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Post by turbonium on Feb 5, 2006 1:25:03 GMT -4
Another of Bart Sibrel's claims from the interview I heard...
He asserted that the Soviets only developed the capability to track spacecraft all the way to the Moon in 1972, and is a reason why the Apollo project was abrubtly cancelled, with future planned missions of Apollo 18 through 20 scrubbed.
However, one NASA page I read states that these future missions were actually cancelled in 1970.
What does Sibrel base these claims on?
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Post by JayUtah on Feb 5, 2006 1:59:14 GMT -4
Sibrel liberally reinterprets history to make it fit his theory. Not just on this point but on many others. He quite happily denies that certain historical events happened the way we commonly believe, and offers no evidence other than his questioning whether it "really" happened.
Apollo 13 scared the heck out of a lot of people, and privately NASA realized that Apollo wasn't as safe as it should be for prolonged exploration. They adopted a "quit while you're ahead" strategy, which took the form of offering not much resistance to the Nixon administration's desire to cut space funding. There was no one moment where NASA truncated Apollo wholesale. Various political effects sort of chipped away at the program at various times, even predating 1970.
It's hard to know what Sibrel defines as "tracking". The Soviets lacked -- and still lack -- global coverage. They have to wait until Russian territory is pointed at where they need to talk to. So there are daily gaps in coverage. But as far as being able to send signals to spacecraft at lunar distance and receive signals back, they had that long before Apollo left Earth orbit.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Feb 5, 2006 5:00:30 GMT -4
Which is obvious from their sending Luna 15 at the same time as Apollo 11 and of course their previous Luna and Zond missions to the moon. Bart has a habit of making stuff up on the fly I swear, he claims that someone he doesn't remember told him it. (fc.f. the Soviets 5:1 advantage in manned space hours pre-Apollo.)
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Post by Retrograde on Feb 5, 2006 6:36:39 GMT -4
he claims that someone he doesn't remember told him it. Well, if that's how he comes to his conclusions, someone just tell him the whole thing was real... N |
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Post by Count Zero on Feb 5, 2006 8:22:11 GMT -4
Another of Bart Sibrel's claims from the interview I heard... He asserted that the Soviets only developed the capability to track spacecraft all the way to the Moon in 1972,... Hey, wasn't one of Bart's proofs of Soviet technological superiority over the U.S. in space that they sent the first probe to the Moon? |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Feb 5, 2006 10:09:20 GMT -4
shhhhhhhhhhhhh, you'll confuse the poor boy, lol
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Post by brotherofthemoon on Feb 5, 2006 10:37:07 GMT -4
Another of Bart Sibrel's claims from the interview I heard... He asserted that the Soviets only developed the capability to track spacecraft all the way to the Moon in 1972,... Hey, wasn't one of Bart's proofs of Soviet technological superiority over the U.S. in space that they sent the first probe to the Moon? Yes, but they apparently had no idea that it got there when it did.  Uh, Mr. Sibrel, "retconning" works for things like Star Trek, or bringing comic book supervillians back from the dead. It doesn't work when you're half-assedly re-writing history!  |
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