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Question

My husband showed me a documentary that claims to have "irrefutable" evidence that the U.S. never landed on the moon in the late 60's...that there is no way that we can even go there now. What is your opinion about this issue? Did we go? Did the U.S. fake it? Give details....please.

Answer 1

Although my wife's father performed fuel calculations for the original Apollo landing, I'll spare you that speech. Instead, I will encourage you to watch two programs. The first show is called Conspiracy Moon Landing that it currently showing on the National Geographic Channel and it pretty much obliterates all of the popular conspiracy theories.

I would also encourage you to watch a movie called Capricorn One. Made it 1978, it is a fictional story about a fake mission to Mars. Although it is a science fiction story, it is a good example of how utterly impossible it would be to fake a moon landing for any length of time.

12 men walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972 and we have neither the resources nor the technology to pull off that big of a hoax for so long. Hundreds of thousands of people have worked on the space program. It would be far easier to put someone on the moon than to try and fake it and keep it secret for nearly 40 years.

The landings came at a time when our space program was ultra competitive with the former Soviet Union. Remember how big of a deal it was when Sputnik was put into orbit? They had the technology to monitor our moon shots and transmissions. Don't you think they would have called us out if they had evidence that it was all fake?

Perhaps the most definitive proof of our trip to the moon is what we left behind. For the last 35+ years, scientists have been beaming lasers to the moon and measuring the return times. How are they doing this? The beams are reflected back by equipment left on the moon on at 3 different locations.

Case closed.

Answer 2

Please, DinahLynn, get this straight and don't be foolish about it any more, okay? The basic technology required for a manned flight to the moon was developed in Germany in the late 1930s through the mid 1940s. This technology needed a lot of refinement to make a safe manned flight a reality.

We worked on that technology through the 1950s and 60s, and made the first manned moon flight in 1969. It all fits together, and if you read all the history and don't let the wackos lie to you, it will be impossible for you to continue to be fooled into believing that the moon missions did not take place.

The American people were much better educated and more intelligent in the 1960s and 70s than they are now, and it would never have occurred to NASA engineers and managers that 35 years later a bunch of ignorant dolts with nothing to do would come up with a stupid conspiracy theory stating that the moon landings were faked.

If that had occurred to them, I suspect the engineers would have gone to the trouble to create a larger and more visible object of proof, to compensate for the decline in the quality of the American mind and its education that occurred during and after the Reagan presidency.

But there is a real physical proof available. The astronauts who landed on the moon left behind reflectors that are used every day by astronomers to measure the irregularities of the moon's orbit. This is done by bouncing laser beams off reflectors at known locations that were left by the astronauts. Ask your science teacher for information about these experiments. You can arrange to see this done with your own eyes.

Let me put the question to you this way: If you think the moon landings were faked, when did they become "fake?" When did the idea become popular that NASA had invented the idea of an imaginary moon mission and created a huge technological empire to fool people? When was all this fakery done? In the 60s? 70s? 80s?

And why? What was the point? And how did they fool all the people that reported the news, operated the machinery, built the moon rockets, and watched them take off and land?

Do you realize that one American in 500 was a part of the Apollo program? Millions of them are still alive. Are they fooling you? Why? If you go out to a football game, look around you. In the stadium there are people who worked on the Apollo program.

Ask around. You are surrounded by people who know for sure that American astronauts stood on the moon more than 35 years ago.

Answer 3

I have read an article about this question a couple of years ago. The writers claimed that the films were prepared in a Hollywood studio...

I watched an Australian movie about the radio telescope in a small Australian city which has catched the broadcasts of the most impressive first minutes from the surface of the Moon (by the way, very nice a movie indeed - I liked it!). The were some original films included in the movie where everybody could see the fast-flying dust when the module was started to fly back to the orbit. I cannot image that such an event - dust flying directly and very fast in a zero pressure "atmosphere", affected by much lower gravitation than we have here on our Globe. That kind of phenomenon may be simulated with modern digital technology but at those times it was impossible, I am sure.

Answer 4

The problem here is this. Someone claims a theory, tells you that they have irrefutable evidence, and you automatically are willing to forget things you have heard and learned your entire life to believe them. Let's say, I claim that I have irrefutable evidence that mankind really started off on Titan and traveled here 100,000 years ago. Would you believe me? What if I wrote books and tv documentaries stating that theory? Would you believe me then?

How about if I claim that the airplane, AA77, that crashed into pentagon really didn't. that I have irrefutable evidence that the plane was hijacked by the US government and sent to area 59. and that a missile really hit the pentagon. Would you believe me? if so WHY?

See how easy it is to create a totally ridiculus theory? Especially easy when the facts are old or second hand. Second hand facts like someone elses pictures of Neil Armstrong sticking a flagpole in the moon.

Look at the facts. We were launching rockets with payloads in the 50's. In the 60's, in the 70's and so on. Could we launch a rocket in July of 1969? Of course we could. Could we launch a rocket into deep space. Why not? we could lauch a missle from the US to any city in Russia. We had 10 years of Gemini program designed to send rockets into space. With enough energy, we certainly should be able to reach escape velocity. So, could we aim a rocket at the moon? Of course we could. Once on the moon, could we bring it back? Why not?

Most importantly, why on God's green earth would we create such a conspiracy and how could we possibly keep it quite for 40 years? We couldn't. For that matter, did the person who wrote the documentary profit from his crazy theory? of course.

Answer 5

What would've been the point of faking it? If there's irrefutable evidence then why isn't it out in the open by now? I was a teen when the moon landing happened. It wasn't a fake. Tell your husband to spend his time finding more important "facts" like why are we really in Iraq? Where have the billions of dollars spent on that war actually gone?

Answer 6

The conspiracy theory is pretty dumb.

If you've watched the documentary and are convinced then there's not much I can say. I'm not sure that we've ever sent probes in to space either - they could have drawn those planets on a computer.

Hey maybe there arent even satellites, maybe its the mole men!

I think I've given my opinion. Your husband is a dimwit.

Answer 7

There are several websites that claim to have proof positive evidence that it didn't happen. One thing is for sure - we haven't 'been back there' in a very long time. could it be that there really is nothin there? Also - if they have gone there, there were several evolutionary theories that were definately debunked one of which was the depth of the dust on the moon.

Answer 8

I have always weighed both sides of the question. Although there are photographs provided virtually anywhere- internet, magazines, etc.,- that falsify we that ever landed on the moon, I tend to believe we did.

*Be aware of unofficial websites. I was once told that when in doubt, look for the .gov or .org in the web address.

Here is a site I referred to. http://www.apfn.org/apfn/moon.htm

Answer 9

yes they did land in the moon,your husband got it wrong,how in the world can you refute the pictures and audio tapes of those astronauts playing golf and driving there vehicle on the sand dunes of the moon,there are lots of people now adays who wants to twist the truth just to get some possible publicity,

Answer 10

I think we went but I have also seen the show about all the so called proofs. I think it is just another way to waste money that could be used for research that could be helpful