Did Neal Armstrong really set foot on the moon in 1979?

Question

if he did. why do shuttles still blow up 90% of the time, almost 30 years later? where is the technology?

Answer 1

It was July 20, 1969.

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?



http://www.clavius.org
http://www.badastronomy.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_Belts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/main.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Apollo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/apollo_11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/apollo_12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/apollo_13
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/apollo_14
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/apollo_15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/apollo_16
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/apollo_17

Answer 2

You have to understand how government, and more importantly, funding works.

NASA has consistently, even during the 60s and 70s which was its heyday, been forced to run a tight ship, using slim budgets to accomplish the seemingly impossible. Because our government for some reason is more worried about re-election than you know, running the country efficiently and acting as public servants, important brances like NASA go consistently underfunded whilst we still pay out enormous sums of money to contractors like Lockheed-Martin who are 5 or even 10 years behind on delivery.

The space shuttles are built by the lowest bidder, have an enormous amount of mechanical parts that are prone to breakage just like everything else, and were conceived, designed and built over two decades ago. Heck the first flight was back in 1981, and since then, they've only had 4 failures, 2 of them being catastrophic.

All this on a shoestring budget. Statistically speaking, its safer to fly in the shuttle then drive to work every morning.

And the baloney that the moon landing was faked is usually advanced by people wearing tinfoil helmets to keep out the alien mind control beams. With a powerful enough telescope, you could see the flag that was planted on the surface of the moon, since that was done on the daylight side.

The reason we don't go to the moon is that for all we know, there is no viable economic reason to do so, no resources or anything to generate cashflow. And since we haven't had a charismatic leader since JFK, there's no one to motivate the country for something as grand as a moon or Mars base/landing.

But that's all shortsighted. In fact, the moon, with its 1/6th gravity well would be a great place to assemble and launch solar exploration due to the reduced fuel consumption. It could be the base from which we begin to mine the asteroid belts, or perhaps the mission that finds life on Titan or Europa would be launched from the moon.

All America would need is a charismatic leader with vision that doesn't regard waging his own holy war as the highest purpose, given him by God. What a putz.

Answer 3

u should watch the video of apollo the moon landing..and its in 1969...and what do u mean blow up 90 percent of the time..only two shuttles have blown up; one was Space Shuttle Chanllenger which blew up on take off cause of its fuel tank the shuttle and the 7 astronauts died...Space Shuttle Columbia another space shuttle that basically got destroyed in air on re-entry cause of a piece of foam that struck through the left wing...and where is the technology bet your watching toooo many movies that are way ahead of us..the computers on aboard apollo as this one guy said above me were way old slow and shi***why technology wasnt good back then...the computers onboard were as STRONG AS a digital watch of today's...now computers are like 50 times faster..well not 50 but around 20...and about the armstrong really stepping on the moon..possible not possible..why one reason is because when he stepped ont he moon why weren't there any stars in the background shining...two reasons for that they were facing the sun..or they didnt step on the moon...but i think they did but i cant say for sure....if u watch the movie its amazing all three astronauts on board apollo were lucky as hell because they escaped death about 3 times ....one in orbit with small paritcles hitting them...second there was a UFO (which was possible or not because the object was really far away as was almost traveling along with them)...second they had to land another close to death experience because the thing they were gonna land on was first hadonly 3 minutes of fuel left (and if they used the other tank they would of been stranded on the moon because the other tank was to get off the moon). those are three reason...but only NASA knows if we did step on the moon or it was just a fake broadcast that they did or made in hollywood lol

Answer 4

Nope, not in 1979, but he did in 1969 in a primitive landing vehicle that you couldn't pay me to fly in. And shuttles do not blow up 90% of the time, there have been two shuttles (and their crews) lost. One exploded when the burning gasses passed by a faulty o-ring seal in one of the solid rocket boosters and burned through the fuel tank. The other disintegrated (it did not explode) on it's landing approach when superhot plasma penetrated a hole (caused by a collision with some debris from the liquid fuel tank at launch) in the leading edge of one of it's wings. That's 2 out of 115 shuttle launches, which is 1.7%. Also bear in mind that the shuttles are based on tech that is more than 20 years old. How many cars are still around that are that old and still functioning? When the shuttles were designed, they were designed around the tech of that time. I'd risk a ride in a shuttle. When we return to the moon around 2020, it's going to be in tech designed in the very early 2000's based on tech used back in the late 60's. Homes burn, boats sink, trains & cars crash, planes fall out of the sky...nothing is perfect, but the pluses still outweigh the minuses.

Answer 5

No, he set foot on the Moon in 1969. And shuttles blowing up is not as common as you suggest. The few disasters are all that gets people's attention. How sad.

Answer 6

this must be a trick question, but OK I'm game It was 1969 and yes he did set foot on the moon. and as I recall USA shuttles have very low rate of "blowing up". And I do believe in global warming, we are no longer in an ice age :)

Answer 7

Have you been living in an alternate universe? The moon landing was in 1969 (not 1979), and exactly two shuttles (out of more one hundred successful missions) have "blown up."

Answer 8

Have you ever thought about the fact there is probably 1 million pages of programing just to get the shuttle off the ground? There has to be a 50% chance something goes wrong.

Answer 9

It was 1969 and shuttles have only been destroyed twice in the past 30 yaers oh and if it weren't for NASA you wouldn't be typing on your computer right now or talking on a cell phone or watching T.V. and they invented the handheld drill,and they make treaments for cancer in space,and loads of other stuff.Try this site and read ALL of it

Answer 10

What the hell are you talking about? Oy, gevalt! Read a book! You don't even know what year it was; you make a statement that is totally untrue (shuttles do not blow up 90% of the time); you know nothing about the subject and yet you act as though you do. Sort of like George Bush...hahahahaha!