Is it really true that no man has gone to the moon? If Americans had there would be frequent journeys but.?

Question

Watched a documentary that shows that the videos recorded of the men on the moon were done on earth. It is said that NASS fouled the world to show Americas strength since it was in the time of the world wars.

Answer 1

The astronauts left retro-reflectors on the moon.

You can shine a laser at the moon, and hit these and have the beam come back.

That's pretty definite evidence that people were up there.

Answer 2

(Sigh.) The problem with this particular conspiracy theory is that it doesn't hold water astronomically. If you look at the photos of the astronauts placing the flag, etc., you'll notice how bright the rocks are behind them. That's a flash effect that can -only- happen when you have light travelling through a vacuum (no atmosphere on the moon), because the light does not diffuse as it would in an atmosphere. Also, the film where it shows them driving over their own tracks in the LEM and saying "nobody's ever done this before"...they were going in a -circle- around the lander--it wouldn't be smart to get too far away in a -completely unfamiliar environment-! Compare that to the moon sequences in "2001: A Space Odyssey," which had the best special effects of its time, and you'll see a definite difference.
As to why we never went back to the moon--the moon shot was JFK's dream, and Lyndon Johnson kept it going as a tribute to Kennedy. Once it was accomplished, though, the mess in Vietnam with all the anti-war sentiment crowded out the push to get into space, except locally with satellites and Skylab, until the late 70's when the Voyager probes were sent out and the Space Shuttle program was started. When we do get back to the moon, I'm betting on the astronauts posing with the flag that was placed at Tranquility Base in 1969.

Answer 3

This theory or accusation dates back to the time shortly after the first landing was made on the moon. At least at the time, it was somewhat understandable that some people would disbelieve- it was something that seemed to be taken from the pages of science fiction. But given that moon landings didn't happen just once, but several times, over the next decade, it would seem a rather elaborate and expensive effort to maintain a hoax. The rockets were launched from a very public sight in Florida, and recovered days later from the ocean, under much televised scrutiny. The information, even broadcasts from the astronauts while in space, were televised from space all over the world. This was in the days before television satellites, I might add. The only way it could have been recieved all over the world was to have the signals coming from space itself. And at the time, we were not exactly on the best of terms with the USSR. Had they any way to logically suggest the idea it was a hoax, don't you think they would have blared that information all over?
World War 2 ended in 1946, long before the first sucessful lunar landing in July 1969. Although we were involved in Vietnam, and in the midst of a cold war with Russia and China, there was no world war going on. We were, and still are a powerful nation, with nuclear capability, and no need to prove our strength to anyone. Rather than "prove" our strength with a faked moon landing, wouldn't it have made better sense, and been much cheaper, to simply use the armament we already had to obliterate and subjugate our enemies?
The US no longer sends missions to the moon because it is simply too expensive and too dangerous to do. We already have sufficient samples of lunar rock and soil, and have determined there is very little to be gained by returning at this time. The US still has the ability, just not the inclination. The US doesn't do things just because it can, for the most part, and it certainly isn't going to spend the trillions of dollars to send three people to the moon just to prove that we did and still can. We have better uses for our time and money than continuing to do something just to prove to a few doubters that it happened. I suppose there will always be a few who want to disbelieve, and they are certainly welcome to believe what they wish. Just remember what you see on television is put there to entertain you, not always to educate you, and seldom if ever will. If you truly wish to be educated, turn off the television and open a book, or go to school. They call it a boob tube for a reason.

Answer 4

Why do you think that if Americans had gone to the moon there would be frequent trips back? There's nothing there worth much trouble--going once was enough, and thinking it was a giant hoax involving hundreds of thousands of people who never let on seems kind of silly to me.