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Square image with a dark background, with an illustration of a multi-stage rocket depicted horizontally in the center. Above the rocket, white text reads, "the moon landing was staged?" Below the rocket, more white text reads "yeah that's how all orbital rockets fucking work dude"

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[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The Atlas rocket was single stage to orbit.

But yeah, every Gemini and Apollo rocket was staged, as was the space shuttle.

[–] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

It was partially staged. The main benefit of staging is dropping dry mass during the burn, and the Atlas I dropped engines

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good luck making a single stage to lunar surface rocket.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I just need more struts.