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2007-05-12 13:39:25 · 18 answers · asked by Pauly Walnuts 2 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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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?

2007-05-12 15:00:47 · answer #1 · answered by Otis F 7 · 1 1

of course man landed on the moon, anything the conspiracy states is clearly addressed at en.wikipedia.org, search it for yourself.

We have the capabilities to return to the moon anytime we want to, but we don't have the necessary plans or money to return to it.

Why would NASA or any other person want to lie about it anyway? It would be a complete waste of a channel, money, people, and time.

by the way: the flag appears moving and upright because there's a wire holding it up and when the astronauts were putting it up it created movement.

Someone saying that we didn't land on the moon is like saying the holocaust never happened.

2007-05-12 21:06:36 · answer #2 · answered by pieguy1530 1 · 0 0

yes. you can bet that if we didn't you'll hear a lot about it when china goes there in the next few years. also, i'm pretty sure you can see the debris (moon rovers, parts of the ship, etc from earth using a big enough telescope).

you could check out penn and tellers bullshit! episode on this (possibly on youtube or google video) for a (somewhat unscientific, but interesting) look at the whole conspiracy to cover the fact that we didn't land on the moon.

2007-05-12 20:47:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Yes. We landed on the moon. Several times.

2007-05-12 20:42:10 · answer #4 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 0 1

Some say yes, because we watched the flag as it placed on the moon on our T.V sets back n 1969. However, there are those that say the whole moon mission was lie and was filmed at a movie studio, and that the reason for the lie was the space race between the U.S. and Russia.

2007-05-12 20:50:51 · answer #5 · answered by PrettyLady26 5 · 0 3

of course we did.
Human lives were risked.
Best thing is, we're going back again.

NAsA is starting to regret the long gap between moon missions. As the Engineers who worked on it all die off, we need to get back on top again with new spirit.

2007-05-12 20:43:58 · answer #6 · answered by overwhelmed999 2 · 0 0

Of course not..! The whole moon is just a NASA hoax. Also the Earth is flat, and Elvis is alive and working in a donut shop in Cleveland.

2007-05-12 21:21:27 · answer #7 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0 1

Yes

2007-05-12 20:42:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Not necessarily on July 20th 1969 for the first time!

2007-05-12 20:42:48 · answer #9 · answered by robotomisation 2 · 0 0

We did. Read EXTREMELY detailed accounts of all the missions in the source, including thousands of pictures and dozens of video clips.

2007-05-12 21:32:54 · answer #10 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0 0

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