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?
2007-03-16 12:09:54
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answer #1
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answered by Otis F 7
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They Have come A long way since the Fake Neil Armstrong thing. They are Already On the Moon! But are Keeping it very Quirt,Done Much more than Just Exploring,Thy have Actually Set up Living and Research areas o the Moon. Now they are Desperately trying to Learn about Jupiper,in order to colonise that as the Moon like our Earth is unstable,wobbling on it's Axis,Out of our Natural Orbit,and is , actually Heading towards the Sun!. For Real,I am Not Lying here OK. Hope I have Helped You My Friend.
2007-03-15 18:13:28
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answer #2
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answered by Shiara Lennon or Shi-ar-a Mi-so 2
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12 men already walked on the moon. We didn't have the technology to create a faked moon landing back then (not one that would stand up to scrutiny). No serious scientist or historian gives any credit to the moon hoax conspiracy theories because they are a bunch of bunk.
There is no way the litterally thousands of people involved in the program all kept quiet for 40 years if the whole thing was a fake.
At any rate, we're going back to the moon in 2020 or thereabouts. So men will walk on the moon again.
2007-03-15 18:04:44
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answered by Arkalius 5
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is ur calendar turned 100 years before as a mistake??
12 men have walked on the moon. and Neil Armstrong was the first one. I t wasnt a fake like what people like u think
2007-03-15 19:19:57
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answered by Anonymous
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I am guessing you are a strong believer in conspiracy theories and believe anyone who even remotely suggest that Saddam Hussein was not hanged?
To humour you however, even if the Apollo mission were faked, Apollo 12 landed at 1:54:35 a.m. EST on November 19, 1969 in the Ocean of Storms.
2007-03-16 06:20:23
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answered by Lief Tanner 5
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nice one idiot.
and yes we are going back and will set up robotic bases and eventually manned bases.
go put on your tinfoil hat.
Oh and to clear up your theory. There WAS a set made to fake the moon landing, this was not to pretend we went but incase the video footage wouldnt get back correctly. We didnt know for sure that we would get the video feed so Rumsfeld (genius) decided to get Kubric to mock up a landing so we could see anyway, going to the moon afterall was a huge publicity stunt. He got Kubric as he had let him film Dr Strangelove in some real places.
2007-03-15 19:59:04
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answered by delprofundo 3
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C'mon. Surely you realize that the moon is just a stick-on thing that Dad put up on the big ceiling along with the other stick on stars and planets, don't you? Who'd wanna go there?
Even if it were for real, I'd rather go check out Saturn instead. It's way cool, what with it's glowing rings and stuff....
2007-03-15 18:08:12
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answered by Boomer Wisdom 7
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I give up on this - people who are stupid enough to think this was faked need to find someone with a short-focus telescope and look at the landing site themselves. We had the technology then, and we did it; there was no science that we lacked to do the landing. I don't know why people have to make a conspiracy out of everything; it was difficult, but it happened, and anybody with a decent short-focus telescope can prove it to you. And we did it not once, but six times. Grow up.
2007-03-15 18:07:49
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answered by Anonymous
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yes! know it is possible to send a human to the moon. becoz Nasa have found some samples of water there on the moon. and now scientists are traying to grow a plant on the earht witch ius called chumicca if it would happenes then i man cn live on the moon for 3 mounths because this plat is very effected to creat Oxigen then other!!!!
2007-03-15 18:59:36
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answered by stranger_eyes2007 1
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Since you think all seven manned lunar landings were faked, you are hereby inducted into the Too Lazy to Get the True Facts Club.
2007-03-15 19:53:54
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answered by Chug-a-Lug 7
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