pictures of future and past moon exploration

[watermelony2k]

Old? Yeah, but some of these pictures I've never seen before. The ones of the LEM's descending are particularly impressive.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/07/man_on_the_moon_future_and_pas.html

 

[Alpha_Geek]

Impressive pics to be sure. A minor correction if I may though...

All the in-flight pics featuring the LM are post-landing. The descent stage is left behind as a launching pad for the ascent stage. No real good close-up of the complete LM in this series, though you can see it all in the distance in the next-to-the-last pic on the page, and some of a leg in the "Gene Cernan drives the Rover" pic.

Man, that Orion boilerplate really emphasizes how much like Apollo the "next gen" is!

AG

 

[MANT!]

Well Orion is basically the space program we SHOULD have had in the '70s....
instead we were sold a "reuseable shuttle" that costs far more per launch than any Saturn launch...such is life...

 

[Alpha_Geek]

I'd still prefer the "real" Orion instead of this upstart claiming the name.

The real Orion is the only spacecraft that could be said to have been inspired by the late great John Lee Hooker...

"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."

AG

 

[MANT!]

you're meaning a fission nuclear pulse rocket...

Not my idea of a good way to get to orbit....but to get between the planets..a great idea...