| [ Total Views: 687 | Total Replies: 5 | Thread Id: 77932 ] |
|
|
 Phil74Camper
Son of Jim - Creator of Good
Head in the Clouds
Posts: 2703
Threads: 193
Registered: August 28th, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: Sydney
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on July 21st, 2009 at 10:26 AM |
|
|
40 Years Ago Today
Today is 40 years since Apollo 11 touched down on the moon. Is this the greatest accomplishment in human history? As for VW comparisons:
* The Saturn V moon rocket is still the most powerful machine, of any kind, ever built by humans. It is the tallest, heaviest and fastest flying
machine ever made. At liftoff its five F1 engines were producing 120 million kW, or 160 million horsepower, consuming propellant at 18,000 litres
(14.4 tonnes) per second. Each F1 fuel pump produced 55,000 hp. Each F1 engine was as powerful as 40 B747 engines, and more powerful than the
Shuttle's 3 main engines put together. The first stage had five of them.
* The first stage contained 1.9 million litres of propellant (RP1 jet fuel and liquid oxygen), about an olympic 50m swimming pool full. That's enough
fuel to fill 49,000 Volkswagens. The Saturn burned all of it in 150 seconds.
* At takeoff the Saturn V weighed 3,040 tonnes, as much as 3,475 Volkswagens (or 9 Boeing 747s). It was as long as 27 Volkswagens parked nose to tail,
or 73 stacked on on tyop of another.
* The Saturn could lift 140 tonnes to orbit (160 Volkswagens), more than any other rocket before or since, and 4 times as much as the Shuttle can. It
could lift 47 tonnes (53 Volkswagens) all the way to the moon.
* The ship's highest ever speed, 39,897 km/h (Apollo 10), is 312 times faster than the top speed of a VW.
| Error |
| Sorry, you must be a registered user in order to download attachments. |
|
|
|
|
 vw54
Super Administrator
Always Waiting 4 Friday
Posts: 16723
Threads: 378
Registered: August 26th, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: Sunny Sydney
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: Oval resto ongoing
|
| posted on July 21st, 2009 at 01:08 PM |
|
|
great facts
did u know that Buzz used him ball point pen to activate the engines on the lunar lander so they could get off the moon
|
|
|
newoldmanx
A.k.a.: Billy
Wolfsburg Wizard
Posts: 468
Threads: 52
Registered: August 6th, 2006
Member Is Offline
Location: fiji islands/sunny coast QLD
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: stylin
|
| posted on July 21st, 2009 at 01:24 PM |
|
|
"Space may be the final frontier
But it's made in a Hollywood basement"
its californication 
its just a car for f*%k sake
|
|
|
Volksaddict
Wolfsburg Wizard
Posts: 533
Threads: 102
Registered: December 25th, 2004
Member Is Offline
Location: Sawtell Mid North NSW
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: hooked
|
| posted on July 21st, 2009 at 05:44 PM |
|
|
My dad worked on the Apollo Miissions for NASA as a technician at Honeysuckle Creek (outside canberra)..this was the station the located the first
signals from the moon surface ..and relayed to parkes who forwarded to usa ..exciting stuff..have a massive archive of a couple of filling cabinet
draws full of memorabillia from various stations around the world..must dust it off and revisit it all !!!..even find somewhere to archive/display it
properly..any suggestions?
Cheers&Beers
Ray V
|
|
|
Phil74Camper
Son of Jim - Creator of Good
Head in the Clouds
Posts: 2703
Threads: 193
Registered: August 28th, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: Sydney
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on July 21st, 2009 at 07:14 PM |
|
|
We can all be proud that Australia played such a major role in the Apollo program, Ray especially. Wow.
The Honeysuckle guys have put together a bit of a tribute page at http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/ and I'm sure they would be interested in all your Dad's stuff. I visited the
Honeysuckle site about 10 years ago; nothing left now except a few concrete slabs. Tidbinbilla is fantastic though.
|
|
|
eraser
Fahrvergnugen
Posts: 970
Threads: 128
Registered: March 11th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Adelaide
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Powder
|
| posted on July 21st, 2009 at 11:17 PM |
|
|
| Quote: | Originally
posted by Volksaddict
My dad worked on the Apollo Miissions for NASA as a technician at Honeysuckle Creek (outside canberra)..this was the station the located the first
signals from the moon surface ..and relayed to parkes who forwarded to usa ..exciting stuff..have a massive archive of a couple of filling cabinet
draws full of memorabillia from various stations around the world..must dust it off and revisit it all !!!..even find somewhere to archive/display it
properly..any suggestions?
|
you may even have a copy of the original Apollo 11 landing that nasa accidently taped over and then recycled.
|
|
|
