Do you think that the moon landings where fake? (give reason)?

Question

How many times has a man set foot on the moon? if it is only once why havent they gone again?

Answer 1

YES! Too many light sources, and Neil Armstrong wasn't the first on the moon....the camera man was. NASA lost the original video of the moon landing as well, how convenient.

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

It was real (of course) and there were six different moon landings with twelve men setting foot on the surface of the moon. As for going back, there will be an eventual return to the moon, but the Apollo program was a very expensive means of meeting a goal set in a very specific political climate. Once it was done, there was nowhere else to go within the limits of '70s technology.

Answer 4

I think they went all the way to the moon, then realized they forgot their cameras, and had to come back and fake it!

No **** we went to the moon, anyone who says otherwise is just giving a flawed argument, half the facts.

Tarun daga: You are woefully uninformed, I will counter your points with the facts:
1}-The flag waves because of the way the astronauts were planting it in the Moon, combined with the bar put through the top to make sure it would be unfurled, not just lying limp.
2+3} These both sound made up, why would NASA bring up clay, knowing it could be identifed, and there is no way the government would imprison someone for doing what the government told them to do!
4)How would you know how fast an astronaut would hop unless we HAVE BEEN TO THE MOON?!

Answer 5

They were quite real. There were six landings, so twelve people have walked on the moon. More landings were originally planned, but it was concluded that not enough additional science would be learned to justify the considerable cost. There is talk of setting up a base on the moon, mostly to be able to use the earth's gravity well to help propel spacecraft to other planets; my own view of this is that it will not be cost effective, nor even approach cost effectiveness unless a significant source of water can be found on the moon, and that has not yet happened.

Answer 6

I don't think there is anything fake about moon-landing. I was then a college student and I listened to Neil Armstrong talking with Mission Control at Houston, on my radio. The moon is 1.5 light seconds away from the Earth and the time intervals of speech, between speakers on both sides, was always 3 seconds plus. Now, sceptics can always argue that such delays can also be faked.

There is no end to negative speculation. Even the Russians, who were quite advanced in space science, collaborated with the USA, in many experiments and they never had any sort of scepticisms, whatsoever. No objections from China, India, or any other country / space agency, either. This negative rumour, has been apparently generated by someone out of some "jealous lot of human beings," only very recently, whereas, there was NO such talk, for over three decades. We have pranksters with very fertile imaginations, who find that "positive creativity" is far more difficult to achieve, compared to "attracting attention," with the help of "saucy / juicy, negative rumours," even though, it may ruin the reputation of their very own country! Such is the nature of selfishness, envy, and pranks based upon these negative human qualities. If any one of them can prove that the moon-landings were fake, why he/she might be presented with the Nobel Prize, for his/her extraordinary genius and beneficial service to humankind! But, where is the one who can come forward and prove this scientifically, and why was he/she keeping quite all these days? Was he/she also part of the team, or is he/she a "disgruntled member" of "some" space agency, or just an irresponsible huckster? Or is it a group, out to malign positive achievements of human beings, just because they couldn't achieve anything of significance, themselves. Case of sour grapes?

Going again and again to the moon, is NOT cost-effective, considering so much more can be achieved by alternative and cheaper means.

Answer 7

No. Not fake.

The Former Soviet Union landed craft on the moon before the Americans and decided that it was so uninteresting and not worth the financial commitment to send people there at that time.

Unfortunately Kennedy had committed America to the gargantuan waste of money because of his promise to put a man on the moon. As a matter of pride America was committed to the project and if the USA had reneged on it's promise it would have been politically damaging and would have shown "loss of face".

Not fake, just a complete waste of time and money (at that time).

Answer 8

If it was fake, why would they take a risk on doing it 6 times, plus faking the Apollo 13 disaster?

If I was going to fake a moon landing, I would do it just once, and not take a chance on making a really obvious mistake. Also, the more times you do it, the more people there are who know about it.

Like any large employer, there are people at NASA who have been openly hostile toward them, because of person grudges, underpayment, lack of recognition. Don't you think one of them would have come forward and said "I was at the filming, it was faked"? There has been no one. Just people who have decided that it must have been faked, and tried to interpret evidence to fit these conclusions.

They went, 6 times, failed once (Apollo 13).

Answer 9

nope all were fake.
They claimed to have landed 6 times but all were fake!
the reasons:
1}the flag of america shown in the video captured on the moon was swaying and that is impossible on moon as there was no wind
2)they soil samples were experimented and it was found that it was normal clay!
3)niel armstrong went to jail for the fake! but it was not disclosed to the media because of the cold war
4)In the video the astronauts were hopping at a faster rate than they would on they moon!

Answer 10

The moon landings were plenty real. If you want to read debunkings of all the "hoax" claims, check the links below.

As others have noted, the reason we haven't been back is because there really isn't much there. The expense isn't worth it. If we want to explore space, other missions offer much more scientific bang for the buck.