Who put the camera on the moon surface to show Neil Armstrong stepping down to the moons surface?

Answer 1

NASA has said it was a remote camera mounted on one of the landing gear pedestals.

Anyway, I have a better question. How did they get all that gear (lunar rover/buggy, cameras, tripods, flag & flag pole, space suits, and so on) on the moon over the years with only very tiny crafts to carry it all and them?


REPLY TO OTHER COMMENTS: Actually, aviophage (an answerer below), while I cannot personally say the first moon landing (the only landing we're talking about here) was faked, there were indeed many people at the time who certainly thought so. The reason for that is the very history you bring up. Just a few short years before this flight, NASA could not reliably get a rocket off the ground, at one point even burning up several astronauts in a fire. Yet, just a short time later, NASA was able to send a rocket to the moon, make a perfect landing on an object in space no person had ever landed on before, make a perfect launch from that same unfamiliar object, make a perfect rendezvous and coupling with the orbiter, make a perfect flight back to Earth, and make a perfect splashdown at the exact designated spot.

In other words, for many people, the whole thing was just a little too perfect to be believable, especially considering NASA's not-so-perfect recent history and the fact that much of this had never even been tried before (no experience whatsoever). While that doesn't prove the first moon landing was faked, it is enough to at least raise some doubts in the minds of some.

You asked what would have been the point of faking that first moon landing. If you had studied that history a little more, you would have known the United States, in the middle of a cold war with the Soviet Union, was in a desperate space race with the Russians which included a race to put the first man on the moon. Following President Kennedy's proclamation in the early 60's to do exactly that by the end of the decade, the very reputation of both NASA and the United States were on the line (not to mention the reputation of the very popular slain president).

You also asked how the first moon landing could have been faked. To be honest, it would not have been that difficult, much easier than putting a man on the moon in fact. Since there were many witnesses, there is no doubt a launch was made. However, those who doubt the first moon landing suspect everything beyond that launch is questionable. They suspect the astronauts simply orbited the Earth while the actual moon landing was staged on a movie set with actors and movie special effects (well within the capabilities of the movie industry at the time).

Finally, you asked how NASA could have fooled all those working on this particular mission. In reality, once the launch was made, only a relative handful at NASA was involved. Since all of those were dedicated employees with security clearances which already prohibited them from discussing anything not first approved by NASA, it would have been fairly easy to add one more secret they could not discuss. And, indeed, those scientists and engineers have been very tight-lipped over the years about the specifics of the work they did decades ago - just as the hundreds who worked closely on the Manhattan project 50+ years ago have remained silent all these years about the specifics of their work.

Everyone agrees NASA did eventually put a man on the moon, with that first moon landing the only question in anyone's mind. Again, even many at the time had doubts, which is understandable considering Watergate, suspected cover-up conspiracies, secret wars in Cambodia, and so on. In other words, those living through that period certainly had plenty of reasons to doubt anything their government said, did, or said it did.

Answer 2

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 the engineers, 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

NASA mounted several cameras on the lunar lander so they could monitor the moon landing from Houston space center. They used remote control to turn one of the cameras on Neil Armstrong's exit from the lander. Later Buzz and Neil mounted a remote camera on a tripod so Houston could watch their activities on the moon. There are lots of articles on this being the 30th anniversary of the first landing

Answer 4

Apollo 11

A Lunar Module camera provided live television coverage of Armstrong setting foot on the lunar surface at 10:56 p.m. EDT. Just as he stepped off the Lunar Module Neil Armstrong proclaimed, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Aldrin emerged soon after, setting foot on the lunar surface at 11:16 p.m. EDT. Aldrin evaluated his ability to operate and move about and was able to move about rapidly and with confidence. Forty-seven pounds of lunar surface material were collected to be returned for analysis. The surface exploration was concluded in 2½ hours, when the crew re-entered the lunar module

On Apollo 15 they delivered the lunar lander to be used on the moon. If you have quicktime installed deployment video's are available at the second link provided below.

Answer 5

You tell them, aviophage! But there's a bit more to be said on the subject of conspiracy.

There is such a thing as a Big Lie. However, Big Lies are risky things that can cause Big Liars to get hurt if they get caught.

Usually Big Lies are only told by rich conspirators who have two things...

(1) The financial ability necessary for creating the lie, for discouraging or frustrating detectives, and for disarming anybody who discovers the lie's falseness.

(2) A financial incentive for going to all the risk and bother of creating a Big Lie.

If you want circumstantial evidence about whether a particular important statement is a Big Lie or, instead, a Grand Truth, one of the things you look for is how dissent to the statement is discouraged. Are the dissenters met with reasoned arguments? Or is somebody trying to force the dissenters to shut up, or else they might get hurt, lose their jobs, or even go to prison?

People who don't believe Grand Truths are usually met in debate by more knowledgeable people who try to reason with them.

People who express doubt about Big Lies are often met with threats, harrassment, and malicious prosecutions by corrupted legal authorities.

Those who doubt the reality of the Apollo moon landings aren't threatened with fines or jail time. They are offered a chance to be heard and then they are offered a chance to learn what they don't yet know about the Apollo mission.

However, there are certain "other" claims that are probably Big Lies because, instead of meeting the dissenters in open debate, the partisans of the claim enlist threats and bullying tactics, legal and otherwise, to force the dissenters to shut up. I'm sure that you know which Big Lie is paramount in our world today.

Answer 6

if you google the picture you will see it is credited to the moonian photographer XingahaeHockackka. The moon ppl saw us coming a mile away and had plenty of time to send the press to record the event.

Answer 7

It was Edvin Aldrin, the one who had accompanied Neil on his mission. There was a third person too, but he did not come out of the rocket and was instructed to tack back the rocket to earth in case anything wrong happens...

Answer 8

it was on the leg of the lunar moduel (LM for short) the reason why we didnt go back because we didnt have a need too. they are thinking about going back now though to run more studies on gravaty

Answer 9

no one did the whole thing was staged. the US government was just trying to be better than Russia and faked the moon landing so they could be the best just like in everything else they do. No one can be better than the US officials.

Answer 10

Don't know. My mom said it was a hoax. We never did go back since then. What's up with that?