belever said:
Thanks again Jason1 for all the details.
It seems strange that they could go 6 times and then never again, so perhaps the whole series is in question.
If we assume the landings did happen, and going by the USA Governments reasoning, by the end of the 6th there was a huge lack of interest and so the budget for NASA was being talked about. no longer did any one give shit and it cost a tonne is why they say moon landings were stopped.
The 5th and 6th landings received very little public interest,In fact by the 6th it wasnt even really televised as TV channels found no rating value in it, Apparently the 6th apparent landing received more tv views in Australia than it did in the USA, as The ABC broadcasted it in full.
But really The decline of interest started after Apollo 13's failed attempt which would have been the 3rd, People started not caring much and started questioning the money being spent on these landings. NASA started getting budget cuts as a result.
as for batteries,I've just asked an Astronomer friend over messenger, who is Space geek. he said the following "The Apollo Missions used Eagle Picher silver-zinc batteries, For around 50 years these Batteries were the most common Batteries used in space and In USA weapon systems"
I asked about How they could stay warm, cool and not use up batteries, reply "Not to sound Nerdy I will put it like this- Essentially it has to do with their Suits, the insulation and the vacuum of space."
"There was allot of planning on when to land the craft in relation to when the radiation was more favorable to astronauts"
"The Astronauts suits blocked most of the radiation and because their boots were insulated they did not lose or gain any heat via contact with the Moons surface. What most People don't Know is in the vacuum of space there is only two ways heat can transfer naturally and that is gained via radiation or lost by contact with a surface, Eg feet or hands touching the moons surface. With good insulation and good light deflection, Keeping a Livable temp is easy without using powered heating or cooling sources. Essentially they were never exposed to the Moons wild temperature variations Simply because of their suits which they wore the entire time they were on the moon"
"The LEM was simply wrapped in a very thin foil which protected the equipment, the LEM did not have an airlock and the astronauts lived in their suits, so foil aka thermal control blanket was all that was needed protect the LEM"
So going by that and if correct to me it sounds like there was no drain of battery power for heating or cooling due to there actually being no heating or cooling being done at all with the space lander.
EDIT: from what Ive read also there was some water being pumped around the suit when needed for cooling of the bodies natural heat thats generated by the body it self not from the outside, and some body heat and humidity vented from the suit along with co2, so there likely wasnt a great deal of energy being used todo that. the life support system is fairly basic in those back packs yet did such a complex thing. So in-regards to the questions raised on the meme on the previous page, which poses interesting questions. It however seems the Lander was not providing life support, other than carrying things for the suits, like air tanks the suits had their own life support back packs, with own battery packs. they wore suits the entire time and changed out life support components when they needed. So if we say this is all real then, the Landers batteries would have only been doing the basics and the coms from the moon, would have been sent to the command Module that was floating around the moons orbit, then from the Command module the transmissions would have been relayed to earth. from memory radio- tv signal doesn't need a great deal of power to transmit. its mostly about the receiver side, but Im trying to remember year 8 stuff here lol so dont quote me completely on the radio tv signal, power requirement stuff
"What they did have problems with was Dust Filtration, it was not a problem when they were on the moon as they were living in their suits, But when they returned to the command module, they brought back with them all the dust they had on their space suits"
Moon Dust is Extremely fine, and is positively charged so it stuck to space suits like a magnet"
"During All 6 moon landings a number of Astronauts got sick from the Moon dust and it made return flights to earth extremely uncomfortable. The Moon dust contamination is actually one of the main reasons many say moon stations would fail"
NOW Again Im not advocating a for or against here, im just giving some explanations Ive been given. we will likely never know for sure if the moon landings were real or not sadly
Edit again: he sent me the specs of the life support system for the suits back packs, they had rechargeable batteries. they only required 33watts to power the life support, so if thats the case, damn thats efficient, looks like it needed its oxygen charged by tanks on the lander every 4 hours. it doesnt seem to say however how much battery capacity is in the suits Life support, which is unfortunate, because we cant see if they needed to charge the battery while they were on the moon or not. I dont know if its a 12v-24v-48v system. THIS IS A BIG GUESS, but Lets say for arguments sake, it was a 50AH battery which is roughly 600wh @12v, that would mean 600watt hours, meaning the suit using 33watts would mean the battery would last 18hours roughly before needing a charge. obviously thats a big guess on what battery it ran. 50ah seems like a size that would fit in a backpack fairly easily though.
This is at least an interesting convo, like i said im on the fence about this moon landing stuff so its great looking at both arguments.