Has anyone ever wondered if the UNITED STATES actually sent someone to the moon?

Answer 1

No, I never wonder about it at all. I am certain that we did.

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 faked 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 to prove what liars Americans are. Why didn't they? Because the landings were real and the Soviets knew it.

Answer 2

Chanice, get this straight and don't be foolish about it any more, okay? The basic technology required for a manned flight to the moon was developed in Germany in the late 1930s through the mid 1940s. This technology needed a lot of refinement to make a safe manned flight a reality.

We worked on that technology through the 1950s and 60s, and made the first flight in 1969. It all fits together, and if you read all the history and don't let the wackos lie to you, it will be impossible for you to continue to be fooled into believing that the moon missions did not take place.

The American people were much better educated and more intelligent in the 1960s and 70s than they are now, and it would never have occurred to NASA engineers and managers that 35 years later a bunch of ignorant dolts with nothing to do would come up with a stupid conspiracy theory stating that the moon landings were faked.

If that had occurred to them, I suspect they would have gone to the trouble to create a larger and more visible object of proof, to compensate for the decline in the quality of the American mind and its education that occurred during and after the Reagan presidency.

But there is a real physical proof available. The astronauts who landed on the moon left behind reflectors that are used every day by astronomers to measure the irregularities of the moon's orbit. This is done by bouncing laser beams off reflectors at known locations that were left by the astronauts. Ask your science teacher for information about these experiments. You can arrange to see this done with your own eyes.

Let me put the question to you this way: If you think the moon landings were faked, when did they become "fake?" When did the idea become popular that NASA had invented the idea of an imaginary moon mission and created a huge technological empire to fool people? When was all this fakery done? In the 60s? 70s? 80s?

And why? What was the point? And how did they fool all the people that reported the news, operated the machinery, built the moon rockets, and watched them take off and land?

Do you realize that one American in 500 was a part of the Apollo program? Millions of them are still alive. Are they fooling you? Why? If you go out to a football game, look around you. In the stadium there are people who worked on the Apollo program.

Ask around. You are surrounded by people who know for sure that American astronauts stood on the moon more than 35 years ago.

Answer 3

What you are implying is that there was a large conspiracy in place to not only delfevct public opinion during the latter years of Vietnam away from the war overseas, but a deliberate pattern of lies that started at the office of the President and went right down to every single technician and contractor that worked for NASA, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Mortin Thiokol and many others.

It boggles the mind that people can think something was not done due to a few badly interpeted facts.

I've attached a somewhat disputed article from wikipedia that explains the hoax and what it has tried to do - but for the most part, think about it ... why would the government of the US, which changed every 4 years without fail, continue a hoax for the past 38 years?

Answer 4

If you wanted to find out the answer a good way to start would be to look at the evidence supporting the Apollo program. It's there for everyone to see and it's not exactly difficult to find.

If you took some time to look at just a tiny fraction of the information available then you'd see for yourself that the conspiarcy theories surrounding this issue just don't stand up to scrutiny.

One of the early Apollo missions left a reflector on the moon's surface so that astronomers on earth would be able to bounce a laser beam off it to measure the distance to the moon. I believe it's still used today.

Answer 5

What is so difficult to believe about it? It happened, people went to the moon, get over it. It was a race. We wanted to get to the moon before the Russians did as the Russians were the first in space.

50 years from now, the younger generation of then will be asking about the Twin Towers or Oklahoma bombing the same way. They will be saying it is all made up.

Answer 6

The Moon landings were all carried out during the Cold War when the powers 'were racing against each other'. The Soviet sent the first man into space, and so the US needed something to prove their prowess.

But rest assured, the declaration of the landing was broken to the world by some f***ing politicians, and they would say just anything to win the 'chair'.

BUT ALL YOU SKEPTIC FOLKS UP THERE......keep up the good work.......I mean its really good to be skeptic and always ask questions to verify general believes. Although I am only 17 what I have learnt in the past few years is that there is nothing in this world you can ever TRULY believe. It would be completely unjustified to comment on a controversial topic from one side only---UFOs, Crop Circles, Apollo Landing, Area 51...or anything you can think of.

Answer 7

The territory of u.s. itself does no longer amplify to the Moon. even with the indisputable fact that, u.s. did effectively land 12 human beings on the exterior of the Moon, from 1969 to 1972. a lot of human beings believe that those landings were faked through the authorities, even with the indisputable fact that there is little to no indication that that is truly the case and positively scientists regard the Moon landings as a longtime historic actuality, clone of international conflict I, the conflict of Hastings and the autumn of the Berlin Wall.

Answer 8

Yeah. And you are the 500,000 person to ask this question on Answers. You win a dunce cap.

We went to the Moon. No doubt. I have answered this question countless times. Look in my answers and sift one out. I don't feel like typing it all again.

As an aerospace engineer, I am tired as hell of this question.

Answer 9

What? Do you mean do I wonder if it is true or not? I certainly hope you are not implying that you don't think it really happened! You sound like a conspiracy theorist with too much time on your hands!

Of course they did! I grew up with astronaut children. My mother worked for one of NASA's contractors that designed the space station. Do you think it is just a fantasy story that they are trying to sell the world? Put down the crack pipe and go be more productive with your free time!

Answer 10

We have sent many people to the moon... That's a weird question to ask, but ok.