Was the Moon Landing Real?

Question

In 1969, The USA managed to get a spacecraft into space, land on the moon and take off again and land back on Earth safely. They can't even manage to get them into space nowadays. How did that happen?

Answer 1

Wow, again...
It's just tragic that this question keeps coming up, and even more so when you understand that those of you who believe in a "hoax" have absolutely no understanding of either science or common sense. A few points for the "hoaxers" .

-The shadows are NOT in the wrong places. They are exactly where shadows are supposed to be given both the level of the ground and the perspective at which they were taken. A simple study in photography and/or physics will show you this.

-The hubble CANNOT, in fact, resolve images as small as the lunar buggies, nor anything else that still sits on the moon. It was designed to view galaxies thousands of light years across not to view images along the order of a few meters. And there are no Earth-based telescopes with this ability either.

-The flag did have a horizontal rod going across its top. Obviously, if this wasn't there the flag would have rested against the vertical pole. It was made of a plastic material, not cloth, which gave it its wrinkled appearance simply because it didn't extend all the way to the end of the horizontal pole. In addition, the flag was NOT waving, except when the astronauts were trying to work the pole into the lunar surface. Air or no air the end of the flag would have moved when the pole was shaken around. It's called inertia, look it up. Incidentally, for those who are so smart and KNOW it was a hoax: If the flag was waving from some sudden wind why exactly don't we see any dust flying about?

-The dust on the Moon has a resiliant silica quality which can hold its form. It is not beach sand. Thus, there are footprints.

-Regarding the dust from the rovers...hoaxers argue that the dust should have stayed off the ground longer. Please study your physics. In the videos, you can clearly see the dust rising from the lander wheels in a parabolic arc and immediately falling back to the ground. This is EXACTLY what happens in a vacuum environment like the Moon. On Earth dust is held aloft by air. The Moon, of course, has no air and thus the dust immediately falls.
And since you now understand that, understand this: If the video was shot on a sound stage like you people believe it would have been impossible to fake the way the dust fell. It would have required a vacuum chamber larger than any that even exixts today.

-The Moon is NOT a weightless environment. It's gravity is approx. 1/6 of the Earth's.

-No stars in photos...answered a thousand times. Learn and understand photography and the properties of light. Or better yet go outside on the next sunny day and take a picture of the sky and tell me how many stars are in the photo. Atmosphere or not, you can't take pictures of very faint objects when you are being washed in sunlight. It simply doesn't work.

-Radiation...This is the favorite of those who want to make themselves sound smart but have no clue what they're talking about. The Van Allen Belts can indeed be dangerous if subjected to them for extended amounts of time. The Apollo astronauts were not subjected to this.

-The cover up...The Russians, our worst enemy and space rival at the time, had every capability to track the lunar missions to the moon and back. And yet they never cried hoax. Interesting.
-During the time, NASA employed nearly 400,000 people, both under contract and in-house. Parts had to be made, engines built, plans devised, people prepared, see where I'm going? How do you keep a secret with that many people for so long? Answer, you don't.

-Okay, so you say, "well, only a handful of people knew about it..." Alrighty then, what about the thousands who actually made all the components and were told these components had to take men to the moon. Either these people say it cannot be done or they're in on the lie.
So you have two conclusions...Either you understand that 400,000 people were actually in on an impossible lie or that it was possible to send a man to the moon.

BTW, if the government was so smart and so good at creating and maintaining such an elaborate hoax how could they have made so many idiotic "mistakes" and allowed everyone to figure it out? Are we assuming that the world's best scientists are not bright enough to notice these? Please.

-These things go on and on, too numerous to discuss here. I suggest you people learn how to read and discover things for yourselves before you start believing mocked-up truths that have absolutely no basis in reality. Oh, and BTW, every one of you who says that because we haven't been back to the moon in 30 years proves that we never went...that statement borders on idiocy that I can't even fathom. I went to Florida once, saw what I needed to see and then left. I haven't been back. Does that mean I never went? And that doesn't even take into account the inherent expense and danger of going to the Moon.

It's incredibly sad when people begin taking such a monumental human achievement and start wrapping it in myth, all because their understanding of what was and what is possible is beyond their own level of thought.

I would LOVE to edit this some more. Anyone else have a some powerful "evidence" they would like refuted? Step right up

Answer 2

I am very reluctant to think that it was all a fraud, but it is not beyond the realms of possibility, and the fact that there has been little development over the last 30+ years does take some explaining. This may however be due to the fact that the Space Race was really a one sided concept of the US, and that manned landings are not particularly good value for money.

Unfortunately, Scientific fraud does exist, in almost all fields. One can see that enormous pressure was exerted on the space programme at the time. It is possible that someone decided to fake an event that they were sure would really take place fairly soon. Now we have the added problem of the disappearing tapes.

However, this would be a conspiracy on a massive scale and surely by now someone would have come out and given the game away in an incontrovertible way. It is hard to conceive that so many people could be lying or be deceived for so long on this matter.

