Did the Americans really send men to the moon?

Question

If so why don't they use the Hubble space telescope to show us a close up of the lunar vehicles and flags left behind. After all they can show us pictures of stars light years away. And how were they protected against solar radiation?

Answer 1

You guys really make me laugh. Don't you think the Americans would have built bases on the moon by now if it were possible to land man there instead of a space station (tin can) a couple of hundred miles above the earth, Get real please !!

Answer 2

You can find the most incredible stuff on the web; if you don't believe the Americans landed there in 1969, how about a website that says the Germans landed on the moon during WWII and built underground cities.

"Ever since their first day of landing on the Moon, the Germans started boring -and tunneling under the surface, and by the end of the war there was a small Nazi research base on the Moon. The free energy tachyon drive craft of the Haunibu-1 and 2 type were used after 1944 to haul people," materiel and the first robots to the construction site on the Moon. When Russians and Americans secretly landed jointly on the Moon in the early fifties with their own saucers, they spent their first night there as guests of the .... Nazi underground base. In the sixties a massive Russian - American base had been built on the Moon, that now has a population of 40,000 people, as the rumor goes. After the end of the war in May 1945, the Germans continued their space effort from their south polar colony of Neu Schwabenland. I have discovered a photograph of their underground space control center there. "

Answer 3

Yes, Apollo landed on the Moon.

No, Hubble cannot see anything on the Moon as small as the vehicles or flags left by Apollo. Hubble cannot see anything smaller than about the size of a football field at the distance of the Moon. You over estimate its resolving power.

But even if some other, bigger telescope, were made and NASA released a picture taken with it showing a vehicle and a flag on the Moon, would you really accept that it was genuine? Why would you claim that all those thousands of pictures that NASA has released before were fake but accept one more picture released by NASA as real? Wouldn't you just say it was yet another fake picture?

Answer 4

"...why don't they use the Hubble space telescope to show us a close up of the lunar vehicles and flags left behind..."

An object on the moon 4.37 yards across viewed by the Hubble Space Telescope would be about 0.002 arcsec in size. The highest resolution instrument currently on HST is the Advanced Camera for Surveys at 0.03 arcsec. So anything we left on the Moon cannot be resolved in any HST image. It would just appear as a dot. (http://hubblesite.org/reference_desk/faq/answer.php.id=77&cat=topten)

"...they can show us pictures of stars light years away..."
You need to understand the difference between the resolution of a telescope and its light-gathering powers. Just like some Earth-based telescope, HST does very long exposures of extremely distant objects, gathering in lots of light from those objects over time. HST is no different than Earth-based telescopes, except it's light-gathering capabilities aren't diminished by Earth's dense, turbulent atmosphere.

"...Did the Americans really send men to the moon? ..."
Of course not..! The moon itself is a NASA hoax, the Earth is flat, and Elvis is alive and working in a donut shop in Cleveland.

Answer 5

The objects that Hubble photographs are very far away, but they are huge -- light years across. The largest objects left behind on the moon are the bases of the lunar landers. They are about 13 feet wide, I think. At a distance of 240,000 miles, that's not even one pixel wide. It you did catch one of them, it would look like a dim dot indistinguishable from the surrounding grey regolith.

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?

On the subject of stars, take a look at the first link. Sorry, but there *are* stars in that photo. For the rest, visit "badastronomy" and "clavius". 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 6

wow i like your question ?

i read one time before: that all this (walking in the moon) and (one step of a man became a step for all the genortation) !!

it is just walkin' in the desart (sahara) in tunesia and it was all fake !!

but we can not say it's all fake !! russai or the USSR did not say it was a fake. and we know that the USSA was sendindg there men to the moon also !

so we have to believe (walking on the moon) was real !!

Answer 7

These were what others say, others say it's fake here are their motives:
"How can the flag be fluttering?" the 47 year old American kept asking himself when there's no wind on the atmosphere free Moon? That moment was to be the beginning of an incredible Space odyssey for the self- taught engineer from New Jersey.

He started investigating the Apollo Moon landings, scouring every NASA film, photo and report with a growing sense of wonder, until finally reaching an awesome conclusion: America had never put a man on the Moon. The giant leap for mankind was fake.

It is of course the conspiracy theory to end all conspiracy theories. But Rene has now put all his findings into a startling book entitled NASA Mooned America. Published by himself, it's being sold by mail order - and is a compelling read.

The story lifts off in 1961 with Russia firing Yuri Gagarin into space, leaving a panicked America trailing in the space race. At an emergency meeting of Congress, President Kennedy proposed the ultimate face saver, put a man on the Moon. With an impassioned speech he secured the plan an unbelievable 40 billion dollars.

And so, says Rene (and a growing number of astro-physicists are beginning to agree with him), the great Moon hoax was born. Between 1969 and 1972, seven Apollo ships headed to the Moon. Six claim to have made it, with the ill fated Apollo 13 - whose oxygen tanks apparently exploded halfway being the only casualties. But with the exception of the known rocks, which could have been easily mocked up in a lab, the photographs and film footage are the only proof that the Eagle ever landed. And Rene believes they're fake.

For a start, he says, the TV footage was hopeless. The world tuned in to watch what looked like two blurred white ghosts throw rocks and dust. Part of the reason for the low quality was that, strangely, NASA provided no direct link up. So networks actually had to film man's greatest achievement from a TV screen in Houston - a deliberate ploy, says Rene, so that nobody could properly examine it.

By contrast, the still photos were stunning. Yet that's just the problem. The astronauts took thousands of pictures, each one perfectly exposed and sharply focused. Not one was badly composed or even blurred.

As Rene points out, that's not all: The cameras had no white meters or view ponders. So the astronauts achieved this feet without being able to see what they were doing. There film stock was unaffected by the intense peaks and powerful cosmic radiation on the Moon, conditions that should have made it useless. They managed to adjust their cameras, change film and swap filters in pressurized suits. It should have been almost impossible with the gloves on their fingers.

Award winning British photographer David Persey is convinced the pictures are fake. His astonishing findings are explained alongside the pictures on these pages, but the basic points are as follows: The shadows could only have been created with multiple light sources and,in particular, powerful spotlights. But the only light source on the Moon was the sun. So, what do you think? :)

Answer 8

Originally they sent a woman only crew to the moon but they got lost and where last seen heading down a one way system in Holland.

Answer 9

Great question. I guess there is a certain percentage of the population the believes that the whole moon thing was fake. As for why they do not used the telescope (even land based ones) to prove it is beyond my ability to answer. I have faith that we actually went to the moon.

Answer 10

Yes, -I took part. I worked on Apollo, and Gemini, and believe me, it was real.
You'll have to ask others to explain why they don't take and show pics. of the stuff. I don't know, but having sat in the capsule, known those who died, and spent years on the projects in LA, the Mojave Desert, and Canaverel, I assure you no-one could have put on such a charade just for propaganda!