Did the moon landings actually ever happen?

Answer 1

The first astronauts on the moon would have been left
to die in silence if they had been stranded by
technical failure, according to documents just
discovered.


Washington Correspondent Tom Carver: "Nasa's secret
warning"
The American space agency has confirmed that extensive
plans were laid in case Neil Armstrong and Buzz
Aldrin, the first two men to walk on the moon, were
unable to return home.

With no rescue mission planned, their communications
to Earth would have been switched off and they would
have been left to die or commit suicide, the BBC has
learned.

President Richard Nixon even had a speech prepared for
the watching world if the Apollo XI lunar landing
module could not take off from the moon's surface.

A memo found in America's national archives reveals
the extent of emergency planning for the mission by
Nasa and the US Government.



Astronauts say they were not told of disaster planning

President Nixon's speech would have read: "Fate has
ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore
in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.

"These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, know
there's no hope for their recovery. But they also know
there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

"For every human being who looks up at the moon in the
nights to come will know that there is some corner of
another world that is forever mankind."

Greatest danger

The astronauts insist they were never told of any
disaster plans.

The greatest danger to the mission's success came from
the lunar landing module. Nobody knew whether it would
be able to take off from the moon.

Nasa historian Roger Launis said: "Had they not been
able to launch the ascent part of the lunar module
they would have been stranded on the surface. There
was nothing that was realistic that could be done [for
them]."

President Nixon's disaster speech has remained secret
for 30 years since the two astronauts first set foot
on the moon on 20 July 1969.

And instead of a sombre address Mr Nixon was able to
congratulate them on a successful mission.

The two men spent 22 hours on the moon after landing
in the Sea of Tranquility. They returned safely home,
with Michael Collins, the crew member who did not take
part in the moon landing, as heroes


Also,It gets pretty deep quick. But considering they are
using the mirror on the moon with the laser to measure
distances between one point on earth and another, it
pretty well says we have been there.

Answer 2

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 3

yes indeed the moon landings did in fact happen. There was some big thing about a conspiracy with the original moon landing a while ago however N.A.S.A scientists took the 10 top hoax theories and proved that they were false here

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/top10apollohoaxes.html

Soon after the whole Moon landing hoax took flight Discovery channel also did many documentaries where every program came to the same conclusion (that there was in fact a moon landing).

The reasons the N.A.S.A scientists gave for disproving the hoaxes have been proved by many scientists over the globe (yes including Russian ones if you must know) and some can even be preformed in a secondary school laboratory.

Sadly yes America got to thee moon first. I only say sadly because i feel the moon landing (possible the greatest 20th achievement by humanity) was tainted by the fact that one of the main people who made it happen was a Nazi captured by the allies during WW2 (The worlds top rocket expert at the time)

Answer 4

The Apollo moon landing hoax accusations are a series of claims alleging that the Apollo Moon Landings never took place, but were instead faked by NASA. Many scientists, technicians and space enthusiasts who have commented on the accusations have rejected them as baseless, and many suggest that people look at the evidence and draw their own conclusions. Public opinion polls in the United States have shown that a large majority accept the Apollo missions as fact, while a notable percentage have at least some doubts about them.

Some conspiracy theorists still insist that the lunar landing was a hoax. These Apollo moon landing hoax accusations flourish in part because, while many enthusiasts predicted that moon landings would become commonplace, except for the several ensuing Apollo landings in the next decade, such predictions have not yet come to pass, conspiracy theorists are losers

Answer 5

Tell two people a secret and eventually ten people will know it.

My own example. Someone in the company I work for knew an embarrassing story about a top exec in our company. He told me and swore me to secrecy. I kept my mouth shut until both people had left the company and when I told someone they said "Oh I heard that story years ago."


You could NOT keep a secret like faking the moon landing for so many years. It doesn't even have "government insiders" who tell the story now like Roswell and UFOs have.No whistle blowers. No tell all books. It's been 37 years since Apollo 11. Many who worked on that project are dead. No death bed confessionals? No posthumous books?

Answer 6

Wellthere are alot of arguments that it did not happen
1> the flag they put on the moon was wavering about like a wind was blowing, yet there is no wind on the moon
2> 3 months before apollo 11 was due to set off the test landing they done on earth crashed indicating that they didnt have the technology.
3> there was something about the photo's as they had crosshatches etched into them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_Landing_hoax_accusations

personaly i still think that it did take place.

Answer 7

Conspiracy theorists who say the Moon landing never happened use bad science and faulty logic to try and prove their claims. Every claim set forth by them has been refuted by scientist and experts, not all of which were NASA. A little research and you will come to the conclusion that yes, the landings were real.

Answer 8

Princess, we do understand. they actually did take place. they are between the main documented of all human achievements. The "chilly conflict" replaced into going on on the time and Russia monitored the yankee landings and in the event that they (usa) had no longer been to the Moon then we could have been advised by utilising Russia. there have been approximately 4 hundred,000 human beings engaged on the project, how could desire to all of them save it a secret if it replaced into fake. try to get a replica of "Failure isn't an decision" by utilising Flight Controller/Director - Gene Kranz and consider it, you will then haven't any doubts in any respect. and ultimately, we can see issues on the Moon that have been left there by utilising the Astronauts.

Answer 9

No. Check out the photos on Nasa's web site. there is just so much evidence right there that it is laughable.
Apollo 11 (?) did orbit the moon, and when they came back into radio radio view, they said, "I can now confirm that Santa Clause DOES exist". Santa Clause was NASA-speak for Aliens. I think they were told to go away and NOT come back, so they faked the rest of the planned missions, then did no more about it.

Answer 10

Unbelieveable that this is still a subject of debate. There are explanations for all of the "facts" cited by doubters which are far more plausible than any "conspiracy." In fact, most of the objections are based on gross scientific ignorance.
Faking it successfully would have been as difficult as doing it, so why wouldn't they just do it?