Did we actually land on the moon??

Question

One small step for man etc etc etc

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

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, astronauts did land on the moon.
Astrononauts planted the mirrors on the lunar surface. These mirrors reflect the laser beams sent by earth-based observatories of calculate the average distance of the moon from the earth. Astronauts also tried to see whether Galileo was right. They dropped a ball and a feather at the same time and watched if they reach the ground simultaneously. And Galileo turned out to be right. And it was on the moon. Feathers and metal balls don't fall or the reach the ground at the same time in a desert in Arizona. The feather would glide down (reach terminal velocity) becuase of air drag. The ball would accelarate at the 9.81m/s^2.
The cross being obscured in no problem. It's just the human eye. Instrumentally, you can "see" the cross. And even if the cross was weed obscured, that would not constitute proof that astronauts never walked on the lunar surface.
Most of the video "hoaxes" are about Apollo 11. Few people talk about the other Apollo Missions.
There are many other explainations and apologetics. But we would best see a peer reviewed book for that, and not some untrustable piece uploaded on the web by someone who doesn't even have a bachelor's degree in science. A science library or a science professor from a respectable college is the best guy or gal to get the advice from. The Discovery Channel will also do.

Answer 4

Although my wife's father performed fuel calculations for the original Apollo landing, I'll spare you that speech. Instead, I will encourage you to watch two programs. The first show is called Conspiracy Moon Landing that it currently showing on the National Geographic Channel and it pretty much obliterates all of the popular conspiracy theories.

I would also encourage you to watch a movie called Capricorn One. Made it 1978, it is a fictional story about a fake mission to Mars. Although it is a science fiction story, it is a good example of how utterly impossible it would be to fake a moon landing for any length of time.

12 men walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972 and we have neither the resources nor the technology to pull off that big of a hoax for so long. Hundreds of thousands of people have worked on the space program. It would be far easier to put someone on the moon than to try and fake it and keep it secret for nearly 40 years.

The landings came at a time when our space program was ultra competitive with the former Soviet Union. Remember how big of a deal it was when Sputnik was put into orbit? They had the technology to monitor our moon shots and transmissions. Don't you think they would have called us out if they had evidence that it was all fake?

Perhaps the most definitive proof of our trip to the moon is what we left behind. For the last 35+ years, scientists have been beaming lasers to the moon and measuring the return times. How are they doing this? The beams are reflected back by equipment left on the moon on at 3 different locations.

Case closed.

Answer 5

Yes.

Russians would have had published the proof otherwise, as it was in their interest to shame America back then -- and NO, I do not believe America could have pulled the wool over the Russian about something like that, the Russians are a lot more sophisticated than any conspiracy theorists out there who only want to make money by selling books about crazy story like that the moon landing never happeend and see "proofs" in rather creative interpretation of artifacts that have all been 100% explained long time ago -- but there is nothing more blind than someone who does not want to see.

Answer 6

This question depends on your train of thought at the time.

If we did not land on the moon then it cost the US Millions of dollars for a hoax.

Also all the moon rock on e-bay is a fake and not the majority of it

Answer 7

Yes, the Americans placed 12 men on the moon at various times.

How hard could it be for people to comprehend this?

Answer 8

Hehehe. Arbiter007 obviously hasn't seen all the ones about 'if I was in a car traveling at almost the speed of light and turned on the headlights............' ☺

But, to answer the question, get a good pair of field glasses (or a cheap telescope) and you can *see* the LM in Mare Tranquillitatis. It for *damned* sure did not grow there ☺


Doug

Answer 9

You're apparently today's asker of the same question. I suggest that you withdraw your question before you get a bunch of rude comments.

Instead, do a search on the questions. I've answered at least 3 questions on this subject in the last two weeks alone.

Answer 10

the answer is what moon. in any case you have to ask who set the camera up to let us see the first step on the moon.