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Square image with a dark background, with an illustration of a multi-stage rocket depicted horizontally in the center. Above the rocket, white text reads, “the moon landing was staged?” Below the rocket, more white text reads “yeah that’s how all orbital rockets fucking work dude”
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Me, coming to the comments about to ask “what about SSTO?”
Thanks to OP for reminding me to check my staging
Bring Jeb back alive
Jeb’s just operating a unscheduled manned solar orbital satellite.
They’ll be fine
It’s just a little jaunt to Ike to grab a Kerbal for a contract. How hard could it be?
Kraken decided my Jeb gets a little interstellar travel as a treat, so he is traveling at incredible speed in a straight line directly away from such ideas as “back” or “alive”
I still prescribe to the theory that we tried to fake the moon landing, but Stanley Kubrick being a perfectionist kept insisting they shoot on location prompting us to do it for real anyway.
The moon landing wasn’t staged, the launch was…
The lander did have a stage separation though, It left the landing gear and motor on the moon, and the accent stage took it back into lunar orbit.
I had two middle aged coworkers the other day talking about how it was staged. I should have showed them both this today. But I didn’t want to engage lol.
Yeah it’d be a waste of your time and energy.
I had two friends recently suddenly drop into the conspiracist nutball rabbit hole, and I really don’t have much enthusiasm to see them anymore. Last time I saw them they grilled me on the moon landings, and absolutely nothing I said meant anything to them. If I hesitated even for a second when answering one of their “accusations” they took it as proof that I’m the one who doesn’t know what they’re talking about – couldn’t be that I was trying to think of a way of explaining something to people who clearly aren’t familiar with the subject at all beyond whatever idiotic conspiracy garbage they’ve consumed.
The ability of god damn morons to gaslight the intelligent… ahh… I am sadly familiar with it.
@dactylotheca @agentshags I can’t believe people still think we didn’t land on the moon It’s amazing because of the evidence that shows we did and somebody Evans that shows we didn’t is pretty outlandish
You could also have staging in model rocketry. The largest we ever had was a 3-stage running on G-size engines. The “Red, White, and Clusterfuck”. If all three stages ignited and properly, you got a solid boom outta her. The frame outlived several nosecones from the friction they had to endure.
That sounds, intense.
The Atlas rocket was single stage to orbit.
But yeah, every Gemini and Apollo rocket was staged, as was the space shuttle.
It was partially staged. The main benefit of staging is dropping dry mass during the burn, and the Atlas I dropped engines
Good luck making a single stage to lunar surface rocket.
I just need more struts.
SSTO enthusiasts in shambles
You mean single stage to orbit fans?
Honestly I’m surprised at the amount of people making SSTO jokes in the comments without knowing what that initialism stands for
I think people understand what SSTO stands for. People are talking about SSTO because in your title you claimed the four stage Saturn V was single-staged
Yea I understand. That’s why they’re in shambles.
Okay then I clearly just don’t get your joke 😅
Oh yeah uh… what about SSTOs huh? I bet we’ll have some sick aerospike powered vehicles any day now!
spoiler
RIP Rocketdyne XRS-220
single stage to orbit
is this the fucking N1 rocket?
Damn bro, the US fucking died with this post.
N1 had 30 engines on the first stage
yeah, it’s just funny how visually similar they are in some respects.
Nuh uh. They snuck the astronauts into the Star Trek sets at night and used the transporters obviously. They knew the props wouldn’t have been convincing enough…
kek gottem.
