Do you believe man really landed on the moon?

Question

Apparently there are scientific facts proving it never happened. What are these facts?
One that I've heard is that there's no wind there, although in the tv footage the flag is 'blowing'.
What are your thoughts?

"aviophage" I was only asking for opinions and I did NOT state my own so don't tell me to 'stop being foolish' and then later in your speel tell me to 'ask around on yahoo there are people here who will give answers' when that is what I'm doing.
Wake up woman. This is obviously something you feel strongly about and that's fine, I only needed your opinion, not advice.

Thanks for your answers.

Answer 1

Of course not. NASA spent billions of dollars on styrofoam rockets and plastic movie sets. And Congress let them.

Answer 2

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

There is no "scientific" evidence to indicate that there were no moon landings, and there could not be, because the moon landings are fully documented historical fact, and only a bunch of damn fools with nothing to do with their time could come up with the idea that the moon landings did not take place. The flag "waves" because it has a wire stiffener in it. Super High Tech, right?

Montana, 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 4

Yes, I definitely think that we did land on the moon. The flag had structural support (a few stiff wires) to hold it out and make it appear as if there was wind. They did this just so you can see the whole flag in the footage.

From www.wikipedia.com on the topic:

Some conspiracy theorists still insist that the lunar landing was a hoax. These Apollo moon landing hoax accusations flourish in part because, while many enthusiasts predicted that moon landings would become commonplace, except for the several ensuing Apollo landings in the next decade, such predictions have not yet come to pass. Many scientists, technicians and space enthusiasts who have commented on the accusations have rejected them as baseless. Public opinion polls in the United States have shown that a large majority accept the Apollo missions as fact, while a notable percentage have at least some doubts about them.

Mike

On a side note, my uncle helped train all of the astronauts that flew in the Apollo Missions...he actually has a small spec of moon rock as well.

Answer 5

This question has been asked so many times and there is as much discrepancy about the hoax theory of the moon project as there are people debating God and the Big Bang.

I just happened to watch the Science channel tonight and it was the story of the near disastrous Apollo 11 mission. I had no idea how nearly they came to dying up there. Now, I can't prove they were there, I know, but it just doesn't make any sense to me that they would have gone through so much to train for it and then not go.

I know our government doesn't have a good track record when it comes to the truth, but there were just too many civilians that dealt with the program that know what happened. I don't think they tried to pull a fast one with this.

Answer 6

Well I know man has figured out how to fly because I've been in a jet. And it is not that much of a leap to figure out how to go further and faster and make it to the moon. I think it would a much harder achievement to put on a ruse and get away with it for 37 years, especially considering the fact that it would take dozens of people all keeping their mouths shut for all these years. Now that sounds like an impossibility to me. Also they stuck a reflective prism on the moon and bounced a laser beam off of it to get a precise distance of the Earth to the Moon. Yep we landed on the moon.

Answer 7

well, ya because what did neil armstrong do then fly ova the moon... no he landed ON the moon it is humanly posibble but i bet its hard. and i think there has 2 b some sort of wind blowing up there, but still you never no was the FOTAGE reall or just animated.. have you seen the moivie CONTACT its awesome it will teach you more on SPACE and entertain U 2

Answer 8

Yes we landed on the moon. I have met several of the astronauts and I have been to Kennedy Space Center several times.

The people that think we did not go to the moon probably think the Earth is flat too.

Answer 9

Yes on some missions I ran the tracking computer.

Answer 10

That flag wasn't "blowing"...it was made to extend out that way.
Man landed on the moon several times....this conspiracy theory has got to be the dumbest one of all!