If human space travel is possible, it should be possible to win my Challenge.
So is that a yes?
But you really must fulfil the requirements of my Challenge to win it.
If you use a simulator to calculate certain manoeuvres - ok - but present it writing.
Why? Isn't a simulator
better then writing?
To suggest that just starting a rocket results in entering Moon orbit is no good. It is NASA/Buzz 1969 style. You must perform much better. How did you, e.g., arrive to the location starting the Moon orbit entry manoeuvre, etc.
I didn't just say that you turn on your engine when you get to the Moon, I said that you burn retrograde near lunar pedigree, or in other words you point the ship engine first and start the engine right before you reach the lowest point in your orbit. To find the exact burn time and ignition time you take your speed at pedigree, subtract orbital velocity of the Moon at that altitude, divide that by the acceleration the engine induces on the space craft, and you have the burn time and you just need to divide that by 2 to find out what the time to pedigree should be when you start the burn. I could provide more precise equations and stuff if it would help.
The trans lunar injection is slightly more complex, it includes n body calculations and orbital rendezvous stuff so it's almost impossible to calculate on paper.
Orbiter actually uses flight computers much like those on real space ships and it even simulates instrumental error.
On ships at sea we draw the courses on our 2-D charts, etc. You must do something similar in 3-D space, I think. I don't want you to go off in the wrong direction and get completely lost.
Navigating ships is not at all like navigating space ships, space ships use a lot of math and computer simulations to navigate and because of velocity and frame of reference stuff it's impossible to have all the necessary information to navigate a space ship on a 2D diagram. I am doing my best to explain this stuff to you but it's really complicated and your lack of understanding cannot be used as proof that it's wrong. You evidently have no idea how your computer works but that doesn't mean it doesn't work.
At sea you may ran aground, if taking the wrong course. In space the risk is that you just disappear for ever. Maybe that is something to consider. Applies also to other clowns watching your show.
If you think that navigating a space craft is anything like navigating a boat then you have been watching too much Star Trek.
And I am curious to know what gloves your space travellers are using when outside the space craft.
Let me guess, next I have to explain the types of screws in the service module, how the astronauts went to the bathroom, the specs of the flight computer, the locking mechanism on the docking ports, and other irrelevant things.
I am also disappointed that you missed the NASA space craft landing at Utah but it was some years back. Then you could learn how to do a re-entry and land in your backyard or garden.
I wasn't even aware that that happened until you told me about it and not to mention I live over 500 miles from where it landed anyway. I didn't even have a drivers license at the time too, so I couldn't have gone if I wanted to.