Did the U.S. really land a man on the moon?

Question

I have read all the conspiracy stories as well as the stories supporting the landing. How can it be proved beyond a shadow of a doubt either way what really happened?

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

Yes, once and for all, yes, we did land men onthe moon!

There are three proofs.

One is that our enemies confirmed it!

The Russians would have loved to tell the world that we faked it and humiliate us, but they used their own radars, which were as good as ours, to track our ships all the way to the moon and watch them land.

Second, we can still see the artifacts and instruments we left there.

We left laser reflectors on the moon, which are still there and can still be detected by any college physics class with a decent laser, and measure the actual earth-moon distance.


Third, we have material samples.

We have moon rocks that were brought back. They are not earth rocks, they have been compared by reputable scientists the world over to earth rocks and they are not native to earth.

They have also been compared to other moon rocks not brought back by men, but blasted from the mon by meteor impacts and attracted to earth by gravitation. They are the same material composition, the same type of formation, and the same age, found nowhere on earth.

If you need more details, please refer to my previous Best Answers on this same topic.

8 DEC 06, 1914 hrs, GMT.

Answer 3

(Sigh) Yes, we really landed a man on the moon. In fact, we put a dozen men on the moon in six different missions.

Go to www.badastronomy.com for debunking of the pseudoscientific claptrap on the conspiracy sites.

How can you prove the truth to those who refuse to believe? No amount of evidence is sufficient for these conspiracy theory nuts.

Answer 4

the answer is yes. we really landed men on the surface of the moon.

the real proof was the Apollo 13 mission. if everything was so studio perfect, then why in the name of all that's great would you fake an emergency like that?

this question appears so much on this system. for us older people, we know the answer. for the younger people...well

Answer 5

to hopefully settle any conspiracies (although it may create more), i have actually SEEN a replica of the control room that was used during the apollo missions during my trip to Kennedy Space Centre. they have recordings of the controllers talking as well as lights to show where the actuall person who is talking was sitting back in 1969-1970.

Answer 6

YES WE DID!!!! I get soo mad when i see those conspiratory theories. They're wrong. I'm a scientist and i happen to know we definately know. I can prove all of those conspiratory theories wrong. Believe me, we went to the moon. If you want proof, go to these websites
www.badastronomy.com
http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/
Those are good websites that explain everything.

Answer 7

Just as certainly as their was a Holocaust.

Answer 8

Your too easily confused. I bet that I can make you wonder if you exist or not.

Answer 9

just get your telescope out and look for the for wheeler and the flag up there they left behind