This is still an amazing accomplishment, at least 6 time, but is not landing a man on the Moon.
Keep on Truckin...
A popular saying and songs by and
during the 1969-1972 Apollo missions
Grateful
Dead - the astronauts would be dead from bolts of hundreds of Roentgens
through their heads
Eddie
Kendricks - it was a Temptation to use Grumman's remote control LEM to fake
the landings
Keep on truckin' those Moon rocks back to
convince the scientists and Soviets.
Even kids had Remote
Control technology in 1969
for LEGO, toy trucks,
and ... lunar rovers
If
Lego and Mattel could do it, so could Grumman and NASA
www.industrynewscorp.com/remote-control-cars-a-brief-history
9 Apollo missions
could bring the reported 842 pounds of Moon rock back to Earth
Apollo 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17 included a LM going at least to Moon
orbit.
It is possible that the LM for Apollo 9 also went to the Moon for rocks, making
it 10.
Grumman's LMT along with a Rover could bring back 9 x 100 pounds = 900 pounds
The unmanned Ascent Stage could take off with the rocks by remote control..
NASA knows that some day, the Van Allen Belt
problem will be solved and men will land on the Moon.
NASA has declared the Apollo sites to be
No Fly Zones, preventing close inspection
forever.
The LMT Descent Module looks just like the one claimed to be used for the Apollo
manned landings.
news.sciencemag.org/2011/09/nasa-aims-protect-apollo-artifacts-next-lunar-arrivals?
Note: Apollo 13 ULEM probably did land on the Moon and returned rocks and soil, to add to the collection to given to scientists for inspection.
By the time people actually get on the Moon, NASA had time to put experiment
apparatus in place.
The Apollo sites will be reserved sites to be untouched for "historical
purposes".
No one will be allowed to go close enough to find out the ULEM and Lunar Rover
were driven by remote control.
http://www.astronautix.com/a/apollolmtruck.html
The LM Truck was an LM Descent stage adapted for unmanned
delivery of payloads of up to 5,000 kg to the lunar surface in support
of a lunar base using Apollo technology. The LM Truck would make
precision landing using radio landing beacons prepositioned by the
lunar base staff.
The Truck would be accompanied by an Apollo CSM on a purely
lunar
orbital mission. Alternatively, two trucks could be delivered in a single
unmanned Saturn V mission, with a partially-fueled Apollo Service
Module being used for the lunar orbit insertion maneuver. Items added
to the basic descent stage: Navigation and guidance system (126 kg),
stability and control system (49 kg), reaction control system (250 kg),
communications (21 kg), ECS for equipment (58 kg).
The LM Truck concept used a modified LM descent stage as a
Lunar
Logistic Vehicle. The LM ascent stage was removed and replaced by
a cargo platform.
The LM Truck was an LM Descent stage adapted for unmanned
delivery of payloads of up to 5,000 kg to the lunar surface in support of a
lunar base using Apollo technology. The LM Truck would make precision landing
using radio landing beacons prepositioned by the lunar base staff.
The Truck would be accompanied by an Apollo CSM on a purely lunar orbital
mission. Alternatively, two trucks could be delivered in a single unmanned
Saturn V mission, with a partially-fueled Apollo Service Module being used for
the lunar orbit insertion maneuver. Items added to the basic descent stage:
Navigation and guidance system (126 kg), stability and control system (49 kg),
reaction control system (250 kg), communications (21 kg), ECS for equipment (58
kg).
The LM Truck concept used a modified LM descent stage as a Lunar Logistic
Vehicle. The LM ascent stage was removed and replaced by a cargo platform.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module
9 Apollo missions
could bring the reported 842 pounds of Moon rock back to Earth
Apollo 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17 included a LM going at least to Moon
orbit.
Problem: The photos of the Astronauts on the Moon have been determined to be a fake. However the rocks brought back have been positively identified as Moon rocks by many top scientists. How can we reconcile this?
Solution hypothesis: The walks on the Moon were faked. Unmanned Lunar Modules landed on the Moon, retrieved rocks and soil, then returned them to the Earth.
Even if a LM Descent Module is actually on the Moon, it could
have been a remote controlled Apollo LM Truck.
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/apotruck.htm
Its remotely controlled Lunar Rover could have left tire tracks
A remotely controlled Ascent Module could have brought back bona fide Moon
rocks.
Variations of the LM Truck were built by Grumman. The project was allegedly
cancelled in 1968.
Or the Truck became classified, in order to leave a Descent Module, and bring
back rocks.
Once NASA can figure out how to get through the Van Allen Belts of deadly
radiation,
and truly get men on the Moon, the Apollo "landing" sites will probably be
restricted areas,
to give time them to walk around making foot prints, and place the ALSEP
experiments
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter photos of descent stages of
unmanned LEM.
Ascent stage brought back rocks from the Moon as did Russia's Luna 16 in 1970.
http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/featured_sites/lroc_features/Apollo%2011/feature_highlights
Soviet 2 rocket plan to go to the Moon
Retrieving rockets
BEIJING, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- China on Monday published a full coverage map of the moon, as well as several high-resolution images of the celestial body, captured by the country's second moon orbiter, the Chang'e-2.
The map and images, released by the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND), are the highest-resolution photos of the entirety of the moon's surface to be published thus far, said Liu Dongkui, deputy chief commander of China's lunar probe project.
The images were photographed by a charge-coupled device (CCD) stereo camera on the Chang'e-2 from heights of 100 km and 15 km over the lunar surface between October 2010 and May 2011, according to a statement from SASTIND.
The resolution of the images obtained from Chang'e-2 is 17 times greater than those taken by the its predecessor, the Chang'e-1.
If there were airports and harbors on the moon, the Chang'e-1 could simply identify them, while the Chang'e-2 would be able to detect planes or ships inside of them, said Tong Qingxi, an academic from the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The scientists also spotted traces of the previous Apollo mission in the images, said Yan Jun, chief application scientist for China's lunar exploration project."
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2012-02/06/c_131393210.htm
Note that there is just one sentence in this article, with no photos released.
The Chinese are seeing the Descent Module of the remote controlled Lunar Module
Truck built by Grumman to return rocks from the Moon to convince scientists and
the Soviets. The astronauts remained in Earth orbit safely below the Van Allen
Belts. www.MoonTruth.org/truck