Ok I need some intelligent answers...Did the US really????

Question

Can someone give me some confirmed information that we indeed landed on the moon back in the 60s....If so, why havent we gone back?Serious answers only please...

Come on now, I need some real good, intelligent answers people....this is a serious quesiton

kevferg64---thanks for your imput...I dont think we did...

Answer 1

That is a good question, I am sure that NASA did not survey the whole thing. and wouldn't it be easier to go there from the space station, you would think that with all the brain power that NASA has that they would have thought of that.... or have they and they are using the moon for other purposes?...

Answer 2

Williams, 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 3

Yes we did. You can tell that we did because of the sheer vastness of the conspiracy that would have to be in place to fool every government, every astronomer, every expert, and every person on the planet for 38 years. It's just impossible to keep up a lie that big for that long.

The reason we haven't gone back is because by landing on the moon, we won the space race. We landed a few more times to do some more science and collect some more moon rocks, then we hung up our moon boots because there was no longer a reason to go. Now NASA and several other space agencies in competition are planning to land on the moon again around 2020. NASA is even planning a permanently-staffed lunar outpost by 2025.

And finally, NASA is going to launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter soon and it should map the moon in 2008 with enough resolution to actually see some of the equipment left from the Apollo missions. Of course, there's no way to know if they faked it if you really, really don't want to believe, but it will be pretty decent evidence. Other nations will most likely map the moon too some time after that, and by then there will be no real doubt.

Answer 4

We went more than once.

Apollo 11 - July 16, 1969. First manned landing on the Moon, July 20.
Apollo 12 - November 14, 1969. First precise manned landing on the Moon.
Apollo 14 - January 31, 1971. Alan Shepard, the sole astronaut of the original Mercury Seven astronauts to land on the Moon, walks (and golfs) on the Moon.
Apollo 15 - July 26, 1971. First mission with the Lunar Rover vehicle.
Apollo 16 - April 16, 1972. First landing in the lunar highlands.
Apollo 17 - December 7, 1972. Final Apollo lunar mission, first night launch, only mission with a professional geologist.

Answer 5

I am so sick of this question!

I ama giong to take a different track and not spout off facts and other things I have already said over and over.

You asked for intelligent answers, and you got quite a few, but I want you to notice something.

The people who know things all support the fact that we did go. They show you dates, facts and other evidence that we did go. You can not refute the fact that the mirrors are there! You can not refute the fact that the USSR (at the time our bitter enemy and a rival in the race for the moon) did not come out and say it was fake at the time. Radar and telescopes from all over the world (and controled by different nations) tracked them to the moon and back.

Now, the people who answered your question and said it was fake, what do they have. A belief that the Nazi's attacked Pearl Harbor!

So, who are you going to believe, people with facts and figures, or someone who knows so little about history and geography that they can't tell the difference between Japan and Germany?

We went there, get over it!

Answer 6

Yes...we did land on the moon. I believe that was back in the Kennedy Area. That was when all global powers where trying to show there dominance by space travel. Were we the first into outer space. NO. Yuri Gagarin from Russia (Former Soviet Union) Was. But we did land on the moon first. Now we are more interested in whats farther out than the moon. The moon is old news.

Answer 7

if you have the National Geographic Channel - 276 on direct tv, there was a show that delve into the "caspericy" and the answer is - - - - - yes we did land on the moon ask any astro-physisist that measure the moons drift from the earth, they do so with reflective plates put on the moon the bounce lasers shoot from the ground, precise measurements have shown the moon is getting 1.5 inches farther away from the earth every year

which put the theory that the moon was created from matter blown off the earth from a collision between the early earth and a mars sized planet. the moon coalesed from the matereal ejected in the collision, and giving us the tilt for seasons and rotation for days

oh and theres the problem of russia listening on our every communication to the lunar lander, they had there telescopes pointed to the moon and if they had though for a fraction of a minute that we were faking it, do you think they would have sat quite, at the time russia was our arch-rival, our enemy. they would have jumped on the oprotunity to scream SCAM, to knock down the US. but they didnt, they consided defeat and sat back and watched as 2 people took one some step for man, and one giant leap for mankind

Answer 8

If you aren't convinced by the thousands of photos, hours of videos, piles of moon rocks brought back, the thousands of people involved in all the Apollo missions, and the millions that watched the landing on TV, then nothing anyone says will prove it to you.
Scepticism is one thing, but there are times when being a skeptic goes too far.

