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Originally Posted by Nowhere Man
My emphasis, as this seems to be saying that there was only one flight to the moon. Remind him (if he doesn't already know) that there were eight flights to the neighborhood of the moon.
Fred
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Nowhere Man, your answer doesn't lead anywhere. Don't belittle me! I KNOW that there have been several landings but that was not my point. It struck me rather odd that something on the way to the moon simply returned on its own.
However, Donnie B brought up a rather good objection. If the Saturn stage would have stayed in earth orbit, any astronomer (certainly one) would have spotted it (although there may be hoax believers who'd claim that it was crashed deliberately after the mission to get rid of the evidence).
But I don't understand Dave J. He claims:
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and the Moon, and the Sun...there are lots of forces tugging on it, albeit slight.
So the A12 SIVB has indeed settled in something of an Earth orbit, but it's a very, very big and very "eccentric" orbit...
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Does this mean that the upper stage is circling BOTH (?) Earth and the moon?
BenGun