Wow, so many crazy theories..

lemme pick one:

ok so, why are the enginers and control staff so "far away" if they are confident in their enginering.

well point number1: if the rockets were FAKE, then why would they be scared of them at all? if the saturn V is just a fake shell on top of a very tiny conventional rocket, then what is there to be afraid of?

point number 2: lets assume the rocket isn't fake.. so did you consider that while the rocket is with in parameters for safe launching, maybe they wern't THAT confident in the safety of the rocket? also, the only reason the astronauts are so close to the rocket is because they have to ride it

bizzarr idea i know, but say the rocket launches and it does explode and we pretend the overwhelming evidence that the rocket is real is true. that is a LOT of explosive material sitting there. If the rocket fails you're GOING to lose the crew, nothing can help that, danger of the job.

but why risk the lives of every enginer, flight controller and anyone else? who'd be left to learn from any mistakes if they all foolishly and blindly "believed" that their work was so perfect that they sat on the launch tower to watch.


so maybe they're sitting so far away because one of the largest rockets ever made might be a tad dangerous.

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