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Square image with a dark background, with an illustration of a multi-stage rocket depicted horizontally in the center. Above the rocket, white text reads, "the moon landing was staged?" Below the rocket, more white text reads "yeah that's how all orbital rockets fucking work dude"

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Even SSTO has the single stage. To orbit.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago

Me, coming to the comments about to ask "what about SSTO?"

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Thanks to OP for reminding me to check my staging

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago

Jeb's just operating a unscheduled manned solar orbital satellite.

They'll be fine

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

It's just a little jaunt to Ike to grab a Kerbal for a contract. How hard could it be?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Kraken decided my Jeb gets a little interstellar travel as a treat, so he is traveling at incredible speed in a straight line directly away from such ideas as "back" or "alive"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

This guy kerbals

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The moon landing wasn't staged, the launch was...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The lander did have a stage separation though, It left the landing gear and motor on the moon, and the accent stage took it back into lunar orbit.

[–] leftzero 6 points 11 months ago

Also, wouldn't leaving the command module in lunar orbit before landing count as staging..?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I had two middle aged coworkers the other day talking about how it was staged. I should have showed them both this today. But I didn't want to engage lol.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah it'd be a waste of your time and energy.

I had two friends recently suddenly drop into the conspiracist nutball rabbit hole, and I really don't have much enthusiasm to see them anymore. Last time I saw them they grilled me on the moon landings, and absolutely nothing I said meant anything to them. If I hesitated even for a second when answering one of their "accusations" they took it as proof that I'm the one who doesn't know what they're talking about – couldn't be that I was trying to think of a way of explaining something to people who clearly aren't familiar with the subject at all beyond whatever idiotic conspiracy garbage they've consumed.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You could also have staging in model rocketry. The largest we ever had was a 3-stage running on G-size engines. The "Red, White, and Clusterfuck". If all three stages ignited and properly, you got a solid boom outta her. The frame outlived several nosecones from the friction they had to endure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That sounds, intense.

[–] leftzero 9 points 11 months ago

Blue blistering bell-bottomed balderdash, you blabber-mouthed vegetarian pithecanthropus!

I suppose technically it's single stage...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The Atlas rocket was single stage to orbit.

But yeah, every Gemini and Apollo rocket was staged, as was the space shuttle.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

It was partially staged. The main benefit of staging is dropping dry mass during the burn, and the Atlas I dropped engines

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Good luck making a single stage to lunar surface rocket.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I just need more struts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah uh... what about SSTOs huh? I bet we'll have some sick aerospike powered vehicles any day now!

spoilerRIP Rocketdyne XRS-220

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

single stage to orbit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

SSTO enthusiasts in shambles

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

You mean single stage to orbit fans?

Honestly I'm surprised at the amount of people making SSTO jokes in the comments without knowing what that initialism stands for

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Thank you for adding a description.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Nuh uh. They snuck the astronauts into the Star Trek sets at night and used the transporters obviously. They knew the props wouldn't have been convincing enough…

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