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The Russians believe they could not have survived the radiations
The others quetion NASA's photographs and the fluttering US Flag
What do you think and why?

2007-01-07 12:40:56 · 10 answers · asked by Ramesh R 1 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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Every 'proof' that the moon landings were faked has been exposed as a fallacy.

CLAIM: Almost 20% of the American public believes that we didn't go to the Moon.
FACT: A Gallop poll taken in 1999, and a CNN poll taken in 1995, indicate that 6% of the public believes that we did not go to the moon. By the way, that is the same percentage of people that don't believe in God. And according to Gallop, 6% is the amount of people that believe in ANY poll of ANY question that is asked to them, indicating that the belief is NOT widespread.

CLAIM: There was no blast crater under the LM so we didn't land there.
FACT: In reality, there should NOT be a blast crater. The LM descent engine was made to slow the craft down, and not blast off. Since it only generated 1050 pounds of thrust (not 10,000 lbs like some have erroneously said), and the gravity on the Moon is less, and the engines were shut off BEFORE impact, there can't be a blast crater.

CLAIM: Since the stars were not visible in the photographs, it proved they were not on the Moon.
FACT: With the Lunar landscape lit brightly from the Sun, the photographs were very fast, and the aperture had to be closed down. Stars would not appear in the photos because the stars would be too faint to register on the film. If you take a photo here on Earth, under the same conditions, the stars would not appear in your photos.

CLAIM: The flag was waving, caused by the breeze in the studio where it was filmed. The Moon has no air, so a flag cannot wave.
FACT: The astronaut was setting up the flag, and shaking the pole that it was attached to. A flag DOES wave in a vacuum.

CLAIM: There were shadows on the Moon going in different directions; proof that there was more than one light source. There is only one light source on the Moon, and that's the Sun.
FACT: There are TWO light sources on the Moon. The Sun is one of them, and the Earth is the other. On the Moon, the Earth would appear as almost "Full", and would actually shed more light on the Moon, than the "Full" Moon does on the Earth.

CLAIM: Astronauts would have been burned to death from the radiation in the Van Allen Radiation Belts.
FACT: Traveling at around 25,000 mph, the astronauts would have made it through the radiation in about an hour, receiving 1/25 of the radiation that is considered dangerous by the government.

2007-01-07 12:55:44 · answer #1 · answered by Devil Dog '73 4 · 6 0

I defy you to produce one quote from the RSA or the old Soviet space agency who says that the radiation was a problem of any kind.

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?

2007-01-07 13:42:49 · answer #2 · answered by Otis F 7 · 3 0

Please 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.

Only a very small fraction of people, like 1/2 of one percent, question the reality of the manned moon missions, and those are restricted mostly to the USA.

2007-01-07 13:08:00 · answer #3 · answered by aviophage 7 · 6 0

One way to prove that men actually landed on the moon is to shine a laser beam onto the mirrors they left behind in order to calculate the distance from moon to Earth very precisely, if there were no mirrors there, the beam would not return, but it does, so then they must have actually gone.

As for the 'waving' flag, that can be easily explained by the vibrations of the thin wire mesh that was used to keep the flag outstretched, as there is no wind on the moon at all. After a few seconds the vibrations stopped and the flag was still.

2007-01-07 13:10:32 · answer #4 · answered by eggman 7 · 1 0

I do have faith that it did take place. no rely if or no longer Apollo 11 become the 1st undertaking to land on the moon i do no longer understand and actually won't be able to assert. there is allot of information that states it become a hoax. yet to maximum of it, there is scientific reasoning for it proving it as actual. and there is likewise information exhibiting that it become actual. united statesa. is an exceedingly proud usa. I doubt they could hoax the Apollo a million hearth killing 3 human beings on the floor or pretend Apollo 13 coming dangerously close to to being lost in outer area. you in addition to could ought to make the attempt and the political stress into attention. Giving the Soviets a picture of technological perfection become necessary and those 2 missions did no longer precisely help in that field. ultimately, think of of all the mishaps of the Mercury and Gemini missions had. could united statesa. quite have faked all of that just to coach one dude hopping around on the moon for all of mankind? Time stress become on and extremely heavy while Apollo 11 occurred. Which does lead many to the conlusion that the moon landing did take place in spite of the shown fact that it ought to have been at a latter date while the identify of first usa to land there become already claimed. One final little factoid for you. Russia did launch a satelite with a voice recorded on it. it quite is in basic terms undertaking become to transmit to the earth that a Cosmonaugt had competently landed on the moon. For some hours, united statesa. thought that they had have been given there first. regrettably, a flaw on the recorder transmitted the message returned each couple hours. After the 0.33 fourth and 5th cases that American radar picked up the right comparable message being transmitted generally, they knew it become a hoax. So if Russia did it, whose to assert united statesa. did no longer?

2016-12-12 06:32:03 · answer #5 · answered by jeniffer 4 · 0 0

I lived through the whole space program of the 1960's and 1970's. There was never ANY doubt at the time that any of it was faked. While even the most powerful telescope on Earth today (even Hubble in orbit) is not powrful enough to see the landing stage of the LMs, let alone the flags, there is no doubt in my mind that it all took place as reported at the time.

People also suggest that if man really went to the moon, why did they stop going?...well, if there was nothing worth going back for, why would you? Of course now, there is a reason to go back, to develop a launching pad for missions to Mars and deeper space exploration.

2007-01-07 13:06:28 · answer #6 · answered by Mez 6 · 2 0

I believe they went, whos says they didn't suffer ill effects of radiation and space travel. One story I have heard is that a box of press promo photos of astronauts on earth got mixed in with press promo photos of astronauts on the moon lending support (for those who want to believe it) to the idea we didn't go.

2007-01-07 13:41:19 · answer #7 · answered by emkay4597 4 · 1 1

Yes, they did., and the only ones to say otherwise are whacko conspiracy theorists not worth mentioning in a FACT based discussion. They brought rocks back, and they had film, and the whole bit.

2007-01-07 12:52:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4 0

Get access to a strong telescope and look for the flag on the moon

2007-01-07 12:44:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

Yes they did land. I was there and seen it all.

2007-01-07 12:57:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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