did we land on the moon?

Answer 1

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 2

No, it never happened.

1. what caused the flag to flutter and wave - in a vacuum?
2. Why do some photographs have images on TOP of the cross hairs (UTTERLY impossible if un-touched photos)
3. How did paper thin foil suits protect astronauts from MASSIVE radiation from the VA belt - if it REALLY happened, why do we note use this "40 year old "space age" technology" instead of several metres of solid lead for radiation shielding now?
4. Speed the film up exactly twice - EVERYTHING now looks as it should. If it was genuine, this would not be the case.
5. Some of the rocks in the picture appear in OTHER pictures
6. the shadows when tangents are drawn, suggest a light source a little nearer than the sun. A few tens of metres in fact!
7. *IF* mankind had ever TRULY been there - some FORTY years ago, do you REALLY not think - with all this controversy over "did it happen or not" that we would not have been back since?

Hell we get excited if we can pop off to the space station these days - hardly an achievement if ** 40 years ago ** we were able to visit the moon.

People will believe what they want to believe, odd that now offers were made to check the photographs and film for evidence of tampering that NASA reckons they have "gone missing" all of a sudden.

No 5hit!

Answer 3

*Yes* *Ugh*, enough already.

It took 135 billion dollars and 10 years but we did it.
What's that like 0.1% of the United States output?







The flag shakes *because* of the vacuum. There's so little resistance to it continuing it's motion that only the stiffness of the flag eventually stops it.
The flag stays up because there is a *wire* in the top, you don't think a hundred billion dollars of innovation couldn't think of something like that eh?

The jumps might look more normal sped up *because* the gravity is weaker, in fact they were wearing about their own body weight in suit, they weighted 300 pounds, if they didn't have to wear a suit then they'd jump *twice* as high. Besides, they were just walking around, not showing off, I'm sure they could've jumped higher if they wanted to. Let's see you do *that* on Earth without wire-fu.

The crosses are not painted on, don't you think they have nothing better to do than paint thousands of *measuring* crosses by hand? The stuff around the crosses can be so bright that it bleeds over, *bright stuff expands* look really close at many photographic images, it happens all the time.



We don't go back because that was freicking expensive, especially then, and besides, we're going back in 2020.
What do you want, a monthly shuttle?


Sure the ISS is 1,000 times closer but they didn't even have space stations in 1969, the largest spaceships were much smaller.
It takes only less than twice the speed to send something to the moon as opposed to orbit, so the distance difference may be enormous, but the energy difference isn't (delta-v)


Many rocks look the same, are you sure it's the same rock?


Never trust a picture, camera lens and perspective can make a flat horizon look round, a round horizon distorted, and parallel shadows look not (think of crepsecular rays)
You can't even trust your own eyes sometimes (optical illusions)

There.

Answer 4

I knocked of work that and raced home to watch them on tv and I quite believe they landed on the moon It would be very ard to contrive a story and have the space landing
craft in the picture and for it to be made of such a light weight substance as aluminium very thin and fragile.But in a light gravitational field quite feasable

Answer 5

The placing of the reflective mirrors, (for very accurate geodesic calculations using laser beams from certain astronomical reflecting telescopes) by 3 of the 4 moon walk missions is IRREFUTABLE PROOF that we "were there".

When I questioned the author of the book/movie entitled, (loosely) "We didn't go to the Moon"--his reply was, "Well, maybe "robots placed them there". DUH

You figure. He sold his book and movie based on false information...Give the man credit for nothing except laughing all the way to the bank.

Answer 6

Those of you that doubt Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon.... I DARE you to tell Neil Armstrong that. Someone one told him that and he was so insulted that he slugged the guy.

Why are people so paranoid that they have to think that the government lies to us about everything?!

Answer 7

They claim they landed on the moon but the controversy is still there.

Answer 8

I never landed there except on dream.
Can not say about others...

Some one said above - US astronauts, the answer is an obvious and well proven yes.

Well its not proved yet.

Answer 9

Yeah, I guess so. We sent that robot car to mars, so I think we went to the moon.

Answer 10

not "we" but the astronauts of NASA landed on moon