Is there atmosphere in moon ? If not,How did the US flag fly?

Answer 1

No one ever went to the moon - it was all a hoax.

Answer 2

An American flag was left on the moon at each of the six Apollo landing sites. The didn't fly. The rod that holds them up is clearly visible in most of the photos.

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? Who took the video of Neil Armstrong?

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 3

all questions about the six apollo lunar landings being fake are non-sense. nasa got a huge amount of evidence to prove that twelve americans have stepped onto lunar soil, and there is no evidence at all that says they didn't.

no, there is essentially no atmosphere on the moon, there are six american flags on the moon. each one has a sleeve across the top. the flagpole is hinged, and the hinged part goes thru the sleeve at the top of the flag. the flags did not wave. the flags sometimes swung from these rods because the astronauts moved them from side to side at times and the flags lagged behind some and had to catch up with the rods when they put the flags on the moon.

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/as11-40-5874HR.jpg

here is a photograph of the flag of apollo 11 and edwin e aldrin. you can see that the flag has a sleeve across the top and hangs from a rod.

Answer 4

No air on the Moon. The flag did not fly. It just hung from the horizontal bar that was attached to the top of the pole. These rocket scientists are not stupid. They knew the flag would hang down, just like one on a pole in a room with no wind, so they included a bar that attached to the top of the pole and extended out sideways to support the flag in an extended position. But if you LOOK at the VIDEO, it does not move, unless the astronauts are touching it; it just hangs there motionless.

Answer 5

No atmosphere to speak of. The flag didn,t fly: it hung straight out,supported by a horizontal rod.

Answer 6

No atmosphere...and that flag wasn't really "flying"...it was more "starched" so it would hold its shape that way.

Answer 7

it did not the reason it appears to be moving is momentom

Answer 8

it didn't, really. they placed a fan with some energizer bunny batteries & let it blow on it.