do you believe the Americas went to the moon?

Question

there have been a lot of things that say they haven't and to say they have. but what confuses me is why have they never gone again, like now where better pictures can be taken and better technology is available that is what makes it sound fishy to me.

But what do you think

oops sorry Americans

yeh i got people talking and got starred what ever that does

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

No, I don't believe that the Americas went to the moon.

The Americas, both of them, South America and North America, remained firmly attached to the surface of the earth.

As for whether or not AMERICANS have gone to the moon, yes, there have been twelve americans who set foot on the moon and another eleven who didn't get to set foot on the moon but who got to fly in orbit around the moon, and there have been roughly a thousand unmanned lunar probes not only from America but, Russia and other countries.

The reason that the Apollo space program was scrapped is that it was a VERY expensive program, and the American taxpayers figured they could do better by using the same money that had been going to send so few people to the moon on other projects that stood to benefit people on the scale of thousands.

The question of whether or not we can take better pictures with better technology has also answered the question as to whether or not unmanned lunar probes could be sent much less expensively, which they could, using less-expensive fuels, that got them there faster, and were being driven by remote control and taking pictures all around the moon. Less expensively means more missions for the same price tag, which was more appealing to a lot of the people who were in charge of the program.

Not sending live humans, but machines, allowed NASA to use cheaper, more propulsive fuels, which could have killed an anstronaut, simply by launching the rockets with such a high rate of accelleration, which meant that there would be fewer manhours spent monitoring the ship's trajectory to the moon, and meant that once it was in orbit around the moon, it could be remotely controlled from earth.

So, Apollo was scrapped and other programs have taken it's place.

Answer 3

Look, all these stupid arguments "proving" that the lunar landing was faked have been completely explained. There is not one, repeat, not one single argument that "proves" we didn't go to the moon. Try
http://www.lunaranomalies.com/fake-moon.htm
for nice place to start. Every single argument that the landings were faked has been demolished. It's all been explained.

But what proves we did go? Well, whenever you're trying to see if something is true, see if it fits in with everything else. Do you believe in the space shuttle? Thousands upon thousands of people have seen these magnificent
take-offs. If we can launch these into space, if they can launch the Hubble Telescope, if they can come back & be re-used, then surely we have the know-how to go
to the moon. Also, once you're in orbit, you need just a small rocket pulse to break out of orbit & head for the moon. Carry a smaller ship to get back. There's nothing in all this that is not consistent with what we can clearly do now. How about the GPS system? That works because of 2 dozen satellites in geostationary orbit. Quite an achievement. All this fits together in a technological whole that says moon landings did happen.

Answer 4

The Moon landings were real without a doubt. They stand as the pinnacle of not just American achievement but also of Mankind. They mark a transition in the history of life on Earth, we had left the Earth and been to another world. It was a an incredible undertaking and they should be rightly proud of their successes.

As a Brit I have always admired the endeavour and although I strongly disagree with the direction that America has gone of late (here on Earth), with regards the Moon Landings She deserves all of our respect for fulfilling the Kennedy mandate.

In relation to the proposed revisiting of the Moon by 2020. The idea is great but the destination is wrong - Zubrin is right, Mars should be next. America has the capability, the cash and the talent to get there too, only it seems She's lost Her zeal for great adventure.

Answer 5

Well, the conspiracy theorists that try to convince people men never went to the moon are idiots--but the reason they sometimes seemhalfway plausible is tht they do ask one very good question--and it deserves a good answer:

WHY didn't we keep going to the mooon?

To answer that, I'm going to start with a bit of history that won't seem relevant at first--but it is, so bear with me (BTW, I am a historian/sociologist).. In the early 1400s China had good deap-sea ships--larger, faster, and safer than the ones Columbus used to voyage to America. And a fleet of those ships made seven exploration voyages as far away as the Cape of Good Hope(the southern tip of Africa-and they may have gone even futher, on into the Atlantic)--the last in 1421--71 years BEFORE Columbus. And if you look at a map, you'll see that the distance those Chinese covered was a LOT more than Columbus did.

Then the Chinese stopped exploring--completely. Why is complicated--but in brief, the people who ran China were afraid new ideas would corrupt people and cause political upheavals. So they banned exploration altoghether.

The reason for that story is to show that the halt in space exploration is not unique. The reasons why we haven't gone back to the moon, much less gone on further (to mars, etc.) are different--but this isn't an unusaulal pattern in history.

The reasons for the US halt in lunar exploration are political (just as in China)--and here's a brief outline:
The distrust of the government--and technology--that came with the end of the Vietnam War coincided with the end of the lunar missions. Many people did not want to continue spending money on a project that was tied in part to the military. That wasn't really a valid criticism--NASA was a civilian program--but it did work closely with the Air Force--and so many people who were down on the military didn't like NASA much at the time.

