Last man on the moon dead

[bluethrough]

True but it's pretty hard to escape earth's gravity. Once you do, pointing yourself towards the moon is not that difficult. Getting back alive is, of course.

I think you can argue that the 60 years of progress between the Wrights hopping around a field and Gagarin getting into space is more impressive than the 8 years between that and Armstrong.

Agree that getting out of atmosphere can be tricky, but seems that China and India expecting to walk on the moon in 15-20 years. So have to assume that the journey isn't that straight forward, and that's with todays technology.

That said I do believe they got to the moon but just can't figure how the hell they managed it back then.

[jon1959]

Agree that getting out of atmosphere can be tricky, but seems that China and India expecting to walk on the moon in 15-20 years. So have to assume that the journey isn't that straight forward, and that's with todays technology.

That said I do believe they got to the moon but just can't figure how the hell they managed it back then.

They had help from the Clangers and the Soup Dragon (please don't say they're made up too!).

[bluethrough]

They had help from the Clangers and the Soup Dragon (please don't say they're made up too!).

Well that sort of makes sense, if we hadn't been there we wouldn't know about them would we