question about the moon landing?

Question

Is it really true that man never really walked on the Moon...the picture of the American Flag (the one put there by the Apollo astronauts) is waving in the wind. How could that be possible if there is no atmosphere on the Moon?

If there were only three persons on that trip to the moon and one was Neil Armstrong, one was the other was standing beside him and third one was in the space shuttle then who took the photograph?

Answer 1

They filmed all of it in Las Vegas while they we're burying Bugsy Seagal in the desert. He took the picture, then they shot him so he wouldn't talk.

Answer 2

An excerpt from abcnews.com

The flag was deployed at 4 days, 14 hours and 9 minutes into the mission and it wasn't easy.

In Edgar M. Cortwright's book, Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, astronaut Buzz Aldrin recalled what happened when he and Neil Armstrong tried to set the flag up.

"It took both of us to set it up and it was nearly a public relations disaster," he wrote, "a small telescoping arm was attached to the flagpole to keep the flag extended and perpendicular. As hard as we tried, the telescope wouldn't fully extend. Thus the flag which should have been flat had its own permanent wave."

The wrong coating had been applied to the telescoping rod, so it wouldn't fully extend, which is why the flag looks like it is waving in the wind. Ironically, that famous picture of Buzz Aldrin posing next to the flag is often cited as evidence by conspiracy theorists as proof the mission to the moon was a hoax.

They claim the rippled flag could not have actually been on the moon since there is no breeze on the moon. The flag's waves, they argue, were created by a breeze in some top secret NASA stage set depicting the moon's surface.

Answer 3

I think that if this was true, and i look at the exposure to particles dangerous to carbon life as being a kind of proof, the Russians thought exposure was just too dangerous to mount a serious attempt and the fact that Armstrong failed abysmally to control a lander simulator on earth just 6 weeks before landing on the moon as two key points. If this was true, then all the stories like Aldrin refusing to take a single picture of Armstrong on the moon ( true) because he was angry re not being the first to walk on it would be such an elaborate lie, it would be remarkable.

It must hurt these men who braved such dangers only to come back and be blasted with such cruel theories.

I for one have seen most of the evidence, and admit that some of it could be down to NASA retouching pictures etc.( it is as harmless as that) But to say it wasn't real would be to make a mockery of the lives of these very brave people. They are either very sad liars or true hero's in that rare and wonderful sense of the word , and i chose to believe the later, and so should all of us.

Answer 4

They screwed up the photos just like holiday snaps and had to rein-act the moon landing to get decent photos. Remember photography and computers were not nearly as sophisticated in the 60's so editing poor photos would not have been as easy. The conditions on the moon with start light and dark, the radiation and temperatures would have required a very sophisticated camera.

Answer 5

The only time a flag waved in the wind was when the capsule launched on its way back to the orbiter, and it was blown around by the rocket exhaust. Cameras were placed on the lander or on tripods and operated remotely.

Look at it this way: It would have been far harder to convincingly fake the moon landings than for us to have actually gone there.

Answer 6

The flag was not waving in the wind. Look at the video. Did you ever hear of remote control cameras?
There were three trips to the moon, none were faked. If they had been faked the USSR which was our enemy at the time would have called us on it. There has never been a report out of the USSR or Russia that the moon landings were fake.

Answer 7

You know never thought that story had much credibility until I saw a documentary about it. Kennedy's motivation for going was to give the American people a boost and to demonstrate their prowess. There was no need to actually go - that servesa no real purpose - the only thing they needed was to look as though they went. Anyway, my money is on the Chinese to get there first next time so we shall see whether the stars and stripes is fluttering on the moon.

Answer 8

i saw the video and it wasnt waving in the wind. it was being held up by a pole then the other end of the flag also had a little rod to make it so you could see it was the american flag. and i have no idea what you are talking about the last section

Answer 9

I don't think the moon landing could seriously be a hoax.

In the pictures, the flag is on a winch to make it stand out and look like it is flapping (it wouldn't look very good if you couldn't see it!) I don't see what the problem is with the camera. It's easy enough to set a camera to take pictures automatically, just set it up on a tripod and leave it.

A great website that looks at all the common moonlanding hoax theories and then explains them is this one: http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/NOT_faked/

Answer 10

All the photos were taken in some American desert, that explains everything. There is no proof that the Americans ever landed on the moon. As the world has seen they are the biggest liars and conmen in the world this is one thing that can be said about them.

Answer 11

Everything is not a conspiracy.. or an attempt to decieve the world. If you dig hard enough you can find evidence to prove that even YOU don't exist.. Come on... don't you have anything better to think about?? How bout putting your creative efforts into finding a cure for cancer, or an alternative gasoline??
Wait.... maybe cancer and oil is a conspiracy too.. Maybe this question doesn't even exist on yahoo answers.. you know how technology has advanced.. it is possible.. Wait.. technology?? Is that a conspiracy too.. Damn... this is so confusing!