# For All Mankind TV program Physics. Spoilers requested

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**Post date:** [December 24, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-tv-program-physics-spoilers-requested/1012126/2 "2024-12-24T19:55:54Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> How are they getting space shuttles to the moon?

Through the power of stupidity. They stopped pretending to operate within a plausible reality early on.

> [@For All Mankind (spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-all-mankind-spoilers/842999/23):
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> Yes, it was. Utterly, moronicly wrong. “Okay, so we know it can’t,” Garrett Reisman, a former NASA astronaut who flew on the space shuttle, admitted in an interview with collectSPACE. Reisman, [who made a cameo appearance](http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-022621a-for-all-mankind-astronaut-reisman-cameo.html) as the commander of the space shuttle Columbia on its way back from the moon, has served as a technical advisor for the series from its start. “We all pointed out that the shuttle could never actually get to the moon. It had nowhere near enough delta-v,” he said, referring …

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