cladking Wrote:
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> The general outline of how to go to the moon was
> established before JFK's challenge and long before
> the Saturn V went into production. You don't
> build a 6 1/2 million ton pyramid and then decide
> what to do with it. You've put a very heavily
> laden cart in front of a horse.
Nope quibble. [
www.nasa.gov]
Work started on the Saturn well before HOW to use it was decided.
"President John F. Kennedy's decision in 1961 to land a man on the moon "before the decade is out" meant that NASA had to move quickly to find the best method of accomplishing the journey. NASA gave serious consideration to three options: Initially, direct ascent; then, Earth-orbit rendezvous (EOR), and, finally, a darkhorse candidate, lunar-orbit rendezvous (LOR)."
On January 10, 1962, NASA announced plans to build the C-5 (Saturn V).
July 11, 1962, after much technical debate and in-fighting, Seamans and NASA Administrator James E. Webb announced during a press conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., that lunar-orbit rendezvous had been selected as the primary mission mode for the initial manned moon landing. Considering the strong opposition to LOR during NASA's intensive evaluation of possible mission modes for Apollo, the choice seemed quite unlikely.
Work on the Saturn V had begun before the final decision on how to use it was made. However they did know they needed a bloody big rocket....
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> You can see the ancient "space race" with the low
> squat mastabas and then how they stacked one on
> another until; they reached to 481'. THIS is how
> they built pyramids; THEY STACKED MASTABAS.
They
> used no superstition, magic, or religion.
No they used manpower motivated by superstition, magic and religion - we've gone over this same premise hundreds if not well over a thousand times now Cladking. No matter what you do you cannot hand wave away the AE Religion - there belief in an afterlife and why they didn't just chuck out the Pharaoh's body to the buzzards....