did we relly go to the moon?

Answer 1

Of course.

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

We did. The astronauts installed laser relfectors on the moon that amateur astronomers can "ping" to determine the distance from Earth to the moon. Wouldn't they have to be in on the conspiracy too?

The Soviets would know if we faked it. With their signal intelligence, they would be aware if our transmissions were or were not coming from the moon. Wouldn't they have been the first in line to expose the U.S. as frauds in the space race?

Besides, nobody in government can keep a secret. There are leaks every day concerning the most monotonous of affairs. Could something massive like a lunar landing really escape our ears?

Answer 4

Project Apollo employed thousands of people from every imaginable scientific and technical discipline all over the country. It would be impossible to silence / deceive the number of people involved in a project of such an unprecedented scale.

There have been several thorough debunkings of the conspiracy theorists' critiques of "anomalies" in the photos, etc. My personal favorite (the first link in references) is one where the debunker actually recreated the "anomalies" using models and explained very clearly why the photos appeared as they did.

The "evidence" that the landings were staged is plausible at first, especially if you WANT to believe the claims, but if you have any knowledge about photography, astronomy, engineering, physics, etc. you will be able to see the flaws in the logic of the hoax proponents.

Answer 5

No, the whole thing was a hoax. Not only that, but everyone knows that the moon itself is a NASA hoax, the Earth is flat, and Elvis is alive and well in Cleveland where he works in a donut shop.

Answer 6

Well I did not go to the moon and neither did you, but there were people who were on the moon. Yes, humans did go to the moon.

Answer 7

Yeah. Everyone did but you forgot. Hows that for a conspiracy theory? What is wrong with you people!?!?!?! The Holocaust didn't happen-Jesus Christ didn't save us-the Us is really making up everything-the twin towers were blown up by bombs and not the planes that were video taped flyin into them!!! You are an Idiot!!!

Answer 8

No. Columbus never got to the Americas, either. All staged on a film set in Gibraltar.

Answer 9

You and me didn't, but some astronauts did. So you could say that the US went to the moon, which would mean that we went to the moon.

Answer 10

Yes, a few times