Do you believe that Neil Armstrong and the team really landed on the moon in 1969?

Question

Or was it staged?

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

The simplest answer to your question is yes I do believe that Neil did land on the moon in 1969. If the US wanted it to be staged they would have just been satified with Apollo 11, they wouldnt have wasted their time and money on staging another 6 missions one of which neally caused the deaths of 3 astronauts (Apollo 13)

There have however been a lot of theories which people say prove that he didnt. Let me give you some hoax's and then the explanation for them hey. I have picked 4 big ones that are fairly typical. Its a bit long, but please stick with me :)

1) No stars in the photos:

The real reason is that when contrasted with the brightness of the astronauts and the lunar surface, the stars are just too dim to register on the photographic emulsion of the camera film. If the camera shutter were held open long enough for the stars to register, everything else would be over-exposed into a white featureless glare.

You cannot have both visible on the one photograph, so the camera was set for the correct exposure for Buzz Aldrin and the lunar surface, not the stars. When standing on the lunar surface the astronauts could not visually observe the stars in the dark sky, because of the surface glare, they could only see them when standing in shadow. By the same token, if we take a photograph outdoors at night from a brightly illuminated surface, our photograph also would not show any stars in the sky.

2) The flags waving.

The flag is out and appears to be waving by an extendable rod running through the top of the flag, so that it can be viewed unfurled, and you can see the unnatural rigidity this gives to the top of the flag in the picture. The rod creates the effect of a breeze blowing the flag into that position. Without the supporting rod the flag would just hang limply down and would not reveal the stars and stripes. The rod is not extended the full width of the flag and it looks like a breeze is causing a ripple in the flag.

It has also been claimed that some video clips show the flag waving in the breeze when it was planted. Not so. The movement of the flag is only because when astronauts were planting the flagpole they rotated it back and forth to better penetrate the lunar soil.

3) 'Wrong' shadows

The simple fact is that there is more than one light source. The light does not come directly from the Sun and illuminate only the one object in question, as a narrow beam spotlight would in a dark room. It shines on the entire daytime surface, just as it does here on Earth. Therefore it also illuminates the surface, the astronauts themselves, rocks, mountains, the Lander and all the other objects on the surface.

The reflections from these objects is why there is more than one light source, it is not because there was more than one spotlight used on a film set. It is also worth noting that on the lunar surface the reflected sunlight from the Earth is 68% brighter than that of the full Moon as seen from Earth.

For more on this question check out badastronomy.com/bad/tv/iangod...

All the other fake photographs are explained just as easily with a little knowledge, and an understanding of how conditions on the Moon are very different to those here. With no atmosphere to scatter the light, things look a little odd on the Moon, we have a very black sky and a very bright surface.

We see strong shadows everywhere, and our sense of distance is also fooled because there is no atmosphere to produce the familiar atmospheric haze that creates a distance perspective on Earth. Furthermore, with the gravity being only a sixth of Earth's gravity, things move and behave differently as well.

It's hard to make straight comparisons, because we cannot, the Moon is just not like the Earth. We have to think differently when interpreting the images from the Moon, and that's what causes the problems, people are not allowing for those differences when looking at the lunar photographs. They are looking at them as if they were taken under normal Earth conditions, and concluding wrongly that there must be something wrong with the photographs.

4) Why doesn't the Hubble Space Telescope provide proof hey
The equipment left over by the astronauts is just too small to be seen with the HST. Even the best image we have of the moon is taken of Copernicus crater. Although it is beautifully detailed it is just impossible to make out anything on the surface.

I realise that these are just a view answers, i could keep going but everyone would complain that im taking up all the space, if they're not already :) I hope this has helped you out a little. Check out this website, it answers alot more: www.braeunig.us/space/hoax.htm

Answer 3

Yes. The US did, in fact, land on the Moon. They did it 6 times, which pretty much discredits the whole hoax theory right there. If they were going to fake it, why would they fake it 6 times? Seems a little ridiculous.

The conspiracy theorists and teenagers (even some adults) that believe in the hoax are undereducated and/or misinformed. Gullibility is the name of the game here.

I'll even admit that I, myself, had my doubts at one point. This is when I was still in grade school and I saw the FOX special. Of course, alot of the "evidence" in those movies seems to make a lot of sense to those that do not understand the science and physics behind spaceflight and low-gravity, zero atmosphere moonscapes. I was swayed for only a short time, however. I went to college for aerospace engineering, and even before that I did a little research of my own. It's simply ludicrous to think we staged the landings. The physics displayed in those videos from the Moon could ONLY have occurred in Lunar gravity, and zero-atmosphere.

These hoax theories appeal to people because we love a controversy. However, do not be one of the 5% of Americans who are swayed so easily by false science and sensationalism. I can say beyond the shadow of a doubt that we went there, 6 times, and all were successful. In the Summer of 2007 a Japanese satellite called SELENE will be launched to the Moon and enter a polar orbit to survey the Moon. This satellite will be the first one capable of taking pictures of the Moon's surface with enough resolution to actually make out the Moon landing sites.

I'm not too sure they actually WILL take pictures of the sites, however, they will be close enough to. Hopefully, around 2008 they will release some of these photographs, and we can finally shut up the teenagers and hoax theorists that seem to think that they are smarter than the rest of us.

Answer 4

you're superb perfect in that the Earth's moon has no ecosystem. besides the indisputable fact that, you're incorrect with the concept the yankee flag isn't blowing interior the wind. It has a cord body helping it so as that it may be displayed acceptable. in my opinion, no matter if guy landed on the moon in 1969 has no referring to the expenses I even ought to pay nor the existence I lead. i have more beneficial thinks to imagine about. yet to respond to your question, definite. i trust the moon landing in 1969 (and those following) did actual ensue.

Answer 5

Of course it really happened -- just as all the moon landings afterwards happened as well. (Sorry, I don't subscribe to the Phoebe Buffay school of thought that says "you could see the wires")

Someone wanted to know why the flag was waving if there is no atmosphere on the moon -- that's simple.....The flag had a telescoping crossbar sewn into a top hem to help it stand out straight. The bar didn't work perfectly, so the flag ended up looking a bit wrinkled, giving the appearance that it was "waving" when in reality it wasn't moving a bit.

Answer 6

Of course it was real. I think it's hilarious that someone put the thought in the minds of so many people that it was all staged. Gotta love the media!

All of the insinuations that it was staged have been explained over and over. Those who still don't believe are simply not sufficiently educted in the facts. I'll be y'all still believe in Bigfoot and the Loche Ness Monster.

Answer 7

Of course they did!

If it was faked they could have used the Apollo 13 story to say it was too dangerous and stop. That way it would reduce the chance of people finding out about the lie.

As it was all TRUE, they carried on with the further missions as planned.

Answer 8

Personally, I don't believe it. The Americans couldn't bear the thought of the Russians beating them to it so they staged the most elaborate hoax of all time. If it had been any other nation I would probably believe it but I think the Americans are more than capable of spending millions of dollars on creating fiction!

Answer 9

It was real. There was WAY too much public information available for it all to have been faked convincingly. There is still a lot of information, but it isn't front page news now like it was back then, and most people don't bother to look it up. The source has a lot of good information all in one place.

Answer 10

I know for sure. My Great Uncle was an electrical engineer working on that mission.

By the way to the person 2 people above me, there is a motor in the flag pole that helps the flag move, again... my great uncle knows a lot.