Do you think that the Apollo landings on the moon are faked?

Answer 1

No.

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

Nope. I read this recently: the Soviets were the first in space, the first with a human in space, all of that. Then, out of nowhere, we get to the moon. We were seriously the underdog there, and we did it. Yet the Soviets never claimed that we faked it. If _they_ thought we did it, then I don't see why the rest of us should be so doubtful.

Answer 4

Of course not. The people that believe that also believe in the hidden shooter on the grassy knoll, that Elvis really lives at a 7/11, and that there is no such place as Delaware, since they have never seen it with their own eyes. Oh my, some people just love a mystery. I don't believe in everything I hear, but come on folks!!

Answer 5

They weren't faked. NASA even takes measurements from a mirror device left on the moon. It's shown them the moon is slowly but surely moving away from the earth.

Answer 6

No, and there is far more evidence that the landings really happened than there is pseudo-scientific BS that they didn't.

Try checking out www.badastronomy.com or www.clavius.org for some debunking of the crap that claims to "prove" that we didn't land on the moon.

Answer 7

No, people have actually seen the American flag flying on the moon with high powered telescopes.
If it were fake don't you think that every nation in the world that has a beef with the U.S. would be screaming it from the top of their lungs?

Answer 8

No shortage of morons in this world considering that this question gets asked several times a day. First up, they're too dumb too search for similar questions...second, well, they actually consider it a possibility that the missions were faked.

Answer 9

Wake up already. You and and thousands like you just like conspiracy theories. Like the people who think the concentration camps during WWII didn't exist even though there were thousands of people who can tell you it did. Things like this are not so easily fabricated. Try getting into reality and deal with things.

Answer 10

no. If the made it to mars with rovers why not the moon, which is 10x easier. If the mars rovers are fake, why hasn't anyone found them on this planet???

Answer 11

No, you can see the moon through a good pair of binoculars, when we went to the moon anyone with a good telescope in their backyard could see them orbitting...it was real, you can believe it :)