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Comment by Exposure on December 26, 2019 at 8:49am

Your right with your observations James; the phone calls home and "live" broadcasts made, if they really were talking to the presidents and sending their images back to Earth, the delays would have been much longer.  

Comment by James Roberts on December 22, 2019 at 4:38pm

With Apollo, I always thought it as interesting that, in the late 60s, the whole shebang had 4 kilowatts of power available, for life support, ignition, lights, the computer and everything, but they managed an uninterrupted and decent quality television broadcast from 238,000 miles away. Through the Van Allen radiation belts, no less. While here on Earth, analog VHF TV stations with four times that power, or more, were lucky if they broadcast 50 miles in any direction.

The earlier Musk landings, the rockets coming down vertically, that's just cartoonish. With thrust from the bottom, they would have just flipped over and crashed spectacularly. What did they do, fill the bottom with lead to keep it upright? Must be why he said we know it's real because it looks so fake, lol.

Comment by Chris of the family Masters on December 22, 2019 at 12:29pm

You're right. Looks like a video game.