Does anyone else suspect the moon landing was fake?

Question

I just don't see how they had the technology back then to do it, let alone have it on live tv broadcast!!!!! and I think if it were true, by now there would be timeshares for sale on the moon!

Answer 1

we made it, but not when we said we did. it was a race for supremacy, and the USA had the biggest stake. so they fixed up a tape, and broke the morale of the USSR. clever really.
but the lighting shows many angled shadows, such as you would find in a studio with multiple lighting sources.
what a scam! classic.

Answer 2

The moon landing was real. The flag is not flying, there is a wire at the top of the flag running out from the pole that holds the flag out. Some people say they saw it waving in a wind, but they didn't. If you watch that particular video carefully, you will see that the flag only wiggles when the astronaut is touching it or the pole and causing the wiggle. When he lets go, the flag stops "waving".

Yes, they did have the technology back then, even though it was crude by todays standards. You can ask the same question about how early sailing ships could cross an ocean without modern navigation equipment. They just did it with what they had. And many didn't make it. They got lost in storms, becalmed in the middle of nowhere, etc. A hand-held calculator today has more comupting power than the computers in the lunar space craft. If you watch the launch sequence, the astronauts are flipping a bunch of switches. They were programming their computer when they did this. The lunar astronauts could have been lost too, basically they were, in part, just lucky. But it worked.

Answer 3

1) 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


2) Why haven't we been back?

a) American astronauts visited the moon on six occasions.

b) 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.

c) 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?


3) What about the Van Allen radiation belts? Wouldn't it have killed the astronauts?

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.

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*."

"In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. [6]. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation." 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) 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!


5) 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.


6) 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.


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

Answer 4

Children always seem to fall for these conspiracy theories the easiest, so I'm not surprised that so many users here feel that way. The moon landing was not faked. Every single "discrepancy" brought up by the nutjobs has been thoroughly disproven. The reason the Apollo program was cancelled was because the American public (as usual) got frustrated with the expense of it, and stopped supporting space exploration. The feeling on the street was, "okay, we beat the Russians to the moon, now we can stop spending all this money." Politicians control NASA's budget, and when the voters turned against the Apollo program, the politicians did what they thought would keep them in office -- cut funding for the program. Even today, when we're talking about returning to the moon, and going on to Mars, the American public is whining about the cost.

Bottom line: if you believe all the conspiracy theory crap, I've got a couple of bridges to sell you.

Answer 5

You're right it is somewhat of a farfetched idea that they could possibly do something like that. It's also very farfetched that people could have the man power to make a pyramid out of thousands of 40 ton blocks. It's also very farfetched that people could create bombs with devices that use forces only found on the sun. It's also very hard to believe that mankind has designed a world wide electron/switch communication device utilizing satellites 300 miles high that can track gps locators and allow people to make real time phone calls anywhere in the world anytime.

You can go ahead and believe that our government is fooling us and trying to make us believe that these great things never happened, and dont exist. Or you can try to overcome your doubt and just accept that mankind is awesome and amazing. If we did however, come up with some sort of lie as big as landing on the moon, time will expose our lie when another country designs a satellite to take a picture of the spot we landed on. Until then, feel free to doubt, not that it will get you anywhere cause you can't prove anything.

Answer 6

This is not the first time that this has become an issue. It seems like someone plants the seeds of this phony conspiracy in the minds of each generation that comes along as soon as they are able to grasp it. It's kind of a modern version of snoop hunting that is apparently passed on from one generation to the next for the grownups' entertainment to have fun with just like their parents did.

Snoop hunting, by the way, is done by giving kids pillow cases and positioning them in strategic locations in the woods in the middle of the night. The adults get sticks and tell the kids that they are going to beat on the trees and drive the snoops towards them so they can be caught in the pillow cases. The adults then walk away hitting trees with the sticks. They get farther away until, eventually, the kids no longer hear the trees being struck. The adults then laugh and tell stories about how long the kids stayed in the woods waiting for the snoops to come.

Answer 7

Yes, of course there are plenty of other people that think the moon landing was fake. They're all as looney as you are. The SR71--the highest flying, fastest flying plane ever made--was designed with slide rules. As was most of the moonshot equipment. The SR71 was declassified only recently, and flown for record. It set record after record. "Let alone have it on live TV broadcast"? You have no idea what people were doing back then. Amateur radio operators had been doing moon-bounce connections for years on the two meter band. That's VHF, only good for line of sight transmission. But using the moon as a reflector, they could hit half the globe. Learn something about the subject before you pass judgement on it as "impossible."

Answer 8

No I don't think the moon landing was fake. The reason why is that they were expecting based on the speed of molecular dust acculumation to have a few feet of cosmic dust on the moon - that is why the lander had those really long legs on it - so that when it landed in the cosmic dust - it would not be buried. Based on the belief that the earth is millions of years old - there should have been a lot of cosmic dust. Well, as you know there was not alot of cosmic dust on the moon -only enough to really be sure that the earth is maybe 5-10 thousand years old. So, if it were fake - they would have had to land in at least a foot of cosmic dust to prove that the theory of evolution and millions of years is correct based on the rate of the accumulation of cosmic dust that should have been on the moon. It was real because they found totally contrary evidence to what they were expecting.

Answer 9

In reality the the only hoax is that people are claiming it is a hoax. I'm not supposed to say anything, but I will.

The "hoax" idea was created as a sort of general public intelligence test.

It was thought that if you could believe that the moon landing was a fake, then you were a moron.

What startled everyone was that such a huge number of people would believe in such drivel. So they thought it was just too embarrassing to come out and say it was a hoax of a hoax, and now they're just letting the whole thing ride out and hoping that it will just disappear.

Answer 10

Many people suspect the moon landing was a fake. They are wrong.