Again, another conspiracy freak. Of course they landed on the moon. All those people who use scientific knowledge to prove we didn't land on the moon have been debunked by real scientists.
Read this: http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/02/19/nasa.moon/ if the truth actually means anything to you.
2006-12-14 13:19:56
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answered by theodore r 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?
2006-12-14 13:30:34
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answered by Otis F 7
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Next time somebody walks on the moon he will find the flag, the abandoned Lem and the marks on the dust will still be there.
But it is trendy today to spoil and misrepresent any great american achievement. There were several missions to the moon, not just one, and if they happened to be fake the russians would have known and spread the news at that time. But their scientists were receiving the same telemetry signals from space and not from Hollywood!
2006-12-14 13:21:46
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answered by PragmaticAlien 5
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If your grasp of science is anything like your grasp of the english language... I'd say you should never ever form an opinion on anything.
Do you even realize how incoherent and ridiculous the statement you just made is?
But, I guess nothing I say will matter to you because you are probably too young or not smart enough to comprehend it.
2006-12-15 02:54:57
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answered by AresIV 4
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The whole point of Apollo was to make the Soviets look bad by doing what they could not do, and the Soviets had the ability to track the missions themselves with their own equipment. If we had faked it, they would have known and told the world to make the U.S. look bad. But they didn't, because the landings were real.
2006-12-14 13:25:09
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answered by campbelp2002 7
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I am wondering...do you think the world is really round? I do not see that when I look out my door and neither can I see germs so it must ALL be a conspiracy!!!!! Be careful of what you find on the Internet as there are a lot of misguided individuals out there who love to try to stir things up.
2006-12-14 13:37:38
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answered by Why Bother 1
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yup they did it all in an effort to fool you, Runescape Player. Good thing you caught on! The ISS is actually a sound stage in burbank and next season they will film "survivor" there.
2006-12-14 13:59:58
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answered by saopaco 5
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i think the only fiction you should be worried about son is the fiction in the library, you need to read more so you can hopefully learn how to write.
2006-12-14 13:48:49
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answered by charlie's slam pigs 1
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there's a moron born every minute
2006-12-14 13:28:40
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answered by Anonymous
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Don't believe anything unless you see it with your own eyes!!!
2006-12-14 13:20:56
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answered by usually2right 2
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