Walking On The Moon?

Question

Have you ever noticed that man has NOT walked on the moon since the 60's?? Have you ever wondered why we don't return to it? Granted, they say we have machines and things like that to do it for us, but do you really believe that man walked on the moon? Honestly, it seems to be a big hoax. Just watching the clips of the astronaunts "walking on the moon" seems too fake. I just find it funny to know we have never been on the moon since the 60's. I like verse of the Red Hot Chili Pepper song "Californication"....it says: "Space may be the final frontier, but it's made in the Hollywood basement." What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

I agree. I also think it looks very fake and I feel embarrassed everytime I see it (the "moon walk"). LOL

Answer 2

Sportsguy, 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

Please read the history before you start this nonsense again. here's a piece:

In 1965, Apollo 1 command module caught fire during a rehearsal run and three astronuats were incinerated. The Apollo program was nearly cancelled on the spot.

Vietnam was in full swing and the shock and horror at the Apollo 1 tragedy made everyone ask the question “is this possible or even feasible at this time?”. The way ahead seemed fraught with danger and perhaps wasted expense on a massive scale.

President Kennedy’s promise to the nation in 1961 to have a man on the moon by 1970 would probably have been frittered away in all the turmoil going on in American politics in 1965, if Kennedy had not been gunned down in 1963. That was probably the most instrumental event in saving the massively expensive Apollo project at a time when America could least afford it.

World events were no better in 1970, and by the third Apollo mission (13) the American people had tired of moon missions such that TV channels cancelled coverage of the crew on the way to the moon, that had been a feature of Apollo 11 and 12. It was only after Apollo 13 got into severe difficulty that the fickle public came onto it and the media tore itself away from America’s global political problems to cover probably the most amazing rescue mission of all time.

But the Apollo program was already doomed at this stage. Public loss of interest and Vietnam and many other internal social problems, forced the cancellation of Apollos 18, 19 and 20.

So, there you have it. Apollo only just got through the red tape back then, and probably only ever got going again after the 1965 Apollo 1 tragedy because of the national love of Kennedy and the desire to make his dream come true.

By 1970’s, the national mourning was over for most people and a new generation couldn’t have cared less because they were too young to appeciate the enormous tragedy back when half the world saw Kennedy get the back of his head blown away.

Main Points:

1. 400,000 people worked on the American manned space program leading up to the moon missions – how do you fool all these technical people?
2. There were 27 manned missions from 1961 to 1972. 6 Mercury missions, 10 Gemini missions, and 11 Apollo missions.
3. Four Apollo manned missions preceded the moon landings, with 3 of them actually going to and orbiting the moon.
4. Why can’t we do it now? – quite simply, there is no Saturn V rocket and there is no lunar lander (LEM). It needed the phenomenal power of this giant 360 foot rocket to get a manned probe beyond Earth’s orbit, and it needed the ultra-lightweight but immensely high-tech LEM to land on the moon. Both machines were multi-billion dollar developments. .
5. What happened to the Apollo? – read the history. Americans were wholly caught up in the Vietnam war, with massive and violent demonstrations going on. People saw the space program as a huge waste of money when there were so many social and international problems to attend to.
6. Apollos 18-20 were cancelled because of lack of taxpayer interest.
7. There would be no use for the Saturn V booster any more. It is not needed for putting men in orbit, or for sending relatively light unmanned probes to the planets.

Answer 4

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. Perhaps, if we discover He3 or something else valuable, there will be.

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 5

The Moon landings were real. The reason we have not gone back, yet, is that there is no point in doing it at the absurdly high cost it would require. People think that new technology should make it cheaper, but it is not so. Only electronics are cheaper now. Rockets are not. They are like cars that way. A computer today is way cheaper and more powerful than one from 1969, but a car today costs more than one did in 1969, or about the same after adjusting for inflation, but hardly performs better at all.

Answer 6

The moonwalk or backslide is a dance technique that grants the phantasm that the dancer is stepping forward at an identical time as certainly shifting backward, giving the visual charm of a individual shifting alongside a conveyor belt. to stroll on the moon's floor, you will desire to get used to the decreased gravity. you may walk like leaping in easy terms

Answer 7

Is there any more scicentific significants on going to the moon again ?

We did it the first time because of the space race with the soviet union. They were leading the race. Until we went to the moon.

But now, there isn't any competior close to what we have archieved.

And also, we have such a huge national debt, why waste more money for something that has no significants.

Our space shuttles need to be retired, we need money to redevelope the new shuttles.

Answer 8

The president has propose a mission to reach the Moon again by 2015-2020.

Answer 9

You give the government to much credit. They can't even keep e-mail to pages secret and you expect a secret that size to last for a second.

We have not been back because it is to expensive and you can't make money at it. It all comes down to the mighty dollar.

Answer 10

Walking on the moon without any accessary is still an ideal but still need to improve. Besides the breathing problem, we need to be stablized standing on moon.

Answer 11

Well dear, I know that I will probably get more 'thumbs down' - but I never believed it. We all sat round our television at the time and watched but it didn't seem real to me. Don't forget, this was a time of extreme tension between the East and Western powers - but the Russians never attempted the feat - even though their rockets were more powerful at the time.

No dear, I don't think they went - but will we ever find out the truth?