Re: Moon Pans - cool, but...
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Originally Posted by KingNor
just kind of felt like commenting on that first video.
the girl states that we didn't go to the moon because of the calculations made to flight "strait" there.
i'm not terribly knowlegeable about this stuff, but to me, it seems pretty obvious that a rocket punching strait up, and then straight to the moon would have to be MUCH bigger than say.. a rocket that launches into orbit, then uses gravity and such to slingshot its speed up to escape velocity.
wasn't that what the S5 designer was talking about? you can't fly straight there, so you fly in a round about way.
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Direct ascent and landing was one of the scenarios that Von Braun and team considered. It was going to be accomplished by a huge rocket called the Nova. Here's an article about the various designs that constituted the Nova family of launchers. None of these designs was ever built.
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