On October 4, 1957, Russia launched the first artificial satellite in history - Sputnik. For many Americans this is a shocking event. A few days later Werner von Braun, a leading American rocket scientist, in an interview stated: “We are considering the control of the environment, as we can say, the great Maritime States are considering controlling the oceans from 16 to 18. It is a century, and they say that if we want to control the planet, we have to control the environment ”. Drs. Werner von Braun is a German engineer who invented Hitler's V-2 rocket during World War II, and now he has served in the US Army. For years, von Braun dreamed of exploring the area. And a lot of people think you brought America to the Moon. But this is not true. Now I will tell you what I have learned.
By the 1950's, a small team of engineers was planning a trip to the moon. They are called the Space Task Group - dreamers who dream amazing dreams that conceive and direct the first human system in space. They were the people who had to analyze and decide how they would go to the moon.
The basic decision to be made is about the plane. Two possibilities. The first, Direct Ascent, uses a single rocket to send a spacecraft to the moon. It's the way people always think. But sending a spacecraft all that way would take a rocket bigger, bigger than the Statue of Liberty - a beast called "NOVA." Werner von Braun proposes a different approach - Earth Orbit Rendezvous (EOR). The EOR uses two small rockets. Another sends a spacecraft. Another sends oil. The astronauts meet the fuel tank, fill their spacecraft, and then head to the moon. Direct Ascent is simple, but requires a large rocket. Earth Orbit Rendezvous uses small, but very complex rockets. Choosing the mode will be the most critical decision in the Apollo system, because it determines everything: spacecraft, rocket, training, budget, and system. Wrong choices mean losing to the Russians, and probably not reaching the moon at all. The response was unexpected. The engineer who recruited him was a foreigner - he did not belong to the Space Task Group and did not work for von Braun. Almost no one accepted the idea, but he did not give up. The story of his struggle is not well known, but the plan he promotes put America on the moon. His name is Dr. John C. Houbolt.
In 1959, Houbolt stated that both systems, Direct Ascent and Earth Orbit Rendezvous, would fail, due to the large rocket needed:
“It was a car about the size of Atlas. Down in Cape Town, it takes 3,000 men, a launch site, and a launch site to clear the Atlas of the world. They would put something the size of an Atlas on the moon, back, without help. I thought that was stupid ”.is it real lets me it possible 😂 man is out of his world
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