do you believe man has walked on the moon?

Question

or was it made in a hollywood basement

Answer 1

Most of the footage from the journey there and back was actually made in low earth orbit. I used to consider the idea we never went to the moon a wild conspiracy theory. The reason I now dont believe we did isnt because of the stuff I had heard before, with the footage of the "moon landing" Its because of other info I recently recieved. Its contained in a video posted on my myspace page, second video. www.myspace.com/dishyman .
This video shows the apollo 11 astronauts faking the actual distance from the earth using camera trickery. Check it out, and watch THE ENTIRE VIDEO. The stuff that convinced me came late in it.



I wish people would just WATCH the video and then decide wether I am wrong

Answer 2

1) The "moon race" was an extension of the cold war. It was mostly about national prestige. We got there first and achieved our primary objective. There was some good science: surveys, measurements, sample collection. But it was mostly about being there first. Once we achieved our primary object, there was no political will to go back. There still isn't.

2) In 1972, there was a politically motivated burglary of a hotel room in the Watergate Hotel. There were only about six or eight people who knew about it. However, those people, including Richard M. Nixon, the President of the United States, failed to keep that burglary a secret. It exploded into a scandal that drove the President and a number of others from office.

If six or eight people couldn't keep a hotel room burglary a secret, then how could literally thousands of people could have kept their mouths shut about six faked moon landings? Not one, but six!

3) Even if NASA and other government agencies could have fake the six moon landing well enough to fool the general public, they could NOT have fooled the space agency or military intelligence types in the USSR. The Soviets were just dying to beat us. If the landings were faked, the Soviets would have re-engineered their N-1 booster and landed on the moon just prove what liars Americans are. Why didn't they? Because the landings were real and the Soviets knew it.

Answer 3

Man has definitely walked on the moon. The Moon missions were done at the period which was the height of Cold wars. Every country was snooping in on everybody. If there was foulplay and arbitrary Money laundering to stage those moon missions then the countries like France, USSR would have jumped all over world media and would have cried the foul out loud. All of those countries monitored the Moon missions and accepted US Mission to Moon.

There were unmanned flights first sent to moon by both USA and USSR. The first vehicle to successfully Land on Moon's surface was USSR's Luna2 mission. USSR and USA were both at this "space race" and USA was first to successfully land humans on Moon on its Apollo11 mission.

According to a 1999 Gallup poll, about 6% of the population of the United States has doubts that the Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon. (Five percent had no opinion, while eighty-nine percent believe the landings took place.) It asked, "[t]hinking about the space exploration, do you think the government staged or faked the Apollo Moon landing, or don't you feel that way?" Six percent of respondents answered "yes, staged." A 1995 Time/CNN poll also found that 6% of the people believe in a hoax Fox television's 2001 TV special "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Really Land on the Moon?", airing to 15 million viewers, may have given a boost to the idea, despite the allegation of many errors of fact and presentation in the program by the Web site called "Who mourns for Apollo?". Fox said roughly 20% of the public had doubts about the authenticity of the Apollo program after the show.

The Good news is the NASA has announced that they will restart moon missions and this would put a final nail in the coffin of hoax believers.

Answer 4

It's unbelievable how many idiots don't believe that men have been to the moon. Just get over it. It happened. It would have been more trouble to fake than it was to go there. You need to look at the photos of the Earth taken from the moon. The technology to fake such photos did not exist in 1969. If you want to believe that something was a conspiracy, try looking into the 9/11 event. The whole thing was created by our government to re-elect George Bush.

Answer 5

Lets not think like medieval villagers and talk about 6 foot walls of lead, evil governments, and general naysaying. We are rational thinking people dealing with some scientific issues that many of us may not have an informed grasp of. Why could'nt we have gone to the moon? its only a matter of physics and the will to actually do it. The spirit of our nation was different then also, we were actually a single nation in spirt and believed we stood for something positive. The true legacy of the moon program was proof that people united in a positive and creative manner can always do more than a people divided.

Answer 6

oh yes he was holding George bush Senior =and George bush Juniors hand's when he did so.get real here.they are all planing to go and settle on Mars coz' they have found life out there so they are doing enough damage to the earth before all these get to NASA and take off in bit's and Bob's.only multy multy thrillioner's can get there.don't worry you and i are from the real world and we are not on the list.OK.so we are ok.can you imagine what a lost lonely life they will be living out there.anyway you and i are still down to earth.as for Hollywood it's bloody smaller then bollywood there are more movie's that come out of bollywood then Hollywood and i am made up it's not in the basement of India coz' there you would get lost and even the crew of lost series's are scared to come there just incase they really get lost.so we are OK.don't know if he went the moon or just went to try a new sun tan around the sun.

Answer 7

Yes, I do believe .Why do people think it is so hard? Ofcourse it was possible then.I think the lack of any more progress like sending men to Mars is putting doubt in lot of people's mind.
We should regenerate the spirit and drive for space exploration and specially manned Mars mission.That will be the real giant leap for mankind.
For the doubters : just like in Capricorn 1, where one technician finds out he is recieving RADIO signals sooner than he should, dont you think the Russians would have been the first to point out such anomaly?Also too many people were involved in the project and no one went missing mysteriously as in Capricorn 1 (or at least we have not heard of any)

Answer 8

I tire of answering this question. But I'll do it again anyway, because I find it hard to believe that there are so many people that are completely misinformed on the Moon landings.

