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To The Moon, Alice!

06 Thursday Jun 2024

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CNSA’s probe has reportedly been busy digging, reportedly on the Moon.

Carrying valuable rocks and dust collected from the far side of the moon, the ascender of China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe officially embarked on its journey back to Earth, moving toward the goal of returning precious rock and soil from this region to Earth for the first time in history.

I trust all the science lovers and trusters are waiting anxiously to see how these rocks compare to NASA’s petrified wood and impossible plutonium isotopes.

The First Measurement Data!

14 Monday Aug 2023

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Exciting news from outer space! No, not that news, silly. Marvin will be along soon but not just yet. This is about Russians sending a flying tin can to the large rock orbiting our lovely planet.

Russian lunar probe activates scientific devices in its travel to Moon — Roscosmos
As a result, the first measurement data on a flight path to the Moon was obtained.

I assume from the article that “first measurement” refers to the data from this specific rocket mission. Because, of course, Roscosmos could have easily contacted Stanley Kubrick NASA for helpful flight telemetry and… Ooooooh. Oh, yeah. That. Well, here’s wishing the little Russian bot thing well on its historic first mission to the moon. Maybe one day men will follow it.

UPDATE: Oops.

To the Moon – from TPC

24 Wednesday Jul 2019

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The Eagle Landed Fifty Years Ago

Everyone has a favorite government program. If a man won’t admit that he does, he’s either lying or he’s dead. For me, it’s the National Park Service. While I question the need for the operation per se, at least their domain is of mountains and forests. The Post Office, bad press aside, always seemed to me to get the job done. And, then there’s the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. At full throttle, the old Space Shuttle (with launch vehicle) was pushing around 700 MILLION horsepower. That’s 2,800 times the juice of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and 1,000,000 times the raw ability of an “overpowered” muscle car. That’s just cool stuff.
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The Saturn V Rockets produced similarly staggering dyno readings. Those were the monsters that hurled the Apollo capsules towards the Moon. It was fifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, that Neil Armstrong became the first man in history to set foot on the lunar surface. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Indeed.

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