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American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.
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My latest rant when people say that crap is to start a big explanation about how radio triangulation works and how it has been in common usage since WWII.
It's like you see in the old movies where the Germans knock down the door of the place the resistance have been transmitting messages from.
The Russians, Chinese and every other major power could very easily and accurately track the moon missions this way.
Another thing is that amateur astronomers all over the world were tracking the missions.
I'm hoping the excellent Mythbusters episode will have debunked some of this nonsense, I just find it so sad that people are so poisoned against the world that they won't accept maybe the greatest achievement of mankind despite overwhelming evidence, facts and stuff.Comment
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I can't believe there are actually people who still believe it was a hoax. Ah, at least the moon-landing-conspiracy-shows are fun to watch
American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.
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Go, Buzz!!
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” ~~Maria RobinsonComment
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There are people out there that wouldn't believe we went to the moon even if they would have erected some kind of structure there you could see with a telescope.Comment
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Suprised no one mentioned the other beings chillin' out watching Armstrong take his small step. If these other beings have such capabities it seems a shame they had nothing better to do at the time.Comment
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Ah, it was a joke anyway. Ever heard of Squidbillies? Unknown Hinson?American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.
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Another neat little page:My latest rant when people say that crap is to start a big explanation about how radio triangulation works and how it has been in common usage since WWII.
It's like you see in the old movies where the Germans knock down the door of the place the resistance have been transmitting messages from.
The Russians, Chinese and every other major power could very easily and accurately track the moon missions this way.
Another thing is that amateur astronomers all over the world were tracking the missions.
I'm hoping the excellent Mythbusters episode will have debunked some of this nonsense, I just find it so sad that people are so poisoned against the world that they won't accept maybe the greatest achievement of mankind despite overwhelming evidence, facts and stuff.
Observers of all missions
The Soviet Union monitored the missions at their Space Transmissions Corps, which was "fully equipped with the latest intelligence-gathering and surveillance equipment".[26] Vasily Mishin ("The Moon Programme That Faltered."), in Spaceflight. 33 (March 1991), pages 2–3 describes how the Soviet Moon programme lost energy after the Apollo landing.
The missions were tracked by radar from several countries on the way to the Moon and back.[27]
The NASA Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN) was a world-wide network of stations that tracked the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab missions. Most MSFN stations were only needed during the launch, Earth orbit and landing phases of the lunar missions, but three "deep space" sites with larger antennas provided continuous coverage during the trans-lunar, trans-earth and lunar mission phases. Today, these three sites form the NASA Deep Space Network: the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Goldstone, California; the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex near Madrid, Spain; and the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, in Tidbinbilla, near Canberra, Australia.
Although most MSFN stations were NASA-owned, they employed many local citizens. NASA also contracted the Parkes Observatory in New South Wales, Australia, to supplement the three deep space sites, most famously during the Apollo 11 EVA as documented in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia[28][29] and portrayed (humorously and not quite accurately) in the movie The Dish. The Parkes Observatory is not NASA-owned; it is, and always has been, owned and operated by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), a research agency of the Australian government.
Several other Australian sites which are no longer part of the Deep Space Network were also involved in relaying Apollo lunar transmissions. The deep space (lunar) tracking station was originally Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station. Carnarvon Tracking Station was one of the smaller and more numerous MSFN sites used primarily to support the near-earth segments of Apollo missions, though it also relayed data from the ALSEP lunar surface experiments. Due to its location on Australia's west coast, Carnarvon played a special role in the Apollo trans lunar injection and atmospheric reentry phases. Deakin Switching Centre routed the Apollo television broadcasts.[30]
It would have been relatively easy for NASA to avoid using the Parkes Observatory to receive the Apollo 11 EVA television signals by scheduling the EVA at an earlier time when the Goldstone station could provide complete coverage.Comment
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