Looks like we don't have a Fake Moon Landing thread here yet.
There was some great content in the old one.
I'm really looking forward to this 2026 Artemis project where NASA intends to land a negro and a white woman on the moon, for the first time. And then leave them alone there for a week. (That's really the mission).
Here's Yuri Gagarin celebrating being the first person sent on a rocket into outer space. Excited, happy, gregarious, celebrating.
The American astronauts, after beating the Soviet Union and returning from a successful moon landing!
Then they hopped into this device and were filmed whizzing away back to earth:
To quote W Bush, they're really gonna have to "ratchet up the propaganda" to get people to buy this next moon landing story. I think this February 2024 Odysseus unmanned moon landing here is doing just that.
You see, it's really difficult to come to a full stop in zero gravity. But designing a rocket to propel itself through the heavens for days, pass through the radiation belts, touch down on the moon and then take off again with a tiny spark shooting spring loaded aluminum foil box, is the easy part. Getting it to stop is the hard part.
Just for the record, they are saying:
This is an actual photograph
And this is an artist rendering.
(It's possible to land unmanned objects on our moon, but it's not possible to tip them back over or take well lit photographs of them in space that don't show any stars but have a perfectly exposed foreground satellite and background planet, or have a device film the descent from the surface of the moon, which they claimed they were going to do here)
ohhh that makes perfect sense. Darn we almost got photos.
It's even kinda human, look, it dies if it gets too cold lol
Good thing piloting live humans through the radiation of the Van Allen Belts is easier than designing a computer the works in the cold.
It does look like a weird design for something that can only operate upright though. Maybe don't put all the feet on the narrowest wobbly side? Awe, shucks, What do I know about designing rocketships!?!
I think the point is to get the public acclimated to these CGI renderings which look pretty fake, (and the "real photographs" look even worse so people will tend to prefer the CGI) and get people ready for the fakery they are gonna do for the manned moon trip.
There was some great content in the old one.
I'm really looking forward to this 2026 Artemis project where NASA intends to land a negro and a white woman on the moon, for the first time. And then leave them alone there for a week. (That's really the mission).
Here's Yuri Gagarin celebrating being the first person sent on a rocket into outer space. Excited, happy, gregarious, celebrating.

The American astronauts, after beating the Soviet Union and returning from a successful moon landing!

Then they hopped into this device and were filmed whizzing away back to earth:
To quote W Bush, they're really gonna have to "ratchet up the propaganda" to get people to buy this next moon landing story. I think this February 2024 Odysseus unmanned moon landing here is doing just that.
As it landed, Odysseus “caught a foot in the surface and tipped” said Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus, ending up on its side.
“It really was a magical, magical day,”
During its final descent, Odysseus was supposed to be traveling about 2 mph (3.2 kph) in the vertical direction and 0 mph horizontally. But the data show it was actually moving at roughly 6 mph (10 kph) vertically and 2 mph (3.2 kph) horizontally, Altemus said.
You see, it's really difficult to come to a full stop in zero gravity. But designing a rocket to propel itself through the heavens for days, pass through the radiation belts, touch down on the moon and then take off again with a tiny spark shooting spring loaded aluminum foil box, is the easy part. Getting it to stop is the hard part.
Just for the record, they are saying:
This is an actual photograph

And this is an artist rendering.

(It's possible to land unmanned objects on our moon, but it's not possible to tip them back over or take well lit photographs of them in space that don't show any stars but have a perfectly exposed foreground satellite and background planet, or have a device film the descent from the surface of the moon, which they claimed they were going to do here)
lol wut?During Odysseus’s seven-day mission, which will be fueled by solar power until the landing site moves into earth’s shadow, Nasa hopes to analyse how soil there reacted to the impact of the landing
An instrument called EagleCam, a cube with cameras designed by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, was supposed to pop off 30 seconds before touchdown to capture pictures of Odysseus’ landing, but the device was deliberately powered off during descent because the navigation system needed to be switched.
ohhh that makes perfect sense. Darn we almost got photos.
It's even kinda human, look, it dies if it gets too cold lol
The moon has no atmosphere, so the temperature should be the same every night. But somehow it can survive a FEW nights of cold, just not more than about 9 or 10 and then the poor little thing just shivers to death.eventually it'll fall into a deep cold and then the electronics that we produce just won't survive the deep cold of lunar night. And so, best case scenario, we're looking at another nine to 10 days (of operations)," said Tim Crain, IM's CTO and co-founder.
Good thing piloting live humans through the radiation of the Van Allen Belts is easier than designing a computer the works in the cold.
It does look like a weird design for something that can only operate upright though. Maybe don't put all the feet on the narrowest wobbly side? Awe, shucks, What do I know about designing rocketships!?!

I think the point is to get the public acclimated to these CGI renderings which look pretty fake, (and the "real photographs" look even worse so people will tend to prefer the CGI) and get people ready for the fakery they are gonna do for the manned moon trip.