NASA "moon" video with air effects

"Michael Petukhov" wrote in message
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"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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The fact is that manned mission was and still is much more difficult.
Although given that time level of technology I agree that it was huge
US achivement. nevertheless we did better in the department
of automatical probes in Moon. Would you agree that russia won the
moon race in that automatical probe department?


Yes

Keith

From: (Michael Petukhov)

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Would you agree that russia won the
moon race in that automatical probe department?

Michael
Keith

No I would not. The U.S. sent automatic landers to the moon before the Soviets
did. As a matter of fact one of the manned landings cannibalized parts from one
such lander (Ranger?)

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

"B2431" wrote in message
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From: (Michael Petukhov)

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Would you agree that russia won the
moon race in that automatical probe department?

Michael
Keith

No I would not. The U.S. sent automatic landers to the moon before the
Soviets
did. As a matter of fact one of the manned landings cannibalized parts
from one
such lander (Ranger?)

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

To be fair I have to support Michael on this one.
Its a simple matter of record that the first succesful
landing mission on the moon was the Soviet Luna 9
in Jan 1966 .

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/...g?sc=1966-006A

Similarly the first return probes were the Zond 5 & 6 in 1968

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/...g?sc=1968-076A

The Ranger series made rather hard impacts so I doubt
anything was left from them to salvage. It was the
Surveyor series that made soft landings.

Even NASA had to concede that the SOviets sent the first probe to
impact the Moon, made the first flyby and image of the lunar farside,
the first soft landing, first lunar orbiter, and the first circumlunar probe
to return to Earth.

Keith