Is the 1969 U.S. landing of the moon truly a HOAX?

Question

If it is true, how can it not be known by the Russians?

Answer 1

yes, mr armstrong was jumping around like a fairy in the nevada desert

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search for it mate, i dunno why american ppl start to take the mick out of the person who asks a question which is outside their box,

the guy is asking a bloody question on yahoo answers not on your year book

Answer 2

Although my wife's father performed fuel calculations for the original Apollo landing, I'll spare you that speech. Instead, I will encourage you to watch two programs. The first show is called Conspiracy Moon Landing that it currently showing on the National Geographic Channel and it pretty much obliterates all of the popular conspiracy theories.

I would also encourage you to watch a movie called Capricorn One. Made it 1978, it is a fictional story about a fake mission to Mars. Although it is a science fiction story, it is a good example of how utterly impossible it would be to fake a moon landing for any length of time.

12 men walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972 and we have neither the resources nor the technology to pull off that big of a hoax for so long. Hundreds of thousands of people have worked on the space program. It would be far easier to put someone on the moon than to try and fake it and keep it secret for nearly 40 years.

The landings came at a time when our space program was ultra competitive with the former Soviet Union. Remember how big of a deal it was when Sputnik was put into orbit? They had the technology to monitor our moon shots and transmissions. Don't you think they would have called us out if they had evidence that it was all fake?

Perhaps the most definitive proof of our trip to the moon is what we left behind. For the last 35+ years, scientists have been beaming lasers to the moon and measuring the return times. How are they doing this? The beams are reflected back by equipment left on the moon on at 3 different locations.

Case closed.

Answer 3

The landings were NOT hoaxes. The independent radio observatories that listened to Apollo 11's transmissions proved, to the highest standard of evidence, that we had a ship on the Moon. Also, the Moon rocks returned from Apollo were comparable to those returned by an unmanned Soviet lunar lander several years later. Geologists have conclusively ascertained that the US Moon rocks and the Soviet Moon rocks are both lunar in origin. There's also the reflector on Mare Tranquilitas that astronomers have used thousands of times to measure the distance to the Moon. Finally, there's absolutely no evidence against the lunar landings to begin with!

I don't know how evidence can be any more incontrovertible than this. There's a very serious problem with society if that set of hard facts can't convince people of the validity of the landings.

To refute the claims in the next answer, money is everything with NASA. Instead of funneling all of its limited resources into a manned Moon mission, NASA is putting a lot of emphasis on unmanned missions (Mars rovers, Cassini-Huygens, various space telescopes, etc.). It's learning to prioritize because it can't afford to do everything that it wants. It doesn't have the blank check from Congress that it did in the 1960s.

Answer 4

I am not sure why we have to defend the validity of the moon landings? That is totally irrational.

It's like 50,000 people witness a murder and the defence lawyer stands up in court and says to the prosecution "what evidence do you have?"

With all these nutty conspiracy theories, they can be knocked down with pure basic logic that anyone who gives it any thought can work out.

For instance, the conspiracy theory that jet airliners were not flown into the towers by terrorists. Apart from the fact that thousands of New Yorker saw it, don't these idiot conspiracy people think why American and United Airline staff didn't stand up and say " hey, we haven't had any airliners go missing", or the air traffic controllers stand up and say "hey, no planes went off our radar".

For God's sake folks apply some thought. Hundreds of Mission controllers would have to have been duped (or paid off) for 3 years of Apollo. It is impossible that any simulation they could have filmed in the desert could fool these highly trained controllers, and for 3 years and 6 landings, looking at the data on their screens, making them believe they were monitoring moon walks when it was just a bunch of movies and false data.

If that does not convince you, then nothing will, because you would rather believe ridiculous conspiracy theories than that in 1969-72 mankind embarked on the most exciting and fantastic exploration ever.

PS - and what is all that crap about Russians not knowing? it just shows what you know - that is, absolutely nothing about it.

Please take your ignorance to one of those juvenile chat rooms. You are not welcome here, where people want to talk about factual matters, and where people with a real knowledge of space and astronomy can help others to acquire the same knowledge.

Answer 5

Here's what I would like to know. If we succeeded in going to the moon in 1969 using the archaic computers of that time period, how come we can't go more easily now using vastly superior computers, better structural materials. What did the first missions find that makes it not desirable to go again. These types of questions are what lead me to believe that a) it never happened in the first place, and b) there is some definite and definable reason why we have not already established colonization of the moon.

Answer 6

I saw it, millions of others saw it, thousands of technicians and scientists were involved in the space program for years before the first moon landing. No, it was not a hoax.

Not sure what you mean that it wasn't known to the Russians, they were the major competitor in the race to the moon during the 1960's - they were VERY aware of the achievement.

Answer 7

What do you mean "not be known by the Russians"? If it were a hoax the Russians would have been the first to scream it to the world. It was during the cold war, remember?

Answer 8

And I bet U believe the whole world is flat floating on some gigantic sea full of monsters ready to consume any ship that just happens to go astray. Or maybe that's the Bermuda Triangle we're talking about.

Answer 9

Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?

There was a program on Nation Geographic Channel today, and the guy responsible for starting the conspiracy theory ball rolling is some old codger living in a trailer in the desert with 50 cats.

Answer 10

Here's a better question -

If it really WAS a hoax, and filmed on a soundstage - how incompetent would the director have to be in order to not notice that Armstrong fluffed his line?