What will all the people who say the Moon Landing was a hoax do when NASA goes back to the Moon in 2018?

Question

The Constellation Program is bending metal for a return to the Moon. When the astronauts return to the Moon, won't the fools who keep saying Apollo was faked look really really stupid?

Answer 1

You are correct. However, the test of reason will arrive sooner than you think.

Next year, NASA will launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. It will orbit the Moon and take pictures in preparation for the landing in 2018. So, in 2008, we'll have pictures of at least one Apollo landing site. (The primary mission is plan future landings -- NOT to debunk the hoax "theories.)

http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Here's my response to the "hoax lovers".

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

Knowing them they'll probably waste their time trying to find a place somewhere in America or Hawaii or other spots elsewhere that will look like the surface of the moon. Then when they do find several areas, they'll probably camp out there when they lift off to see if they actually do land there or try to catch them in the act.

If they do make an attempt like that and fail to prove that the moon mission is a fake, they'll probably fight it and complain.

It will make them look really really stupid then.

I know that Apollo was real and I am glad that we did went to the moon. Actually, the bacteria from the space suits from an past astronaut being on moon actually survive for I think they said 3 years.

No it's not stupid for going back to the moon because we can set base camp there and it will be very beneficial because then we can launch missiles there to knock an asteroid off course just in case it comes straight towards earth. Hey we'll never know...

Answer 3

They might say the new missions are more fakes. But probably that will acknowledge the reality of the new landings while still denying the Apollo landings. (EDIT: Oh! Apparently while I was writing this answer, rssr27 did exactly that, denying Apollo while acknowledging the reality of the proposed new missions.) The new missions will almost certainly not land in the same places as Apollo did, so they won't see the flags and other items close up. But even if they did, the hoax crowd will just say they secretly brought that stuff with them and planted it there and then pretended to find it. Or maybe the hoax believers will just shut up and stop drawing attention to them selves, hoping nobody will confront them.

Answer 4

It still could be a hoax, and another moon landing 20 years from now could very well be true, given the fact that they've had some 30 years to perfect such a trip. They could have gained enough technology in the next 18 years to actually do it.
If the government had not lied to us so much, maybe we'd be more able to believe their claims.

Answer 5

Yes, they will look like idiots, and i'm sorry but it is about time. It is amazing how many people think we didn't go to the moon. We should go back just for that reason...so our own country will believe that we actually went to the moon. I can see Russia not believing us but when tons of people here start complaining about a fake moon landing it gets really old.

Answer 6

Yes I sat the tracking console and I don't think u could fool me with the tracking data. To have had a secrete that involved so many people and keep it a secrete is impossible. That is stupid.

Answer 7

well, considering the amount of years it took them to successfully get back onto the moon, i would assume it might be more proof for them. surely the technology available even 20 years ago would have been suffice to have dozens of moon landings by now.

Answer 8

They will call THAT a hoax too. People with a deep interest in maintaining their world-view, however ignorant, naive or credulous it might be, will maintain that world view in the face of all evidence to the contrary. This country is a great example of that human weakness.

Answer 9

Maybe EVERYTHING is on a holodeck, (like on star trek, next generation) from going to the moon, to going to the bathroom.

Answer 10

Really really stupids will only walk the moon. Don't America have other problems to spend on?