Unread post by simonshack » Mon May 23, 2011 3:05 pm

"Eeek! Oh no! There he goes again - questioning even the NASA launches! When will he stop? He's jeopardizing all his hard-earned credibility!"

I am only asking a few questions, allright?

QUESTION 1:



"A condensation cloud forms around an interstage as the Saturn V (Apollo11) approached Mach1, one minute into the flight." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

why is the surrounding sky pitch black in this video - and bright blue in the former picture with that beautiful flagpole?

17 seconds

17sec

for the camera

1min22sec

1:22

2min04sec

2:04

QUESTION2:

sideways

QUESTION 3:

towards the left of our view

Dear all,Do we have any rocket scientist on board to help me out here? So, ok - the launches were real and so was the Apollo11 launch in 1969 (which, as I think we all believe here, was actually launched but only orbited for a while around Mother Earth at, perhaps, a few hundred miles altitude). FIne. That is what I have always assumed and taken for granted - and will continue to faithfully do. I promise. That is, I'll do so only once the questions submitted below are satisfactorily answered. At this moment - I don't have them, so what I'm doing here is just humbly asking a couple of questions. Some will say, undoubtedly:Well, let me say this once again:This is Apollo11 in its famous 'condensation' phase, well familiar to anyone who has watched the Apollo11 imagery. As WickedPedia will tell you (in a caption under this official NASA photo), this condensation burst took place after circa 1min of flight:And yes, it is indeed an official NASA photograph: http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-000627.html Now, at about 1min into this video of the Apollo11 launch, we do indeed see that condensation cloud: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPXKdABiS9g&NR=1 So my straightforward question is:(the Apollo11 launch took place at 9:32:00 a.m. local time). Thanks for a kind, straightforward answer. (bonus questions: after 1min of vertical flight, how far up would Apollo11 have been - and how did that artsy photographer manage to frame both Apollo11 and that flagpole in the foreground?)Now, let's fast-forward 42 years in time and have a look at ENDEAVOUR 2011. Here it is,into its flight - soon to disappear into the thick clouds above (with all cars, boats & ships with stupid onlookers wisely kept at safe distance from the area) :Well, it doesn't disappear: here we see it atinto the flight:And here we see it atinto the flight, as the rocket boosters get jettisoned:So my next question is: Does NASA have some sort of special, infrared (?) cameras that can shoot through the clouds - and still retain crisp colors such as those orange rocket flames? And what sort of zoom lens can follow a spaceship for over 2min of flight - and still have it almost filling the frame? Did NASA have such extraordinary photo equipment already in 1969? The point is,if such lenses exist, no matter where you were in Florida, you should have been able to film the ENDEAVOUR's ascent. So where are all the amateur videos of it? Thanks for any photographically knowledgeable answers.Let's now take a look at the lift-off of ENDEAVOUR 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YBWaFIs1Rc As you can see, the ENDEAVOUR drifts(towards the right) in the first seconds of lift-off. Here it is illustrated:And this one is for the rocket scientists on board: what sort of thrust/physical forces make it drift sideways? My common sense suggests to me that this is a little strange; I would have thought that, with all that horsepower in the butt, the ENDEAVOUR would lift off in a perfectly vertical trajectory. If anything, since the shuttle is attached to the left side (as we see it) of the main booster, you would think that such an unbalanced assembly would tend to drift, given the pull of the weight of the shuttle module. Thanks for a physically/mechanically knowledgeable answer.Yes, thanks for all kind answers to these 3 questions. I want to learn!