Is there evidence the moon landing was staged?

Question

Many people say the moon landing was staged but hte government says it rerally happened. Now i have seen documents, images, and video the government has provided to the public on the subject, but i have yet to see any evidence supporting the fact that the moon landing ever happened so i would like to know where to find the evidence.

Answer 1

Yes, there is evidence, though there is plenty of counter evidence as well. A site that gives lots of evidence is this one: http://batesmotel.8m.com

Rebuttals include this article: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23feb_2.htm

Wikipedia has compiled most of the arguments/counterarguments here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_Landing_hoax_accusations

Of course, searching on your own will yield many more results. It's quite a fascinating debate, even for those not prone to believing conspiracy theories.

Answer 2

Unless you were there and witnessed enough of the process to feel certain it was genuine, you can't really completely believe anything the media tell you. But refusing to believe it did happen is not the same as believing that it didn't happen. The best you can do is to assume it happened. You'll never be able to find conclusive proof one way or another. But your life probably doesn't depend on having the right answer, so you just settle for an assumption based upon a reasonable statistical analysis and move on.

What does a common-sense statistical analysis tell us? If it were faked, then hundreds - probably thousands - of people would have had to be in on the conspiracy. Humans are notoriously bad at keeping secrets, and one of those people would have spilled the beans by now. And if you nitpick through all the media reports, you can always find discrepancies. This is a favorite tool of deniers of any commonly believed claim. Once you find one detail that appears to be questionable, then you cite that as proof that the entire argument is false.

Keep an open mind. There's still a non-zero probability that someone will produce the smoking gun. But until that happens, I'm going to work with the assumption that astronauts really did walk on the moon.

Answer 3

There was a documentary on TV showing if the moon landing was real or not. The evidence presented was very impressive showing the moon landing to be a big lie. If so, then why would our govt. go through so much trouble to lie about this?
To show the Soviets that we can accomplish something that they can't. Of course, if we could'nt really do this....then fake it. Supposedly Area 51 is were all the trickery happened.
Of course, if we did land on the moon, then why have'nt we gone back? In todays costs, such a feat will cost many billions of dollars, and politically this type of spending is not justifyable in todays economy. Also, unless we can get something out of it, such as mining for materials, or setting up an permament moon base, there's really no sense spending the big bucks to go back.
Personally, I think the whole moon landing was a big hoax. The Chinese talk about going to the moon, but I'm sure that will never happen, due to the radiation in space is so bad that you'll need thick walls of lead on a spacecraft just for protection. Seems like we're stuck on Earth until better technologies come up in the future.

Answer 4

I believe that it is probable that the lunar landing was staged. In a time when communication from one person to another was mediocre at best, I really believe it would be possible to fool not only Americans but the world as a whole. I am not saying that we didn't land on the moon but I believe it could have been easily staged. A shuttle went up and that's a given, there may have been some rocks, but there are on earth as well, and the real question is can a computer no more sophisticated then a modern day calculator have a piloting system equivalent to that of the space shuttle? We should be on mars by now.

Answer 5

1. There is no evidence the moon landing was staged. Remember this was a huge project involving thousand of people of all sorts: scientists, engineers, even accountants, lawyers and politicians. To create a fake with so many people involved is almost impossible.

2. There are tons of evidence in the hands not only NASA and the US government. Scientists all over the world do not dispute the fact that those Apollo missions did land on the moon. Take a look at the web sites in the reference, a good start if you are looking for hard evidence.

Answer 6

There have been a number of "documentaries", tv shows, etc. that outline what they believe to be counter evidence to the lunar landings. I've seen a number of the shows and read some books and their evidence is compelling.

To me, the most compelling is that the lesser atmosphere on the moon and fine powdery surface, as noticed by the heavy footprints of man did not seem affected by the landing of the module. So, when you look at pictures of the landing module everything is very shiny (dust free) and there aren't heavy impressions by the lander's feet. Also, there is no blast pattern created by the landing module. This is counter intuitive to what should happen if you have rockets blasting talc-esque surface, you would expect to see a large blast pattern where the rockets scattered the dust.

There are more arguments, but, to me, that was the most interesting. I find the argument fascinating because both sides present excellent data. Look for the shows on TV, or maybe even at the video rental store.