Answer 9

Here's an intelligent answer from an actual astronomer. Yes, we did go to space. Yes, we did go to the Moon. We didn't go just once - we went back 5 times. There's really no point in going back anymore, we learned what we wanted to know at the time, and it's expensive.

You didn't post any actual objections, so I won't post lengthy explanations. Check out www.badastronomy.com .

Answer 10

Here we go with the conspirasy theories again.

Apollo was so bold a step that the pace could not be sustained. Into the late 1960's, the space community had high hopes that Apollo would lead directly to the construction of a permanent base on the Moon and, sooner rather than later, to the first voyages to Mars. Von Braun and his collaborators had sketched such projects in a series of articles published in Collier's Magazine in the early 50's; and, once the big rockets were actually being built and the first lunar landings were at hand, there were moments when it almost seemed as though the Moon Base and Mars were in reach. But it was not to be; and, indeed, hindsight suggests that, because of economic and political factors, there was no real chance of sustaining Apollo beyond a handful of landings.

The main reason why Apollo ended as quickly as it did was simply that it was very expensive. The Space Age began during a period of intense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and, during the four years that led up to the Apollo decision, America was subject to one humiliation after the another. Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev had bid the political value of dramatic space "firsts" so high that, in response to the Gagarin flight, President Kennedy had to find a way of achieving a clear, unambiguous, final victory in what had become the "Space Race". What was required was an undertaking "so expensive and so difficult to accomplish" that the Russians would have little chance of keeping pace. So Kennedy committed the United States to a giant step forward. However, Apollo was so expensive and so difficult that it could not continue for very long. America's political will to win the Space Race could not be translated into political and financial support for sustained lunar operations, not to mention voyages to Mars. At it's peak in 1965, the annual cost of Apollo was about 0.8 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product and, as more recent history suggests, there is political support for a program only a quarter that size.

The evidence of the years since Apollo ended is that the United States and many other nations are committed to space, partly as an investment in the development of new technologies, partly in the interest of attracting talented young people to engineering and the sciences, partly in the interest of participating in the long-term economic gains that space is expected to produce, and also, in large measure, because there are few other things now within human reach that are quite so fascinating. In the United States, political support for space development currently translates into a funding of about 0.25 percent of the Gross Domestic Product. In the early 1990's, the NASA budget was about 15 billion dollars: enough to support the operation of a four-vehicle Shuttle Fleet, the development of a Space Station, and the conduct of a variety of scientific and engineering programs, but not enough to include a lunar program as well.

Clearly, it was only the extraordinary political circumstances of the 1960's that made Apollo possible. For a brief time, whatever money NASA needed to achieve the promised first landing was made available. However, once the major pieces of the Apollo engineering work were finished, funding began to shrink. The United States was willing to spend what was needed to beat the Russians; but, once the Space Race was decisively won, the country's political leaders decided that the cost of a continuing lunar program was more than the country could afford. The space budget even shrank to the point that NASA had to cancel three Apollo missions for which flight vehicles had already been built.

Over time, of course, economic expansion makes projects like a Moon Base more affordable and, sooner or later, we will be able to undertake a lunar program without having to spend an Apollo-like fraction of the nation's wealth. During the past century and more, the American GDP has doubled in real terms about once every twenty-five years and there is every reason to believe that growth will continue for a long time to come. Economic expansion comes largely as a result of gains in productivity and, certainly, the limits to our creative use of new machines, new processes, and new resources are nowhere in sight. As the wealth of the nation grows and, indeed, as other nations acquire spaceflight capabilities, the total level of space activities will expand - albeit with ups and downs superimposed on the overall trend - to the point that construction of a permanent lunar base will become feasible. If, for example, we assume continued investment at about 0.25% of the growing GDP and we also assume that we could conduct a space program that included both a space station and a lunar base for about 30 billion 1990 dollars, then we might see a resumption of lunar operations - preceded by a decade or more of preparatory work - in about 2015.

Is that intelligent enough? It makes a lot more sense than the cockamami theory that the whole thing was fabricated by Stanley Kubrick at Pinewood Studios. If you are ignorant enough to belive that hoakey story, then you probally also belive the gov't fabricated 9/11. Another whiney crap conspirasy theory video that is DE BUNKED here. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html

Answer 11

Though I have never seen any actual proof,there is absolutely no reason for NASA to go to the expense to stage such a scam.
I have no actual proof the Arnold Schwarzenegger is the governor of California but I believe he is,do you?