Has anyone stepped foot on the moon since Neil Armstrong?.. If so was it on T.V.??

Answer 1

Of course.
Buzz Aldrin did, a few minutes after Armstrong, but the astronauts of Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 (in late 1972), two each time, did it as well. They were also on TV, but the rating dropped after the novelty of Apollo 11 wore off.
No one since 1972, though.

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

Well, for a start Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon shortly after Neil Armstrong, they were on the same spaceship! But yes. there were 5 more crews that walked on the moon. Neil Armstrong's mission was Apollo 11, the last mission to the moon was Apollo 17. Apollo 13 never landed on the moon due to an accident, although it did return safely to earth. On each mission 2 people walked or in later missions drove buggies on the moon. They were televised, and there is some fantastic footage. For example on Apollo 15, commander David Scott demonstrated that Galileo's theory that the accelaration due to gravity will act equally regardless of an object's size is true by dropping a hammer and a feather simultaneously. Since there is no atmosphere on the moon to cause drag, the feather and the hammer fell at the same rate and struck the surface of the moon at exactly the same time.

Out of the 12 people who waled on the moon, only one of them was actually a geologist.

Answer 4

Buzz Aldrin was the second, just a moment or so after Armstrong. Mike Collins was the third member of the crew, and he was the one who remained in Apollo 11, orbiting the moon.

There were, if memory serves, 8 manned moon landings, with two men per flight setting foot on the moon, while the third man on each crew stayed in the capsule. One of these men went on to be elected to Congress.

Check NASA's website for further info.

Answer 5

Neil was only the first to step on the moon.
There were six successful lunar landings, Apollos 11-12, 14-17, each with different crews, and all had televised coverage.

The manned lunar mission was originally scheduled for 1975 by Eisenhower, moved up to 60's by Kennedy.

Answer 6

Buzz Aldrin was on the moon with Armstrong. After that there were 5 other landings, each with two men. A total of 12 men walked on the moon. All were televised.

Answer 7

All seven Apollo lunar missions included televised segments showing astronauts moving about the surface of the moon.

Answer 8

Many astronauts have been on the moon. Americans only though, since the Soviet Union's moon landing program was unsuccessful.

Answer 9

Yes, and yes. Videos or sound may still be on the internet, but keep in mind, most of the apollo videos and audio recordings have been lost. It was never in the budget to keep them, so most of them have either been misplaced, accidentally destroyed, or degraded over time.

Answer 10

2 other luner missions accomplished successful landing. the disater of apollo 13 stopped moon missions