do you think we really went to the moon?

Question

if so then why do we have trouble just getting into orbit today, 37 years later?

Answer 1

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 objective, 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 in Washington, D.C. 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 just one moon landing, but six of them!

3) Even if NASA and other government agencies could have faked the six moon landings 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

David, 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 manned moon 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 the engineers 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

Yes to the first part.

As for the second part, the answer is:

Because the nice but expensive Saturn 5 rocket was put out of production while all the money went to design the shuttle, and that politicians asked for it to be done cheaper, and cheaper, and cheaper still (which ironically increased the cost as it was redesigned multiple times) until it became an unreliable, fragile and inefficient money pit, and that no money in the shrinking NASA budget was left to design very efficient new rockets for years.

Science should not be left in the hands of politicians.

Answer 4

ya
definitely we went
its not an esy task any time going out of the earth
its expensive also
thats why not too frequent trips
further nothing is needed from moon as we can use it as a colony in the future that too if required
thats why stress is now exploring other unknown farther away objects

Answer 5

History is mere a colletcion of stories told by the victor. The Chinese are going to get there and ask where the flag went. It was all a lie, to government was lying to us when they sent it and has been lying to us since.

Answer 6

well a really controversial topic... there is no answer to it. wrong place to question. try some forums... they are discussing such issues all the time. try there. you might be convinced. else ask for a video from me.. i'll send it to you. its pretty convincing....my email id is [e-mail]

Answer 7

oh no! america cheated the whole world.

Answer 8

yes, no doubt

Answer 9

yes, we really, really did.