Men actually walking on the MOON!?!?

Question

I work with a woman who came into our office the other day and said that people where questioning Man actually walking on the Moon, because in the actual video they filmed while on the moon the flag was blowing as if where in the wind! But the is no oxygen on the moon, so how could it be moving like that??? Just wanted some opinions because me-personally I have never seen the video, but it kinda makes you curious!!!

Answer 1

The flag was blowing when they lifted off from the moon because of the exhaust coming out of the jet.

I remember seeing video's of it in the early seventies and it looked like it was going to blow the flag away.

Answer 2

There is just no way such a big hoax could be pulled off. The whole world was watching, including me (I was in high school at the time) and believe me, no hoax would have been good enough to fool everybody! The Flat Earth Society believed it was a hoax at the time, but they believed the Earth was flat and the whole space program was fake! The only reason more and more people like the hoax idea is that we have not gone back in all this time. As the joke goes, "If they can put a man on the Moon, then why can't they put a man on the Moon"!. The reason we have not done it again is that unlike electronic technology, rocket technology (and car and airplane technology too) has not really improved much in 30 years, so it would still be as expensive and difficult as it was in 1970. I mean a $500 computer today is better than a million dollar computer in 1970, but a $20,000 car today is hardly any better than a $3,000 car from 1970.

Answer 3

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 4

The flag looks like it is blowing due to the ripple effect from digging the flag pole into the ground. The link posted rips apart every argument shown on the video, and even tells you how you can experiment yourself to see the truth.

What the video never tells you, is that the "moon landing hoax" was started in the early 1970's by a man named Charles Johnson--leader of a cult believed the earth was flat because the bible said so. They were called the "Flat Earth Society." (Link to an interview after badastronomy.) I did a research project a couple years ago on the moon-landing hoax, and this man was the earliest reference i could find.

Answer 5

There is a small group that is still going around claiming that the Moon landings never took place. Their "proofs" have been debunked so many times that we don't care anymore. Yet, there are still people who listen to them and, not being aware, still think that these guys could make sense.

The story began with a TV show claiming that the Moon landing is a hoax. Of course, the TV show was on Fox (first hint of something wrong) in February 2001.

In summary, using the same kinds of "proofs" we could say that the California earthquakes are fake because some scenes in videos taken during earthquakes look like scenes in movies that were made about earthquakes.

Answer 6

There is a whole slew of material on the alleged moon hoax, and some pretty clear point by point refutations of the "hoax." While there are some people who really believe we never went to the moon, the "hoax" theory was widely popularized when a TV special was aired by Fox in 2001. A point by point refutation of the supposed evidence can be found at the reference link below:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

The explanation about the flag waving is simply that the thing can have waves propogate along it when moved around (like when it was being set up) with out the need of air. Ever crack a whip or heavy rope? Notice how the wave propogates down it? In vacuum, you won't get an audible crack, but of course the wave will still move along the material, just as drawing the edge of a blanket up and down will make waves, vacuum or not. The waves have a somewhat slower frequency because of air resitance against the blanket, but with out air they will still happen!

Answer 7

OK, there's no atmosphere at all on the moon - not only just no oxygen (most of our atmosphere is nitrogen). The flag wasn't blowing in the wind - someone was fiddling with it every time you see it moving. Also, it has a wire in it to keep it up so it won't just flop down.

These answers and more at www.badastronomy.com .

Answer 8

I believe the flag was rigid like a peice of cardboard so that it appears to be blowing in the wind. They thought about there being no wind on the moon so they packed a special flag.

Answer 9

The flag is flapping, not because of the wind, but because as it was planted it was in motion. If you look at the pictures and video straight after that it isn't moving. Plus wires were put into the flag to give it a "waving" look to it.

Answer 10

When the flag was planted it vibrated some and looked as to be waving. Also when the lander took off the gas from the rocket made it move. If you have any question about whether it was real or not, just ask any astronaut who risked his life and dedicated years of his life to the mission. You'll get set straight real quick.