I took two years of vocational school centered around engineering and architectural design, and we did some pretty extensive studying of project apollo, including watching multiple documentaries/interviews from the astronauts themselves. It's my absolute fucking pleasure to reveal that Buzz Aldrin, upon leaving the lunar module, stood at the bottom of the ladder and pissed his urine bag.
Another repulsive piece of history: Early Russian cosmonauts had two flavors of food puree that came in tube form. For the exact reasons that you can assume, these were nicknamed "blonde" and "brunette".
Fun fact: the first manned mission to the moon did pack machetes "just in case", and when the russian cosmonauts went up there, they brought guns (though admittedly, the guns were in case they landed in the wilderness and needed to fight bears or americans)
The rollercoaster thing isn't the craziest thing in the world. Think about it. you experience periods of high, and low G-forces durring a rollercoaster ride. I don't think it has the most bearing, since thats rapid fluctuation between highs and lows, whereas staying in space is an extended period of low-G force after an initial period of high G-force taking off. And once you start making approach towards landing on the moon, and when finally landed there, you are experiencing more G forces than when in open space, BUT not as much as on earth.
You just KNOW Travis was trying to say Lance Armstrong at the end (as a joke), but accidentally said the real one. I've never been so sure of anything in my life.
Hey gang? The last moon landing was in 1972?? I feel lied to by all of cinema??? We've only been to the moon 6 times and it's only ever been Americans????
Cuz the Cold War absolutely destroyed NASAs funding and national interest was way down after like 1970 since shuttle launches were getting so normal. The best part about it is, America owns the moon babyyyyyy.
