was the moon landing a hoax?

Question

was it a hoax? or was it real?

Answer 1

No!
But intelligent life on Earth is a hoax!

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 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 4

Come on folks THINK for once in your lives. Just think about how many people a hoax like this would need in order to be pulled off. Now, four guys couldn't keep a break in of a Psycologists office in the Watergate hotel for more than 36 hours, so how long do you think it would have been before someone from the "hoax" team blabbed about it?

Never mind that, how do the idiots who say we never went explain the three mirrors left behind? They are used on a daily basis by dozens of observatories and research centers all over the world.
Trust me, if the mirrors weren't there or if the info was somehow "faked" (yes some retards actually say the lazers aren't going to the moon but somehow are being diverted and... hey just explaining it lowers my IQ so I'll stop) someone somewhere would blow the whistle.
Trust me, man went to the moon. On multiple occasions.

Answer 5

Your best answer is provided by this great site: "www.badstronomy.com" under the heading "Apollo moon hoax".

Every point raised by the 1 hour Fox Special are very well explain with drawings, photos and space science. Anyone that thinks that it was a hoax are 'ignoramus' who have little understanding of the effects of "1/6 gravity", "no air" and "Earthlight".

Answer 6

The "moon landing" just like the whole "internet" thing was a complete hoax. We never went to the moon and there is no such thing as the "world wide web". It's all just a garage in Texas.

Answer 7

There are tens of thousands of pieces of evidence that prove the landings were real. There is no way such a large undertaking could be hoaxed. Hundreds of thousands of people worked on the project.

Answer 8

I wonder why people keep asking this question. When I checked, the last count was 164 times.

Space exploration is one of the things in history that we - our time - will be remembered for. The 'Space Age' they call it. And we are in a development era now, So many improvements have been developed in the last 50 years. The ability of the scientists and the capabilities of our technology are truly awesome. I suppose that is why it is so hard to believe.

The men who went to the Moon were so brave and so capable that it should bring a feeling of pride to every human on Earth. Those who denigrate this for publicity or slander should be laughed at and ridiculed for the small hearts and lack of appreciation they espouse.

Shame on them, and shame on anyone who foolishly repeats their ridiculous lies.

Be proud that mankind has set foot on another place in this Solar System. Show respect for the achievements that took thousands of hard working people to achieve.

Isaac Newton said: "If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

;-D I say: Those who push over giants out of ignorance, will lose sight of the greatness that could have been theirs.

Answer 9

I bumped into Harrison Schmitt a few years ago (I did it deliberately, so forever after I could say "I bumped into Harrison Schmitt"). He'd just given a speech on mining the moon for energy. He talked about what it was like to stand on the moon.

Now, if he didn't actually stand on the moon, then he would have been lying to me and everyone else in the audience.

I do not think Harrison Schmitt would lie to me. Therefore he must have actually gone to the moon and come back.

Answer 10

Real. Taking pictures of the earth FROM the moon would have been the real tricky part to fake.