Even I have to admit that was a pretty entertaining little video. Rather well made, even though as shuttle_guy said, the crew vehicle hanging around on the pad after the booster ignites is somewhat irksome. There also was the whole rocket sounds in a vacuum thing, but I suppose that could be attributed to miking the vehicle as opposed to the camera platform. Could we get a better camera for the remote camera viewing the lunar liftoff? Also did anyone catch some of the kind of background dialog? At least two times, and possibly a third the line "Ok, we'll be thinking about it" was repeated by somebody over what I guess would be the radio circuit. Apparantly no matter what happens, a whole lot of thinking is going to be done either on the moon or in mission control. <br /><br />After watching both videos the overwhelming impression I was left with was that they were almost straight out of Apollo 13. Both of them only enhance the the feeling that we're just rehashing Apollo, putting folks on the moon to scoop some lunar regolith in their hands, set up some more scientific-looking instruments, and then come home. Can't we get a good combination wherein we're reusing some of the orbital hardware, the stuff which is most expensive to get into orbit, is recycled? Can't we leave a service module type thing in orbit, an LSAM orbiting the moon and simply lift fuel for both the service module and LSAM to avoid always having to build and lift those for every time we want to land on the moon, stomp some footprints, and pick up some rocks?
A video made by me about space and the loneliness in the universe
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