#moonlanding

What do we know about SpaceX’s HLS? This video explains the issues with landing on the Moon. They tell us about how Starship HLS is planning to land using thrusters that are higher on the body, so they don’t blow the dust as much.‘This isn’t new, I mentioned them years ago in a comment, I remember, but can’t find, there are too many…’ They don’t say much about the landing legs, but for that,…

The moon landing always looked simple on television.

Rocket goes up. Astronauts land. America wins.

But the truth was messier than that.

A single mistake in those calculations could leave human beings floating forever in cold darkness.

And somewhere in a quiet room, Katherine Johnson kept checking the numbers by hand while the rest of the country stared at the sky.

Years later they gave her a medal.

Honestly? It feels like history saying thank you far too late.

When I was younger, I thought history belonged to the people standing in front of the cameras.

The astronauts. The presidents. The men everybody already knew.

But somewhere inside NASA, a woman named Katherine Johnson sat quietly with a pencil, trying to calculate whether human beings could survive the darkness of space.

Nobody clapped for her while she was doing it.

And somehow that makes her story hit even harder.

Everybody remembers the moon landing.

The rocket. The flag. The men walking across another world.

But the older I get, the more I think about the woman nobody could see in those photographs.

While America watched the sky, Katherine Johnson sat alone with a pencil, trying to make sure those astronauts would come home alive.

That honestly feels more human to me than the moon itself.

Bruno Stanek

RIP 1943 - 2026

He was all-present in Swiss TV during the Apollo Missions and beyond.