Do you think, after 37 years, the Apollo Moon landing is a conspiracy?

Question

I have been trawling the web for around two years trying to gather some hard evidence to see if it was real or not. Today, I found this very interesting video explaning how they actually made it up:

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4280164630927881599

It is a very interesting view and contains edited out footage from the public release - it is hard evidence to me that the Astronauts did not travel the 250,000 miles to the Moon.

What do you think?

Answer 1

I looked at the video, and the only thing that is bogus are
- the comments (obstructive to the max, a standard practice to obfuscate an issue...)
- the conclusions

For the record, a lot of staged scenes and dialogue could have been taped before, those are called REHERSALS. And the delay in the transmission simulated so that the ground crew could get a feeling for the unresponsiveness in the dialogue. The "talk" word could also be a cue by some ground crew, using a stop watch to assess the delay, as to when an answer is expected to alert the rest of the crew to pay attention.


To all this conspiracy theory "Apollo did not go to the moon" garbage, I offer my standard answer:
The USA was at a space race with the USSR. It would have been in the best interest for Russia to prove that the moon mission was staged because it would have hurt USA's prestige to a huge level, at a time where USA and the Soviet Union were fighting by procuration in Viet Nam, among other places. The USSR had both the motivation AND the means to show that the communications were coming from low Earth orbit instead of the moon; in low Earth orbit, you go round every 90 minutes, with the moon, any directional antenna will have to be pointed steadily at a slowly moving moon (one orbit in 29 days... in fact the tracking has to be done mostly to accont for earth's rotation) (actually ANY ham radio operator would have been able to get communications from a fake moon mission in earth orbit even when earth's revolution would have put the whole planet between them and the moon -- and would have reported this anomaly immediately).
Russia did not report any anomaly. Why? Because the moon mission was real, and they KNEW it.

Look, the only way this could have been fake was if all 3 billion people alive in 1969 on this planet were into that fraud. Are you accusing us all to be lying?

The only fraud here is that movie, and those who support that kind of garbage.

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

I think people watched Capricorn I a time too many.

There are mirrors on the moon. Exactly where the astronauts left them. Anyone with an accurate and powerful laser can point their beam at these mirrors and get their laser beam back two seconds later.

Because of those mirrors, man's visit to the moon is one of the most easily and incontrovertibly proven facts in human history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_Landing_hoax_accusations

Furthermore - you do realize there are people alive today who saw the Saturn V rockets take off from Cape Kennedy?

Answer 4

I thought the landings were real when I watched them live on TV and I have always though they were real during all the years since. I have spent many hundreds of hours researching this stuff and I think that it is all real.

That video has no evidence of being faked at all. All they have is some file footage and a narrator saying it is all fake. A narrator saying it is fake does not make it fake. See the source below for good data.

Answer 5

They did go to the moon. They placed reflectos that people bounce lasers off every day to measure the exact distance. Its far from a lie, the astronauts almost died on several occasions! The moon rocks they returned with have been studied and have been displayed. If it was fake dont you think the Russians (we were competing with in the Space Race) would have said something? They were monitoring it as well.

Doubting such a historic event is sad and belittles American heros. Work on something more promising-like Bigfoot (seriously)

Answer 6

I don't see much reason why it should have been faked. The United States had way too little to gain and way too much to lose by faking it. Besides, if they had faked it, then if anyone the russians would have known it, and they would have had a lot to gain from releasing that information. They never did. So I think it's very unlikely (although still possible) that the landings were faked.

Answer 7

I think you need to go to Washington, DC, to the Smithsonian Institute "Space and Science Museum" and look at the suits the astronauts wore, at the vehicle they traveled in, and at the other mind bending examples of their voyage which will surely erase any doubts you may be hanging on to.

Answer 8

Baloney. The prismatic reflectors placed on the moon by the astronauts are used to this day to measure the distance to the moon. (Due to tidal effects, it is increasing about one inch a year.)

Answer 9

I'm trying hard to resist the temptation to say, "No, it was a conspiracy all along!"

All foolishness aside, NO IT WAS NOT A CONSPIRACY. End of story

Answer 10

They went to the moon. A few times infact.

If it were faked, we'd know it by now. Why fake it several times?