did we put a man on the moon?

Question

did we or didnt we the tape shows the flag moving how is that possible with zero air or wind out there?

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

I just answered this question a while ago so, here I go again.

The astronauts were moving the flag into position, causing motion. Since there is no air on the Moon to provide friction, these movements caused a long-lasting undulating movement seen in the flag. There was a rod extending from the top of the flagpole to hold the flag out for proper display. The fabric's rippled appearance was due to its having been folded during flight and gave it an appearance which could be mistaken for motion in a still photograph. The top supporting rod of the flag was telescopic and the crew of Apollo 11 found they could not fully extend it. Later crews did not fully extend this rod because they liked how it made the flag appear. A viewing of the videotape made during the Moonwalk shows that shortly after the astronauts remove their hands from the flag/flagpole, it stops moving and remains motionless. At one point the flag is in view for well over thirty minutes and it remains completely motionless throughout that period.

Now check out the following pictures one after the other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/image:aldri...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/image:aldri...

Answer 3

Yes, the US landed 2 men on the moon in July 1969. And then another 10 in the few years following Apollo 11.

The flag wasn't moving in the wind, it was waving due to the movement of the flagpole after it was released by the astronaut. With less gravity and no air friction, the motion of the flagpole took longer to fade (dampen) than it would on earth.

There are a lot of websites dedicated to "conspiracy theories" of all kinds, and in this case not one of the arguments presented that we didn't go to the moon stands up under scrutity.

Answer 4

Because there is no air there, anything put in motion will wave without friction until the energy is dissipated. Also, the flagpole used on the moon was flimsy aluminum and wobbled for a while after it was installed. You really should do some studying on this matter. The History Channel just had a special that debunked the conspiracy theories proposed by the toothless trailer trash that started this "controversy". All the garbage about non parallel shadows was also explained. You'll just have to accept it. If you had watched it live on television in 1969 like I did, you would know that it was true.

Answer 5

Not sure of what material the flag was made from, but some fabrics and plastics can move as they de-crease and attempt to regain their original shape.
For example, some forms of light-weight wrapping polythene's demonstrate this. When you try to screw them up in the trash can, they attempt to regain their flatness, and unfold. Basically, it can be explained with the theory of 'molecular memory'. The molecular structure tends to react to displacement and attempts to reinvent its original structure. In the case of the flag, assuming it was stowed away on the journey, the zero gravity would mean the unfurling movement would be more pronounced

Answer 6

Was it the flag that was moving or the hand of the man with the camera? In any case 12 men have walked on the Moon or on that film set in Arizona. If they didn't walk on the Moon where did all that Moon rock come from or is that another urban myth/conspiracy theory?

Answer 7

We didn't put a man on the Moon, we put twelve men there, two on each of six Apollo missions. It was one of the greatest achievements in science and exploration of all time and the USA should be justly proud of it.

It seems that only in the USA are there continuing conspiracy theories promoted by the ignorant and gullible that this magnificent program did not occur. The USA has produced some of the greatest minds of the world, unfortunately it also produces some of the greatest nutters.

Answer 8

Think about it...it cost $150 billion to "put a man on the moon", but involved literally thousands & thousands of people. Imagine you were one of the people involved in such a hoax, you'd want at least a million or two to "shut up forever" about it, wouldn't you?

Do the math. It would have been cheaper just to go to the moon already, than to get that many people in on a giant hoax!



Here are LOGICAL explanations for all of your Fox-induced doubts:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html


(Try not to take any wooden nickels!)

Answer 9

Yep in 1969

Answer 10

It only moves when the astronaut is shifting it AND when the top of the lunar module takes off. The gas from the rockets makes plenty of breeze.