These are two different tech trees. Rockets had 1000+ years of development to get to this point while aeroplanes had ~30. I hate that this bullshit gets repeated. They are not equivalent in any way.
It is a bit different sending a paper rocket into the air and successfully bringing people to the moon.
I don’t think anyone is arguing that rockets started development 66 years before humans reaching the moon. It is just that it is a rapid development from barely being possible for humans to fly to suddenly (66 years later) bouncing around on the moon.
Came to say this. The Apollo missions are forks of ICBMs.
We should instead show a picture of Robert Goddard next to his 1926 LO2-fuel rocket and then man on the moon and say “These two images are only 43 years apart.” It’s objectively more impressive because within an average lifetime at any point in history, we went from rockets as fireworks and weapons to landing on the moon. But it also requires people to know who Robert Goddard is and what he invented.
The pictures also only mean anything when you know what they are supposed to be showing. If you have no context what either shows then it took us 66 years to add some colour to pictures while the overall quality of the picture didn’t even increase by all that much.
These are two different tech trees. Rockets had 1000+ years of development to get to this point while aeroplanes had ~30. I hate that this bullshit gets repeated. They are not equivalent in any way.
It is a bit different sending a paper rocket into the air and successfully bringing people to the moon.
I don’t think anyone is arguing that rockets started development 66 years before humans reaching the moon. It is just that it is a rapid development from barely being possible for humans to fly to suddenly (66 years later) bouncing around on the moon.
Came to say this. The Apollo missions are forks of ICBMs.
We should instead show a picture of Robert Goddard next to his 1926 LO2-fuel rocket and then man on the moon and say “These two images are only 43 years apart.” It’s objectively more impressive because within an average lifetime at any point in history, we went from rockets as fireworks and weapons to landing on the moon. But it also requires people to know who Robert Goddard is and what he invented.
I’m hoping this future post of yours makes it to the front page so many can learn.
The pictures also only mean anything when you know what they are supposed to be showing. If you have no context what either shows then it took us 66 years to add some colour to pictures while the overall quality of the picture didn’t even increase by all that much.
Pretty sure flight and orbital mechanics have some overlap.