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You're either forgetting or ignoring the Surveyor (US) and Lunakhod (USSR) landers that preceded the Apollo landings which they proved that the dust layer was moderately thin and could be walked on easily..
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lun…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_pr…
In particular, Apollo 12 landed near to Surveyor 3 and returned pieces of the craft to earth.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/a…
And for more information about the Apollo lunar missions than you ever want to know about, plow through this mountain of data -
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Histor…
The rest of your post is just so much unsupported and not well thought out verbage.
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lun…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_pr…
In particular, Apollo 12 landed near to Surveyor 3 and returned pieces of the craft to earth.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/a…
And for more information about the Apollo lunar missions than you ever want to know about, plow through this mountain of data -
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Histor…
The rest of your post is just so much unsupported and not well thought out verbage.
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Spamming this rant again, are we? You'd think one of the people who copies and pastes this would bother to correct the "belive" misspelling.
No, his next words after the “one small step” line were NOT, “It’s solid.” He said, “Yes, the surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers, like powdered charcoal, to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine, sandy particles.” See, unlike you, I’ve actually watched the video of his first step and read the transcript. They’re easily found on the first linked page. If you can’t even do some basic research to learn Armstrong’s real words, why should we listen to your rant? I’d also like to know why a nasa.gov search for “Stan Stepanek” returns exactly ZERO results if he really had such an important job during Apollo 11 like you say. The Mission Control person who talked directly to Armstrong during his Moon walk was astronaut Bruce McCandless II, who went on to fly on two Shuttle missions.
Oh, and the Lunar Rover had wire mesh wheels, not “big balloon tires.” Whoever wrote this is either dishonest or tremendously ignorant.
No, his next words after the “one small step” line were NOT, “It’s solid.” He said, “Yes, the surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers, like powdered charcoal, to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine, sandy particles.” See, unlike you, I’ve actually watched the video of his first step and read the transcript. They’re easily found on the first linked page. If you can’t even do some basic research to learn Armstrong’s real words, why should we listen to your rant? I’d also like to know why a nasa.gov search for “Stan Stepanek” returns exactly ZERO results if he really had such an important job during Apollo 11 like you say. The Mission Control person who talked directly to Armstrong during his Moon walk was astronaut Bruce McCandless II, who went on to fly on two Shuttle missions.
Oh, and the Lunar Rover had wire mesh wheels, not “big balloon tires.” Whoever wrote this is either dishonest or tremendously ignorant.