Who was doing the filming when man walked on the moon?

Question

If we were supposed to be witnessing the first man to walk on the moon, how is it that a camera was set up already with the point of view that caputures both the "first" astronaut to walk on the moon and the apollo space craft? Did we actually see the second man to walk on the moon after the first guy walked over to film the second guy coming out? Are we being duped? I am not saying that man never went to the moon but I want to know how it was shot. any thoughts or am I just imagining things.

Answer 1

Mate, this question has been answered dozens of times already to my knowledge.

There was a radio-controlled camera attached to the Lunar Module landing support. That's the camera that recorded Neil Armstrong stepping out on the moon for the first time. It was a historically important event, and NASA wanted to capture it for posterity.

So your question is answered. Again.

The US flag was held rigidly unfurled by an aluminum rod running down its length.

The stars aren't visible in the Apollo moon pictures because the glare from the sunlit lunar surface saturated the focal plane.

All the questions from the "Apollo was faked" crowd have been answered, again and again and again. You fellows just don't listen. There are real conspiracies in the world for you to theorize about... so pick one of them. This one just doesn't work for you.

Answer 2

There was a remote control camera mounted on the leg of the lunar lander.

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

Although my wife's father performed fuel calculations for the original Apollo landing, I'll spare you that speech. Instead, I will encourage you to watch two programs. The first show is called Conspiracy Moon Landing that it currently showing on the National Geographic Channel and it pretty much obliterates all of the popular conspiracy theories. I would also encourage you to watch a movie called Capricorn One. Made it 1978, it is a fictional story about a fake mission to Mars. Although it is a science fiction story, it is a good example of how utterly impossible it would be to fake a moon landing for any length of time. 12 men walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972 and we have neither the resources nor the technology to pull off that big of a hoax for so long. Hundreds of thousands of people have worked on the space program. It would be far easier to put someone on the moon than to try and fake it and keep it secret for nearly 40 years. The landings came at a time when our space program was ultra competitive with the former Soviet Union. Remember how big of a deal it was when Sputnik was put into orbit? They had the technology to monitor our moon shots and transmissions. Don't you think they would have called us out if they had evidence that it was all fake? Perhaps the most definitive proof of our trip to the moon is what we left behind. For the last 35+ years, scientists have been beaming lasers to the moon and measuring the return times. How are they doing this? The beams are reflected back by equipment left on the moon on at 3 different locations. Case closed.

Answer 4

The moon landing was certainly not a hoax. This website will disprove most of the conspiracy theorist's ideas.

http://www.unmuseum.org/moonhoax.htm

As for the camera- think about! These guys were capable of sending men to walk on the moon, you don't think they could figure out how to duct tape a camera on the side of the lander?!

Come on, it's simple- it was attached to the outside of the lander.

Answer 5

They had a camera mounted on the outside of the LEM specifically for the purpose of getting that video. Sheesh, are people really so dumb to believe Apollo was a hoax?

Answer 6

JEEZ PLEZ
The Landing craft had robotic arms.
Which hooked upto the returning rocket to bring our heros home

Answer 7

OMG, I am so happy for this question. YOU have NO idea. I watched the first landing on the "MOON", and to this day, I have never believed it actually happened. My husband, and I went to Maui Hawaii, and saw the huge crator Haleaukia. It looks like the moon, and they practiced the moon landings there prior to their mission. I still can't believe they could of done all this stuff in 1969. My husband just laughs at me, but, I want more proof to truly believe this acutally happened. ~~~~~~~~~~~~

Answer 8

"Buzz" Aldrin probably shot it from the inside of the Eagle.

Answer 9

Fellini

Answer 10

Everybody was in a Hollywood film studio that had zero gravity.
Well...........that's my best guess!