Is There Snow On the Mountains of the Moon?

[johnlear]

In his book, “Two sides of the Moon” (Thomas Dunne Books copyright 2004 ISBN 0-312-30865-5 EAN 978-0312-30865-0) David Scott, Commander of Apollo 15 wrote (page 291):


The view of the moon as we began our final descent was stunning. As we caught our first close-up look at the lunar mountains below us, Jim (Irwin) lightened the atmosphere of growing tension and excitement a little with his usual dry humor.

“Make a great ski area if they’d just put some snow on it,” he said.

“Looks like there is in parts,” I replied adding, as I took a closer look at the horizon beyond, “The sky is just as black as the ace of spades.”

“Don’t think there is any atmosphere,” said Jim because, of course, on the Moon there isn’t.

“I’m going to write me a joke,” he went on, getting into his stride. “”Astronauts come back from moon; say it’s great, but has no atmosphere.”

“That’s a good one,” I chuckled. “You ought to save that one for the surface some time.”

[JiveTurkey]

Interesting little tale.



Anymore info on this John?

[johnlear]

Interesting little tale.



Anymore info on this John?



Not on this particular tale. David Scott went on to an impressive career with both the Military and NASA (but I repeat myself).

5 years ago there was no doubt in my mind that all Apollo missions said to have landed on the Moon did just that.

Now I am not sure about Apollo 11. I believe that it may have gone into orbit around the Moon and that Armstrong and Aldrin departed the CSM in the lander. But I am not sure it landed or if it landed 'how did it land?'

For one thing there was only 22,000 pounds of fuel and at the Moon's true gravity of 64% of Earths that is not nearly enough by a factor of at least 4.

For another thing, both Armstrong and Aldrin had no seats in the lander. They stood up holding a strap which I find hard to believe both in the descent to landing and also the "G" forces "G" force on takeoff. In the alleged automatic photos taken of the lunar lander blasting off from the moon we are supposed to believe that Armstrong and Aldrin were standing up? Holding a strap? I don't think so.

NASA's 'dance' around the photos of the landing on the Moon is not convincing. Even throttled to an alleged 10% of thrust for landing there was absolutely no sign of a depression under the engine nozzle and absolutely no dust on the landing pods.

Recent photos posted by Ted Twietmeyer showing inconsistencies in the ladder on the lander lead me to believe that the photos were made on a set.

Further, the "one small step for man" video with the lighting fixtures crashing down said to be a 'joke' or hoax look real to me including the exact, and I mean exact angle of the horizon in the background.

I am presently immersed in the study of orbital mechanics (self-taught) to figure the exact possible orbit of the Command Service Modules around the Moon. The publicly announced 60 to 70 miles does not ring true with a one sixth gravity. They should be down around 30 to 40 miles at most. But 60 to 70 miles seems to be what all of the other spacecraft which orbit the Moon are at including the Lunar Orbiter series (1966-1967) and the Japanese and Chinese orbiters (if they, in fact, really exist).

Also since the published orbital time around the moon was 2 hours and since the circumference at 70 miles would be 7222 miles that would make the speed in orbit 60 mph! Which would be fine except for the fact that in any of the videos we see filmed from the spacecraft it is obvious we are orbiting the moon at a much greater speed than 60 mph.

The Moon hoax is rapidly cracking apart for those who are interested in the truth. Which means practically nobody. :)