Explore the Apollo 11 Command Module in 3D

[heydaralon]

What frustrates me is that we still dont have the technology to put a man in space, much less send him to the moon, yet we have all thos money for entitlement prograns and foreign wars. We could probably be the first country to send a man to the moon if we actually put more money into NASAs R and D budget instead of arming Syrian rebels.

It's likely that the last astronaut that visited the moon will die of old age before any new astronauts will venture further than the ISS. For all the positive talk, that's the likely scenario I think.

Real problem is what to do after the ISS gets too old.

It's a good example of actually how our culture isn't what is used to be. We'll tell ourselves that everything can be done by robots so why send anything up their or to Mars.

You can tell the ISS is a green screen CGI. A person could not survive in space with the current technology we have. The combination of radiation, extreme cold, and flying particles would instantly rip through a suit or hull of a spaceship. Had NASA come clean about this in 1969, we would have forgiven them by now. But they have kept lying to the American public.

[Montegriffo]

In the end, people will think about the Lunar landings in a negative way, as some form of imperialism/nationalistic hubris that has no importance.

Yep.

[ssu]

You can tell the ISS is a green screen CGI. A person could not survive in space with the current technology we have. The combination of radiation, extreme cold, and flying particles would instantly rip through a suit or hull of a spaceship. Had NASA come clean about this in 1969, we would have forgiven them by now. But they have kept lying to the American public.

Lol.

But some will truly believe that! And it's the extreme narrowness of the whole idea, which one can have only with a lot of ignorance and simply without thinking about in any larger picture, that makes it so crazy. After all, the "Hollywood space hoax" conspiracy would have to have the Soviet Union to be in on it... and basically every other country too. How that kind of "massive conspiracy" happens is simply delusional, but it seems that anything goes. I guess (or I hope) that for many the most lurid conspiracy theories are still fun entertainment, something you can watch and eat popcorn and have good time. Basically like watching X-files or reading Sci-fi.

Yet our post-truth era and the ability to choose one's own echo chamber in our wired wold today makes a perfect environment for nonsense to flourish and gain ground. And if someone really wants to seriously promote it, there will be a flock waiting to follow. After all, the media/entertainment business is there to basically to entertain and often to promote something, very seldom to educate.

The "grand hoax" in 1975, the Apollo-Soyuz dockings:

[de officiis]

Explore the International Space Station With Google Street View

Google Street View has taken armchair explorers to some of Earth's most exotic locations, from the ancient ruins of Angkor and Machu Picchu to the natural wonders of the Galapagos Islands and the Grand Canyon. But its newest location is (literally) out of this world: the International Space Station. As Thuy Ong reports for The Verge,​ you can now explore the ISS from your own computer screen without suffering the challenges of spaceflight.

"In the six months that I spent on the International Space Station, it was difficult to find the words or take a picture that accurately describes the feeling of being in space," French astronaut Thomas Pesquet writes in a blog post announcing the new Street View location. "Working with Google on my latest mission, I captured Street View imagery to show what the ISS looks like from the inside, and share what it’s like to look down on Earth from outer space."