Did humans land on the moon?

Question

the evidence supporting not landing on the moon is significant...can you provide equally as strong counterevidence??

Answer 1

Twelve people have walked on the moon. There is no evidence whatsoever that they did not do so; they left reflectors on the moon which are used to this day to measure the distance to the moon, which is increasing at about one inch per year due to tidal friction.

Answer 2

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 3

Your first paragraph is absolutely correct, it is obviously a cut-and-paste from somewhere else. It then descends into lunacy. Then picks up again with the Soviet news, although I don,t think they sent a robotic satellite, I think it just crashed on the Moon. The Americans sure did get upset, but that was back in the late1950s, after the Soviets get Sputnik up. That spurred the US into a real space race, which got them to the Moon first. Getting to the Moon seems a reasonable step, considering all the steps which happened before it, don't you think? They didn't just build Apollo 11 and go. They had 10 years of successes and failures, and each mission brought them closer to the Moon. The Moon landing was the always the target.

Answer 4

The evidence against the landings is one bad FOX TV program with no real facts and lots of bad science and lots of unfounded accusations, and the statements of members of the flat Earth society, who say the entire space program is fake, not just the Moon landings. If you can't find evidence supporting the reality of the landings, you have not done your homework. Try the sources.

Oh, and like Ookpik, I watched it live. It was a way, way bigger deal than the super bowl, American idol, and the Iraq war all rolled into one. Every launch covered live on every channel starting hours before liftoff. A million people lining the roads for miles around the Kennedy Space Center to watch the launches in person. You who did not experience it have no clue.

Answer 5

Your name says it all.

You are young and gullible. You think you know it all but are easily swayed by the simplest of ideas. You will be ashamed to admit that you were so naive a few years from now.

I am curious as to what evidence you can provide to prove we never landed on the moon. Post five of your "significant" pieces of evidence so I can see what you are talking about.

I grew up during the period in question. I watched the launches, orbits, excursions and recoveries on TV. I believe that these events occurred, as strongly as you believe they didn't. I'd really like to see what evidence you will cite.

Answer 6

There is no evidence the Moon exists so how can anyone have walked on it?
Yes, that's sarcasm and makes just as much sense as your question.

Show me ANY evidence the Apollo missions were faked that cannot be refuted, please. To date every conspiracy theorist's "evidence" cannot stand up and is easily refuted by information anyone who paid attention in grade school science class would know.

Answer 7

The Moon rocks are chemically identical and structurally different from anything found on the Moon.

There are devices on the Moon to which we send signals that were left there by the astronauts.

Answer 8

"No moon Landing" is really just and Ignorant theory, The moon landing sites are easily visible even on some amateur telescopes.

Answer 9

I think astronauts actually landed on Pluto. They just made it look like the moon...

Answer 10

Why don't you post some of the "evidence" in a clarification?

Better yet, don't bother. This page:

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

rebuts almost everything you might come up with.