I was in the photography business for 25 yearswith close associations to Eastman Kodak. I was president of a camera retailers association. When the supposed anamolies of the photos came out, I consulted with several experts who explained them all to me. It was a long tome ago and I have forgotten the details, but I can assure you every question was attributed to either the conditions of the moon or photographic hiccups brought on by tricks of lighting, the type of lens used, and film limitations. I have long ago lost a letter from a consulting lab associated with Kodak explaining all this, and frankly forgot all about it until my conversation with you. I probably would retain all the details under hypnosis, what the hell.

Herb, I don't know. The extent that some people in government will go to for their perceived needs is amazing. One needs to question why would they do that, why would they put all the effort, money and resources into it, shoot up a large number of Saturn vehicles, and then skip the whole reason? Of course, we seem to be missing some pieces of the puzzle, so I have no idea. But some of the pictures do seem somewhat flaky, the one where the crosshairs are covered by stuff in front are particularly weird, if the crosshairs were supposed to be internal to the camera, so I don't know.

Nonsense.
My son worked at NASA and an astronaut was one of my customers. After all the work and training these people went through, it would be crazy to fake it.
Wouldn't it?

Thank you sir. I just saw a YT video (makes enforced ergo breaks go by) on 10 reasons why the moon landings were faked, and some of them are rather thought provoking. Given their performance, maybe they did decide a soundstage was easier to do than really going there...

If I'm the king of analogy, you're the crown prince.

yes, distinctly different from SpaceX but both are successful, unlike NASAs multi billion dollar boondoggles...

Exactly, and then trumpeting when they can do chopsticks, while the guy with the hands is doing Beethoven. Amazing...

Blue Origin has done their engineering in reuseable rockets with vtol.design. Werner Von Braun and Willey Ley worked together on artistic rendering of reusable rockets way back when but it went nowhere.

Yeah, I know. They all have brains, why don't they use them? It's like a man with hands trying to play the piano with his feet.

Herb, they will never figure it out, because their fantasy world is always bult around doing things with others money, and then claiming all the credit, look at the moon program..and people still debate whether it was real..

Kinda reminds me of something they would call a junebug or something...

nice, good pictures too!

Well this one does something a little different, it pops up vertically, launches the payload and descends vertically. I guess by doing it this way, the eliminate a lot of attitude issues, as well as reentry problems. Space X is going for a much more complicated technique, but both men need to be recognized for having the gumption to put their money into it.

Hardly the "third", even in the VTVL category, but still impressive.

Note that SpaceX is not landing an orbital rocket either, just a suborbital booster. An orbital VTVL rocket has never been built.

We were there when the first private launch left pad 41. ( Mr. Scot from Star Trek was aboard to be dispersed in space) The first video shows the 1st attempt that was scrubbed by an engine issue, next day it went off without a hitch. http://www.starznbarz.com/Space-shutt...

Buck Rogers has finally landed...

How many times must rational thinkers say, "The private sector" before the solons of shitheaditty catch on?

Neither, they do not frequent NASA authorized distributors....

Nice :)

You are welcome, sir.

Do they buy their rocket parts at Spacely Space Sprockets or Cogswell Cogs?

Reminds me off seeing rocket ship landings by Rocky Jones Space Ranger when I was a little hatchling.
This episode begins with a return to earth~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSBGg...

NASA had a golden opportunity with the DC-X, and promptly screwed it up, destroying the prototype, and then rejecting the whole idea to go after the Lockheed X-33 dead end. Now if we can kill SLS . . .

Falcon is launching to orbit -- which is a much bigger deal than up and down. Nevertheless it's an accomplishment I cheer.