So, on the whole, I tend to think that the landings probably took place, and would be moderately surprised if they were proved to be faked.

Answer 3

What are you talking about, "can't manage to get them into space nowadays"? We have had 3 disasters with deaths in the ENTIRE NASA program. Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia. Apollo 13 was considered a successful failure. So by my count, the Apollo program had 2 mishaps in 10 years and about 18 launches, and the Shuttle has had 2 in 25 years and about 114 launches.

Please don't talk about things you have no idea about. We went to the Moon. End of story. The Shuttle is the most complex machine ever built. It has over 2 million parts, most of them moving. The Apollo Saturn V's had a very minimalistic design and still had about the same failure rate.

I am an aerospace engineer. I work for a NASA contractor and I work on the Shuttle and Ares (return to the Moon) programs. Please stop listening to conspiracy theories and 12 year olds (some even older) on this site that listen to whatever crap they hear. Listen to the people that can form a coherent argument.

We will get to the Moon again no later than 2020, and shut you people up finally. Of course then it will be "Oh, well this was just the first time..." NO! We went in 1969, but wait WE WENT 5 MORE TIMES! Geez, does noone realize we put 6 groups of 2 men on the Moon?

Why would NASA fake it 6 times? What would be the point? But whatever, I know the truth, and if you choose to believe an unfounded, horribly misconceived lie, then go for it. It's your stupidity that you have to live with.

Answer 4

The moon landings were real. Setting aside all the "evidence" to the contrary for a moment, just consider this: so very many people would have had to be in on the conspiracy that there is no way that the secret could have been kept. Even if special agents went around to everyone working on the project and threatened to kill them and their entire family if they blabbed, someone would have let the secret slip, especially after 30+ years. Man hasn't gone back to the moon because of the expense and for the simple fact that there is no reason to.

Answer 5

Do you know how many people would need to be involved in the hiding the real story, an incalculable number. The same with the 9/11 govt. conspiracy... It doesn't make any sense that people would even consider that they were based on facts.

While the real world is already landing rovers on Mars and sending distant vehicles to the edges of the solar system, that the 'flat earthers' are still stuck on whether there was a moon landing or not....just doesn't make any sense.

Answer 6

The landings were real.

The Space Shuttle is a very, very complicated piece of equipment - 2,000,000 parts! The public was sold on it as being cheap and reusable. But it's still too expensive and never was able to fly nearly as many missions as was expected.

In my opinion (and the opinion of many others), there are design flaws. Like the foam coming off onto the orbiter. The Orbiter (the vehicle with the HUMANS in it) should be at the top of the rocket so debris falls under it, not onto it. But the solid rocket boosters and liquid tank are part of the "cheap and reusable" technology.

I was a kid who followed the space program closely in the late 60s. It was a national craze to beat the Soviets to the moon. Once we got there, all the sudden everyone lost interest and complained about the cost.

Why can't we do anything now? Again, I think this is the result of decades of not having the huge public support as in the 60s. I'm not saying the public SHOULD care more than it does - we all have our opinions. But that's why we're not doing better.

Like a lot of things in life, nothing gets done even if people are able, if they are not also WILLING to do what's needed.

Answer 7

They're up in space all the time. To actually go to the moon, land, and return, is very expensive, and we already have lots and lots of moon rock. (Ask any geologist if they're really from the moon, and how they can be so sure) So in the end, it wasn't worth it anymore.

Now, perhaps, we can have a permanent base on the moon. Sooner or later, we'll be going to Mars.

Answer 8

The moon landings were real. In those days the US sent a brand new space craft on every mission. In the early 1980's NASA switched to the space shuttle which is reusable. The shuttle is subject to much stress from the earth's atmosphere going into and returning from space, so each and every part needs to be inspected as if it were a new part and since the shuttle is already assembled this takes a lot of work. I suspect NASA will learn from this mistake and use different techniques in their next generation of space craft.

Answer 9

I'm sure they landed there sometime. Whether it was actually when they say it happened is up in the air. There are so many wierd mistakes that it's pretty interesting to watch. No blast crater where they landed. No dust on the landing gear. The flag blowing in the lack of air. The scenery in photographs from supposedly two different spots that were two miles from each other matching up exactly. The crosshairs that are etched onto the lens actually disappearing behind objects, which means that pictures were doctored. Lighting coming from different sources as opposed to one source (the sun). And the list goes on....
If you check into it, it starts getting pretty freaky. I don't go for the whole conspiracy thing, but this there's alot of interesting fallacies in this landing.

Answer 10

The conspiracy theory of the fake moon landing is posibly true.
Just look at film of the moon-buggy kicking up moon-dust, which is supposed to be fine powder and notice how it quickly falls back down in an almost weightless environment.
shouldn't the dust and even the rocks kicked back by the buggies tires travel further and stay aloft for a much greater time.
Hmmm... something just isn't right in that film...so simple and maybe no one noticed it.