Apollo mission was predicted in a 1965 soviet film | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 48057888 05/13/2015 03:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Not surprising since Mercury and Gemini were just subsystem tests laying the solid groundwork for the end goal, the Apollo systems. Engineering work on Apollo begain in earnest in 1961. It was not at all secret. NASA showed proposed models very early on. Things included compact dosimeters and complex calculations to make the passes through the radiation belts as brief as possible to keep the total dosage down. We do the same computations to get satellites into the Clark geosynchronous belt without frying the electronics. Above or below is no problem as long as the pass through is kept to a minimum of time. Solar flares were and are a concern. Look up the early DCTL and RTL logic families and the later RCA CDP-1801, CDP-1802, and CMOS Silicon On Sapphire. Many papers were published on each of the engineering fronts. Vacuum hardened cryogenic storage tanks were developed and used to power fuel cells for power. These papers were published. What the US was doing was well known to the Soviets. Their rocket genius unexpectedly died of cancer before they could perfect their heavy lift booster. People, organizations, and businesses like to live under the delusion that no one person is absolutely irreplaceable. Unfortunately, sometimes they really are. |
Dr. Astro Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 4211721 United States 05/13/2015 03:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In 1965, Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69213733 What do you think about it? Did Soviet intelligence steal draft blueprints from NASA safes, or was it NASA which, for lack of original thought, decided to reproduced the Soviet cartoon as a live action feature film? The LM's design was public knowledge in 1965. This magazine article was published in August 1964: [link to blog.modernmechanix.com] Oh look, there's the design for the LM in the image at the top of the page. The Soviets were also designing and building their own version, the LK, which looked superficially similar to the American version. [link to www.astronautix.com] |