Did Neil Armstrong really walk on the moon?

Question

A professor once told my class that he believed that Neil Armstrong did not walk on the moon. I guess he thought everthing was filmed in a studio. What is your opinion and why? Please give explanations for your theory.

Answer 1

The effectiveness of keeping a conspiracy intact is completely dependent on the number of people involved; the more people there are, the less likely the conspiracy will hold over time. There were literally tens of thousands of people involved in the Apollo program, and it has been over thirty years since the last lunar landing; faking the landings and keeping the people silent would have been more difficult than actually performing them.

On three of the Apollo missions, laser reflection dishes were set up which scientists use to this day to accurately calculate the distance between the Earth and the Moon. This equipment could only have been set up manually; no robotic missions could have performed these tasks.

The Clementine lunar satellite was able to take a picture of the Apollo 15 landing site, but the resolution was too low (100 meters) to be considered overwhelming evidence. The Indian space program plans to send a remote sensing spacecraft in 2007, called Chandrayaan I, which has a five meter resolution. Assuming the craft is successful, its images should provide definitive evidence that the moon landings were real.

No matter what evidence one provides, however, someone will always come up with an excuse to negate it. "The scientists are in on the conspiracy with the laser reflector experiment", or "The images from the satellite are fake", or "They set up the Apollo landing sites afterwards using robots". One has to set their own limits on when evidence becomes definitive, and then stand by that limit.

Answer 2

There is no need for a theory, it is a fact that men went to the moon. This conspiracy falls victim to a common conspiracy pitfall, there are simply too many people (literally thousands) that would HAVE TO BE INVOLVED for it to have been kept a secret this long. Additionally, when people went to the moon, we were in the middle of the cold war. The USSR would have loved nothing more than to embarrass the US by exposing a fake, but they couldn't do it. The reason they couldn't do it is that they were able to triangulate the signals being broadcast from the moon using receivers spread all over Russia and eastern Europe. When the triangulation was complete, they found the signals coming from the moon, look it up (triangulation), there is no way to fake that. It is NOT possible that people didn't go to the moon. I think your professor has lost his capacity to make a rational decision, thus everything he says is suspect. I would drop the class and get your money back.

Answer 3

Well my opinion is that not only did a man walk on the Moon but 12 men did walk on the Moon through 1969 to 1972.There is visual evidence that 12 heroic astronauts landed and walked and even drove on the Moons surface.The lunar reconnaissance probe/satellite took picture of all the landing areas and the picture show foot prints and the lunar lander and other scientific equipment. The missions were Apollo 11,12,13(failed)14,15,16,17.The apollo 13 had a minor accident,an explosion on the craft caused an oxygen tank to burst and detach itself from the craft so they could not land and had to preserve what oxygen they had left by going into the lander for the return trip to Earth,they made it home but barely they had to modify carbon dioxide filters so they did not suffocate.

Answer 4

An uncle of mine believes that the Apollo 11 mission to the moon was faked, Neil Armstrong never actually set foot upon the moon's surface, and all subsequent lunar missions were, indeed, filmed in a studio by the way of Capricorn One.

Me, myself? I was too young to remember the actual event but what if it really was faked? Who placed the camera on the moon's surface in order to capture the module's descent? Hmmm?

Answer 5

(sigh)
Yes, they walked on the moon. It was televised. Hundreds, if not thousands of people would have had to be "silenced" for the last 37 years if it were a fake.

This question gets asked nearly every day. Do you ever research questions using the "search" box before posting them?

I hope that the professor only said that to get you thinking and have a philosophical discussion. Otherwise it's a strong argument against the tenure system. :o)

Answer 6

OK, so we have two possibilities:

1: The moon landings were all faked, including all the video, the stills, the kilograms of moon rock returned, the testimonies of the thousands of people involved in making it happen and so on. Millions of genuine scientists, journalists, authors, politicians, and administrators throughout the world are inexplicably involved in a vast and enormously expensive conspiracy to deceive the public that we put people on the moon.

2: We really did put people on the moon.

Now, which seems more likely to you?

Answer 7

Dear curious, your Professor smokes crack. Try this convincing test, on a full moon peer through a telescope at the lunar surface. If the telescope you're using has sufficient strength, one is able to actually see evidence of some Apollo missions. Gee how'd they do that? Dum de der, Ummm?? Hey Professor, pass the pipe! =PandaPaw=

Answer 8

I also agree with your professor. I dont think he has walked on the moon... If he got on the moon why is it no one else has gone to moon after him? It would have been easy then to send more people up there right?

Also a russian astronomer confessed that no one has ever been to moon because when you try to enter the moon's atmosphere you'll burn up for he burned up too while trying to get on moon.

Answer 9

That professor is a fruitcake. This webpage has a very thorough refutation of the Apollo Moon Hoax theory. http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

Folks really need to engage their brains before believing that the entire Apollo program was a hoax.

Answer 10

No.

But Michael jackson diid the moonwalk on Neil Armstrong.