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I will admit that i am not the most informed person when it comes to space travel (NASA, Space X, ect.) thus i haven't made a clear cut decision on the matter, but i am not completely clueless either. There are some red flags surrounding the Apollo program, to deny that is being either a.(uninformed as well) or b.(a bit of a fan boy). On the other hand i would say that i am far more educated in astronomy and cosmology than the average person. Its funny how most people today feel that we posses a far greater knowledge of the cosmos than any other generation prior (and we do) but those same people and probably a lot in this thread can not even tell you what phase the moon is in at any given time, or locate Polaris. Things that even children held as common knowledge throughout history.
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I would entertain any red flags you might know that I haven't heard. So far I haven't seen or read anything that isn't a misunderstanding or misinformation.
I listened to this podcast a week ago, it features a guy on the Apollo 8 mission that circled the moon and came back to Earth as recon before the landing. His mission snapped the "Earth Rise" photo posted below. He's in his 90s now and a bit of an interesting character.
One of the things to remember is that we used the greatest computer ever made to get to the moon in the 60s...the human brain. Like Shawn142 said, it was all analog and mechanical technology at that time which made things "simpler" and also more "dynamic". Today's unmanned and guided systems require so much preprogramming and bring with them a host of other issues. Think of it this way, it was pretty easy to jump in a bramd new '69 Chevelle and drive from New York to LA, but it took 50 years to build a car that can guide itself on that trip.
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