2006-10-23 12:19:25 · 10 answers · asked by adorehandel 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It was real.
If you do any reading at all, you will learn that there was a camera pre-mounted on the side of the lunar module pointed at the ladder. (See source.)
Or do you really think the government spent millions, and NASA had hired the best and brightest engineers in the country, all to create an elaborate hoax ... but they would do something so glaringly stupid as to forget about the camera placement?
Why do people think NASA engineers were morons? It's not like they're rocket scientists or something ... oh wait, they are!
2006-10-23 14:24:50 · answer #1 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The camera was specially set up to be activated before Armstrong got out.
Please note:
1.400,000 people worked on the American space program – how would you fool all of them?
2.Yes, a Hollywood could be done in the desert, but how could anyone interface this production into the systems so as to fool 300 experienced controllers in the two massive control centers, and over the course of 7 years of Apollo.
3.Why haven’t we been back to the moon? People who naively believe the hoaxers, have no idea what it took to get men safely to the moon. The 360 foot tall Saturn V rocket was the only rocket ever built to take men beyond Earth’s orbit. When budget cuts hit, the Saturn V was never needed any more
4.It took years and billions of dollars to develop the LEM – Lunar Lander. If the hoax believers took the time to read the history, and understand the problems, they would see that to land men safely on a solid body, with no air (all landings on Earth use the air – parachutes into the ocean and the Shuttle becomes an airplane), took a massive amount of development.
2006-10-23 19:28:35 · answer #2 · answered by nick s 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
As I recall, the first time, "Buzz" Aldrin filmed Neil Armstrong from the Lunar Module. Then after he went out onto the surface of the moon himself, they set up a camera on a tripod.
2006-10-23 19:45:21 · answer #3 · answered by oceansoflight777 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, you saw it on video, from a camera that was remotely operated off one of the landing legs of the LEM.
Oh, BTW -- it was real.
2006-10-23 20:59:16 · answer #4 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi. They sent the camera up first and the LEM had to land very close to it. Either that or it was externally mounted on one of the LEM landing legs. Which do you think?
2006-10-23 19:22:48 · answer #5 · answered by Cirric 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I set up the camera and took the video, while my friend said "Dude, this is like totally a small step for man".
2006-10-23 19:45:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It wasn't a scam. It was real.
People don't believe much these days because they are too afraid that the 'in-crowd' will laugh at them. Suckers!!
However, since then, i believe they have covered up as much as they can about E.T.
2006-10-24 10:53:39 · answer #7 · answered by m c 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was a set up and how could anyone take a good picture of things without looking in the viewfinder and besides the cameras they had were placed on the belly section of the suit. How come the picture are all perfectly taken?
2006-10-23 19:24:02 · answer #8 · answered by Dark Viper 2 · 0⤊ 5⤋
And why was the flag fluttering in the non-existent wind?! All these questions....
Seriously, if it had really been a big scam, I think they would have been caught out by now.
Wouldn't they????
2006-10-23 19:26:35 · answer #9 · answered by little_jo_uk 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It was set up.
2006-10-23 19:22:03 · answer #10 · answered by Goofy Goofer Goof Goof Goof ! 6 · 0⤊ 7⤋