Corrected entry: Due to the Earth's gravity, is it impossible to land a space craft vertically, braking by using booster rockets (as was supposedly done on the Moon). It would require almost as much power and fuel as at lift-off.
Jacob La Cour
26th Nov 2006
You Only Live Twice (1967)
25th Nov 2006
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Corrected entry: The American astronaut says 'My lifeline is cut!' before his lifeline is cut. He actually doesn't know it's gonna be cut.
Correction: He doesn't say "cut", since his speech gets 'cut' off before he can finish the sentence. He could've been about to say "caught" or something else.
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Correction: Leaving aside the implication that the Moon landings never happened (and if they didn't, why didn't the Russians blow the whistle on the whole thing?) a rocket can land vertically, using booster rockets. The Delta Clipper, or DC-X, tested by McDonnell-Douglas in 1993, did exactly that in two test flights. See http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/x-33/menu_dcx.htm and http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/dc-x.htm The failure of the DC-X was not related to vertical takeoff and landing but to human error and lack fo funding.