Fake Moon Landing Controversy?I was told by a friend of mine that a moon landing was fake.Is this true,and how

Question

Ok,at first I thought the first moon landing was awesome,but I was told by my friend that it was infact a set used to create the idea that astrounauts landed on the moon.Is this true or do you think its true.Details plz.

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

Have the "for the landing" people resolved convincing those on the side of the fence who believe this whole event was staged?

FAR FROM IT. The moon landing could have been faked for many reasons, the one thing proponents of the landing never seem to satisfy the reasoning WHY we can't go to the moon now even if we tried. The science was not there in the 60's and now we are only getting to the point where getting there is a possibility.

The urgency of getting to the moon is far greater than people believe, so why not just go there now if we have the potential? Because we just might not be there just yet. Otherwise there is not a damn reason to believe we need to wait another 12 or 14 (or whatever rediculous number) years to get there.

Engineering, especially in the technological realm, has expanded over itself RELENTLESSLY since the 50s and 60's, how in the world can it be reconciled that getting to the moon couldn't be done in a quarter of the 10 year time it took back in the 60's to achieve such a mission? HOW?

This all fine and good, but also explain how the greatest event in the HISTORY of mankind- and NASA (government space agency) loses the original taps? No, there isn't tapping on the moon due to it's having 1/6th the gravity of earth, and there is reason to believe NO human has indeed stepped on the moon. Or we'd have the tapes.

I'm not convinced we have been there 100%, but i'd like to believe we did and i believe a landing in the future is going to happen (again?). And what makes it such a tough decision to make this a CO-OP scenario with other countries to make this happen EVEN FASTER??? I think this mission is opening up to other countries, but I doubt America could have beaten the rest of the world to the moon without their help.

Golly, look at our horrible cars for heaven's sake.

Answer 3

You have been watching the wrong videos then. It is 100% certain the six Apollo landings between 1969 and 1972 were genuine. People make the mistake of comparing a $1,000 laptop today to a million dollar mainframe that filled a room in 1969 and had far less computing power and say that proves technology has advanced enough to make it easier to go to the Moon today. From this they jump to the conclusion that if it still too expensive and difficult today it must have been impossible then. What they should do is compare a $20,000 car today that gets the same MPG and has the same top speed as a car costing $3,000 in 1969 and then realize that only computers (and all electronics technology) has enjoyed amazing advances while cars (and all transportation technologies including rockets) have not. So it is just as expensive and difficult today as it was in 1969 and still not worth to cost to keep doing it. This is also why so many great robotic missions to planets have flown since then. Because the small, light weight, and highly capable robotic space craft we can build with advanced electronics technology can be easily sent much farther away than the Moon with the same old inefficient and expensive rockets we are still using.

Answer 4

Umm... you shouldn't be asking this question in a public forum, especially one where the government monitors the answers.
Don't be surprised if you have people following you, or hear strange clicks when you're talking on the phone.

If you see people in dark suits around you now and then, you can be assured they're government agents watching you.

The only way to get some privacy is to make phone calls from the bathroom. The pipes block their signal. Also, use two layers of heavy duty aluminum foil. Heavy Duty! It's listed on the box. Make a pyramid shaped hat and place it on your head when you're in the bathroom. The heavy duty aluminum foils blocks the scanning beams from the satellites overhead.

Answer 5

You friend is a nut.

They landed on the real moon because that is a lot easier than keeping a secret like we faked the moon landing.

Like Bill Clinton said of Vince Foster:

"Three people can keep a secret so long as 2 of them are dead".

Answer 6

According to the one video I had seen it basically says that there was a fake moon set and film because at the time there supposedly wasn't a camera capable of filming on the moon.The fake one was made in case we had failed to get any footage on the moon to televise. I think there is so much more to this story than our alleged failures it's more about who was really involved as to whether we would succeed. Who really controls our limitations especially when it involves space flight and landings on the Moon.

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=3288261061829859642&q=secret+NASA+transmissions

Answer 7

The 1969 Moon Landing was awesome. If you don't believe me go to the NASA web site and check it out for yourself.

Answer 8

Your friend has been duped.

1969 was the height of the space race and the cold war - do you think Russia would have been fooled by a hoax so easily exposed?

Don't go down the path of the jerks who deny pretty much anything that looks like good fodder for a conspiracy.

Answer 9

Why do you think we haven't been to the moon since that supposably "landing" now that we have all this great technology, and why do you think NASA speakers get all nervous when we ask them "Sir, in this era of such great technology , why haven't we gone to the moon?" exactly.....

Answer 10

The "evidence" that the moon landing was faked isn't very good.
We really went to the moon
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html