Re: I heard a new arguement about Apollo
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Originally Posted by Tog_
Yeah, it's really silly, but I've not heard it before.
Here was the question:
"How is it that 30 years ago we could do a soft touchdown on the Moon, but to land on Mars, they needed to wrap the craft in balloons?"
It went on to say that it seems like the balloon thing was a much better idea, and that there was no reason that people couldn;t survive a landing like the Mars Rovers did.
I didn't say it was good, just new.  |
The questioner apparently forgot that Spirit and Opportunity also used parachutes and retrorockets as part of the landing procedure. Both MERs were IIRC designed to take up to 50gs on touchdown, but Opportunity experienced something like 2 to 3gs on landing, a soft one if you ask me.
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