Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend
by y-curious on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @09:00AM
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If the country with the most reasons to call "FAKE!" during the Cold War didn't accuse NASA of faking the launch... why are you? The government lies all the time but this is a ridiculous hill to die on.
Re:Starship will attempt a launch this weekend
by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @09:05AM
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The descent phase wasn't very long, and the astronauts were kind of busy during that time. That left just automated cameras, which tended to be lower quality (NTSC or worse). So, yeah, we have few photos of the descent, just video of lousy quality, and it's perfectly understandable why.
If it could send people on the Moon, the thing we aren't able to do now for some reason, then it was pretty advanced. Much more advanced than anything NASA has now, in fact.
"But for a couple decades in between there was this obsession with the Space Shuttle as the primary launch platform, and the Space Shuttle wasn't of much use beyond low earth orbit."
Why? Why not send it to the Moon? If it used a more advanced technology, it should have been able to at least fly to the Moon. Without people, even.
Also, we for some odd reason don't have many photos of the Moon during the astronauts descent to the surface. We do have a bunch of photos of people being on the Moon, but not many photos of the Moon itself. Strange.