Has the Apollo 10 lunar module finally been found?

Daily Mail ^ | 01:32 EDT, 27 April 2019 | By JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

In 1969, the Apollo 10 crew ejected the lunar module, named Snoopy, from the command module into orbit, never to be seen again – or so they thought
Astronomer Nick Howes, along with flight controllers, space dynamics experts and astronauts from the Apollo program, have spent years looking for it
The team believe they may have found the four-meter wide vehicle
Now all they need is someone with the expertise to go and retrieve it
The Apollo 10 mission was a dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 moon landing, which took place two months later in July 1969

[Flick Lives]

The Apollo 10 mission was a dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 moon landing, which took place two months later in July 1969

What's interesting is the rapidity with which NASA was able to move toward its goal back then, 50 years ago.

[Rurudyne]

The DNC wasn’t full of Cultural Marxists and the RNC full of afraid of any shadow Quislings back then.

[Dixie Yooper]

The article is about the lunar module, Snoopy, but of all the pictures they presented, not one single picture of Snoopy or any lunar module...

[knarf]

I just clicked TDM and immediately remembered why I never click TDM.

My little old computer cannot handle all that advertising !

I am fascinated by things from the past

[jimtorr]

What's interesting is the rapidity with which NASA was able to move toward its goal back then, 50 years ago.

It is surprising what can be done, when a project has unlimited funding and support.

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

Yeah my 1st comment must have removed for copyright issues. I posted a picture from the article of the command module that Daily Mail had labeled as the lunar module. The lunar module was the tin foil looking part that lands with the lunar lander. The command module is the one that returns to earth.

If the mods would be so kind, was the trouble the @SSPL via Getty Images? The other picture was from some musium off a Google search.

[Kartographer]

More to the point NASA itself was full of Team America players, now far to many I don’t are I just want my pension, the sky is falling climate change chicken littles and siphoning money social activist and Islamic sympathizors to do much about what their mission is truly about.

[IronJack]

I’ve had it in my basement all this time. I didn’t think they wanted it back.

[PAR35]

Did someone move it from the Nevada desert?

[PAR35]

If the mods would be so kind, was the trouble the @SSPL via Getty Images?

Not a mod, but if you will look at what you wrote, you might notice the words "Getty Images".

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Wikipedia: The ascent stage of the Apollo Lunar Module Snoopy was jettisoned into a heliocentric orbit. Its current location is unknown.

The article seems to claim that Snoopy was ejected into a selenocentric (moon-centered) orbit. It appears to have been recovered by radar, not visual search. It would be very difficult to recover it by radar it is was in a selenocentric orbit. Besides they state "The approximate distance it travels in its orbit is 940 million kilometers.". That's a heliocentric orbit at earth distance from the sun. A selenocentric orbit 50,000 feet above the surface would be about 11,000 km (6800 miles).

[Political Junkie Too]

Wow! I just had lunch with General Stafford yesterday. I was one of 150 people at the event.

-PJ

[cgbg]

Nixon told NASA either make it or fake it. ;-)

[Tallguy]

“What’s interesting is the rapidity with which NASA was able to move toward its goal back then, 50 years ago.”

It is. But most of the technology was already there, or close to being there, within the existing aerospace industry. All that it took was the political will and some brute force engineering to make up for those technologies that were still immature — like computers and solid state electronics.

The lunar module was scary. Building a spacecraft that could not be fully tested on earth? Test flying that thing on Apollo 10, 11 & 12 must have kept those astronauts, engineers and mission control guys up at night. What they were able to do with it by Apollo 13 was flat-out incredible.

[tennmountainman]

Noticed that too. Also where is the image of what they spotted?

[upchuck]

I’m using Ad Block Plus and see no ads. But you’re right, Daily Mail is loaded with advertising. Ghostery says it is blocking 7 trackers as well.

[Kartographer]

The flat earthers will be here soon enough please don’t feed them!

[Kartographer]

Are people clueless on how radar works?

[Fred Hayek]

This was a real stimulus program, unlike Obama throwing money at his cronies. It was understood from the beginning that this would be a major technology incubator that would spill over into nearly all industry sectors.