The Return of Apollo? 653
hpulley writes "Bell bottoms are back, the Stones are still touring and Time has a piece on how NASA's _new_ space vehicle may actually be the return of a very old friend, a highly modified and modernized version of the Apollo Space Capsule. Manned spacecraft might actually leave low earth orbit again! Initially they'd fly with Delta and Atlas but more powerful boosters could be developed. We could go to the Moon again, and perhaps to Mars but I'm getting ahead of myself. Does that mean the last 30 years of space flight have been for naught? Expensive steps backward?"
Re:Are you kidding me? (Score:5, Funny)
Just wait until you hear about their Icarus project.
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to be prepared... (Score:2, Funny)
Retro is in.... (Score:5, Funny)
Could someone please explain ... (Score:3, Funny)
What? (Score:5, Funny)
50 year old bandwidth (Score:4, Funny)
Bad Decision (Score:5, Funny)
Bad decision. They should fly with Southwest or Jet Blue.
Avoid Delta. United too, for that matter.
Disco (Score:4, Funny)
T-shirt in 22nd century: "Disco _still_ sucks." (from an old Omni magazine contest)
Apollo? Deltas? (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, wait. For a minute there I was expecting this apollo [richardhatch.com].
The Return Of Apollo? (Score:5, Funny)
Two words (Score:5, Funny)
Lance Bass.
On the ride down, Hudson says... (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds like a fun ride. Screw bungee jumping!
It could be worse... (Score:1, Funny)
Wow! Five years on the moon! (Score:2, Funny)
Mod me funny or die, earthling scum.
Re:Disco (Score:5, Funny)
Can we embelish this a tad to add even more relevance, please?
T-shirt in 22nd century: "DiSCO _still_ sucks." (origionally from an old Omni magazine contest)
Soko
Re:Are you kidding me? (Score:1, Funny)
All this talk about the return of apollo has me wondering when we can finally get the return of Rocky.
Adrienne!
Late result (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Could someone please explain ... (Score:3, Funny)
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but after recently reviewing the film footage from Moonbase Alpha, I've joined the group of people who believe that the whole thing was a hoax.
I'd love it just as much as the next guy if our government really had built a moonbase, and Eagles, and everything else back in 1999. However, if you carefully look at the coverage of the events at the moonbase, there are just too many inconsistencies that can't be explained away: Serious violations of physics; handwaving passing for engineering; predictable news stories that seem contrived; people with stilted behaviours (as if they were bad actors) who wear clothes that have never been in fashion; images that just basically look faked.
I've read the websites that cast doubt on the whole scenario, and I have to say that I agree with what they're saying. Until somebody shows me some real compelling proof, I highly doubt that any of that stuff actually existed.
Re:Why not? (Score:5, Funny)
I say the capsule floats... why not just put an outboard motor on the thing and drive it home? You could do some fishing while you're at it...
On second thought, maybe there's a solution somewhere in the middle.
Re:Are you kidding me? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but at least they're high enough off the ground so that those damn squeegee guys can't reach 'em.
Re:Could someone please explain ... (Score:3, Funny)
But we know better, don't we?
Space elevators? No thanks (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Are you kidding me? (Score:4, Funny)
Those incredible Ford engineers (Score:3, Funny)
I sure would hope that the Ford engineers would reach a point where a truck would be built like a truck.
Re:Yay! (Score:3, Funny)
What a goofy turn of phrase.
I picture you sitting there with a "Go Capsules!" pennant in one hand and a giant foam hand with #1 written on it on the other. Wearing one of those dual beer-can hats, your shirt off and "Appolo" in written in greasepaint across your beergut.
I'm so fucking bored it isn't even funny.
Re:Infrastructure (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Apollo? Deltas? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Yay! (Score:1, Funny)
We do not refer to it as a capsule.
It's the vodka, right? (Score:3, Funny)
Bottle of vodka? $16 rubles.
That pretty Ludmilla sitting next to you in babushka-and-spacesuit? $30 a night at a Tel Aviv brothel.
Lance Bass, earthbound and angry because you stole his seat? Priceless.
The Pinto (Score:1, Funny)
If it was a Pinto, I'd rather be in the Pinto. If it looks like I am about be rear-rended by the tank, I'd be able to open the door and jump out and roll away within seconds. It takes a lot longer to get out of a tank, and that is the unfortunate thing as both vehicles are incinerated from the massive explosion that results from a rear-end collision on a Ford Pinto.
How to get to Mars (Score:1, Funny)
1) Install Dictator on Mars.
2) Hype Evilness of Dictator. (Name Mars, Venus & Uranus new Axis of Evil. Hint at WMD capability of Mars. )
3) Declare mission to free the poor oppressed microbes of Mars
4) Mass Deployment of forces to Mars
*Note: Will also result in long-term commitment of forces to Mars necessary to search for WMD, bring the hostile environment to more tolerable levels, and to create the infrastructure necessary for the peoples of Mars to thrive.
-R.I.