Did they fake the moon landing?

Question

One of my teachers said that and now im intristed in things i dont unterstand

Answer 1

Your teacher is an idiot and should have their teacher's certificate taken away for teaching rubbish to impressionable minds.

I was on a tracking ship off the Azores during the first 3 moon landings and I can tell you FOR A FACT that I KNOW WHERE THE DISH ANTENNAS WERE AIMED and I can tell you for a FACT that the ONLY place those signals could have come from WAS THE MOON.

Also.. the Russians and the British were ALSO tracking the moon landings. Do you REALLY believe that Russia would not have blown the whistle on the moon landings if they had ANY reason to believe they were being FAKED.?

The satellite systems that surround the earth today DID NOT EXIST at the time of the Moon Landings... the very FIRST communications satellite was the Echo balloon in about 1974 or 1975... so there was NO WAY the signals could have come from a satellite in low earth orbit.

Tell your teacher they are full of bull... then tell the Principal of your school that he/she has a moron teaching classes in their school.

Answer 2

This is a popular "conspiracy" idea that has been an urban legend since the 1960's. It is so prevalent in popular culture that a movie was made about it.

It might be rather easy to broadcast images of astronauts on a hollywood stage and then portray them as actually being on the moon, but this ruse has one fatal flaw.

The problem lies in the broadcasting itself. Specifically it has to do with the radio signals sent back by the astronauts. Radio signals travel in straight lines from a single point source. It is easy to determine the source if the signal is seen from more than one point. Both recievers plot a straight like to the signal source. When the lines are combined, the point where they meet is the source of the signal. This technique is called "triangulation" and has been used in navigation for centuries.

"Broadcasting" means the radio signal was beamed back to earth and anyone with a reciever could locate the signal source. In other words, the astronauts did not unwind an enormous telephone line between the moon and earth and make a private call.

This is why it would be rather easy to prove humans have never actually landed on the moon. The only concievable way this might be forged is if a reciever was landed on the moon and then re-broadcast signals sent to it. The broadcast could be shown to be coming from the moon, but of course the signal would be coming from the transmitter on earth as well. The people in the TV studio could say they were recieving signals, not transmitting them. It is probably impossible to actually determine the actual direction the signal is traveling, but one thing would still be evident. If the two signals were compared, the one from the TV studio would be much stronger than the one from the moon. This would suggest that the signal originated in the TV studio.

I'm surprised this myth still exists. Sadly, it is probably due to scientific ignorance.

Answer 3

No.

I've heard about every issue raised by the hoax-theorists over the years, from the absence of stars in the black sky of the moon, to the fact that the planted flag sticks out to the side, to which directions shadows of objects lay on the surface. And every one of these things had a physical explanation that the hoax theorists simply weren't aware of. Some thought astronauts would have to pass through deadly radiation in the van Allen belts to get there; others thought that a dropped object didn't fall at the proper speed, and again, with a little digging into the actual physics, what we saw meshed with what we should actually have seen.

Answer 4

This is why there should be more stringent guidelines for teachers these days. I went to school with many education majors, and many (not all) were effectively worthless as students.

I find it hilarious that education majors lack education. It's ludicrous to belive that the Moon landings were faked, and your teacher should be teaching written and accepted history as opposed to spewing off his/her own unfounded beliefs. I should say, however, that it is very important to question the validity of some history, and more importantly, question things that seem to be contradictory and senseless.

One main thing you should do is go back to that teacher and say "Sir/Ma'am, could you please site your sources that back-up your claim that the Moon landings were faked?"

If they say no, then its obvious they have none. If they cite a bunch of websites... that's HARDLY good sources. All Moon hoax theories and the "evidence" thereof have been throughly debunked and disproven.

Take it from me, as someone who knows a thing or two about spaceflight... we went to the Moon 6 times between 1969 and the mid-70's. And we are going back with NASA's Constellation program.

Answer 5

When you ask a question on this forum, you get a lot of opinions that are not backed up by facts or sources, and some that are. Next time you have a question like this, try putting it in the yahoo.com or google.com box and see what the millions and millions of people on the web have written about it. If you do this, and do it regularly, you will find sources that repeatedly stand up to scrutiny, provide good facts and good reasoning.

One place to go for a good answer on many about astronomy) is:


http://www.badastronomy.com

and on THIS question, it is:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

Answer 6

Conspiracy theorists see fakes & plots everywhere since everyone in out to get them :) Examples the us planned 9/11, the moon landings, egyptian pyramids built by men from Mars or Atlantis refugees. Makes excellent reading.

Answer 7

One of the things you might want to "intrist" yourself in is ENGLISH. The word "intrist" for example is spelled INTEREST, and the world "unterstand" is spelled UNDERSTAND. Once you've mastered that you can move on to bigger things like fake moon landings.

Answer 8

Are you sure you didn't miss something. Maybe the teacher said these words but you are missing the context. But at any rate,
No..they did not fake the moon landing.

Answer 9

No, and SHAME on your teacher for telling lies like that. If people are free to claim any great past event was fake, then they are free to claim that all history is fake. World War 2 could just be fake stories in books written by people in on the cover up.

Answer 10

I advise you, and anyone else who is interested, to head on over to one of three places:

www.apollohoax.proboards21.com

www.bautforum.com

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apollo-hoax

There you will find many people to discuss the issue with, and you can bring up any point you want to talk about rather than being given a huge page of stuff to wade through. I'll hope to see you there.

By the way, no they didn't fake it and your teacher should be similarly directed to those sites.