Apollo 11 Mission by GiampyTPG

GiampyTPG

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20th Jul 2015

21st Jul 2015

DO NOT UNPAUSE Turn off decos to see the inside of the spacecraft

apollo liftoff nasa moon rocket space

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  Daniel219 21st Jul 2015
  You forgot to include the seperation of the Service Module(?). I believe after they landed they left the actual lander segment on the moon to ditch the extra weight.
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  Cloudz 21st Jul 2015
  Who downvoted this ? You can't simply downvote this ! +20
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  ale 21st Jul 2015
  this is coool ! +1
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  Avi_ 21st Jul 2015
  Good job!
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  jklujm 20th Jul 2015
  Nice work!
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  boomtish214 20th Jul 2015
  the saturn V looks great!
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  GiampyTPG 20th Jul 2015
  if you want the other spacecraft to completely go out of collision range well...then you'll have to wait about a week or so, and i don't think that 3 exausted and hungry astronauts would wait 7 days before reentering to earth safely. so they decided to simply leave the AM in lunar orbit.
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  GiampyTPG 20th Jul 2015
  ;) . another reason for it was that docking ports don't have explosive separation bolts, but just small pistons to gently move away the spacecraft. let's take for an example the soyuz: when it is undocked it uses very powerful separation bolts to literally BLAST away the SM and the OM, that i think they contain some powerful explosive such as cordite or lead azide, so they won't hit the spacecraft during the reentry.
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  sentinal-5 20th Jul 2015
  huh.. well i know it would've taken quite a bit of fuel to bring it back, but i'd kind of assumed that as they went to the trouble of crashing the transfer stage into the moon rather than letting it slingshot back, that they'd have brought the am back to burn up. "the more you knoooow!" lol thanks for the info! :)
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  GiampyTPG 20th Jul 2015
  @BANGEXPLOSIVE: since the moon doesn't have any atmosphere at all, the AM is probably still in lunar orbit