We went to the Moon. Definitively. There are mountains of proof and very simple scientific explainations for "discrepancies" in the video and photographic evidence from the landings. In 2001, I was still in high school. I was uniformed, and I was gullible. Much like some of the kids on this site obviously. I saw the FOX "documentary" on the possibility that the Moon landings were a hoax.

I, too, fell into the gullibility trap. I began to question it all myself. However, I've been a space nut since I was a kid. In 2002, I went to college. I studied aerospace engineering and graduated this year in May with a degree from Purdue University.

I can tell you without a doubt in my mind, we went to the Moon. I have extensively studied spacecraft technologies, the physics and mechanics of spaceflight, and heavy mathematics. I believe I will probably be the most qualified person on this thread to comment on this.

(I do not tell you these things to gloat, or make myself look better. I only want to stress that I actually do know what I am talking about, especially when it comes to spacecraft)

I now work for a NASA contractor on both the Shuttle and Ares (return to the Moon) programs as a rocket engineer. And I have seen much of the original Saturn rocket documentation. Trust me on this, that rocket could have and did take us to the Moon without much problem. Wernher von Braun would be turning over in his grave at some of the answers people have posted here.

I will go ahead and give a true scientific explaination of a few of the "proofs" people have thought-up to disprove the landings.

1. No stars in the sky.

The astronauts were on the Sun side of the Moon for most all of the time spent. We are used to the night being black and the day being blue because of our atmosphere. As most know, the Moon has no discernable atmosphere. So the sky is always black. Ask yourself this: Do we see the stars during the day?

Of course we don't, and it's the same on the Moon. Also, with unfettered sunlight brightening up the highly-reflective lunar regolith (that's the lunar dust) the exposure time on the cameras had to be extremely fast.If you've ever taken a picture of the stars on Earth you know you have to have a long exposure time in order to photograph stars.

2. "Waving" flag

When planted, in the video in question, the flag is twisted around back and forth and then let go. Physically, the flag will not stop moving until all the forces applied to the flag are balanced. Because there is no atmosphere, there is no drag on the flag. It waivers until all the friction built up between the pole and the ground equals that of the twisting moment applied by the astronaut. The flag also had a wire in it at the top which allowed it to remain extended. On the first landing the flag's telescoping support did not fully extend and gave the appearance of waving. Neil and Buzz liked the look, so they left it. And the flag was designed the same way in all subsequent flights.

3. Van Allen belts

You don't need 6 feet of lead to get through these belts. The astronauts spent less than an hour in the belts, and may have a greater chance of getting a cancer later in life, but the spacecraft afforded plenty of protection to get them through. They received the same dose of radiation as anyone would if they spent about 3 hours in the Sun without sunscreen. Obviously not enough to kill them.

4. Shadows

There were TWO sources of light on the Moon. The Sun, and the Lunar surface itself. We see it from Earth. That bright white light that bathes us at night during a full Moon. Lunar regolith is extremely reflective, and bounces light back up off its surface. This creates odd effects on the shadow properties of objects on the Moon. The pictures of shadows going different directions are due to imperfections in the landscape. The landscape may seem flat where those shadows are shifty, but there are divots and little craters that distort perfectly parallel shadows.

Also, a simple test to check for yourself if the landings were real:

Watch a video of the rover driving around on the surface of the Moon. Pay careful attention to the dust it is kicking up. On Earth, with atmosphere, that dust would puff into the air and its path would be decided by wind and air resistance. On the Moon, with no atmosphere, the dust will travel in perfectly parabolic arcs up and down. You can see this easily in many of the videos of the rover driving around. The dust gets "thrown" by the wheel and follows a perfect parabola until it comes to rest on the ground again. This is what we would expect in a vaccuum with gravity. (And yes, the Moon has gravity... about 1/6 of Earth's)

This is just a little of the scientific rationale. As you can see, there is a simple and obvious explaination for all, and I mean ALL, of the "proof" conspiracy theorists think they have.

So please, if you have any other questions about this, feel free to email me and I'd be happy to dispute any other proofs you may think you have. Or even just to ask questions, feel free.

Answer 9

It is possible man has been on the moon. But I am sorry the landing with Armstrong was fake if it was a real video then you would of not seen shadows like on earth and different effects of physics and gravity with the flags and the dust. I'm sorry but that is the truth via logic. Historically there was a space race and the moon landing does show to many faults to be true. Think of It like a magic trick called "beat the reds"

Answer 10

I don't believe man walked on the moon at all. There is talk of going "back" to the moon. Why go back if we had "been there done that"? From what I have heard it would take a space vessel with 6 foot thick walls of lead to get past the Van Allen belt which is a radiation belt that surrounds the Earth. That is alot of weight to get off the ground, especially back in the day. So maybe with the technology now we could go, but not in the past.