Your question implies quite strongly that we all need to conduct original research in to this topic before offering an opinion. Would you care to outline your original research for us? Is there any? Or, did you get your information from other sources like everyone else does?
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?
2006-12-23 09:30:23
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answered by Otis F 7
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I'm sorry. Let me get this straight - do you believe that men have NOT landed to the Moon? And people wonder why the US is importing scientists from India and the former USSR! When I was in college protesting against the Vietnam War (and watching the first Moon landing), I was told to "love it or leave it." I got real tired of that kind of American BS and finally gave up. I've been living in Japan for more than 20 years - a country that appreciates what science is and can (and can't) do. I'd laugh at the American educational system if I weren't so busy crying about it.
2006-12-23 23:37:53
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answered by peter_lobell 5
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What green people and elvis?
Yes, we have sent 12 people to the moon. There is no evidence to indicate that we did NOT do so, and a ton of evidence that we did. I've seen all of the so-called "evidence" that conspiracy theorists put up -- none of it is valid in any way, and most of it is so ridiculous as to be hilariously funny. That a few people believe this nonsense shows how poorly our education system is doing.
2006-12-23 08:32:28
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answered by Anonymous
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Ron.... here's a simple "thought experiment" you can conduct to solve your real question about whether the moon landings were a hoax or not. Add up the total cost of all the moon missions, and divide it by the total number of people involved. Then ask yourself if they split the cash equally if it would be enough to keep them all quiet for a quarter century.
You need a new conspiracy, fella!
2006-12-23 08:35:34
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answered by Anonymous
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I suppose you have proof that we did'nt make it to the moon yet huh?
The fact is, we went to the moon 6 times.
How else would you explain the existence of three mirrors used on a daily basis by observatories all over the world.
So, let me ask you this; why are YOU so stupid?
2006-12-23 09:48:46
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answered by Anonymous
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people will believe anything
they believe a guy with a beard sit in the clouds
and that there were angels with wings
so why not green guys singing along with elvis on the moon
2006-12-23 08:38:15
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answered by Anonymous
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appropriate now, Eckhart Tolle's: a clean Earth... i'm often a speedy reader, however the recommendations in this e book is so deep...I study a million or 2 pages and would think of roughly it for something of the day. remarkable e book that makes you do an excellent form of self reflection.
2016-10-18 22:20:01
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answered by ? 4
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Don't recall green people and Elvis being listed among the reasons why gullible people think we didn't get to the moon.
It's funny really, it's the one great achievement by America in the twentieth century, and many Americans deny that it ever happened.
2006-12-23 08:36:12
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answered by langdonrjones 4
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Insulting people will not help your case. And you have not asked a question. And here is a really nice NASA history site with pictures, videos, documents and the complete annotated radio transcripts of all the missions. It is not fake.
2006-12-23 10:30:18
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answered by campbelp2002 7
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I live in Idaho and there is a place here called "Craters of the moon". It looks like the pictures of the moon that the books have. It is said that the astronauts trained here so they could get used to the landscape of the moon. So, what's to say that they (government) didn't just take photos of our "craters" and use them to dupe people into believing that we really went to the moon? There are plenty of conspiracy theories to go around. This is but a small one.
2006-12-23 08:42:59
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answered by FireBug 5
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