Was America the first country to walk on the moon?

Question

I read a book and Una Armstrong stated that Russia was the first country to walk on the moon and America recorded themselves in a studio.

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

Yes. The recording studio idea has been around since before they ever went to the moon, and I cannot see why it persists. Do you really think the government is so powerful that it could effectively deceive the entire world about something that big? And keep it up for all these years?

Why do some people have so much trouble believing it really happened? Is it just that the USSR, a corrupt regime if ever there was one, claimed to be first and best in everything? Even modern Russians don't believe that!

I don't know; perhaps some people are so hung up on a world view that makes it impossible to land on the moon, or something. Possibly it is a religious thing.

Answer 3

Yes, USA was the first country to walk on the moon but Russia was the first in space. Neil Armstron was the first man on the moon.

Answer 4

LOL, that's a new one. While several people have taken issue with the moon landing (my great grandmother died believing it was faked), consider your source. Who is Una Armstrong? Why would you believe this person over so many people who were involved in the moon project. Is it more likely that the hundreds or thousands of people involved in the landings are lying or that Una Armstrong is just trying to sell a book? And it would appear that person is also playing off the Armstrong name to give it some credibility. Don't be fooled, there's every reason in the world to accept the US landing. And as for the russians, don't you think they would be calling our bluff if it were true?

Answer 5

Twelve Americans have touched down and walked on the moon. No Russians have. Neither has anyone from any other country.

The wacko conspiracy theories about faked moon landings put forth no credible evidence of any kind to show they are correct. What little "evidence" they do put forward is amateurish and ignorant, obviously concocted by people who don't understand even the basics of science, photography, etc. Don't fall for that junk.

Answer 6

"The United States' Apollo program achieved the first (and only) manned missions to the Moon. The first manned mission to orbit the Moon was Apollo 8 in 1968, and the first people to land and walk on the Moon came aboard Apollo 11 in 1969.[1]"

Answer 7

No America would never be able to walk on the moon..but a American national in the name of Neil Armstrong.. was the first human being from planet Earth who walked on the moon..
I am not to sure about other aliens from other interstellar planets ...
it is possible !!!

Answer 8

While unmanned Soviet probes had reached the Moon before any U.S. craft, American Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the lunar surface on 21 July 1969, after landing the previous day

Answer 9

No. Three countries have been to the moon - Japan, The former Soviet Union and the U.S., but only the U.S. has put men on the moon. The Soviet Union landed several missions on the moon before the U.S., and they also had the first moon rover.

Answer 10

I'v heard that aswell Because apparently when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon there was a shadow but because of the position of the sun at the time and the size of the moon and stuff there wouldnt have been a shadow. You have to remember that in 1969 America and Russia were fighting it out in the Cold War so they were both trying to outdo the other. And also I'm not a big fan of America as a country I think they think too much of themselves so i could believe that they had disillusioned the world that they had walked on the moon when in actually fact it had just been filmed in a studio but no disrespect to the guys if they actually did walk on the moon Big up you guys