Moon landing by US..Truth or b*llocks?

Answer 1

According to a 1999 poll conducted by the The Gallup Organization, 6% of the public believes the landing was faked, while what Gallup termed an "overwhelming majority", some 89%, did not. The hoax claims are widely dismissed as baseless by mainstream scientists, technicians and engineers, as well as by NASA.

The Apollo Moon landing hoax accusations are a set of allegations that some or all elements of the Apollo Moon landings were faked by NASA and possibly members of other involved organizations. A number of groups and individuals have advanced alternate historical narratives which tend, to varying degrees, to include the following common elements:

* The Apollo astronauts did not land on the Moon;
* NASA and possibly others intentionally deceived the public into believing the landing[s] did occur by manufacturing, destroying, or tampering with evidence, including photos, telemetry tapes, transmissions, and rock samples;
* NASA and possibly others continue to actively participate in the conspiracy to this day.


A number of different versions of the hoax have been advanced. The various claims do not present a complete narrative of how the alleged hoax could have been perpetrated, but instead focus on perceived gaps or inconsistencies in the historical record of the missions. Several of these ideas and their most readily identifiable proponents are described below:

1. Complete hoax—The idea that the entire human landing program was faked. Various sources argue that the technology to send men to the Moon was insufficient and/or that the Van Allen radiation belts made such a trip impossible.

2. Partial hoax / Unmanned landings— Bart Sibrel argues that Apollo 11 and subsequent astronauts had faked their orbit around the Moon and their walk on its surface by trick photography, and that they never got more than halfway to the Moon. A subset of this proposal is advocated by those who concede the existence of laser mirrors and other observable human-made objects on the Moon. Marcus Allen represented this argument when he said "I would be the first to accept what [telescope images of the landing site] find as powerful evidence that something was placed on the Moon by man." He goes on to say that photographs of the lander would not prove that America put men on the Moon. "Getting to the Moon really isn't much of a problem—the Russians did that in 1959, the big problem is getting people there." His argument focuses around NASA sending robot missions because radiation levels in space were lethal to humans. Another variant on this is the idea that NASA and its contractors did not recover quickly enough from the Apollo 1 fire, and so all the early Apollo missions were faked, with Apollo 14 or 15 being the first authentic mission.

3. Manned landings, with backup stagings— Dr. Brian O'Leary once suggested that, as a hypothetical situation, NASA could have falsified some portion of the video and photographs of the moon landings to replace those damaged or lost during the actual mission. Hoax proponent David Percy apparently took O'Leary's hypothetical as a sincere belief. O'Leary has since reasserted the idea as merely hypothetical...

4. Manned landings, with cover-ups—William Brian and others believe that, while astronauts did land on the Moon, they covered up what they found, whether it was gravitational anomalies, alien artifacts, or alien encounters. Phillip Lheureux, in Lumieres sur la Lune (Lights on the Moon), said that astronauts did land on the Moon, but that, in order to prevent other nations from benefiting from scientific information in the real photos, NASA published fake images.

Several motives are given by hoax proponents for the U.S. government to fake the Moon landings.

1. Distraction—The U.S. government sought to distract the public from the Vietnam War. (This argument is not supported by the events' respective chronologies).

2. Cold War Prestige—The U.S. government considered it vital that the U.S. win the space race against the Soviet Union. Going to the Moon, if it had been possible, would have been risky and expensive (though John F. Kennedy famously said that we chose to go because it was difficult). Despite close monitoring by the Soviet Union, hoax proponents argue that it would have been easier for the U.S. to fake it, and consequently guarantee success, than for the U.S. actually to go.

3. Money—NASA raised approximately $30 billion to go to the Moon. Hoax proponents hypothesize that this could have been used to pay off a large number of people, providing significant motivation for complicity.

4. Risk—The available technology at the time was such that the landing might fail if genuinely attempted. This argument assumes that the problems early in the space program were insurmountable, even by a technology team fully motivated and funded to fix the problems.

Answer 2

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 3

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 4

Ok, suppose it was some giant hoax to convince the world of US technical superiority.

This took place at the height of the Cold War when both sides (let's simplify this to there being two sides, not true but easier to get your head round) were involved in every form of espionage conceivable against each other. The moon and the space in between is just as easily tracked from the ex-USSR as it is from USA. Don't you think it would have been the biggest propaganda coup of all time for the USSR to debunk US claims if they could.

Of course its true.

I guess there are some conspiracy theorists who would say the whole thing was cooked up by the CIA and KGB working together - or maybe the USSR was a hoax too.

Or you could just accept the simplest explanation to fit the observations - it actually happened.

Answer 5

Watch the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel or other trust-worthy television sources. Read peer-reviewed journals and books about the topic. These things go through a lot before they get published, so you they are an awful lot more reliable that the anwers you get in the web. Go to the nearest science library.
As a hint to the answer you are going to get, there is a video of an Apollo astronaut who dropped a bird feather and a metal ball at the same time and at the same height. Wherever he might be, you are soon to know. But the bird feather and the ball landed on the surface simultaneously.

Answer 6

Truth. It really happened.

As previous posters have noted, this question is asked about 1000 times every week. I can't understand how so many folks can be duped by the BS pseudo-science that "debunks" the lunar landings.

Check out www.badastronomy.com for more details.

Answer 7

Truth

Answer 8

Discovery of America....Truth or b*llocks?

Answer 9

how could anybody believe such rubbish that it was a fake , is beond me . they have the rocks and surfice materials that have been analysed by just about every scientific process there is . i think after all that someone would have spotted a fake

Answer 10

It actually happened. But is is hilarius to hear this this accomplishment is being questioned. The list of conspiracies by the US Government just keeps growing. This is really fun.