How did someone get pics. of the 1st man on the moon? Wouldnt the picture taker be the 1st person on the moon?

Question

And why was the flag blowing in the "wind" there is no wind on the moon.

[[ a "friend" asked me this, so some ppl need to stop calling me stupid for asking. omgahh ppl. how retarded. ]]

Answer 1

No. Picture-taker stood on the ladder just outside the hatch. Flag was held out by stiff wires. There was no space shuttle at the time of the moon landing.

Answer 2

This is only about the 1,153rd time someone has asked this question this year.

And there are some seriously wrong ideas in some of the previous answers. The truth is the same, though, last year, this year, and next year.

Armstrong's descent of the ladder and first step onto the moon were recorded by a remote control camera mounted on the outside of the spacecraft. This will be obvious to anybody with half a lick of sense. Consider the camera angle. Pictures looking steeply downward, as these were, could only be taken from a position ABOVE the ladder on the side of the spacecraft. I don't want to have to explain that too many more times. It's too simple and obvious!

The American flag placed on the moon by the crew of Apollo Eleven did not "blow in the wind" nor otherwise move in any way. Only an incredibly stupid person would fail to see the obvious answer: The flag was supported by a stiffening wire in the top seam. That is so obvious that you should feel compelled to kick the next person who asks about it in the private parts, really hard.

The Space Shuttle did not exist at the time of the moon landings.

Now, 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

The camera was mounted on the leg of the lunar lander.

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

The second person could do it after the initial exit, a camera was mounted outside the lander to film the actual exit.

The flag did not blow in the wind it swung like a pendulum from its inverted L-shaped flexible metal stand when the astronauts brushed against it and remained in motion after the pole was hammered in because without air resistance the motion of the flag would not have dampened out quickly. All the instances that conspiracy theorists like to point to as examples of the flag waving occur when the astronauts are fiddling with the stand initially or brushing against he flag itself. The flag is never observed to spontaniously start moving without some human interaction as it would if it was moved by wind on a set.

Answer 5

Cameramen don't count as people, haven't you realised this from all the documentaries on TV?

People might tell you that there was a camera on the side of the module, and that it was deployed remotely before Armstrong stepped out, but they are just blinding you with facts.

They might also tell you that the flag moves, not because of the wind, but because the lower gravity means that any movement initiated by placing it into the ground will last longer. Beware - more facts!

Answer 6

There was a camera on the side, also there is no wind on the moon the flag shook because the man placing it was moving it, since there is no air on the moon nothing slowed it down so it kept moving. Check out badastronomy.com

Answer 7

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut * Born: 5 August 1930 * Birthplace: Wapakoneta, Ohio * terrific ordinary as: the 1st human to stroll on the moon On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong grew to become the 1st individual to set foot on the moon.

Answer 8

They wanted a movie of the first man stepping onto the moon, so they attached a camera to the side of the lander.

The flag had a stiff wire across the top of it so that it would stay up straight. In addition, everytime you see it moving, someone was just adjusting it.

Answer 9

The man in the picture may have been the first man on the moon but it was his 2nd trip out of the ship.

While there is no wind there also isn't much gravity.

Answer 10

there were two people on the moon's surface, one had the camera, the other was in the shot. For the flag, there is very little gravity on the moon, so the flag remained flattened when they pulled it taught. I hope this has been informative, and ended your doubts.

Savage