i heard that too. i dont believe it. we DID land on the moon. how could they get neil armstrong to kinda "float" with gravity here?
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2006-12-04 08:58:04
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answered by Hannah 3
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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?
2006-12-04 14:48:55
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answered by Otis F 7
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No one will know for sure until nasa or someone returns. However, if the journey has not been made before then the Chinese, Russians and any other space going nation or corporation would sure let the world know. It would be really powerful for a nation like Russia or China or a Multinational Corporation to inform the world that nasa never went to the moon. That the only thing Nasa did was spend money and tell lies. I wonder if the Space Shuttle actually achieves orbit? There are satelites in orbit put there by the shuttle so we must think that it is achieving orbit. We assume the pictures of the Earth from the Moon or the Orbit around the Moon(Luna) are real.
2006-12-04 09:22:20
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answered by theshermany 1
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Absolute garbage answers.
Read the history of manned space flight before you listen to garbage and pass on garbage.
The Apollo program went from 1965 to 1972. In that time hundreds of experienced, imtelligent controllers worked the mission control centers at Florida and Houston. They worked in 3 shifts, 24 hours a day. They had banks of screens giving them info on the flights.
Just stop and think for yourself. How would you get a fraud past these people for 7 years, such that they would think that what they were looking at was real when it wasn't. Who are the people that would have inserted the fraudulent scenarios into the systems. How would they get it in unbekown to anyone.
There is no excuse for ignorance. If somebody tells you something conspiratorial, go check the facts before you go spread it around all your buddies.
And do not pass on things you know nothing about. That is dangerous and breeds anarchists, people who then think the government is eternally against them.
2006-12-04 11:02:19
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answered by nick s 6
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Best not to read any of the answers you get. Too many people believe on what they are told, rather than think for yourself!
Personally, I believe that they NEVER went to the moon. Christ! This was the 60's! Have a look out of your window and look at the moon. Then think to yourself: "The sixties? But computers then were sh*t? The Russians say no comment? Diverse the American people's interests from Vietnam to moon? Why did NASA built such amazing vehicles to get to the Moon but built the worse video cameras for the Astronauts to use?
And finally, do you honestly believe that they would want to spend billions on the moon when the country were having serious problems at the time?
That video of the moon would be NATURALLY convincing if they really went!
Or maybe they did go to the moon. YOU MUST THINK FOR YOURSELF, NOT LISTEN TO THE MEDIA, FRIENDS, OR ME.
2006-12-04 09:11:13
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answered by ? 3
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I think we went to the moon many times but it is possible. We were in a space race and had a great motive to do it at the time.
their is no wind on the moon the flag was moving but did we have the technology to produce such a film at the time?
2006-12-04 19:59:45
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answer #6
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answered by Anonymous
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They did - they landed adult males on the moon a finished of 6 situations. there have been distinct causes there have been no extra missions after Apollo 17: little public pastime, no funding, NASA needed the Saturn V rocket for the Skylab missions, no clinical incentive.
2016-11-30 03:30:36
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answered by Anonymous
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Go here to read NASA's explanation of the items in question.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23feb_2.htm
2006-12-04 09:06:26
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answered by Anonymous
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why is it hard to believe? we sent spacecrafts to mars and the moon, we sent satellites past pluto, how much harder could it have been to send a man to the moon? its not to incredibly far away, if you do the math, youll see that its possible. whether they did it or not... we can never know, but i cant strongly deny it.
2006-12-04 09:07:02
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answered by Anonymous
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NASA never went to the moon the spaceshuttles did. And if it is not true then why did challeger blow up?
2006-12-04 09:03:50
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answered by Mons 2
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