did man really land on the moon?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Yes.

I know there are tons of conspiracy theories, but the fact is that the moon race was highly political. The Soviet Union was the first to launch a man into orbit; the USA had to land a man on the moon to prove that "our science" was just as good as "their science".

Both sides were watching each others' progress and failures. If the landings had been faked in any way, the Soviets would have screamed it to the world. Instead, they sent a brief message of congratulations and pretended that it wasn't that important anyway...

Answer 3

Of course not. You and the smart people who said "No" know that the moon is made of green cheese so there's no way a space ship could have landed there. The mice would have eaten them. Neil Armstrong is not real either. He is a robot that is on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. He was built by the folks at Disney who know how to do great animation.
Actually none of the space flights were real. They were all the work of Steven Spielberg and a staff of model designers. Believe nothing at all about it. It's all a conspiracy to make you think you have a brain. But you know that's a lie, don't you?

Answer 4

Yes. I remember watching the televison when Armstrong and Aldrin landed: I went to the window and look at the moon, thinking it was incredible there were men there.

Apart from the surviving astronauts and the masses of documentary, including film, evidence, the Americans brought back rocks whose composition is different from those on earth.

Answer 5

Tricky one. I think that the answer is yes, but I have seen pretty convincing evidence against. For instance, some of the photos taken have 2 shadows, i.e. 2 light sources, and as you know, there can only be one on the moon - the sun.
There is a phot with the Eagle lander in shadow, but in the shadow section, the US flag is clearly visible - how?.
The best one is one with the moon buggy. It has cross hairs on the photo from the camera lense, but one of the cross hairs is behind the buggy, i.e. you can only see 3/4 of a cross.
Hmmmmm

Answer 6

I give lectures on space exploration and this is a question that often comes up. I watched all the Moon missions and I have DVDs of the uncut transmissions from Apollo 11. So where shall we start?

1) There are shadows that go in different directions. All the shadows should be parallel.
Shadows caused by the sun will be parallel if (a) the objects that make them are parallel and (b) they fall on a flat surface. One of the famous photos used in this regard shows Jim Irwin by the flag on Apollo 15. Firstly Irwin is leaning forward, towards the camera, to counterbalance the mass of his backpack, whilst the flagpole is clearly leaning to one side – it may well be leaning backwards as well. Secondly, the surface of the Moon is not flat; it has craters and hills of all sizes and this means that shadows are very unlikely to fall in the same direction.
In fact the pictures are very strong proof that they were not taken in a studio. To do so would have certainly required more than one light, as there is no studio on Earth large enough to have a movie set a quarter of a mile wide – an absolute minimum requirement – that can be lit by a single source which would have to be even further away in order to avoid perspective from it. However if more than one light was used – and thus produced shadows going in different directions, then each item would have more than one shadow – one from each light. Now it can’t be argued that they were spotlights focussed on each object, because the ground would not be illuminated evenly (there would be “hot-spots”) and there would be occasions when, say, an astronaut walked by the flag and both shows would have been visible. In fact there isn’t a single photo that shows an object with two shadows.

2) The flag “waves” when it should remain still.
In all cases the video used to illustrate this is from a sequence when the astronauts are still setting the flag up, so of course it’s waving around. They are doing their best to push the pole into the ground and set the upper part with the flag in place. Incidentally, the flag is held out at right-angles to the pole by a wire stiffener, otherwise it would hang straight down and would hardly be seen. However once the astronauts let go and the vibrations moving the flag die down, it never moves again – not even when the astronauts run past it. On Earth, this would stir up air currents which would make the flag move, but in the vacuum of the Moon, it stays still. Further proof they are in a vacuum is given by the dust kicked up by the astronauts boots and the wheels of the lunar rover. The dust simply follows an arc and falls back to the surface. In an atmosphere this would have created swirls of dust clouds in the air. This did not happen. Never mind a movie set, there is nowhere on Earth that has a vacuum chamber anywhere near large enough to have filmed any of this.

