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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"
Even SSTO has the single stage. To orbit.
Me, coming to the comments about to ask "what about SSTO?"
Thanks to OP for reminding me to check my staging
Bring Jeb back alive
Jeb's just operating a unscheduled manned solar orbital satellite.
They'll be fine
It's just a little jaunt to Ike to grab a Kerbal for a contract. How hard could it be?
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"
This guy kerbals
I still prescribe to the theory that we tried to fake the moon landing, but Stanley Kubrick being a perfectionist kept insisting they shoot on location prompting us to do it for real anyway.
How many times are people going to post this nonsense?
Kubrick notoriously hated filming on location.
He of course did have NASA send astronauts to the moon to shoot background and reference pictures, he was a perfectionist, after all, but the official landing was filmed in Shepperton, England.
Also, no one's going to believe this unless you tell them about the practically unique Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/0.7 lens NASA gave him as payment, which allowed him to shoot the candlelit scenes in Barry Lyndon.
The moon landing wasn't staged, the launch was...
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.
Also, wouldn't leaving the command module in lunar orbit before landing count as staging..?
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.
That sounds, intense.
Blue blistering bell-bottomed balderdash, you blabber-mouthed vegetarian pithecanthropus!
The Atlas rocket was single stage to orbit.
But yeah, every Gemini and Apollo rocket was staged, as was the space shuttle.
It was partially staged. The main benefit of staging is dropping dry mass during the burn, and the Atlas I dropped engines
Good luck making a single stage to lunar surface rocket.
I just need more struts.
Oh yeah uh... what about SSTOs huh? I bet we'll have some sick aerospike powered vehicles any day now!
spoiler
RIP Rocketdyne XRS-220
single stage to orbit
SSTO enthusiasts in shambles
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
Yea I understand. That’s why they’re in shambles.
Okay then I clearly just don't get your joke 😅
I think people understand what SSTO stands for. People are talking about SSTO because in your title you claimed the four stage Saturn V was single-staged
is this the fucking N1 rocket?
Damn bro, the US fucking died with this post.
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…
kek gottem.