Do you think we really landed on the moon?

Question

If we did, then why the heck havent went back? I think its all a bunch of bullcrap. JFK said that we were going to be on the moon before the end of his presidency, and I think they were just trying to fulfill his wish. I also think they were trying to show that Americans can outdo the Russians. What do you think?

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

Beyond a doubt. Yes. I know someone who was a head engineer for the moon vehicle. The technology was available and definitely used. I also visited NASA and met some of the leadership. NASA started out the program by crashing rockets into the moon. As the technology became more sophisticated they were able to develop the lunar module that landed several astronauts on the moon. The US is going to go there again by 2020 in preparation for human visits to Mars. Robots have already been there.

Answer 3

Oh yes.. most certainly we did.. The Saturn V booster.. was a monster.. it also hefted the 1st space station.. Skylab.. it weighed about 85 tons.. The Apollo payload was about 50 tons..

Btw.. it wasn't the American public that "lost interest" in further advancement in space.. it was Nixon & his syndicate.. the same bunch that cheapened the shuttle. Apollo had several more flights planned.. along with further "applications" - like a moon base..

Answer 4

We did not go back because we got busy with the Vietnam War, the 1975 Recession, the fall of the Iron Curtain, and because of some major disasters in the Space Program which focused us on the extreme risk and expense of doing so. Also, there has been no competition trying to go there, so we've been waiting for the technology to improve. And - with essentially no air and no water - its not easy to live there.

Answer 5

Of course they landed on the moon! I believe they never went back because they weren't interested anymore. Like a "did that, done that" kinda thing. The guys in power set their sights higher, like landing a solo robot on Mars.

Answer 6

Are you kidding me? I think Buzz Aldrin might have a little bone to pick with you. Why haven't they gone back? First of all, they did go back, a number of times. You need to do a little more NASA research. Second of all, they're exploring past the confines of the moon.

Do some research. Mercury, Gemini, Apollo..... Check them out.

Answer 7

It's not a matter of what I believe, it just is what it is. And we DID land on the Moon, so I don't know what else to tell you. Get with the program, I guess.

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

I don't know, but why would we go back? If we did indeed land on the moon, we found nothing of interest; it was not habitable, there was no life, and chances of terraforming are nil. Bottom line, why would we go back?

Answer 10

Yes, we did land on the Moon. If we did not, why didn't the Soviet Union expose the hoax? My suggestion is that you get a productive hobby.