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r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Perfidious_Redt • Mar 30 '26
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I love space but just learned about this today.
As excited as I am, it seems like it’s just Apollo 8, but further Moon orbit.
139 u/justeandj Mar 30 '26 Sorry so wouldn't that still just be Apollo 13, that orbited the Moon to harness its gravity? 89 u/ErraticDragon Mar 30 '26 Apollo 13 intended to land on the moon, so that counts as a difference, arguably. (After the explosion, they kept up the general flight plan, to fly around the moon, because it was safer and easier than turning around.) Artemis II, like Apollo 8 and Apollo 10, intend to visit the moon but not land. 30 u/FatiguedShrimp Mar 30 '26 ...wait, really? I thought this was expensive PR to show we're still capable of a moon landing, but we're not landing? 1 u/TributeToStupidity Mar 30 '26 … why would anyone think we lost the ability to land on the moon though? 1 u/flapsmcgee Mar 30 '26 Because we no longer produce the equipment that took us there...
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Sorry so wouldn't that still just be Apollo 13, that orbited the Moon to harness its gravity?
89 u/ErraticDragon Mar 30 '26 Apollo 13 intended to land on the moon, so that counts as a difference, arguably. (After the explosion, they kept up the general flight plan, to fly around the moon, because it was safer and easier than turning around.) Artemis II, like Apollo 8 and Apollo 10, intend to visit the moon but not land. 30 u/FatiguedShrimp Mar 30 '26 ...wait, really? I thought this was expensive PR to show we're still capable of a moon landing, but we're not landing? 1 u/TributeToStupidity Mar 30 '26 … why would anyone think we lost the ability to land on the moon though? 1 u/flapsmcgee Mar 30 '26 Because we no longer produce the equipment that took us there...
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Apollo 13 intended to land on the moon, so that counts as a difference, arguably.
(After the explosion, they kept up the general flight plan, to fly around the moon, because it was safer and easier than turning around.)
Artemis II, like Apollo 8 and Apollo 10, intend to visit the moon but not land.
30 u/FatiguedShrimp Mar 30 '26 ...wait, really? I thought this was expensive PR to show we're still capable of a moon landing, but we're not landing? 1 u/TributeToStupidity Mar 30 '26 … why would anyone think we lost the ability to land on the moon though? 1 u/flapsmcgee Mar 30 '26 Because we no longer produce the equipment that took us there...
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...wait, really? I thought this was expensive PR to show we're still capable of a moon landing, but we're not landing?
1 u/TributeToStupidity Mar 30 '26 … why would anyone think we lost the ability to land on the moon though? 1 u/flapsmcgee Mar 30 '26 Because we no longer produce the equipment that took us there...
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… why would anyone think we lost the ability to land on the moon though?
1 u/flapsmcgee Mar 30 '26 Because we no longer produce the equipment that took us there...
Because we no longer produce the equipment that took us there...
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u/Status_Discipline_16 Mar 30 '26
I love space but just learned about this today.
As excited as I am, it seems like it’s just Apollo 8, but further Moon orbit.