Elon Musk Proves the Apollo 11 Mission was a Fraud
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That's the trouble with people who don't understand a subject. The original post was trying to make SpaceX's system approach into a stupid "proof" that the Apollo approach couldn't have worked. I was showing that the reusability feature did not help the argument, because it led to the necessity of many tanking missions, which the stupid people were ascribing to Apollo, as being a bad system feature. Apollo was expendable, which was one of the ways that allowed it to work.
The interest in reusable launchers has a long history, as I mentioned. And I've been involved in them. I even gave you a system reference to look up (RASV). But no, you don't like being educated, don't understand what I am trying to tell you, deny my experience and expertise, insult me, and go off in a huff. I am really tempted to ask how old you are, to see when you first might have learned about any of this stuff. You certainly don't know anything about rocket ballistics.
I said nothing of the sort. You go ahead and continue thinking you're an expert, but based on the doot ratios of our conversation, I know the score.
Wow. Coming from the same guy who said you can just point your telescope at the moon and see the Apollo lander stages? Have fun with your life bud. Bye.
By "original post" I was referring to the abysmal video. Were you in favor of it or not?
The fact is, I am an expert. I helped write Boeing's proposal for a 1970s RASV revival back around 1997, which predates SpaceX by 5 years. (Kistler Aerospace had worked out a fully-reusable 2-stage approach in the early 2000s, but ran out of money before they could make it happen.) But I was a Musk supporter well before he turned his attention to reusability. You happen to be allergic to expertise. The fact that you get upvotes only means you have company in your lack of understanding. Not uncommon here. As for the score, I have done the work, and you are only doing the words.
And you still don't know anything about rocket ballistics, which is the whole area that the SpaceX approach has a problem with, in getting to the Moon. It is called "rocket science," you know.