If NASA apologized for the faked moon landings, would you forgive them?

Question

Many still believe that man walked on the moon, but there is growing suspicion that NASA staged all of them. The original film tapes are "missing."

How can a national treasure be missing?
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Answer 1

I already have a firm conviction that NASA is nothing but a bunch of hypocrites who really can't answer any of our questions. Why is it that after so successfully landing on the moon in the 60s they couldn't--after almost 40 years of advanced scientific conclusions and newly developed technology-- land on the moon for a second time?

And why are they wasting so much money to get out to Mars and waste the lives of another few people? If Mars has water, how is that going to make a difference to the people out here who don't have sufficient food and housing in the "home of the brave and the land of the free America"? They'll obviously not be invited to ge and starve on Mars, are they?

And the naional treasures are probably missing because "advanced" technology and higher education has given some enough sense to see that it was all a big joke for the pursuit of imperialism. All the glamour and glitter to show that we were smarter than the Russians.

But are we? How many lives have they sacrifices to prove that there is water on the moon and that aliens do or don't exist?

Answer 2

Woah this conspiracy theory still going around??! yes they might have reasons to fake it. But! it was NOT fake! First I'm going to counter all your arguments and then bring some of my own: -multiple shadows: (You really think that in a project that big, they would put on multiple lamps??) The moon's surface has one of the highest reflectivity (Albedo) we know of. Which means that the moon reflects the light very well. (Now you also know why the moon is so very bright at night.) The moon doesn't have an atmosphere. So the light won't get darker if it reflects from somewhere. If you're on the moon, there's light coming from everywhere. If there's a mountain next to you it would reflect the light right on you from there. And since there is no atmosphere, even a reflecting surface that is far far away is still a strong "radiator". This is how you get multiple shadows on the moon. -waving flag: If you look closely you can see a bar holding it up. And it waves since the astronauts had to push and turn it into the ground. So the flag waves because of them pushing it in. Of course there's no wind on the moon, but also no atmosphere which would make it stop waving faster. -no blast crater: there is no atmosphere on the moon. So any dust that the rocket dispersed would fall straight down again. The engine got turned off bout 6ft before they landed. (Imagine if they had kept it on till the landing.. they would never land there. The gravity there is way lower than here on Earth.) -Van Allen radiation belt: about 40,000km which the astronauts crossed in about 90mins, which means they were exposed to a radiation of about 2mSv. Just to clarify this unit [Sv]: In the US the low avarage radiation you are exposed to at work is about 50mSv. You shouldn't forget that the rocket moved passed the Van Allen radiation belt quickly. -bout the clear marks of editing and backgrounds.. i dont really know what you mean by that.Such a poor job: I'm guessing you mean the quality of the footage. Well, you cant expect them to bring huge cameras on a journey where every little bit of mass counts. Now some of my arguments: -400,000 people were involved in this project. So you had to have 400,000 people lying about it. -The rocks that the UdSSR and the USA brought home from the moon have exactly the same composition. (which would mean that even the Russians or the geologists are involved in this conspiracy) -The dust in the videos looks exactly how it should. A perfect balistic arc. (Which they could have only filmed if they were in a almost perfect vacuum) And my final argument: -You can see the landing site from Earth with a good telescope. You can see the flag and the marks the "car" left on the surface. I hope I convinced you now and if not at least some other people that still believe in this conspiracy theory.

Answer 3

The suspicion is not growing. It has remained at about 8 to 10 percent of those polled since 1969. (Yes, I was 15 in 1969 and I remember people who didn't believe it even then.)

The tapes were last seen at the Smithsonian. They were subsequently loaned out. Some duplicates were recently found in Australia. (http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/818

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 4

First, the moon landings were not faked.

Second, it is true that NASA "lost" the original film footage from the first moon landing (much higher resolution than anything available to the public). But that is a symptom of NASA's recent (as in the past 25 years) organizational problems. NASA has lost its way, spending a huge amount of time and money doing basic research in areas that are only being pursued because of the personal "techy" interests of its scientific staff. I attended a NASA-sponsored symposium on nanotechnology in San Francisco about 2 years ago. A lot of self serving, "this is the technology of the future" nonsense having absolutely nothing to do with what should be NASA's mission as the "National AERONAUTICS and SPACE Administration". Add to that a huge bureaucracy headed by political appointees, and you have the recipe for an organization that makes bad decision after bad decision.

Answer 5

I recall that day very well. It isn't fake or staged anymore than the assasination of Kennedy. Perhaps they are missing because they are a national treasure. It was 19 years that the police tapes of Kennedy sat in a drawer before anyone realized what they were.

The only apologizing would be from the culprits. The news of the day have many videos about the mission if you look.

Answer 6

yea cause NASA is NASA and i think they wouldn't do something like that and they have the power to send anybody or anything into space...
the tapes could be missing cause is has been a long time since the moon landing and they might have just forgotten about them cause they knew that they were on the moon and that is all the proof they need

i hope that answered your question o:-)

Answer 7

Wake up your dreaming of conspiracy theory's . The moon shots did take place . Its absurd to think that an agency as large and well funded as NASA would have any reason to fake such a momentous proud accomplishment as being the first country to put a man on the moon!

Answer 8

Well, the flat earth society started the whole story to knock down the fact that the photos from the moon showed a round earth. They said it was all done in a studio. It looks like your society awaits you. I'm not sure what the dues are, but they will welcome you to the fold. The original tapes are missing of one segment of all the missions but there are a few thousand copies around.

Answer 9

Well, if it were in fact a hoax and they admitted it, I suppose I would "forgive" them, as much as one can forgive an agency such as that.

I'm sure there are very few humans who would want to put a stop to such a huge agency for space exploration for the sake of a few bad eggs in the administration of NASA at the time. Or, which would be more likely, due to government officials who would have ordered NASA to go along with the story to keep the US ahead in the space race.

Answer 10

This might be an obvious question to some, but not me. What reason would NASA have to fake a moon landing?