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  • Re: "Destination Moon" (1949) - Worth Watching

    From Mark Haas@vhaas@panix.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Tue Jun 23 22:35:11 2026
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    c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8sxUMOiP2M

    They actually did a pretty good job of this
    for the time. The math/engineering and the
    expected challenges.

    Sorry, no 'moon monsters' :-(

    Looks like they fly a 250' V2 with a
    thermal-atomic engine.

    The technical advisor, Robert Heinlein, was an engineer and sci-fi author.

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  • From c186282@c186282@nnada.net to comp.os.linux.misc on Wed Jun 24 00:41:11 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 6/23/26 18:35, Mark Haas wrote:
    c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8sxUMOiP2M

    They actually did a pretty good job of this
    for the time. The math/engineering and the
    expected challenges.

    Sorry, no 'moon monsters' :-(

    Looks like they fly a 250' V2 with a
    thermal-atomic engine.

    The technical advisor, Robert Heinlein, was an engineer and sci-fi author.

    He did a pretty good job - within the tech/budget/story
    constraints of the film.

    Knew a guy who called him uncle Bob. Apparently
    uncle Bob was kinda weird, not exactly the life
    of family gatherings :-)

    In any case, it shows that much of the know-how, issues
    and calculations for going to the moon were already there
    by '49 ... they just needed considerably bigger rockets.

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