did neil armstrong land on moon?

Question

Issue 1 :



Since the Moon has only one light source, the Sun, the shadows must be in line. But in this cases, it looks as if there are multiple light sources in moon, which is not possible.


Issue 2:




The foreground of many images of the astronauts on the Moon are filled in with light, while the shadows remain absolutely black, again proving that there are multiple light sources.


Issue 3 :



There are no stars in the background from pictures taken on the Moon.

Issue 4 :






In some images, a huge light source can be seen reflected in the astronaut's visors. This has to be a very bright, nearby source. There is no possibility of external light source in moon.

ISSUE 5 - How could NASA take TV images of the LM ascending on Apollo 15, 16, and 17 if there was no one on the Lunar surface to man the camera?





ISSUE 6 - There can't be any pictures taken on the Moon because the film would melt in the 250° temperatures. Any film exposed to 250° would indeed melt at that temperature.
Issue-7 : The LM engine was very powerful. How come it did not leave a crater below the spacecraft? Why didn't it kick up any dust when it landed?


issue 8: The footprints left by the astronauts are proof that the Moon landings are fake.
This one is also essentially a two pronged argument. First, the Fox show charged that the LM engine was so powerful that the upper layer of dust should have been blown away around the LM, so there should not be any footprints. Others have charged that the footprints should not be there since in the absence of water as a bonding agent, they should not maintain coherent shapes and sharp outlines.



issue 9: There is no dust on LM footpads. -- According to Kaysing and Fox, this is the strongest evidence that the Moon landings are faked. They allege that with the swirling dust from LM descent engine, the foot pads should be covered with dust.




issue 11 :

The pictures below show that flags are waving. And they never will. The flag was on the airless Moon, just as we all knew.

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

1) Earth exists, just by the way. It can reflect light onto the moon.
2) The shadows are going to be black. There's no air to scatter the light. Many of the images look filled with light because the camera was pointed close to the sun. Go take a picture of the sun some time and you'll see what I mean.
3) That's right. There are no stars. The cameras used by the Apollo missions had to take a short exposure to see the surface. If the exposure was long enough to see the stars, the surface of the moon would appear very bright, and there wouldn't be a purpose in taking the image.
4) It's called the sun. Are you really using this as an arguement?, lol.
5) The Apollo missions left behind devices with which to study lunar seismology. They also had cameras on them.
6) That is incorrect. If the film would melt on the lunar surface, then why not in orbit. They're both reecieving the same amout of solar energy...
7) When the LM fires, some dust does go out, but as you point out, not nearly as much as you would think. The reason dust blows out a lot here on Earth is because air currents carry it farther. On the moon, there is no air, so the only dust that's going to be moved is the dust directly affected by the engine burn.
8) Again, no air means that dust does not have a method by which it can be carried as far.
9) Swirling dust eh? Not going to happen if there's no air.
10) Apparently, your 10th arguement left. Copied and pasted did we?
11) The flags aren't waving in a manor that would be consistent with wind. When the flags appear to "wave", it is because of momentum transfer from moving the flag.

Except for your fourth arguement, which is rather laughable, your points are very good and I can see how they would make a person believe the lunar landings were fake.

One must remember that the moon is a very different place than here on Earth, and so that comparisons cannot be made between the two with certainty (the air affects on dust for example).

Cheers ^_^

Answer 3

This question seems to come up every two days, for which Fox News should apologize to the public. You're running through the issues that Fox broadcast a few years ago, mostly featuring interviews with people who knew some science, but not enough. The program has been debunked often enough over the years that I'll deal with just three of these issues.

Issue 2 (multiple light sources): There were multiple light sources. (a) The Sun. (b) sunlight reflected from the Earth. (c) sunlight reflected from the Moon's surface. (d) sunlight reflected from the lunar lander.

Issue 5 (cameras showing the ascent of the lunar lander): Even in the 1970s it was possible to set up a TV camera and have it run by itself, which is what NASA did.

