Do you really think that we landed on the moon? And if so, why haven't we been back since?

Question

I think that some of you are reading this question wrong...well, the ones that are stating their answers as though *I* don't believe we landed on the moon...check the question closer :P It says "Do *YOU* really think that we landed on the moon..." Never stated my opinion at all, thank you :) Great, informative answers so far!

Answer 1

Yes we went, there are laser reflectors at the landing sites of Apollo 11, 14, and 15. that are still in use today.

Why have we not gone back? In the ‘70’s after the Apollo missions America lost interest in space. We beat the Russians, so why bother with space. So NASA funding was cut and we never went back. As part of a deal with congress NASA had to destroy the blue prints on the Saturn 5 rocket in order to get the funding for the development of the space shuttle.

Now that America is beginning to understand the importance of space travel there is increased interest again. The earth will not support the human race much longer with overpopulation we must find a new home.

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

Well, if we didn't go to the moon, then why didn't the USSR expose the NASA hoax in order to embarrass the USA? You know that they would if they could.

And what about all of those big Saturn V rockets that everyone saw taking off from Florida? Where did they go if not to the moon? They had to go somewhere.

And did NASA fake the mistakes, like the explosion of Apollo 13 that almost kill all three of the astronauts? That was so unexpected, that it seems almost impossible for anyone to just make up.

We haven't been back to the moon lately for two main reasons:

1) No public interest. We have been there, and done that. The public is bored with the moon, so there is little political will to continue funding moon trips.

2) And most of all, there seems to be little there on the moon to make it worth the expense and the risk. Space travel is expensive and dangerous, and the moon has nothing on it to make it worth the trip. The moon is just a big, dry rock.

Answer 4

Yes we went, but the reason we haven't been since is that after 1970 the Federal government cut back on funding for moon landings to develop the space shuttle and pay for the War in Vietnam. The last three Apollo moon missions were cancelled through lack of funds.

Answer 5

We went to the moon several times. Not just once. We have not been back because of the "MONEY", it cost a lot of money to go to the moon. We have been there done that, and for now, there is not a good reason to return to our moon. Someday, we may have a good reason, like our Space Station, we are using that for a lot of research. At time time, our ability to travel great distance in space is very limited. It takes too long to get from point a to point b. We need to develop a better engine like they use in Star Trek. Warp drive or something like that to make the ship go very fast. We just have not arrive yet, and we may never arrive.

Next big question? Are we alone? Are there other "Worlds with people?" We don't know the answer yet.

Answer 6

Yes, not only do I believe we landed on the Moon back in 1969, but I KNOW we did so. Anyone who says otherwise had a bad case of cranio-rectitis.

Why should we have gone back since then? We found no huge reservoirs of precious metals or gems to make it economically attractive, and we'd answered all the questions we could by collecting rocks from the surface. So until it becomes a necessity to have a manned presence on the moon, why continue to send men to the moon to repeat experiments at $28 billion a clip?

Please, go check out www.badastronomy.com and www.clavius.org and get your facts straight.

Answer 7

Yes we did. And we have not been back because it is to expensive. Nobody wants to spend billions just to pick up rocks on the Moon. People think technology is better so it should be cheaper, but that is not true. Only COMPUTER technology is better. Rocket technology has really stagnated. Almost no improvements in 40 years!

Answer 8

Anyone who says the first one was faked is ignorant. The accusation that it was fake was started by the flat earth society in an attempt to put down the fact that the photo's of the earth showed it was round. If you believe it was fake, your society is calling you.

We haven't been back because of the cost. At a cost of $28 billion dollars for Apollo, the country wasn't going to pay a few billion a trip. It was supporting the war in Viet Nam at the time and programs were turning more toward social issues and away from science.

Answer 9

I have mixed feelings, but my gut says no. It was a time of Us v Them, them being the USSR. We had to stage dominance anywhere we could. I watched an interview with the man who created the camera that was attached to the suits, he said his camera could not have taken any of those photos that have become so popular over the years. I also saw an interview with Russian scientists who stated that the radiation would be so bad you would basically instantly get some form radiation sickness and die. I wonder why no other nation in the world has gone to the moon? On the other hand Im a proud American citizen and hate to think we were lied to by an institution I still believe in. Let the conspiracy live on!

Answer 10

I believe it...I watched it and we have no need to go back...we know whats there.