Answer 7

The race to get to the moon was quite hectic back then. It was like some kind of macho bs between the U.S.A. & Russia to which major power would succeed getting to the Moon first. Quite frankly the whole concept of why there was even money being put towards the moon visit is quite immature to me. The evidence is stacked on what would make it not possible as well as on the contrary. But most of the contrary evidence that we did land on the moon is from "official" word! and pictures which have enough proof going against them to go either way. Now it comes down to the question "would the U.S. lie to its citizens to win a race, if they could actually get away with it"? For those calling people morons for believing in the possibility that accessive radiation would kill a human & that there isn't any atmosphere in space, hence on the moon, why are you so defensive?

Answer 8

that's an incontrovertible scientific certainty that we landed on the Moon. The conspiracy theory relies upon fullyyt upon undesirable technology and defective basic experience. No, there is not any longer air on the Moon. The flag did no longer wave from a breeze; it vibrated from its own momentum because of the fact the astronauts stuggled to plant it into the lunar floor. it is basic technology. And no cutting-edge telescope may even come on the threshold of achieving the sub-milliarcsecond selection which would be mandatory to of course be certain the landing web pages. The artifacts left on the landing web pages are almost 1 / 4-million miles away, and yet are in basic terms numerous feet for the era of. there's a mountain of autonomous evidence that proves, to the optimum a risk properly-known, that we went to the Moon. evaluate right here: a million) Apollo 11 left a retroreflector on the lunar floor that astronomers have detected hundreds of cases. 2) autonomous radio telescopes, whilst pointed on the Moon, detected the Apollo transmissions. If there hadn't been a deliver there, they does no longer have heard something. 3) The Moon rocks have been thoroughly analyzed with the aid of geologists, who end that the rocks formed billions of years in the past on the Moon. They clarify that there is not any way for NASA to pretend the rocks. 4) No scientist rejects the landings. If there became into something fishy with regards to the landings, could it no longer be scientists who could be conscious? particularly, scientists are the 1st to vigorously take care of the landings. This evidence is irrefutable; to reject that's to reject all cutting-edge technology.

Answer 9

You may be confused about the term 'evidence.' Generally hundreds of thousands of publicly available photos, telemetry readings, transcripts, video/audio recordings, etc. collected and certified by scientists from around the world would qualify as 'evidence.' It is always possible to deny evidence and simply say 'I don't believe it.' It such material remains evidence. There is as much evidence for the moon landings as there is for say the International Space Station (or any space flight for that matter.) That is there are photos, live video, and you can see pieces of both projects at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
If direct observation if the standard of 'proof' than this may not exist either--unless you are willing to train to be an astronaut. You will also never directly experience x-rays, radio waves, microwaves, DNA, individual Atoms, etc. but scientists can show you a great deal of evidence. If you need something tangible the Apollo missions brought back hundreds of pounds of lunar rocks. You can see these yourself at the Smithsonian and many other science museums. These are distinct from earth rocks in several ways--they show tremendous radiation exposure due to the lack of an atmosphere of magnetic field on the moon, etc. Remember that every country in the world has a sample of lunar rock.
Numerous countries and one group of private citizens are claiming to have gone into space. Billions of people would have to be conspiring and generating billions of items of consistent false evidence for this all to be fake.

Answer 10

The moon landing has always been a controversial subject was it staged or not why was there wind? Could that piece of **** lunar module have really made it to the moon and back and in my opinion from the evidence i have researched i beleive it was fake. Even today when we want to go to the ISS (International Space Station) we have problems and people die on the way back. We have bad weather and we also have lots of technical difficulties like a piece of foam coming off that prevent us from launching so how did that crappy little lunar module land on the moon then take back off and land on earth and still be in excellent condition to show to the world in our museums?

Answer 11

I don't believe we will ever find concrete evidence that there was a moon landing, because their wasn't. Common sense would tell us that if we accomplished such an amazing feat with the technology of that era we certainly would have been back, at the least, to "visit". To think that we had gathered all the information and scientific discoveries with one lunar landing then took on the attitude been-there did-that is crazy. There is an abundance of information on the web (try the search: lunar landing hoax) that will claim to validate just about any point of view. What would sum it up for me is a present day photo (via satellite or telescope) that confirms the landing site where our equipment was left, I can't find one.