DID we land on the MOON or was it a HOLLYWOOD MOVIE ???????

Answer 1

If you watch the footage of the Lunar Rover, you'll notice that there's no dust hanging in the "air" behind it. The dust from it's wheels rises and falls just like water on earth - only drier.

If you want to see the effect of an atmosphere on dust, try watching any film where a car drives through the desert. A huge cloud of dust follows the vehicle.

JBV^_^

Answer 2

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

Is this just some kind of lame excuse to exempt people from learning history? Is this that flag thing again? 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 4

The film "Capricorn One" has a lot to answer for (It was a film about faking of a manned mission to Mars).

They went to the moon, six times. I have seen radio telescope images of the reflections of the LM. The resolution of these is quite remarkable. The lunar surface doesn't show sadly but I reckon if there had been a metallic pattern on the flag you'd be able to make it out.

I own a couple of grams of lunar meteorite. This costs from $500-$10,000 /gram depending on which ones you have sample from (there are about 40 lunar meteorites known). I would not spend that sort of cash on something I wasn't sure of the origins of. I know it's from the moon because it's composition has been checked. What with? The checked it against rocks brought back from the moon. Since the first lunar meteorite was only discovered in 1979, it makes the faking of the 1969-1972 samples impossible.
Trust me. They went.
If you still don't believe me, ask Buzz Aldrin. I hear he still delivers a hefty slap for that particular question, even today.

Answer 5

Ok, let's pretend it didn't happen. The number of people who would have had to be involved would have been enormous and a lot of them would have had to be scientists. Now I was a scientist and I have looked at moon rocks through an electron microscope. No I am not a Geologist, but there were plenty around. Look scientists are an incredibly gossipy lot and I just don't believe a secret like that could have been kept quiet not without a lot of deaths and I mean a LOT. The very least that would have happened is that people would have said things like 'I don't want to talk about it'

No there are just too many people round who would have been able to spill the beans, especially when the conspiracy theory got started. As Eugene N said 250 000 people . . . . . . . Nah, its too big to lie.

It happened and I for one am proud of it.

Answer 6

It was real. Even the Russians admit that we made it, and publicly congratulated the US for having beaten them to the Moon. If more that a quarter million people working on the project AND our mortal enemies at the time say that we made it, and not a single one of them has taken the multi-million dollar reward bait to claim that we didn't, don't you think it might mean that the conspiracy theorists are full of cr**??

Check out www.badastronomy.com and www.clavius.org for more FACTS and debunking of the conspiracy theory garbage.

There have been plenty of space movies since we landed on the moon, and most of them get the physics wrong. But they're good for a laugh.

Answer 7

Yes, we did, and any discussions suggesting that we did not do so show a lack of respect for the thousands and thousands of man hours spent in the design, planning, construction, testing, training, launching, operations administration, problem resolution,and retrieval efforts that it took our tireless people to
perform this monstrous task.

Please take a moment to look up the word "Cynical."
...sneering, unbelieving, distrustful of other peoples' motives.
Is it possible that you have a cynical attitude? Do you only accept
truths that please you? Do you enjoy creating controversy? Is
there some way that you derive intense pleasure from trying
to minimize the fantastic successes of others? Lastly, is your
need to sneer at the events of history driven by the understanding that you have never achieved anything worthwhile
in your lifetime?

Answer 8

Yes it happened. I worked on the program - it was real. Do you think we would spend 28 billion dollars, 14 years and hire 250,000 people to make a movie ?? And then not one person out of a quarter million would expose it ?? Get real. By the way, the main source of the conspiracy story is that factual science establishment called the Fox TV Network. Consider the source.

Answer 9

Yes, we landed on the moon, several times. We had one hair raising mission that went terribly wrong, Apollo 13, but nobody died on that moon mission, but that mission never landed on the moon. There were Astronauts that died in a previous mission, a fire during launch, but that was not a moon shot.

Answer 10

We landed on the moon, rumors like that started in the late 70's by conspiracy fanatics