Did we really go to the moon?

Question

So, youre telling me that you can take crystal clear pictures of galaxies quadrilions of miles away yet you cant take a picture of the lunar car sitting in the moon?Something is seriously wrong with that.

Answer 1

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 2

If they hadn't been there, the Russians would have known immediately for sure and exploited it politically as much as they could have. They didn't complain at all about the landing being faked.
How did the Russians know for sure the visits to the moon were true?
Just because they used a very simple method of triangular positioning of the radio waves from the astronauts on the moon during the visits. Anybody with 3 receivers and direction sensitive antennas, in some distance from each other, can do that. Many more than the Russians did the same, like the UK, radio amateurs, etc., and nobody claimed the signals did not come from the moon.
I think you've been visiting too many conspiracy theory websites.

Answer 3

» When they was there,
• the TV shows that,
• anybody can receive radio signals from there,
• the Russian accept that,
•12 astronauts were there,
• they left a special french reflecting mirror and with special lasers anybody can measure the distance,
• they bring some rocks for many countries and universities, where some test has been done with the rocks,
• thousand was in Cape Kennedy during each take off,
• hundreds was in ships in the Pacific Ocean when they come back, and
• David Copperfield was a child without magical tricks.

Before that, many astronauts and cosmonauts bring photos and walk in the space. Many satellites was launched.

After that, the NASA have sent a super telescope to the space (as I see, you accept that), and a team of astronauts later to fix this telescope. And we have photos of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Mercury, Venus, moons, comets, etc etc. But some people still thinks that it was impossible to sent some astronauts there. Surely soon, China would be the second country to send people there and a new question would appear in Yahoo answers: "Did they really go there?" ☺☻☺☻☺☻☺

Answer 4

I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to with the lunar car picture; I've certainly seen plenty of them. No, they don't have the resolution of a Hubble image, but then they weren't taking them with the Hubble telescope! In fact, most of those glorious galaxy pictures you see are not photographs on film; they are images built up over time on a CCD camera and processed by computer to form an image.

The whole "did we really go to the moon" question (which is not a question for me, I was in college at the time and followed the whole program very closely) has been thoroughly discussed by the Bad Astronomer, http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html. His blog is well worth reading if you have any interest in astronomy at all!

Answer 5

Actually, the galaxies are MUCH farther away, but whatever. Yes, we did send space vehicles and people to the moon, a long time ago. By now, NASA has lost a lot of the pictures and other data because of poor management, budget cuts, general incompetence, and incompatibility of old computer equipment with modern stuff. I seriously doubt that we will repeat the experiment, however--medicare, the war, and global warming are going to absorb all the wealth we can possibly create, and there won't be any left over for silly things like space exploration. Some other country may be successful.

Answer 6

It is very sad and disturbing that people don't comprehend this. Why is this so hard to believe? If it really was a huge conspiracy, isn't it strange that NOT ONE person who was in on it has come forward? In those same years, the Nixon administration couldn't keep the lid on a third-rate burglary for a few months, yet the biggest scam of all time has been kept absolutely airtight for more than 30 years?

Come on guys, get a sense of proportion and a taste of reality.

BTW, Russia never made it to the moon, and I think China is still trying to get an astronaut off the ground, although they have launched a number of satellites.

As to why we went 6 times and gave it up, that would require an extensive discourse on politics and economics, the effort for which you don't deserve yet.

Answer 7

once you seem on the finished Moon, you spot a tiny bit greater suitable than 40 9% of it (50% is the theoretical cut back in case you communicate approximately the gap too super to be a ingredient). If 2 (or 3) people be conscious the Moon on a similar time, yet from very different positions in the international's floor, they are in a position to work out (putting their pictures at the same time) a splash over fifty two%. with the aid of assessment, a third is merely 33%. With libration, over long sessions of time, we are in a position to work out merely approximately 60% of the Moon's finished floor. while the Moon seem "0.5" lit, we call the section "Quarter Moon" simply by fact this happens while the Moon is 1 / 4 of ways around its orbit.

Answer 8

You should understand what the angular resolution of telescopes means. The smallest angle that a telescope can spot an object in depends upon the size of the telescope. Telescopes can spot distant galaxies and you should note that their sizes are so great that they form a large angle as seen from earth. However, the size of a car is so small as seen from 240,000 miles away that no telescope can see it. It's the angle that matters. Compare the angle of a 10 foot car at a distance of 240,000 miles to a galaxy measuring a quadrillion miles across at a distance of a quintillion miles away and you will see that the galaxy appears much bigger in angular measurement. When you get to high school and learn about geometry and trigonometry, you will understand much better than I can explain.

Answer 9

You have, like most people, no sense of scale.

The Andromeda galaxy, which is visible to the naked eye, covers almost as much sky as a full moon. Yet, it is 2.5 million light years away.

Can you read the date on a coin at 100 meters? Of course, you can't. Yet you can see a galaxy at many quadrillions of miles away.

before you start doubting something that humans should be extremely proud of, and something men put their lives on the line for, you should stop being a silly litttle kid and learn the facts.

Answer 10

Satellites orbiting the earth can only see things a few meters across and they are much closer than Hubble is to the moon. It just doesn't work the way you describe, or maybe it does and NASA doesn't want to waste time and money to prove something they know is true. Even if they did focus on it and distribute the pictures, people like you would still think they were fake.