When you see the video of the lunar lander jerking upwards, without any of the typical ignition blast sequence style propulsion, how exactly does it reach the escape velocity required to be in "orbit" around the moon. You need to be going roughly 25,000 mph to escape Earth's gravity, the moon being about 1/5 of the Earth's gravity, you'd have to travel 5,000mph horizontally to escape its gravity. That's why when you see a rocket launch on earth, they are on a parabolic curve, and release the payload at the perfect time to jettison it horizontally to technically "free fall" faster than the Earth can spin (orbit). The video doesn't show this style of launch, or anywhere near the amount of speed or angle to achieve this.
Anyway guys. Carry on with whatever you want to believe. Deny your own senses and all common sense and logic if that is what truly makes you happy.
I just wanted to clear up a bunch of misconceptions in this post.
1. You are confusing
escape velocity with
orbital velocity. They are completely different concepts. You do NOT need to reach escape velocity (or orbital velocity) to escape a planet's gravity, at least not in the way you imagine it.
2. The moon's gravity is about 1/6 that of earth at its surface. (1.6 m/s
2)
3. Rockets generally
don't travel along a parabolic curve, precisely
because they often are trying to reach orbital velocity.
I'm not sure which video you were talking about, but on average, the
ascent stage of the lunar module took off at only 1.8 m/s
2. As it reached orbit, it could reach accelerations of about 3.4m/s
2. At this rate, it takes about 15 minutes to reach the required 5000 mph rendezvous speed. I'm not sure how any of this contradicts any videos. There is less "ignition blast" because the lunar module's ascent engine was
much weaker (16,000 N) than the Saturn V's engines (33,400,000 N).
So let's get this. The lunar lander thing jerks straight up, with all the power of 11 bottle tickets some firecrackers, at just the exact right time to precisely lock into the thing in orbit. Not only that, but for some reason, it seems like a disaster waiting to happen when you have an object traveling nearly vertical trying to link with an object traveling nearly 3000mph. Unless of course, the orbiter wasn't exactly orbiting. Maybe it was just floating there with its advanced anti gravity drive.
(see above for comments on the relatively weak lunar module engines)
Just because you don't understand how they did it doesn't mean it is impossible. No offense, but the people at NASA are way smarter than you.
1. It wasn't travelling vertically when they linked. By the time it reached the rendezvous point, it was travelling at almost the exact same speed and direction as the command module. They came together slowly. Both modules were able to make course corrections mid flight.
2. Yes, please enlighten us about this "advanced anti gravity drive".
Oh yeah, then they somehow escaped the moon's gravity and let Earth's gravity pull them back? Not to mention the sun's gravity being
Yes. By moving away from the moon and towards the earth. Why is this hard to understand? What does the sun's gravity have to do with anything? They stayed in roughly the same orbit around the sun the entire time.
Asking questions is fine and good, but claiming to know enough about this subject to proclaim it "impossible and fake" when you barely know anything about orbital mechanics and rockets is just embarrassing to watch.