Did we really land on the moon? or is it all a hoax? was it just a tactical move by USA?

Answer 1

there are things to push the vote either way ut im still undecided

Answer 2

For me, the evidence proving that the U.S. went to the Moon is so overwhelmingly convincing that anyone who believes the Moon landings were hoaxed is either ignorant, stupid or gullible. And yes, that includes you, Ice Queen. Either you haven't read anything on the subject, in which case you are ignorant of the facts. Or you have read up on the subject and if you still believe it was a hoax then you must be stupid and/or gullible, or both.

Anyone can visit any one of the links that others have posted above and should be able to satisfy themselves that it was real.

For me, the killer facts that leave no doubt are...

Why did the Russians keep quiet about it?

The laser reflectors that have been mentioned above. How did *they* get there?

The several hundred kilos of Moon rock that was brought back. How the heck did we get that?

Answer 3

This has troubled me for many years and I finally have to believe that we did not go to the moon and the whole thing was cooked up to intimidate the Russians.

There was so much competition between the US and the Soviets at that time that it became a power play of "one upmanship" for space exploration and technology. Because whoever dominated the heavens; had the logistical advantage over the world

I was living in Washington, DC at the time and most of my friends and family were working for the government. I know for a fact the US Government often fools the public.

Reasons for me to think this are:

We have not gone back to the moon since 1972 - that was 35 years ago - and we do routinely got to the space station all the time now.

Buzz Aldrin's punching the guy (in front of news cameras) who asked him if he actually went to the moon. To me this represents anger and frustration at living the lie all these years. It would have been a lot easier to say "Yes".

If you notice the placement of light and shadows on the movies of the "moon landing" then you will see it's just not feasible for the light to be where it is in the photos, also the wind and the flag: there is no wind on the moon.

You notice that none of the astornauts who "went to the moon" make a big deal of it...........use you imagination.

Answer 4

One of the experiments performed during the landings, was to place laser reflectors on the surface of the moon, pointing at Earth.
These reflectors are there, because they are still used to measure the distance the moon moves away from Earth each year (about an inch).
This couldn't be done, unless someone put them there!

Answer 5

HOAX

Till the debris is shown on the surface I won't believe it

JFK made that ridiculous promise of a moon landing by the end of the 60's and it's too convenient that's it was "done" in 1969!

When the Russians were asked why they never got there they said it's was impossible due to radiation.


Motives
Several motives have been suggested for the U.S. government to fake the moon landings - some of the recurrent elements are:
Distraction - The U.S. government benefited from a popular distraction to take attention away from the Vietnam war. Lunar activities did abruptly stop, with planned missions cancelled, around the same time that the US ceased its involvement in the Vietnam War.
Cold War Prestige - The U.S. government considered it vital that the U.S. win the space race with the USSR. Going to the Moon, if it was possible, would have been risky and expensive. It would have been much easier to fake the landing, thereby ensuring success.
Money - NASA raised approximately 30 billion dollars pretending to go to the moon. This could have been used to pay off a large number of people, providing significant motivation for complicity. In variations of this theory, the space industry is characterized as a political economy, much like the military industrial complex, creating fertile ground for its own survival.
Risk - The available technology at the time was such that there was a good chance that the landing might fail if genuinely attempted.
The Soviets, with their own competing moon program and an intense economic and political and military rivalry with the USA, could be expected to have cried foul if the USA tried to fake a Moon landing. Theorist Ralph Rene responds that shortly after the alleged Moon landings, the USA silently started shipping hundreds of thousands of tons of grain as humanitarian aid to the allegedly starving USSR. He views this as evidence of a cover-up, the grain being the price of silence. (The Soviet Union in fact had its own Moon program).

Proponents of the Apollo hoax suggest that the Soviet Union, and latterly Russia, and the United States were allied in the exploration of space, during the Cold war and after. The United States and the former Soviet Union today routinely engage in cooperative space ventures, as do many other nations that are popularly believed to be enemies. However, this suggestion is challenged by the impression of intense international competition that was under way during the Cold War and is not supported by the accounts of participants on either side of the Iron Curtain. Many argue that the fact that the Soviet Union and other Communist bloc countries, eager to discredit the United States, have not produced any contrary evidence to be the single most significant argument against such a hoax. Soviet involvement might also implausibly multiply the scale of the conspiracy, to include hundreds of thousands of conspirators of uncertain loyalty. http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Apollo_moon_landing_hoax_accusations

Answer 6

Oh please!! This idea is like the one that says the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon where faked. For lords sake, humans or just those who want to cloud the disaster, like to muddy the minds of youngster especial, just to keep them befuddled and powerless.
Take it from one of the old befuddled, it is a form of brainwashing to the extreme. The CIA and FBI probably do not have much else to do seeings that they can not even figure out the warnings about 9-11 or where interesting enough to look into the issue. Lord help us!

Answer 7

Of course they landed on the moon. I can't believe people are still questioning it. The same people who believe we didn't land on the moon also believe 9/11 was committed by the government, Princess Di's death was a conspiracy, and there's little gps devices and mind control drugs in the flu shot.

Answer 8

Yes.
No.
No.

If it was fake, you can be damn sure the soviets would have been all over the place with the proofs a moon landing did not occur. They didn't because they KNOW it was real.

Now, what is all those non-believer's excuse for not acknowledging it?

Answer 9

The Russians believe the Americans landed - and they were watching and listening to every second from every angle!

Answer 10

Of course the USA landed on the moon or else who put the flag there. duh I think nasa has been there a couple times. do you think the martian probe is a hoax too.

Answer 11

Yes the U.S. did land on the moon but if you do not believe it no one on this site will be able to convince you other wise