Comments on: How NASA Created a Flight Simulator for the First Astronauts Landing on the Moon https://www.isegoria.net/2015/12/how-nasa-created-a-flight-simulator-for-the-first-astronauts-landing-on-the-moon/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 18:10:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bill https://www.isegoria.net/2015/12/how-nasa-created-a-flight-simulator-for-the-first-astronauts-landing-on-the-moon/comment-page-1/#comment-2445221 Bill Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:33:54 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=39399#comment-2445221 That’s not the biggest Apollo lunar landing simulator. Back in those days, men were men who flew to other worlds. Figure out the best way, then do it.

They built a full-size scale model of the landing site in a volcanic mountain range in Arizona. They used explosives to make the craters. The astronauts walked it, flew over it slowly in a Cessna, and flew over it in a jet to simulate orbital speeds.

See this page for photos (the article is about something else, skip to the bottom for the Apollo photos).

]]> By: Grasspunk https://www.isegoria.net/2015/12/how-nasa-created-a-flight-simulator-for-the-first-astronauts-landing-on-the-moon/comment-page-1/#comment-2444925 Grasspunk Sun, 13 Dec 2015 18:13:19 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=39399#comment-2444925 Maybe I’m fooled, but the argument buried in Errol Morris’s blog on the Crimean Cannonballs convinced me it was real. The dust they kick up falls straight down — no Brownian motion.

It took three long posts and a trip to the Crimea to figure out which cannonball photo was taken first.

]]> By: Dan Kurt https://www.isegoria.net/2015/12/how-nasa-created-a-flight-simulator-for-the-first-astronauts-landing-on-the-moon/comment-page-1/#comment-2444914 Dan Kurt Sun, 13 Dec 2015 17:39:02 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=39399#comment-2444914 More proof, methinks, that we never went to the moon. It was all just a simulation.

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