Flag on the moon?

Question

Was the flag moving or was it not?

Answer 1

The flag was in a vacuum so there was no wind to move the flag. What they did was use wire in the flag to make it look like it was flapping.

Answer 2

Yes, it moved when the astronauts shook it. Then it stopped.

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

*sigh* The "landing" you saw in the "fierce wind" was almost certainly a LEM *launch*, not a landing. There was no camera footage of the landings from outside, because there were not any cameras there yet.

There is no wind on the moon. That's because there is no air on the Moon. NASA is run by engineers, not chimpanzees, so they figured out they'd need a little spring-loaded bar to hold up a flag on the Moon.

Moon landing conspiracy theorists do not have the same technical prowess, and so they decry as "FAKE" every single Moon shot photograph, which are all perfectly consistent with a 1/6-G hard vacuum and are inconsistent with a 1-G atmospheric environment, like on a bloody film set. Most of their declared "perspective flaws" are due to the fact that the Moon's surface is not a flat plane, so of course shadows bend when they are projected onto it. The photos look exactly right, every time -- and there is a very simple explanation for that.

Answer 4

They moved the flag, and because there is no air on the Moon, the flag keeps moving for some time, only slowed by the drag on the pole and within its own fabric.

All those arguments for a fake are the product of people who know very little about conditions in space, and even photography.

For instance, a kid of 10 with an interest in photography knows that when you take a picture by floodlight, you will not pick up the stars. That is such basic photography that it is laughable and really dumb that they came up with there being no stars in the pictures as "proof" of a hoax.

And people are really dumb to believe that hundreds of thousands of Apollo workers over 7 years could be fooled by some kind of hoax.

But more than that, hundreds of controllers worked the monitors in Houston and Florida over 7 years, 24/7. How the heck would you fool all them? How would you get the "Hollywood" into their systems without them knowing?

And during their night-time, the radio telescope in Australia kept tabs on the Apollo missions. Jeez, did someone pay them to go along with the hoax?

Honestly, if you believe that, you'll believe in fairies.

Answer 5

The only reason the flag seemed to be moving was because on top of the flag was a metal rod, and Armstrong or what not had trouble laying it out , but no the flag is completely stationary

Answer 6

Yes a flag on the moon
Is it still standing upright? maybe not
because when the luner craft took off its boosters may have blown the flag over or away -only three people may know -Buzz, Neil and Michael

Answer 7

I've seen several "moon landings" one was in a vacuum, like said above, and one one flying through the fierce "wind".

Answer 8

NASA is run by engineers, not chimpanzees? I beg to differ with you poorcocoboiboi.

Answer 9

Only when someone was touching it.