does anyone still believe that man landed on the moon?

Answer 1

Get this straight and don't be foolish about it any more, okay? The basic technology required for a manned flight to the moon was developed in Germany in the late 1930s through the mid 1940s. This technology needed a lot of refinement to make a safe manned flight a reality.

We worked on that technology through the 1950s and 60s, and made the first manned moon flight in 1969. It all fits together, and if you read all the history and don't let the wackos lie to you, it will be impossible for you to continue to be fooled into believing that the moon missions did not take place.

The American people were much better educated and more intelligent in the 1960s and 70s than they are now, and it would never have occurred to NASA engineers and managers that 35 years later a bunch of ignorant dolts with nothing to do would come up with a stupid conspiracy theory stating that the moon landings were faked.

If that had occurred to them, I suspect the engineers would have gone to the trouble to create a larger and more visible object of proof, to compensate for the decline in the quality of the American mind and its education that occurred during and after the Reagan presidency.

But there is a real physical proof available. The astronauts who landed on the moon left behind reflectors that are used every day by astronomers to measure the irregularities of the moon's orbit. This is done by bouncing laser beams off reflectors at known locations that were left by the astronauts. Ask your science teacher for information about these experiments. You can arrange to see this done with your own eyes.

Let me put the question to you this way: If you think the moon landings were faked, when did they become "fake?" When did the idea become popular that NASA had invented the idea of an imaginary moon mission and created a huge technological empire to fool people? When was all this fakery done? In the 60s? 70s? 80s?

And why? What was the point? And how did they fool all the people that reported the news, operated the machinery, built the moon rockets, and watched them take off and land?

Do you realize that one American in 500 was a part of the Apollo program? Millions of them are still alive. Are they fooling you? Why? If you go out to a football game, look around you. In the stadium there are people who worked on the Apollo program.

Ask around. You are surrounded by people who know for sure that American astronauts stood on the moon more than 35 years ago.

Answer 2

A recent survey indicates that 96 percent or more believe that it really happened.

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

What's the big deal about getting to the moon? It's not that far, and if you can believe that rockets put satellites in orbit (you believe that, don't you?)...you just put a few of those rockets together to increase the boost and to break the gravitational pull, put a moon lander on top and send it to the moon.

Once there, being the moon a smaller body thus having a more reduced gravity pull, the landing is far easier than landing a 767 on Earth.

You put oxygen, some water and life supplies (a routine in current IES and Shuttle missions) on board and that's it, you got men on the moon.

Then the lunar take-off, due to the low gravity, takes place much more easily than on earth, the lander capsule makes a reentry (routine in the aforementioned missions) and VOILA!

What is the big ******' deal about landing men on the moon??

Lay off the TV for a while, it's drying your brain.

EDIT: For the "they didn't have the computer capabilities" crap above:

Did Christopher Columbus have one? The Computer in the Apollos was used basically to calculate the trajectory, not for ground control navigation overiding or something like it. Again, TV is frying your brains dudes!!

Answer 4

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 5

The problem is that it is fashionable, trendy, to deny or spoil any US achievement. Even disasters as the destruction of the twin towers is denied or twisted.

Just produce a film or write a book with such tendency and you will become famous and millionaire.

And then they say the cold war is finished!
What gets me is that so many Americans fall into such hideous trap!

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

Yes, Neil Armstrong does.

Answer 8

yes i believe i knew who is the first person in the moon Neil Armstrong is the first but anyone can do that

Answer 9

Yes. It was an amazing decade. It's just sad that so much time has gone by without any tremendous progress in the area of space exploration. Sadder still that the best NASA can come up with is to do again, what we have already done -- and WORSE, the same WAY that we did it before.

(What is to be gained from denying it? I dont get that.)

Of course you realize that the technology behind everything from your computer to your cell phone or blackberry is by-product technology from that program?

Answer 10

Nobody landed on the moon! The scientist were not capable of sending rockets to space at that time...too less technology! The faked it because they wanted to win the space race (beat the Russians)...that was the only reason...