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Apollo 11 in Pictures

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The "Big Picture" feature there has a lot of interesting themes but not all of them are "hacker" quality. I still suggest exploring it though.

One that I think would qualify for HN is their set from last August on the Large Hadron Collider:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/the_large_hadron_co...

When is that coming back online?

Latest news suggests mid-November: http://user.web.cern.ch/user/news/2009/090716.html

definitely, explore it, you'll find hacks you won't believe. You can double my income tax if all the money goes to another project like this, perhaps a mission to Mars.

For instance, check out the Launch Escape System: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_spacecraft#Launch_Escape.... Plenty of hacks, in particular the Q-Ball cover.

For me the closest to hacks was this one:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/at_work.html

Well I was 15, working in a pizza shop. The owner was grousing about all that tax money spent and they couldn't get the g*d-damned door open... typical government project...

Can you imagine the guts it takes to strap yourself down on top of that much liquid fuel? Trust me guys, it's all lined up, should work fine..

But the real question for HN is: Was all that IBM 360 software at mission control GPL or BSD?

Apollo 11 (that landed in the moon) has a very small size compared to the rocket that was launched from the earth.

Can someone explain to me, how it got the sufficient energy to escape from the moon gravity? (photo35)

photo32: is there wind in the moon?

Think. Rocket launching from the Earth had to bring EVERYTHING up, had to fight six times greater gravity and atmosphere. Now do the calculations.

No, there is no wind on the Moon cause there is no air. So? Take a rope and swing one end of it. You will see a nice wave going on. You can have waves without the wind.

The engineers at Grumman went to extraordinary lengths to trim weight from the Lunar Module so that its single ascent engine could boost it from the lunar surface. The book Moon Lander by chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly tells the story.

The flag was extended by a wire along the top.

The gravitational pull on the moon is 6 times less than on Earth so it requires a lot less energy to lift off.

Does anyone know if that original tape footage that was recently found has been released yet? And if it's available for viewing anywhere?

It was not found. Daily Express report was fiction: http://twitter.com/bnjacobs/status/2374782343 Bob Jacobs is NASA Deputy Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs.

It was found.

"NASA will hold a media briefing at 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, July 16, at the Newseum in Washington to release greatly improved video imagery from the July 1969 live broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk."

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jul/HQ_M09-125_Newseum_...

NPR claims some of them were erased: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1066370...

You see it was all fake? Buzz Aldrin wasn't really posing in front of the moon. It was just a picture.

Where's the set?

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