Was the first moon landing faked?

Question

I search for photos. In every picture there were no stars. There should be thousands of stars visible from the moon.

Answer 1

Ugh I cannot believe people actually ask this retarded questions.
Tell you what sparky, go outside at night, when there are plenty of stars. Now, take a picture of a friend with a flash or using an external light (as they did on the moon) Know what you'll find when the photos come back? NO STARS!
When you understand what FOCAL LENGTH means, you'll know why the photos on the moon have no stars in them. I hope the website helps you understand...

Answer 2

It was real - you can actually find the flag with a good telescope on a clear night (and with a good filter).

And in the pictures the stars are there! They're just too faint to be seen.

The Moon's surface is airless. On Earth, our thick atmosphere scatters sunlight, spreading it out over the whole sky. That's why the sky is bright during the day. Without sunlight, the air is dark at night, allowing us to see stars.

On the Moon, the lack of air means that the sky is dark. Even when the Sun is high off the horizon during full day, the sky near it will be black. If you were standing on the Moon, you would indeed see stars, even during the day.

So why aren't they in the Apollo pictures? Pretend for a moment you are an astronaut on the surface of the Moon. You want to take a picture of your fellow space traveler. The Sun is low off the horizon, since all the lunar landings were done at local morning. How do you set your camera? The lunar landscape is brightly lit by the Sun, of course, and your friend is wearing a white spacesuit also brilliantly lit by the Sun. To take a picture of a bright object with a bright background, you need to set the exposure time to be fast, and close down the aperture setting too; that's like the pupil in your eye constricting to let less light in when you walk outside on a sunny day.

So the picture you take is set for bright objects. Stars are faint objects! In the fast exposure, they simply do not have time to register on the film. It has nothing to do with the sky being black or the lack of air, it's just a matter of exposure time. If you were to go outside here on Earth on the darkest night imaginable and take a picture with the exact same camera settings the astronauts used, you won't see any stars!

Answer 3

No way was it faked. Lack of stars in photos is not evidence. Even though the moon has no atmosphere to scatter sunlight it WAS daytime on the moon when the astronauts were there, and the sun is pretty bright -- as is the earth. If the astronauts were on the side of the moon facing away from the sun you might expect more in the way of stars.

Answer 4

It was real. All of the supposed "evidence" has been countered, many many times. Faking it would not have been possible with the knowledge and technology of the times, nor would such a fake have stood up to modern forensic analysis. Plus, the more people are involved in a hoax, the more likely it is that the information will leak or one of them will admit it outright. The number of people needed to fake a moon landing, including multiple launches that hundreds of people witnessed (unless everyone who went down to watch them was a hired patsy-including the news media people) would have assured that a leak would have happened somewhere along the line.

Answer 5

It's sad that people start doubting things like the moon landings when irresponsible shows like that one I saw on FOX years ago make false arguments just for the sake of creating sensational controversies out of nothing.

The responders talking about the stars being washed out by the bright sunlight in the photos are right. People really have gone to the moon and back.

Answer 6

The lunar photographs show no stars in them because they were exposed for the daylight lit lunar scenes! This badly underexposes any stars in the sky. If the landing was faked dont you think that they would have put the stars in the faked picture? The moon landing was not faked there is just way to much evidence saying that it was not.

Answer 7

I heard some people thought it was fake because during the video of the moon landing the flag seemed to be blown by wind...which is of course impossible if there's no wind on the moon. However, I think its real cuz look, they're able to send things up into mars and telescopes far far away, im sure landing on the moon isnt that hard at this day and age

Answer 8

there's no wind on the moon. watchclip of the first moon landing, the flag is waving. there is also a glare on one of the astronauts helmets. there wasn't supposed to be sunlight on that side of the moon during that period in time. There are many clues which shows that the moon landing may all have been filmed at area 51, the surface there is just like the moon. Oh yeah, the space shuttle was not built to withstand the amount of radiation that it would have had to travel through to even reach the moon

Answer 9

with a powerful telescope at the right time, you can still see the gear left by the men that went there, to include part of the lander, a luner rover, an american flag on a pole as well as footprints. With actual evidence which you can see with the proper equipment, I can definitely say no, they were not faked. However it is also an important note that once we found out it was not made of cheese, we never had an urge to go back. "Behold! The power of cheese!"

Answer 10

When those pictures were taken, they were shooting in daylight.
Try this. Set your camera's exposure for full daylight, f/16 at 1/100th of a second with ISO 100 film. Then go out at night an shoot a picture of a starry sky and see how many stars you see.

The answer is going to be none. They aren't bright enough to show up when you expose for direct sunlight.