To land on the surface of the moon required the lander to descent onto the lunar surface. How much rocket fuel was used to descend to the surface of the moon?
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4Duplicate (repost) of Apollo 11 space mission – uhoh Apr 12 '19 at 00:12
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1This is a (somewhat unintentional?) repost of the same question from yesterday. Considering the number of comments the OP posted there as accidental answers, it looks like you might benefit from slowing down a bit and familiarizing yourself with how to use the site. You can take the tour and also visit the help center to learn more. – uhoh Apr 12 '19 at 00:14
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3It's not a dupe. The previous question asked about insertion into lunar orbit, this one is asking about descent from lunar orbit to surface. – Russell Borogove Apr 12 '19 at 00:32
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3That said, @carleto, you may want to take a look at How do we know the Apollo Moon landings are real before going much further with this line. – Russell Borogove Apr 12 '19 at 00:35
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1Related: How was reserve fuel calculated for the Apollo missions? – Russell Borogove Apr 12 '19 at 00:37
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"most of the fuel in the descent stage." – Apr 12 '19 at 11:14
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I voted against reopening - the OP's continuous questions in comments show what they are trying to get from these, and it isn't real answers. – Rory Alsop Apr 20 '19 at 08:12
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According to Apollo By The Numbers, the LM descent stage for Apollo 11 started with 8248 kg of propellant (fuel + oxidizer), and consumed 7899 kg of it in descent. 3050 kg of that was Aerozine-50 fuel, the rest nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer.
Additional equipment was added to later Apollo missions, so the LMs tended to get progressively heavier, and so used more fuel on descent; Apollo 15 used the most, at 8334 kg of 8873 kg loaded.
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My calculations show the amount of fuel required to land on the surface of the moon using descent rocket is 250,000 lb using a lander moon wt of 2,500 lb yet the according to NASA the lander contains 18,000 kg of fuel. – carl eto Apr 13 '19 at 19:21
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3Then there’s something quite wrong with your calculations. Since you haven’t told us anything about them, it’s impossible for us to tell you where you’ve gone wrong. – Russell Borogove Apr 13 '19 at 19:37
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How much fuel does it take to launch a 2,500 lb lay load into the earth's orbit? – carl eto Apr 13 '19 at 19:49
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It wasn’t a hoax. https://space.stackexchange.com/q/28172/195 – Russell Borogove Apr 13 '19 at 20:24
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That’s a separate question that you’ve already asked. The answers are also given in the resource I linked here, Apollo By The Numbers. The Space Stack Exchange community, on the whole, believes in the Apollo landings and you will make yourself very unwelcome if you continue pushing hoaxer theories. If there are particular aspects of the Apollo program you don’t understand, we’re happy to address your questions. – Russell Borogove Apr 13 '19 at 20:32
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... it is Bart Sibrel's "A funny thing happened on the way to the Moon" @carleto – Apr 15 '19 at 07:55