Issue 6 (film not melting): Temperature is a property of matter because it measures the motion of molecules. Vacuum has no temperature. Film kept in an air-filled room might melt if the air were heated to 250 degrees, because the film would eventually warm up to 250 degrees also, but film in vacuum wouldn't pick up atmospheric heat because there is no atmosphere. It might melt in direct sunlight, but like all camera film it was kept in a camera or in a storage case of some kind.

Answer 4

Neil Armstrong was the first man to land on the moon - this was July 20 1969. 5 other manned missions after that, the last one Apollo 17 in 1972. Lots of reasons there were no missions after that. The American people were getting bored with moon missions, there were more important things going on (like the Vietnam War, Watergate, etc). The funding NASA got was needed for Skylab (which was more politically viable). There wasn't much more they could do with short 2-man missions - the technology for larger and longer missions just didn't exist with the kind of funding that was available.

Answer 5

I am 1000% suer that the Americans have been to the moon, All the issues u pose, and i accept they do look like good arguments, are answered on NASA's website. The only 1 i know off hand is the last one about the flag. U are correct it should not stay up, but this had been considered and there was a small metal rod along the flag so that it stayed up.

A major issue that u have not considered is that the moon landings took place during the cold war - do u not the Russians would have been the first to claim it a fake it it was. They didn't, i am sure they would have loved to, but they couldn't because it really did happen!

Answer 6

1) Foot print near the lander are impossible due to lack of crater.

2) Crater has to be there below the lander if foot prints exists.

3) The speed of Astronauts jumps (ascent and descent) are not consistent with 1/6 gravitational acceleration. They were jumping too quickly.
And the inertia of the the suit and backpack would prohibit such quick movements in low gravity.

4) The lunar lander was impossible as it had no jet nozels to maintain vertical balance, they had only side way nozels. A grave mistake by the hoaxers.

Anyway vertical landing is still not possible.

5) Alien foot prints are visible in may photos (search the web, time mongers).

6) The photos are impossible , the frame accuracy is too good without a view finder. The height of the photos is inconsistent with regards to the camera mounted on chests.

7) They used too many lunar mockups, the original moon model photos are overwhelmingly pointing at fakery.

Answer 7

Sigh!

All those issues have been discussed explained over and over and OVER again. Two light sources make every object have 2 shadows, but one light source combined with uneven ground makes single shadows pointing in different directions.

Pictures do not show the flag waving. Still pictures cannot show motion anyway, and all the videos show the flag perfectly still except when the astronauts are shaking the pole.

And on and on and ON. I just do NOT have time for this. People can make up lies much faster than I can disprove them.

Come ON people, when are you going to stop this nonsense!!!!

Answer 8

No man had never landed on moon
! the footmarks were not be there
1 if there should vanish cuz of fast moving radioactive Tritium nucIei from sun
1there should be radioactivity exposure,they should be serousily ill
the vedio was telling like that they had gone in a nuclear reactor

1 they tried to out dash USSR
! they tried to derive attention from vietnam war
! they tried to Keep USSR away from Moon indirectly
! though there was no such high power satelite at that time that can focus on landing of apollo while orbiting in earth`s orbit and there is no question of a satelite in moon`s orbit
! Why they never reapeated the event
! If they landed why they didnot experience the attaks of heavnly bodies which keep on the surface of moon

Answer 9

Yes, Neil Armstrong did land on the Moon, along with Buzz Aldrin, and followed by Pete Conrad & Alan Bean, Alan Shepard & Ed Mitchell, Dave Scott & Jim Irwin, John Young & Charlie Duke, and Gene Cernan & Jack Schmitt.

Check out

http://www.clavius.org
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/apollohoax.html

for rebuttals of the hoax / conspiracy theories.

Answer 10

May be photographs are false, (with exaggeration),which show too many shadows, and the flag waving etc, but moon landing cannot be false as a country cannot deceive the rest of the world, about a big adventure like that.One or the other day, others also will land and find the truth rather prove the truth.