definitely, explore it, you'll find hacks you won't believe. You can double my income tax if all the money goes to another project like this, perhaps a mission to Mars.
Well I was 15, working in a pizza shop. The owner was grousing about all that tax money spent and they couldn't get the g*d-damned door open... typical government project...
Can you imagine the guts it takes to strap yourself down on top of that much liquid fuel? Trust me guys, it's all lined up, should work fine..
But the real question for HN is: Was all that IBM 360 software at mission control GPL or BSD?
The engineers at Grumman went to extraordinary lengths to trim weight from the Lunar Module so that its single ascent engine could boost it from the lunar surface. The book Moon Lander by chief engineer Thomas J. Kelly tells the story.
Think. Rocket launching from the Earth had to bring EVERYTHING up, had to fight six times greater gravity and atmosphere. Now do the calculations.
No, there is no wind on the Moon cause there is no air. So?
Take a rope and swing one end of it. You will see a nice wave going on. You can have waves without the wind.
"NASA will hold a media briefing at 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, July 16, at the Newseum in Washington to release greatly improved video imagery from the July 1969 live broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk."
