I have an idea for a new thread...

[tracknut]

https://listverse.com/2012/12/28/10-reasons-the-moon-landings-could-be-a-hoax/

[Rata-tat-tat]

https://listverse.com/2012/12/28/10-reasons-the-moon-landings-could-be-a-hoax/

https://youtu.be/OROlF8zB9z0

[izzypzee]

Love This..

Buzz warned him several times and the guy eventually resorted to insults. Totally deserved that clanger on the chops.

[Velouria]

The Apollo program was basically at the beginning of NASA, and laid the foundation for all other programs after that. So it's going to be the most expensive. Everything that was learnt, and the technology that was developed during Apollo program would have helped the rest of the programs be comparatively cheaper.

Not really correct.

 

The name NASA was created in 1958, and was essentially just a name change from NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics).

 

NACA had been fiddling with some really cool toys since 1948, and NASA's brief was to conduct all non military space activities. 

 

 

 

(X15 - a NACA project taken over by NASA) A ROCKET PLANE!!! 1959

 

http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/nasa-rocket-launch-high-quality-25.jpg?w=800&h=615

The Bumper V-2 was the first missile launched at Cape Canaveral on July 24, 1950.

 

Launch of Explorer 1 on January 31, 1958 (USA's first satellite)

 

And by stating that Apollo was "basically at the beginning of NASA" you're glossing over Mercury, Gemini and all the other rocket programs. Apollo was a d!ck waving contest. The US were 2-0 down to the Soviets, having lost out to Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin, and just like any guy in the local cycling group who keeps getting dropped, they threw money at the problem. They essentially walked into a Specialzed Concept store, opened the catalogue, and ordered everything without even blinking at the price. The wanted the Strava KOM on the moon, and they were not going to lose out again!

[Hairy]

Not really correct.

 

The name NASA was created in 1958, and was essentially just a name change from NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics).

 

NACA had been fiddling with some really cool toys since 1948, and NASA's brief was to conduct all non military space activities. 

 

 

And by stating that Apollo was "basically at the beginning of NASA" you're glossing over Mercury, Gemini and all the other rocket programs. Apollo was a d!ck waving contest. The US were 2-0 down to the Soviets, having lost out to Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin, and just like any guy in the local cycling group who keeps getting dropped, they threw money at the problem. They essentially walked into a Specialzed Concept store, opened the catalogue, and ordered everything without even blinking at the price. The wanted the Strava KOM on the moon, and they were not going to lose out again!

a good LMAO

[Wannabe]

After the Challenger disaster, the following joke went around:

What does USA stands for?  Used seven Astronauts

What does NASA stands for? Need Another Seven astronauts.

[Piston ZA]

Not really correct.

 

The name NASA was created in 1958, and was essentially just a name change from NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics).

 

NACA had been fiddling with some really cool toys since 1948, and NASA's brief was to conduct all non military space activities. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(X15 - a NACA project taken over by NASA) A ROCKET PLANE!!! 1959

 

 

The Bumper V-2 was the first missile launched at Cape Canaveral on July 24, 1950.

 

 

Launch of Explorer 1 on January 31, 1958 (USA's first satellite)

 

And by stating that Apollo was "basically at the beginning of NASA" you're glossing over Mercury, Gemini and all the other rocket programs. Apollo was a d!ck waving contest. The US were 2-0 down to the Soviets, having lost out to Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin, and just like any guy in the local cycling group who keeps getting dropped, they threw money at the problem. They essentially walked into a Specialzed Concept store, opened the catalogue, and ordered everything without even blinking at the price. The wanted the Strava KOM on the moon, and they were not going to lose out again!

Thanks for the additional information, and completely agree about the exorbitant costs of Apollo, and although extremely high, one cannot underestimate the scientific, technological and social benefits of the Apollo program.

 

I'm also fully aware of the Mercury Program that preceded Apollo, but as far as I understand this basically became a support program to Apollo (although not initially so as it ran for 3 years before Apollo was announced), and particularly Gemini, which was established after Kennedy announced a mission to the moon. I think both Gemini and Apollo were established in '61, with Gemini established to develop the flight capabilities for Apollo. 

 

Gemini and Mercury were the support acts, Apollo was the main concert.

Edited February 12, 2018 by Piston ZA

[Slowbee]

Not really correct.

 

The name NASA was created in 1958, and was essentially just a name change from NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics).

 

NACA had been fiddling with some really cool toys since 1948, and NASA's brief was to conduct all non military space activities. 

 

 

 

(X15 - a NACA project taken over by NASA) A ROCKET PLANE!!! 1959

 

http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/nasa-rocket-launch-high-quality-25.jpg?w=800&h=615

The Bumper V-2 was the first missile launched at Cape Canaveral on July 24, 1950.

 

Launch of Explorer 1 on January 31, 1958 (USA's first satellite)

 

And by stating that Apollo was "basically at the beginning of NASA" you're glossing over Mercury, Gemini and all the other rocket programs. Apollo was a d!ck waving contest. The US were 2-0 down to the Soviets, having lost out to Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin, and just like any guy in the local cycling group who keeps getting dropped, they threw money at the problem. They essentially walked into a Specialzed Concept store, opened the catalogue, and ordered everything without even blinking at the price. The wanted the Strava KOM on the moon, and they were not going to lose out again!

and they also imported a few Germans to help out.

 

#stravadopingspecialists

[tracknut]

and they also imported a few Germans to help out.

 

#stravadopingspecialists

It started in Europe : 

 

[Velouria]

and they also imported a few Germans to help out.

 

#stravadopingspecialists

The Americans weren't even ashamed of using that technology. They had over 200 V2s from the war that they fiddled and tinkered with. And it was Werner von Braun who essentially got the US satellite Explorer 1 into space with his whole Redstone project.

 

While the US was taking horse steroids to improve performance, the Soviets already had a fully fledged mirco-dosing EPO program...

[Slowbee]

And the Americans blame the Chinese for reverse engineering.

[Slowbee]

 

one of my more favorite movies

[Shebeen]

Analogy A

 

 

 

 

And by stating that Apollo was "basically at the beginning of NASA" you're glossing over Mercury, Gemini and all the other rocket programs. Apollo was a d!ck waving contest. The US were 2-0 down to the Soviets, having lost out to Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin, and just like any guy in the local cycling group who keeps getting dropped, they threw money at the problem. They essentially walked into a Specialzed Concept store, opened the catalogue, and ordered everything without even blinking at the price. The wanted the Strava KOM on the moon, and they were not going to lose out again!

 

 

Analogy B

 

Thanks for the additional information, and completely agree about the exorbitant costs of Apollo, and although extremely high, one cannot underestimate the scientific, technological and social benefits of the Apollo program.

 

I'm also fully aware of the Mercury Program that preceded Apollo, but as far I as I understand this basically became a support program to Apollo (although not initially so as it ran for 3 years before Apollo was announced), and particularly Gemini, which was established after Kennedy announced a mission to the moon. I think both Gemini and Apollo were established in '61, with Gemini established to develop the flight capabilities for Apollo. 

 

Gemini and Mercury were the support acts, Apollo was the main concert.

 

 

analogy A WINS!

[Piston ZA]

Analogy A

 

 

 

 

Analogy B

 

 

 

analogy A WINS!

Ha ha, it does. I should've brought bikes and/or d!cks into mine 

[tracknut]

Ha ha, it does. I should've brought bikes and/or d!cks into mine 

Still don't explain the flag waving in the "breeze"

[Uni]