Do you believe man has actually set foot on the moon?

Question

I was reading something awhile back that mentioned it was all a hoax because the conditions as captured on film were not right for anyone to have actually been there. Do you believe this to be true or not? Why?

Answer 1

First off... if they really did land on the moon... how in the world and why in the world would they lose the original footage of the moon landing. Wouldn't that footage have been a coveted prize from our early space exploration??? Of course it would have... NASA losing that footage so that it can no longer be tested or viewed should be a big hint for those who still believe the moon landing to be true. The footage of Neil Armstrong's historic moment is one of the most important artifacts of the 20th century. Therefore, who would benefit from losing the footage??? and more importantly, what would they gain???

Second, consider the fact that they could not land back onto Earth after they returned from the lunar mission... however, they expect us to believe that they could land on the moon and then take back off from the moon... BUT... they would then have to land in the ocean when they returned. If we didn't have the technology to LAND back on Earth... how in world could we have done everything else that they stated they did. Sadly, our technology was definitely in its infancy stage in 1969 and hasn't even progressed enough at this time to undertake a lunar mission. Notice how NASA is hoping for a lunar mission by 2018... why the long wait? I personally think that they are being forced to wait since "the average Joe" now has the technology and capabilities to view and evaluate the whole mission from start to finish... and therefore, they can't fake anything.

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

I don't believe it was a hoax; I believe that we put a man on the moon...several times. I don't have anything much to base my beliefs on other than having watched it like most other Americans who were around back then. If the Apollo program was a hoax, I don't believe they would have carried to the extent of the Apollo 13 near disaster; they would have wanted American space technology to look flawless. When someone who has (supposedly?) walked on the moon goes public with "it was a hoax" I might listen to them. Until then, I believe those guys probably know more about what has or hasn't happened in the space program than some conspiracy theorist. Ben Franklin once said, "History is but a generally-accepted rumor." Maybe he never said that at all. Maybe there never was a Revolution, or a Civil War...no one alive now was there. At some point, we have to accept what we have been taught, or prove it wrong. Saying it "could be wrong" isn't really saying much at all.

Answer 4

One of the most famous arguments that the moon landing was fake is the famous photograph of the 'waving flag'. Of course a flag would not wave on an airless moon, that's why NASA installed a support rod along the top of the flat to hold it up and make it look like it was waving.

Answer 5

Man set foot on the moon in 1969. The myths have been debunked. Try a google search and the answers are there.

Answer 6

all questions about the six apollo lunar landings being fake are non-sense. i was old enuf to watch it on television and know what i was watching. belief is only required for something that has no evidence to prove it. 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.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/image/featherdrop_sound.mov

here is a video of david r scott (apollo 15) dropping an aluminum geology hammer and a falcon feather at the same time on the moon. there is no air resistance so they both hit the ground at the same time.

http://homepages.wmich.edu/~korista/moonhoax2.html
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

Answer 7

Did he actually set foot on the moon? no...He wore a boot.

Ignore the idiots who want to deny this amazing achievement. The US sent many men to the moon.

Roger Chaffee, Edward White and Gus Grissom died in Apollo One, I will not allow some pig headed fool to say their deaths were meaningless.

Answer 8

I beleive there are a lot of paranoid simpletons that will make up any type of stories and find other paranoid simpletons to beleive them. In spite of all available evidence to the contrary I might add. Personally I have no trouble accepting that man walked on the moon.

Answer 9

Why would anyone want to fake the moon landing? There are way too many people out there who have nothing better to do than to mistrust the world.

Answer 10

Of course it was done. Millions of people (including me) saw it on television, and the rock samples brought back are different from anything found on earth.