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Why wasn’t the LLRV designed with a helium balloon to simulate the moon’s gravity instead of the vertical jet engine?

Reddit r/nasa·u/ThePicard_2893·about 1 month ago
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I was re-watching First Man for the hundredth time and it occurred to me during the LLRV crash scene that the jet engine used to cancel 5/6 of the vehicles mass made it especially dangerous when it wasn’t perfectly vertical like in a case of Armstrong’s crash. Does anyone know if they even looked at using helium as a way to cancel out that same mass and if so, why they didn’t?

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