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If the Moon landing was real: How the hell did they take off FROM the moon?
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Lets do the analysis:
Weight: 10,300 lbs
Thrust: 3,500 lbs
APS specific impulse: 311 sec
APS propellant mass: 5,187 pounds
Gravity moon: 1.624 m/s²
CSM speed = 3649.3 mph
Orbit assumed to be 100 km (numbers from 100km to 160km are listed and CSM could come to within 20 km of the moon)
Simple test is V = AT
Given the starting acceleration of 1G, the time is around 170 seconds.
The fuel consumption of 11.3 lb/s. 11.3*170 = 1921 lbs.
So they had more fuel than they needed - 2.5 times as much. Some of this was used to correct the orbit etc. etc. This is one reason Apollo 13 fared so well, they had fuel to burn.
yer cooking the books.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22633247 Prove it, then. Show the error. (Incidentally, I've tried the same using as few numbers from NASA as possible; estimating tank volume from the cutaway, using the theoretical ISP for the propellant, also including gravitational drag, and I had a margin of 30% left.)
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