From a scientific standpoint, How likely is it that a human actually walked on our Earth's one and only moon?

Question

All substantial evidence and logic surrounding the supposed US moon landing in 1969 seems a bit forced, even contrived. Does anyone with some astronomy / space exploration background care to anonymously shed some light on this subject?

Answer 1

You don't have to be an astronomer or have space exploration experience to know the space landing was the United State's political way of going 'one-up' against the USSR's excelled space program. For further evidence look for the video of Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin, you don't have to be an expert in human behaviour to know they look rather uncomfortable pulling this jackanory from their arrse.
Wouldn't you think these three *great* men would be absolutely ecstatic? Full of pride and gratification from completing what one had once thought was the IMPOSSIBLE!?
No, they look more like three frightened boys telling their mum the biggest porkies ever.
Sadly I see this (faux) moon landing as being one of the many beginnings of the fated end of a great nation.

Answer 2

It's the hoax theories that are forced and contrived. Take a look at your own question, for example. What does "one and only moon" have to do with it. It's just noise you added in there to make it sound more mysterious.

Compare the academic and professional credentials of the naysayers with those of the folks who actually did the job. The difference is startling.

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

Being an aerospace engineer for a private NASA contractor, I'd have to say yes. None of the scientific evidence is forced or contrived. And it requires no light to be shed whatsoever.

Personally, I work on the Ares (return to the Moon) and Shuttle programs, and I can say beyond the shadow of a doubt that we went to the Moon.

It requires no light shedding... only people that are smart enough to do their own research and not on conspiracy websites, but legitimate ones. And definitely don't come to Yahoo! answers for this answer.

In all honesty, whatever questions you have feel free to direct them at my email. If you ask specific questions I will be more than happy to help you understand the flawed logic and illegitimacy of the Moon hoax.

Answer 4

Since the world has the internet people tend to believe things based on google rankings. and obviously there are more moonhoax websites than this one nasa-history-site.

I saw a few interviews with former Apollo crewmembers, especially one was interesting with Buzz Aldrin.
This guy had to accept to 'just be the number 2' on the moon and he developped such a funny way getting along with it.

I learned how to interpret people's small gestures when they lie.
I use this very often to figure out people i have to do with.
From the interviews i can say..they were not lying.

These guys made an adventure noone ever did before in an environment most people cannot imagine how it really is.
And soon you have a few 1000 hobby-know-it-alls who were not granted to be part of it, trying to be a personality for being smarter as all those thousands of people contributing in these missions. Are they all liars ?
isn't that ill ? that people with an imagination not reaching very much further than their monitor can screw up a decade of work payed by our taxes like this ?
Something happening or not happening does not become more evident by just talking about it, over and over again.
In this case i prefer solid evidence. And this has been brought back from up there in form of lunar rocks and soil, pictures and many many other things, including the impressions of the men who flew up there. We should thank them for doing something very dangerously and proud to live in a country who can do things like that, powered by the people.

Answer 5

Jape,

There were too many people involved in the moon landings to have been able to cover up or fake this. I met with Richard Gordon, Apollo 12 astronaut in the early 1970's with a small group of teenage kids at one of his relatives homes in a place called E. Wenatchee, WA. He was honest, personable and free to talk to a group of kids eager to meet a real astronaut.
You live in a time where we are stuck with the shuttle program and probably are too young to have been around during the space race. All I can say is that any push to say it was a lie or fake is unfounded. Check all sources that claim it was a fake very carefully and consider their backgrounds. Then look at the men who went to the moon, military and science backgrounds that would not stand around and let the people of the country they love be lied to by its government. We were there, left our mark and will return sometime very soon. And when we do return, we are going to stay.

Answer 6

Appollo 11 left a laser mirror on the moon so that the distance from the earth to the moon could be precisely measured and recorded. This is because they think the moon is getting slightly farther away all the time. Anyone with a laser can bounce a beam off of it. I guess that is pretty good proof that they were there!

Answer 7

It is without a doubt in this mind that it actually occurred. What would the point be for making it up? And why stop there? Hmmm, was that really the Columbia shuttle that disintegrated in the atmosphere? Was that really a Russian (Soviet) cosmonaut in the foreground of the Earth? Is that really a moon up there? And those points of light, what are they? How about those beautiful photographs sent back by multiple probes of the Jovian planets? And the coup-de-grace, why would we fake the missing Martian probes that either missed the planet completely or crashed? I'm afraid that you severely over-estimate your imagination and severely under-estimate the technological capability of humankind.

Answer 8

The probability that an American male human being walked on the surface of the moon is 100%. In fact, the probability that 12 American males humans walked on the surface of the Moon is 100%.

The only thing that is logically forced or contrived are the idiotic "refutations" of the moon landings on those stupid conspiracy theory websites.

Go see www.badastronomy.com for the refutation of the conspiracy theory nutjobs.

Answer 9

people are in problem-free words got here upon on the earth. that's because we've advanced to in structure the situations on the earth. it truly is somewhat achievable that there isn't any existence of any type contained in the image voltaic gadget except on the earth, even with the actual incontrovertible reality that this isn't shown. people did not come to Earth from everywhere else. How would we've were given the following, it replaced into in problem-free words in 1969 that we first were given to the Moon. There are billions of stars in our own galaxy and many them have planets (they have been detected) yet even if or not they help existence is yet another question, no one is acquainted with for particular. What you need to comprehend is that the distances the different "beings" would ought to go back and forth to locate us is "concepts boggling". there will be existence in various of places in our galaxy or we will be on my own contained in the universe, comprehend one is acquainted with for particular.

Answer 10

ok, in answer to the technical question about why the flag shakes, and where are the stars. this blows my mind, because people who ask that have obviously never taken physics. the flag shakes due to momentum. according to the theory on momentum, the flag would flap forever in a vacuum (space). Secondly, you dont see the stars for the same reason that you cannot see stars in big cities. light. your pupil has to be able to pick up enough light bouncing from an object to see it. in a big city, there is already an enormous amount of light around you, therefore your pupils are smaller. the light coming from the stars is too weak. this causes you to not see the stars. now with this in mind, the cameras used on the appollo missions work the same way. they simply are not picking up enough light from the stars for them to show up on the film. thats why there are no stars in the films.