A rumor says we never landed on the moon. Is it true?????

Question

Today on google videos I found a video called: "Conspiracy Theory - Did we land on the moon by Fox TV" and apprently it is some old show.

Anyway, it says that the whole thing was fake and it was done in Nevada Desert in what is called area 51. They mentioned some "evidence" that the mission was fake; in the first video from the moon, stars are no where in the sky. Also, the flag was waving while there is no atmosphere on the moon.

Could the whole mission, by any chance, be fake? (i still can't believe that though)

Answer 1

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 2

No, it is not true. The conspiracy theory garbage is just so much doggie doodle.

Go to www.badastronomy.com and read all the refutations of the crap in that video. There are scientific explanations for everything they claim "proves" that it was a hoax.

Then let's add into the equation that there were 250,000 people working on the Apollo project -- how could you keep that hoax a secret when there is a standing reward for anyone who would admit it?

And let's also add the competition with the Russians -- they were our mortal enemies at the time, and would have gloried in the chance to rub our noses in the scandal. But they haven't, and you know why? Because it really happened!

Answer 3

OK- there are so very many reasons to doubt it ever happened.

My main problem is with the asstronaughts. Buzz Aldrin is the leader of a bunch of kooks.

The films look produced after all the doubt and inspection I can't seem to figure out for the life of me why we haven't been back and why now our plans are double that of what Kennedy had promised and if that's not a tell tale reason what is?

Computerized technology has categorically improved so many times over, a trip to the moon should take 3/8th's the time to plan and execute, however, the plan is more than 2x the original "landing".

Time and technology just doesn't add up nor make any logical sense.

Plus there is that satanic aspect to notion of a hoax that keeps me guessing. If it had happened, lies break down over time, just happens at this point in time (2007) finally it's time truth come forward and open our eyes to naked truth.

Answer 4

Neil and Buzz left a small seismometer on the moon which sent out signals by radio which were picked up on earth by all kinds of non NASA people. Not to mention to telemetry radio communications which were sent out by DIRECTIONAL antenna, which means non NASA listeners sure didn't pick up those signals from over the horizon locations like Nevada.

There are some people out there that automatically disbelieve everything the government says. And don't get me started on AA Flight 77's fate on 9-11-01

Answer 5

I have thought of this myself in the past. BUT overall, YES I do believe that we have men who went and DID in fact land on the moon. My thoughts or theory behind this is the old adage that "Three can keep a secret if two are dead" This basically means if more than one person knew of this being a lie, then many people would know it was a lie as someone would tell someone, who in turn would tell someone and before you know it EVERYONE knows.

Answer 6

Spiritually interest. per chance the second one coming has lengthy gone already with Wacko Jacko being endlessly into the kings domicile of popularity in Neverland. Saint Wacko Jecho may in fantastic condition the pedophilia image casted through the doubt enshrined into magnified scepticism faith. carry the phone the Pope is on the line.

Answer 7

We landed. Now be real ... when you think of a source for correct scientific knowledge and information, does Fox TV immediately pop into your thoughts ? Consider the source.

Answer 8

Sure somebody else will tell you: the flag was waving because the pole was being twisted to force it into the lunar surface. Stars can't be seen because of all the surrounding light, just like you can't see stars during the day. They are still there you know, they don't go anywhere, you just can't see them. The only reson there are explanations to everything the conspiracy theorists bring up is because they are right, it was faked.

Answer 9

There is lots of crap on the internet. Why would they fake something like that? The fake theory is a load of crap.

Answer 10

No, it wasn't fake. There are also a bunch of websites out there debunking that conspiracy theory. It happened.