Did man land on the moon?

Question

what do you think?

sorry if already been asked but i'm interested in peeps thoughts now.

Answer 1

My gut feeling is no.
If we did how come we dont go back.
We did not have the technology in those days either.
The satellite reception was too good, sometimes say on gmtv they satellite over from say America and the pictures not even that good.
Did you see that documentary about this subject - its been on sky quite alot - it backs up my thoughts. Fake - fake - fake.
I think it was just done at the time to scare Russia and we were so naive in those days. My mum and dad said there was an April fools joke played on the television viewers in the 1960's (sorry to change the subject) - but they made out a nuclear bomb had gone off and did and count down from 10 until the world would be destroyed and after 10 they blanked the tv screen out and apparently everyone thought they were dying. This just proves my point on how naive we were in those days doesnt it - they would never be able to do that these days of course.

I also feel 9/11 was a conspiracy as was Marilyn Monroes death and dare i say it Princess Dianas.

No i dont have men dressed in black spying on me , i am just saying what comes from my core.

Man on the moon - REM ?

Elly x

Answer 2

Gizmo (about three questions up): if you really are an engineer, you are an incredibly ignorant one.

The whole point about space is that there is very little friction. So you don't need fuel for the whole journey and back again - it's not like driving up the motorway. All you need is enough speed to get out of Earth's gravity well. Then you turn off the engines and coast the rest of the way, until you turn on the retro-rockets to slow down when you get there. That's why the astronauts were weightless most of the time - this only happens when the rocket is not under acceleration.

Whatever the problems you might think there are with the moon landings, you can't say lack of fuel is one of them.

Answer 3

On 20th July 1969, a man set foot on an extra-terrestrial surface for the very first time in history. This man was Neil Armstrong, and his words, "This is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," became probably the most famous words of the Twentieth Century. It was announced in 1962 by the American president, John F. Kennedy, that the Americans would put a man on the moon by the end of that decade. At the time, America was losing the space-race against the Russians, who had launched rockets outside Earth's atmosphere and were the first to send astronauts (or cosmonauts) into space (Yuru Gagarin in 1961). After also sending the first man on a space walk in 1965 (Alexei Leonov was the first man to step out of a space craft in space), the Russians started losing the race. After many practice flights and orbits around the Moon from 1966, American astronauts were ready to walk on its surface in 1969.

Apollo 11 was the name of the first mission to land on the Moon. Neil Armstrong was first, with Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin as the second man. Their footsteps remain on the surface of the Moon now, and will remain there for millions of years. A few months after, Apollo 12 landed two more astronauts on the Moon on 14th November. Apollo 13 headed for the Moon, but an explosion on the space-craft caused the mission to be cancelled, and the astronauts to have to return to Earth, using a home-made piece of equipment to prevent poisonous carbon dioxide from building up in the space craft. After that, four more missions landed men on the Moon, with Apollo 17 being the last on 7th December 1972. Since then, no man has set foot on the Moon.

From the Apollo missions, we discovered how the Moon's surface temperature can be extremely hot and extremely cold, depending on whether it is receiving sunlight or not. The Moon's surface is also dry and chalky. However, orange rocks on the surface provide evidence of volcanic activity once in the Moon's history. Most importantly, the Apollo missions proved that man can walk on another world, something that would have been unimaginable one hundred years earlier.

If we were to go back, there would need to be a good reason as right now, NASA is more focused on the planet Mars. And with the planet Mars rovers, they have been able to amass much data without risking lives. Space flight is dangerous and if we can get machines to do the work, so much the better.

Answer 4

Daniel R nicely rebuts Gizmo's foolish ranting. The atmosphere is NOT only 1 mile thick and the space station orbits far more than 2 miles up. As anyone who has flown on a commercial airline knows, modern aircraft routinely fly above 30,000 ft (approximately 10 km) which is about 6 miles up and most of the greater mountain ranges have peaks exceeding 10,500 ft (2 miles).
This by itself completely discredits Gizmo's idiocy.
The only engineering he has done is in the fabrication of his falsehoods.
I know it is painful for Gizmo to hear this but he is full of it. I certainly hope he does not represent the educational level of the rest of the UK.
I was 6 years old sitting on the living room floor at my grandparent's house as we all watched the moon landing. It is burned into my memory and I am grateful to have been privileged to see it as it was happening.
As for the conspiracies questions about the flag moving...
The flag moved because of the rocket exhaust from the lunar modules ascent engine. You couldn't see the stars then any better than you could if you took a TV camera from that time and took a shot of the night sky here on earth. Starlight is faint and it took timed exposure to register that light back then.
The concept that the landing was a hoax is a hoax itself.

Answer 5

Yes man has landed on the moon and dont be sorry about asking the question. Everyone can ask any question at any point in their life. Some may ask at 22 others may ask at 44.

Answer 6

In short NO WAY has anyone been on the moon. The moon is 384,000km or 238,800 miles away and has a gravity 1/6 that of the earth. So to manufacture a craft that can carry sufficient fuel first to break the earths atmosphere about one mile (well youve seen the massive fuel tanks on the space shuttle and thats only been as far as the space station! about 2 miles up!!) Then continue for further 238,798 miles to the moon then slow down sufficiently to land on it and then after all that have sufficient fuel and a launch pad to take back off from the moons surface against gravitational force and fly all the way back to earth and make a good landing. Well i ask you who's kidding who????

In short absolutly not possable it was all a cold war charade that has been passed into to the anal's of history. Bit like Greek mythology but a modern day version i'm afraid.

This is painfull for Americans to hear but it's a myth.

Answer 7

Yes Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first in Apollo 11. The proof is that they left a mirror system there at that site that astronomers and scientist still use today to measure the distance to the moon by laser measurement. Did you know that it shows that the moon is moving away from Earth? Very, very slowly so don't worry.

Answer 8

Yes. My mother woke me up at about 4.00am UK time and made me gat out of bed to watch it. I was 15 and not that interested. "Why?" I asked.... "Because it is history, and if you sleep through it, you will sleep through the only thing that matters."

So I got up and stared at the grainy pictures and have never forgotten my witnessing of history. I have also never stopped being grateful for having a Mother who understood the importance of history.

I like conspiracies...I do...but Neil Armstrong might be the most uncharasmatic man who ever lived...but I shared his moment with him.

Yes it did happen...and I was among the first generation of human beings who can say that despite being hundreds of thousands of miles away...I was there.

Answer 9

Actually, there are many people whot belive that the moon landings were all conspiracies by the US gov. cause they badly wanted to win the space race. It has been proven by National Geographic that it was all real and none of it is fake.

Answer 10

yes, next question.

Please don't buy into the conspiracy stupidity that infests all corners of the internet. Man landed on the moon. Every single reputable scientific opinion says "YES" we landed on the moon.

the only ones who say we didn't are the kind of people who you wouldn't let into your house after dark.