That would have blown over--except that NASA made a decision that "seemed like a good idea at the time"--given the cirucmstances (above)--they had trouble getting money for more lunar missions--but Congress was willing to fund teh research for a n advanced "next-generation" spacecraft. What happened is that the lunar missions were ended to make room in the budget for the proposed "Space Shuttle"--with the idea that once the Shuttle was operational, it could be used to boost lunar spacecraft into orbit at far less cost. Lunar exploration would be delayed a few years--but in the end it would also be cheaper-and safer. Not a bad plan, really.

Except that (for a lot of reasons) the Space Shuttle never lived up to expectations. By the end of the 1980s it was ovbious that it never would--and it was relegated to more limited jobs--science missions and building the International Space Station--and is barely able to do that. Using it as a launch system for lunar spacecraft was out of the question.

So--starting then (late 1980s) NASA began to work on several options, using what had been learned from the Space Shuttle program) to design and and build a spacecraft that really could do the job we hoped the Shuttle would.

And we know how to do that. So why haven't we? Short answer--starting in 1993, with the change to a Congress controlled by the GOP, NASA's budget has beencut time after time. Every program NASA had to develop an advanced spacecraft was canceled. After the Columbia disaster, NASA tried again to get an advanced spacecraft program--and Congress again refused. Insstead, most of the planned flights for the Shuttle were cancelled and NASA was directed to use that money for putting together a replacement spacecraft using the Shuttle technology--but not the advanced technologies they need for a truely advanced spacecraft. And over the last 3 years (into 2006) Congress has cut even that money several times--or redirected it into military research that isn't even NASA's job.

What will happen to the proposed "return to the moon" program Bush has talked about (but has not actually been fully funded)? Will we finally start to develop that advanced spacecraft? That's an open question. But the fact that the power has shifted away from the GOP to the Democrats offers at least the hope of a real policy change.

And we need that. There is enormouse economic potential in space travel--and the advanced technologies needed to develop it are here. There is a new "space race" well under way. Some of the countries active int his new space race are: Britain, Germany, france, Italy, Russia, India, China.

So far, the United States is not part of that new space race.

Answer 6

Of course we landed on the moon. We have video footage to prove it which could NOT have been made on the Earth (we can't change our gravitational constant, and we can't make a vacuum on the Earth). We have rocks. We left a mirror behind you can bounce a laser off of.

Any of the conspiracy theories can be easily debunked with a basic knowledge of physics. Also, we've been there 7 times, not just once. But there's not much point in going to the moon all the time, which is why we now have robots on Mars. NASA has taken the direction of robotic missions instead of sending humans since it's faster and cheaper.

http://www.badastronomy.com

Answer 7

Some people just love to love a conspiracy theory.... America could not keep 6 people quiet over Watergate so i dont think they could keep 2000 people quiet who were involved in the moon landing.... Just because someone is intelligent does not make them have any better common sense than you.

They have been there 6 times but there is not much else to go back for.

Apollo 11 - July 16, 1969. First manned landing on the Moon, July 20.
Apollo 12 - November 14, 1969. First precise manned landing on the Moon.
Apollo 14 - January 31, 1971. Alan Shepard, the sole astronaut of the original Mercury Seven astronauts to land on the Moon, walks (and golfs) on the Moon.
Apollo 15 - July 26, 1971. First mission with the Lunar Rover vehicle.
Apollo 16 - April 16, 1972. First landing in the lunar highlands.
Apollo 17 - December 7, 1972. Final Apollo lunar mission, first night launch, only mission with a professional geologist.

Answer 8

I don't deal in belief. Only Knowledge. But I really don't know, any more than you do. Read a book (oddly titled) "Alternative 3" which not only argued that they did, but that they did so in order to construct 'base stations' for onward travel to nearby Planet Mars. In order to escape the Earth's destruction by warming.

It was written about 25 years ago - long before anyone talked about 'the greenhouse effect', or damage to the ozone layer - anyone, that is except the authors of that book! (Indeed, my own copy was stolen!!). So, I must apologise for not being able to supply better details.

LET me know how you get on!

Answer 9

I believed, they really landed in the moon. Cheating may easy with the people like us but there is a great nations like USSR,Brittish,China and even India with whom it may not be possible. Heating a small target like tank with sattelite guided missile at a distance more than two thousand kms also sound fishy but that is true. We have witness during the Irag war. E bomb which malfunctioned all the electronic system seems unbelievable but thousands of tanks doesn't move because of it in Irag. When I was a small , some elders still believe that the earth is not round but flat. Now the technology is so great to prove their first moon walk.

Answer 10

Of course Nasa went to the moon. There is no way to prove it wrong. We have pictures to prove that we did. For all those people that say we didn't then where did all the Apollo missions go when they took off. If we didn't then why do we have video that shows we did. As for your question of why we haven't went back Nasa is currently working on going back. The space shuttle missions will end in about 2010 and we will then have rockets that will take us to the moon, mars and beyond.