Did we land on the moon?

Question

I've read about the Van Allen radiation belt and have come to discover that American scientists had no idea it existed at the time, and did not develop any materials into the astronauts suits or the spacecraft to defend against it. In all reality they would have died from overexposure to the radiation had they gotten away from the earths orbit, much less the moon. Is there information I'm missing somewhere or is this a good piece of evidence? Just curious. I know it seems by all accounts that the event occurred, but the more I look into it the less it seems likely. I heard that lockheed martin is also developing a craft to take man back to the moon. Wouldn't their project be a good benchmark to compare the original lunar landing to?

I'm sorry, I JUST learned that the van allen radiation belt WAS discovered ten years before the landing. So why didn't NASA develop and apply anti radiation materials for the astronauts and their craft?

Answer 1

The Van Allen belt WAS known to scientists before the moon landing, and you're right, they didn't develop any materials to protect against it. They did, however, time their trajectories so that they would avoid exposure as they went through the belt.

The risk would exist, certainly, but in the same way getting lots of X-rays would increase your risk of cancer. It's not a piece of evidence, it's incidental.

The craft that Lockheed Martin develops would be (presuming they make it) orders of magnitude more sophisticated than the moon landers.

Answer 2

1) Everything you wrote in your question is incorrect.

2) The existence of the Van Allen radiation belts postulated in the 1940s by Nicholas Christofilos. Their existence was confirmed in *1958* by the Explorer I satellite launched by the USA.

3) The radiation in the Van Allen radiation belts is not particularly strong. You would have to hang out there for a week or so in order to get radiation sickness. And, because the radiation is not particularly strong, a few millimeters of metal is all that is required for protection. "An object satellite shielded by 3 mm of aluminum will receive about 2500 rem (25 Sv) per *year*."

When the astronauts returned to Earth, their dosimeters showed that they had received about as much radiation as a couple of medical X-rays.

4) Twelve 12 American astronauts have walked on the moon.

Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin
Apollo 12: Pete Conrad & Alan Bean
Apollo 13: << failed to land on the moon >>
Apollo 14: Alan Shepard & Edgar (Ed) Mitchell
Apollo 15: David Scott & James Irwin
Apollo 16: John Young & Charles Duke
Apollo 17: Eugene (Gene) Cernan & Harrison Schmidt


5) Why haven't we been back?

a) 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.

b) I used to travel to Crested Butte, Colorado every year to ski. Because I don't go anymore, does it mean that I never went?


6) The U.S. government scammed everyone?

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!


7) What about the USSR?

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.


8) Why does the flag shake? Where are the stars?

Take a look at the first two websites listed below. They deal well with all of the technical questions.


9) Finally, please tell us what you would accept as definitive evidence that the six moon landings were real. Is there anything?

Answer 3

The Van Allen radiation belts are dangerous if you are exposed to them without shielding. However, they were accounted for, and the lunar modules provided more than enough shielding to prevent anything except the most long-term effects. An easily surmountable problem that, somehow, keeps rearing its ugly head with the Moon Hoax Conspiracy theorists.

Heck, you get as much radiation exposure flying across the country each year in commercial airliners as they got passing through the Van Allen belts.

Answer 4

Yes, NASA did send astronauts to the moon. They left equipment behind, including a reflector that is used to measure the distance between the Earth and the Moon by bouncing a laser off of it. If you're interested in anything space related, including the science that puts an end to the conspiracy theories about the moon landing, just visit the website listed below.

Answer 5

The metal ship they were in naturally shielded them from radiation. In addition, the windows were colded with a thin layer of gold which also shielded them to a degree. All in all, with the shielding they had the amount of radiation they would have been exposed to over a few days would not have been harmful.

Answer 6

Hi Several men landed on the Moon. All of them are checked for cancer twice a year. The pilot of Apollo 13 died from cancer. : http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9503E4D81E38F933A0575AC0A964948260 This may be coincidence, but they check anyway.

Answer 7

Yes, we did land on the moon. Unless i am wrong that Niel Armstrong was one of the first men to land/walk on the moon. So, yes to answer your question we did in fact land on the moon(that is unless you are a conspiracy theorist).

Answer 8

yeah we landed on the moon what they never told us ...was they found bases on the dark side [ other side ,not seen from earth ] and they weren't ours.......remember the Russians were also involved and after a short spell both of us stopped our moon adventures ? Well we were told to leave.......and not come back!!!!

Answer 9

Technically I have never landed on the moon so his assumption that "we" have not landed on the moon is correct.

Answer 10

It was faked. The US couldn't afford to lose the race to the moon to the russians they had already beat us to space.