Do you think anyone ever went to the moon?

Question

There is a lot of pictorial evidence to suggest otherwise:

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/moon.htm

http://space.about.com/od/astronomyhistory/a/moonhoax.htm

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Answer 1

yes i do.

Answer 2

I don't think that there is any serious doubt what so ever. Only the usual mix of conspiracy theories based on cherry picked facts, unreliable sources and over simplified arguments.
I personally believe that we must always question authority - but some of the theories making the rounds recently are simply off the chart and do little to promote valid and verifiable facts about an event or policy.

Consider, in 1969, the United States and the Soviet Union were at the peak of the "space race."
JFK had made it very plain that the United States would put a man on the moon by the turn of the century - the technology, manpower and funds were ear marked for success.

The Soviets carefully monitored and analyzed the transmissions from the flight during the launch, during the flight and the transmissions from the moon - if there was any discrepancy as to the authenticity of this feat, the Soviets would have debunked it in an instant. It was, after all, a pretty embarrasing defeat for the Soviets and their space program.

As far as waving flags - consider the quick back and forth movement of the pole when it was inserted into the surface - now consider that there is only 1/6th the gravity and virtually no air resistance to affect the resulting "waving" of the flag. As far as no stars in the back ground - that is simply the exposure used to picture the astronaut and lander, a longer exposure would have been needed if the stars were to be photographed, and that would have produced a bright and distorted close up.

All of the real proof point to a very successful conclusion to our efforts to land a man on the moon. Presently, our endeavers in space are centered on the International Space Station - there is no immediate priority in landing another man on the moon. Perhaps it will be a short and much less expensive venture to launch more manned, exploitory trips from the Space Station, rather than from Cape Kennedy.

Answer 3

John, 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.

Answer 4

Sigh. If people believe that the films (evidence supporting that men landed on the moon) were made on a sound stage or altered, why believe any pictorial evidence to the contrary…? That could have been hoked up, or altered, too!

There is plenty of physical evidence that Americans landed on the moon when we said we did. And the reliable testimony of hostile witnesses as well.

There are the moon rocks that were brought back. They have been compared to rocks that were kicked up from the Moon by meteor impacts and fell to Earth on their own. They match. Scientists all over the world have studied them, not just the ones who ‘agree’.

There are the artifacts that were left. The laser reflectors are still there, doing their job, and they can be detected by any good college physics class that has a laser. And they have been detected, repeatedly, These precision instruments were carefully aligned when they were placed there, and did not just get dumped there from orbit.

The Soviets have radar systems just as good as ours and watched us take off, land on the Moon, take off again and land on Earth. They were our rivals in the Space Race and they wouuld have loved to tell the world that we faked it. They haven’t said so, because they know the truth. Nobody is bribing THEM to be part of some conspiracy! They know we were there. And now, so do you. Stop denying it to yourself.

It’s fun to think that we know something that nobody else knows, and it makes us feel important to be in on a secret that others have kept. But this is a foolish game that the moon landing deniers have come up with, making fools out of their followers.

They sound just like Resurrection-deniers.

27 JAN 07, 2326 hrs, GMT.

Answer 5

Go the the Flat Earth Society website and you will also find "pictorial evidence" that the earth is flat. It's so tiresome to hear the same things repeated again and again when they have been totally debunked many times. You seem convinced that no one ever went to the moon and you will pay no attention to anything anyone says to the contrary. In asking this question, all you want is affirmation for your opinions. It's time to grow up now. For everyone else who would like an excellent summation of the space program to date, please see this question:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgoH6eYxjUlgXTl8HBmB8vgBxgt.?qid=20070127145824AA0NWYR

Answer 6

That stuff is unmitigated crap. The radio signal from the lander was monitored around the world, and funny thing, they all say the signal came from the moon as the lander was landing. Look people, I do Intelligence work for the government, I have a TS/SCI clearance ,and frankly, all the conspiracy theorists give the government waaaay to much credit. Trust me, they arent smart enough to do this stuff!

Answer 7

Okay I give up. They were really extraterrestrials pretending to be us.........because they can. Seriously, if this all was true from these links that would mean that Nixon and Watergate was a distraction and why Ford pardoned him.Maybe one day these little grey men will admit their own conspiracies about religion too. (Jesus loves the "little grey children" of another world ) I have other sheep not of this fold.

Answer 8

I have played with Adobe Photoshop, too.

I have no doubt the moon landings were real, because as a young whippersnapper, I watched first with my eyes, then through binoculars, then through a telescope until they were too far away. Then I watched on TV.

Can you even begin to imagine how difficult it would have been to pull all that off if it was a hoax? It would have taken considerably more effort than to just actually go to the moon!

Answer 9

That's the lovely thing about the web! You can find evidence to support absolutley ANYTHING you want to believe.

The one thing I find impossible to believe about a faked moon landing, is that not ONE of the 10,000 (at least!) people who had to be in on it talked!

Answer 10

No!!! They NEVER went to the moon, that story was a fantasy created by our wonderful government, because then president Kennedy (whom the government assasinated, as the gunfire was received at many different angles) had stated publicly that we were going to the moon, so to make this true in the eyes of the public they staged the whole moon landing, it was filmed in the desert in Nevada, I have first hand knowledge of this, because I was one of the filmographers on the site at the time of the filming of the so called moon landing. I can tell you this though, we have actually been to the moon, between 1978 and 1984 there were 'secret missions' with a team of astronauts from the USA and a team of cosmonauts from Russia, and together we actually went to the moon, we also have a base on the moon, and have had one since 1984, In October 1989, a manned mission was initiated to Mars, and we now have a base there as well, and have since 1995. I hope this helps.

Answer 11

yeah
some people just want to start contraversy so they started the whole idea of the moon landing being staged