3) The shadow areas should be absolutely black as there is no air to scatter the light.
This is similar to “All the mountains should be sharp as there is no weather to smooth them”. That was what we originally thought, before we reached them Moon and realised that the mountains really were smooth because – without an atmosphere – there was no protections from millions of years of micro-meteorites that battered its surface.
Yes, the air on Earth does scatter the light, but a much greater effect is simply the reflection of the sun off the ground, and anything else. The reason we can see the Moon at all is because the sunlight reflects off its surface, and it reflects in all directions. Again, there is one famous photo used to make this point – Aldrin descending the ladder to the Moon. In this picture, Armstrong is looking almost towards the sun, which is out of the frame, which means that the light is coming this way and bouncing off the surface of the Moon back on to the Lunar Module and Aldrin.

4) The are no stars in any of the pictures.
A photo taken on Earth showing a night scene won’t show any stars either. They are simply too faint to be seen normally. The human eye adjusts to different light levels, and our pupils expand to let in more light, so we can take in a night scene and then look up and, as our pupils expand further, see the stars. A camera iris can be opened up in a similar way, but the difference in the brightness of the ground and the stars is such that to correctly expose a picture to show stars would completely overexpose everything else. You can have this confirmed by any photographer.

5) The astronauts just went round the Earth.
Give the Russians some credit. We can track spacecraft out to the limits of the solar system. The Russians sent the first probe to the Moon in 1959. If Apollo 11 didn’t actually go to the Moon they would have been the first to jump up and down and say so.

Some other points.
If this was all filmed in a studio, and it couldn’t be done in real-time, as they couldn’t create the slow-motion that has been proposed, then all the filming would have had to have taken place before the mission. Yet the astronauts' time was all accounted for.

It is impossible to manufacture rocks, whatever ceramics laboratory NASA is supposed to have. In any case, Moonrocks are not made of ceramic! What they are is 4.6 billion years old, much older than the oldest rocks ever found on Earth. They also contain materials in different combinations to Earth rocks, and in over 35 years, not a single person who has studied the rock samples all around the world has ever expressed the slightest doubt about their reality.

There is one point that the conspiracy theorists totally refuse to discuss, as they know they don’t have a leg to stand on: The astronauts left reflector arrays that are still used to bounce lasers fired from Earth. By timing the pulses, the distance to the Moon can be measured down to a few centimetres. It is impossible for lasers to be reflected in this way from anywhere else on the Moon.

Finally, at the peak of the Apollo programme, NASA employed over 400,000 people, and not one, not an astronaut, a mission controller, anyone who worked at any of the NASA centres, nor any of the contractors has ever stood up and said “It was a fake”. On the contrary, there are hundreds of tons of documents about the missions, the plans, the equipment, the training; thousands of hours of film; hundreds of thousands of photos. Why create all of this? Why build the Saturn V rockets? The fact is, it would have actually been easier to go to the Moon than it would to have faked everything.

Casting doubt on the Moon landings does a dis-service to everyone who was involved in them, and to science in general. What we should be doing is to promote science, to use space to inspire youngsters to study science and technology, and to be proud that we have achieved a most amazing feat that has resulted in humans walking on the surface of another world.

Jerry Stone FBIS FRAS

Answer 7

Yes America did go to to the moon.
And to the guy talking about the moving flag, actually look at the footage, and tell me when the flag was moving when no-one was touching it.
I think you'll find it never, the flag only moved when the astronauts were touching it, cos there was no drag on the flag due to it being in a vacuum.

Answer 8

Some people say the vidoes of them are fake but yes man did walk on the moon

Answer 9

Yes, I remember watching it on TV when I was a tiny child. It was a very exciting time and I had space posters on my wall, including a view of earth from the moon. Great stuff.

Answer 10

The answer is 100% yes we did. I have seen components of the vehichles that brought us there and back. I have also seen moon rocks that were brought back. I have even seen equipment and suits that were used on the Lunar surface, I even saw the "golf club" that was used on the moon.

Answer 11

A lot of people think I'm crazy when I say this (and I really don't care) but no one actually went to the moon. You won't belive the proof you can find on www.wikipedia.com.