Who took the picture of Neil Armstrong walking down the ladder to become the first man on the moon?

Question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phT0_K8TWPI

The comments from YouTube viewers is inconclusive. Can someone tell me how they got a shot of Neil Armstrong taking the first steps ever on the moon? What did they do, extend a huge boom off the LEM with a video camera hanging off it? Does anyone have documentation on this?

Answer 1

There was a video camera mounted on the outside of the LEM (Probably a landing strut). You can see parts of the LEM in the foreground of the shot. The camera didn't have to be on a boom to get that angle.

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

The photographer did not exist. First of all, there was never a photograph of his first step, but a television stream, second the television stream that recorded his first step was taken by a camera installed on a pallet at the side of the LM, called MESA (modular equipment stowage assembly). This pallet also contained the tools and replacement air filters for the space suits. The people who designed the spacecraft had not been that stupid, they knew that the tax payer wants to see that first step and thus simply did the most obvious: They placed a security camera at the best possible spot.

Answer 4

This is for Shu: Hey, we did go back...5 more times after Apollo 11. You have absolutely no clue what your talking about.

Now to the question at hand. The camara was mounted on the LEM. All your answers can be found at www.badastronomy.com or just look up the Apollo moon missions on Wikipedia.

Answer 5

Yes, there was a video camera on the lunar lander. Analyzing the video. There were also astronauts filming from insider the landing craft.

Any thoughts on it being a hoax are incorrect. There are reasonable expectations for everything that has been claimed. People that are circulating pictures are not using the proper ones. If you look at the negatives, everything will fall in to place.

Answer 6

The video camera was mounted on a boom on one of the landing struts, and was operated remotely from inside the LEM.

For documentation, how about checking out NASA? Or
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html#doubletime

Answer 7

wasn't it a camera mounted on the side of the space craft?

Answer 8

That is a good question, I've never questioned how it was done. I guess everyone was so in awe of the fact that he was there, no one thought about how it was being captured. I'm going to do some looking, hopefully I'm back with some answers.

Answer 9

It was the guy in the studio. Do you know that that was faked? Nobody has ever set foot there. All was a big hoax. Russia was leading in the space race at the time and our government was worried they had an advantage on us, which they did so we had to come up with something to beat them. At that time it was not viable to set down let alone take back of after landing. The astronauts have been very hush hush all these years about it. If you don't believe me do some research of some of the pictures taken. Look at the shadows taken on the moon that must have had artifial light sources that give off diffferent angles of shadows. Also one question i have about it all. Why have we never went back to the moon for doing more research, huh? If we did it once you would think we would do it again to gain more knowledge and study it more. Why haven't we went back? Because we have never been there in the first place that's why. It was all a lie !!!

Answer 10

This is a million dollar question.
I think it might be the radi or the satellite.