Moon mission failure: why is it so hard to pull off a lunar landing?
(www.nature.com)
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See, I am far more likely to entertain the moon landing hoax than something like FE, and this post is a big part of the reason why.
It's not the unhinged ramblings of a youtube schitzo, it's not claiming I'm a "sheep" or a "shill" for not going along with it, it's just presenting facts (from an unfriendly source, no less) which don't add up.
Sure, it's possible that we just flung ship after the ship at the moon back in the 60s and finally got lucky. And it's possible that the handful of times we actually sent humans, everything went perfectly, even though there were catastrophes, before and after, trying much simpler maneuvers. It's even possible that modern companies, with much better echnology and at least as solid an understanding of moon conditions as NASA had 60 years ago, are incapable of recreating that success.
It's just not much more likely than the whole thing being faked on a sound stage.
Apparently it was super easy in the 1970's. The Apollo missions were an order of magnitude more complicated though, because they not only had to land, they had to take off again, dock the the rest of the space craft that was orbiting the moon. Then they had to leave the orbit on the moon and successfully get back to earth, all without dying lol.
From what I read they ran out of fuel on the descent and crashed because they couldn't slow down enough for landing.
Because they don't have GRIT anymore. Old school NASA could fix that with DUCT TAPE and SLIDE RULES.
Maybe the companies or agencies staff up with science diversity people who argue that f = ma is racis.
Another aspect is, in a successful project you first attempt Earth landings, practice, and test your sensor and computing systems to see how they hold up in the real world not the simulation world. The gravity will be different and the presence of air changes the fall, but you come to understand how to subtract that out. Assuming you have hired smart people and not the ones who eat fried chicken.