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Old 15-07-2009, 01:34 PM
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We Choose the Moon....

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Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing!

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Old 15-07-2009, 02:42 PM
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Thanks for the link Norm, I love it
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Old 16-07-2009, 10:05 PM
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1hr 30mins before launch.....
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Old 16-07-2009, 10:20 PM
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"last breakfast on Earth for a while, eggs and steak"

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Old 16-07-2009, 10:35 PM
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What a wonderful website. Very clever programming. Have heard lots of people talking recently about moon landings being hoaxes. The doubters should take a look at this site.
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Old 16-07-2009, 10:47 PM
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1hr 30mins before launch.....
Absolutely loving it!...was only 3 when it happened....now I can
try and re-live it

45mins till liftoff....

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Old 17-07-2009, 05:56 AM
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Agree. What a wonderful innovation this site is. Everything form the "live" audio and graphics. Thoroughly enjoying every minute of it
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Old 17-07-2009, 03:53 PM
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Can't agree more, what a great site.
I got a question if anyone can answer it. At stages 4 & 5 the vessel was traveling about 27000 fps. Now at stage 6 it's only doing 6750 fps. It made it to about half way across the gap in 18 hours but the speed reduction means it will take 59 hours to travel the second half. Why has it slowed in frictionless space. I assume the ship itself used thrusters or something to drop some pace, but why.
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Old 17-07-2009, 04:33 PM
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Can't agree more, what a great site.
I got a question if anyone can answer it. At stages 4 & 5 the vessel was traveling about 27000 fps. Now at stage 6 it's only doing 6750 fps. It made it to about half way across the gap in 18 hours but the speed reduction means it will take 59 hours to travel the second half. Why has it slowed in frictionless space. I assume the ship itself used thrusters or something to drop some pace, but why.
Earth's gravity slowing it down...just like a projectile coasting after it's
initial impulse has stopped...
I think , apart from slight mid-course corrections, this happened
and they reached a point where the moon's gravity became the
majority influence and the ship started to speed up again.
Of course...I'm probably wrong!

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Old 18-07-2009, 10:51 AM
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I guess you're right Steve, it's now doing 4300 fps. I'll be interested to see if it speeds up as it approaches the moon. Thanks for the reply.
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Landing in 8 minutes! Wonderful graphics. According to the site you can replay the full mission at your own pace after it is complete.
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Old 21-07-2009, 06:12 AM
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Just listening to the program alarms 1202 and now 1201. I've heard the audio hundreds of times before, but not 40 years to the exact second!
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