did we ever go the the moon??

Question

bececause ive herd some stuff like the apollo 11 ithink never went to the moon, but is it only that apollo, BUT, DID WE EVER GO TO THE MOON AT ALL, IS IM WONDERING..

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

Yes we went to the moon a number of times including Apollo 11.

Answer 3

Not only did we land on the moon, a tray of crystals was placed on the surface & has been used ever since to measure the distance from earth to the moon by bouncing laser beams off of the crystals. The moon is slowly getting further away from the earth... slightly over 1" each year.
Ask any serious scientist or get yourself a laser, then look up the coordinates of the reflectors placed on the moon when Apollo 11 landed.

Answer 4

The missions to the moon were probably the greatest accomplishments of the twentieth century. The idea of the whole thing being a hoax is ridiculous. A hoax and cover up like that would have involved too many people to have kept it a secret all these years. Scientists are still bouncing lasers off the reflectors that the astronauts left on the lunar surface.

Answer 5

Apollo 11 was the first craft to land on the moon in December of 1969.

Answer 6

Yes. We brought back moon rocks, which are like none on Earth, unique in very significant ways.

It would have actually been harder to fake a moon rock that could fool the world's scientists than it would have been to go to the moon and fetch one.

Answer 7

Yes, 6 times. For detailed criticism of the "Moon Hoax" see this web page:

Answer 8

Yes, I have been mooned, and it was a full moon.

Answer 9

we went there 6 times. I know 100% for sure that we did. I mean faking it once in stupid so six times fake would be undescribable. I think that an astronut would have said somthing by now.

Answer 10

Yes, there is absolutely no chance that we didn't go to the moon. The guys who think otherwise are loony.