Will you like to work for the apollo project in near future?”
As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the remarkable achievement of putting Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon (while Michael Collins nervously circled above) and bringing them safely home, (see our slideshow) there will no doubt be a chorus of articles saying “we need an Apollo project to deal with climate change.” or “if we can put a man on the moon, why can’t we solve our energy problems?” And it was a marvelous accomplishment. But as a model of design and engineering, it was a one hit wonder, an extravagant waste of materials, and not a model for anything we should be doing today. In 1961 when NASA was trying to figure out how to get to the moon, the two main approaches were Direct Flight, where a giant rocket would go straight to the moon and back, and Earth Orbit Rendezvous, where a moon rocket would be assembled in earth orbit and then would go straight to the moon and back. But to carry enough fuel to land on the moon and take off for the return required a big spacecr
Related Questions
- What we should be asking the government today, are questions as to why the entire project, as envisaged and promised is nowhere near completion. Has the water reached the people?
- Can I use the CFO Scoreboard to project or budget future time periods?
- Why is nasa still wasting money on the apollo project?
