Tell me this is all "make believe"...

[scooter]

Huge PDF documents, but absolutely a goldmine of technical data.
Then again, it could have all been done by a small number of hoax "insiders"...yeah. right!

www.geocities.com/bobandrepont/apollopdf.htm?200511

I have the Saturn V document on the hard drive...fascinating. I suppose our resident Nazi hunter will be pleased to know that Arthur Rudolph has been sent packing, after managing the rocket program that got us to the Moon... unfortunate.

Dave

[colinr]

thanks for th link -as you said , the paper trail Apollo left behind simply re-enforces how ludicrous the entire hoax really is - who could , or would fake a mountain of paperwork like this ....

[gwiz]

I've just seen a copy of this book:

www.cgpublishing.com/Books/Saturn.html

It's basically a collection of data on the manufacture and test of the Saturn V hardware. The author's introduction describes how he had to examine lots of archival stores, both NASA and contractor, to piece all the information together. Practically none of this data is available electronically. It's really scattered and poorly indexed. In fact, he found a lot of photographic negatives in one archive and the index to them in another.

In typical Apogee Books fashion, there's also some reprints of NASA press background material and a DVD with film of Saturn V hardware and tests.

As with the Apollo pdf site, you need to be a true HB to think that all this could have been faked.

[PhantomWolf]

colinr said:

thanks for th link -as you said , the paper trail Apollo left behind simply re-enforces how ludicrous the entire hoax really is - who could , or would fake a mountain of paperwork like this ....

And some of the stuff would be ridiculous to fabricate anyways. I can't recall the URL off hand, but there is a copy of the study done to determine the affects of a Saturn V explosion on liftoff from the pad. It gives the estimated size of the fireball, safe distances and expected damage to the pad. Amazing stuff. Very important for a real mission. Pretty pointless for a hoax.

[PeterB]

Heh, if you want pointless information, read the Apollo 13 mission report. Here you get to read of alternate methods used to expel urine from the spacecraft, seeing as the spacecraft had been powered down.

[Count Zero]

phantomwolf said:

I can't recall the URL off hand, but there is a copy of the study done to determine the affects of a Saturn V explosion on liftoff from the pad. It gives the estimated size of the fireball, safe distances and expected damage to the pad. Amazing stuff. Very important for a real mission. Pretty pointless for a hoax.

That's one of the docs at the site scooter referenced in the OP.

I had a kind of funny thought: The mountain of evidence is the size of Mt. Everest, but how many people have actually seen Everest with their own eyes? The proof of Apollo is easier to get at than the mountain.

My eyes have seen Mt. Everest, and they also watched Apollo 11 lift off. Both events have something in common: I was never the same afterwards.