re: Joe Rogan Podcast with Bart Sibrel - who here believes the Moon Landing was a hoax?

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And yes, 1969 USA did have better propulsion technology and space infrastructure technology than modern China, or Japan, or Europe, or anyone else. TO THIS DAY, the Saturn F-1 engine remains the most reliable, most powerful rocket engine EVER built. It is literally in a class by itself. All modern rockets seek to take a cheaper route that requires less reliability than the F-1, so they use more smaller engines, an approach with several tradeoffs that reduces the chances of spectacular test stand explosions and other kinetic events. Scoreboard, homie.

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F1s got us up off the ground, J2s got us to the moon, and had to be able to fire up a 2nd time, deep in space. Rocketdyne really did some incredible work back in the day. I couldn't imagine the tension of getting ready to fire the 3rd stage for its 2nd burn