With the hype about the moon missions being fake,Why not have a telescope like Fernbanks just show the site ?

Question

I mean, I've heard about how the government faked the whole moon mission thing. I personally believe the missions were real, however it seems to me that it would be so easy to prove. Why NASA hasn't done something like this before is strange. Maybe they have and I am the only one who doesn't know it?

Answer 1

there are two reasons for this 1st the telescope is not powerful enough. 2nd the people claiming the moon landings were fake would say the images were fake

Answer 2

Although my wife's father performed fuel calculations for the original Apollo landing, I'll spare you that speech. Instead, I will encourage you to watch two programs. The first show is called Conspiracy Moon Landing that it currently showing on the National Geographic Channel and it pretty much obliterates all of the popular conspiracy theories.

I would also encourage you to watch a movie called Capricorn One. Made it 1978, it is a fictional story about a fake mission to Mars. Although it is a science fiction story, it is a good example of how utterly impossible it would be to fake a moon landing for any length of time.

12 men walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972 and we have neither the resources nor the technology to pull off that big of a hoax for so long. Hundreds of thousands of people have worked on the space program. It would be far easier to put someone on the moon than to try and fake it and keep it secret for nearly 40 years.

The landings came at a time when our space program was ultra competitive with the former Soviet Union. Remember how big of a deal it was when Sputnik was put into orbit? They had the technology to monitor our moon shots and transmissions. Don't you think they would have called us out if they had evidence that it was all fake?

Perhaps the most definitive proof of our trip to the moon is what we left behind. For the last 35+ years, scientists have been beaming lasers to the moon and measuring the return times. How are they doing this? The beams are reflected back by equipment left on the moon on at 3 different locations.

Case closed.

Answer 3

The problem is that the moon landing is SO small and is SO far away that satellite based and DEFINITELY ground based telescopes wouldn't have a chance of picking up the landing site. If you do the math, you're talking about a space based satellite telescope many times larger then the largest ground-based telescope in order to look at the moon with that much detail (For the uninitiated, perfect optical resolving power increases as the aperture increases). One should also note that our space-based satellites are far closer to the earth then the moon so we cant just turn satellites around and look contrary to what another poster stated. The moon is 240,000 miles away while, for example, Hubble is 325 miles away.

Answer 4

I am going to use my exact same answer to your exact same question if that is OK. Here it is:

Telescopes won't work just as boter_99 said but satellites might. America's been using satellites to track down robbers by zooming in to see the robber's car's license plate so why can't people just turn the sattelites to zoom in on the landing site? I hope some day the government does do that so all of this nonsense about the moon landing being faked could stop.

Answer 5

Telescopes won't artwork merely as boter_99 suggested yet satellites might. united states of america's been utilising satellites to hint down robbers by ability of zooming in to confirm the robber's vehicle's motor vehicle plate so why can not human beings merely turn the sattelites to zoom in on the landing internet site? i'm hoping some day the government does do this so all of this nonsense with regard to the moon landing being faked might desire to end.

Answer 6

Big gun is right in what he says, but for more information, see my own recent (today) answer to a similar question. I give three types of independently verifiable evidence that shows the landing could not have been faked.