars 50 years ago and even now we still haven’t got a computer that can drive a car safely.
Which has nothing to do with it. A fair comparison would be that we had cars that would do 100mph 50 years ago but nowadays every other car that tries to get to 100mph breaks down or crashes.
