is the moon landing fake?

Question

IS IT

Answer 1

You know a morning show here were I live went into a whole debate about this. Aparrently there is actual evidence that the landing was actually taped here on earth but I don't know. Personally I would I would like to believe that is really did happen but with our government I would put it past them to have faked it.

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

Theoretically it could be, but seeing as a russian (unmanned) probe brought back the exact same substance from the moon's surface as the US did (a substance which doesn't exist on earth), I would doubt it.. Unless of course the USSR (back then still) was 'in on' the conspiracy, which I doubt because it was still during the cold war....
There are many skeptics who found many reasons why it was supposedly faked, but all these can be explained quite easily. Usually you'll get people talking about the flag waving in the wind, which isn't true. You can download the videos online (they are only the quality of a crappy webcam i.e. one/two shots per second or so) but you can clearly see that the flag only moves when it is touched. There is a pole along the top so that it stands up as if it were blowing in the wind, but thats' about all...

Go here
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html#shadow or here: http://www.braeunig.us/space/hoax.htm for more explanations of the real facts (i.e. anti-hoax explanations).

Answer 4

The moon itself is a fake perpetrated by NASA. Not only that, but the Earth is flat and Elvis is alive and working in a donut shop in Cleveland.

Answer 5

No, no, no!! Elvis is working for NASA! He sings in the cafeteria on Thursdays and Fridays.

Answer 6

From all I've heard, I think so.

This site has all the info on it: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/moon.htm

Answer 7

What do you think? Have you studied the evidence?

Answer 8

LOL -- I'll bet it was cold living in that cave all alone all these years.

Answer 9

No, if you think so you're a moron

Answer 10

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO