On a serious note did we originally go to the moon or was it a movie production?

Question

Where did this myth come from I mean the space race maybe.
But i think we have been to the moon many times but the first time I dont know but my argument would be we didnt have the technology to produce such a film look at the movies back then the special effect sucked.

Answer 1

The conspiracy theory comes from scientifically illiterate folks that hate the United States and everything it stands for. Since they can't stand the U.S., they have to come up with whacko stories that "prove" that the U.S. has never accomplished anything good.

The D-Day landings, the Holocaust, the Moon Landings, 9/11 -- all lies by the Americans to make themselves look better, according to these idiots.

And they will manage to get folks believing them, too, because they're taking a page from Goebbels and the Nazis -- tell the big lie loud enough and long enough, and people will start to believe -- especially young folks who weren't around when it happened. Folks today have no sense of historical perspective, nor did they pay any attention in history class, so they are ripe for disinformation of this nature. Add in the whole nihilistic deconstruction movement, and you are ripe for rampant idiocy.

Answer 2

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

I can't believe there are still people who think the moon landing was staged, or a fake. You must be very young and naive. You can check out the rest of the article on Wikipedia, but here's the first paragraph:
The first moon landing by a human was that of American Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 mission, accompanied by Buzz Aldrin. On July 20, 1969, while their teammate Michael Collins controlled the command module Columbia, Armstrong landed the lunar module Eagle on the surface of the moon at 4:17:42 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

Answer 4

The film is real; the landing on the moon was real too! Perhaps edited a bit for better view on TV, but nothing fake! Friendly and unfriendly countries never denied this fact no matter their envy. Skeptics first appeared in USA themselves.
Besides the flight was monitored by many foreign specialists. If movie were faked it would be revealed by now for sure; it is impossible to keep big secrets as long as that nowadays.

Answer 5

YEAH, u are right!!! Astronaut WANTED to go to space because of the space race! Thye did not go to the moon at all. The let the rocket go, made it go around the Earth eight times and came back. But the astronaut video taped their trip to moon on Earth (lolz...). It is amazing that they did it with no problems but...suspicious people found what was realy true...They FAKED IT ALL!

Answer 6

I think we staged the moon landing. But, we have progressed and gone to space numerous times. The US is going to moon very soon. WE are building a moon colony.!

Answer 7

Think of it this way. Would you spend 14 years, 28 billion dollars, hire 250,000 people and kill three astronauts to make a movie? Of course we landed there.

Answer 8

I have a friend who believes that the whole moon thing is a conspiracy theory, that it didn't really happen. It was just to make America believe we were awesome cause of the cold war and whatnot. Personally I think he is 'paranoid'. I am with you, I think it actually happened and still happens. :)

Answer 9

There was a book called Capricorn One about that very matter. Can't recall the author's name.

Answer 10

No, I am sure that we were there, the question is, why did we stop going back there ?????? One school of thought is that NASA found evidence that the moon was being used to observe Earth.......and the life form that had been using it was NOT recognized as "Human" !