How many persons have travelled on moon?

Question

I have searched on net and found that the Nasa who claims that they have succeeded in touching the moon is not genuine. Please share your knowledge about it.

Answer 1

In all, 12 people have walked on the Moon.

About the conspiracy argument:
Of course we landed on the Moon. This isn't my opinion; it's a scientific fact. The conspiracy theory is based completely upon bad science and faulty common sense.

We don't have to take the government's word for it. Consider the following:
1) Apollo 11 left a retroreflector that astronomers have detected thousands of times. It's used to precisely measure the distance to the Moon.
2) Independent radio telescopes, when pointed at the Moon, were able to detect the Apollo transmissions. If there hadn't been a ship on the Moon, they wouldn't have heard anything.
3) The Moon rocks have been examined in detail by geologists, who have positively identified the rocks as being of lunar origin. They explain that there's no way for NASA to falsify this.
4) No scientist rejects the landings. If there was something fishy about the Moon landings, would it not be scientists who would realize it? Instead, scientists are the first to vigorously defend the landings.

Evidence just can't get any more incontrovertible than this. To reject this evidence is to reject all modern science.

Answer 2

I have also searched the net and found sites that say NASA lied about landing on the Moon. Unfortunately they're all utter rubbish, and in at least two cases the authors of the sites are frauds and liars.

NASA DID successfully send several missions to the Moon, and twelve men walked upon the surface of our nearest celestial neighbour. A whole load more flew around it, or were involved in Earth orbit test flights of the hardware. Hours of video, film and audio, thousands of pictures, personal testimonies of hundreds or even thousands of people who worked on the project, hundreds of pounds of lunar rock and soil samples that geologists all over the world have verified as lunar in origin, millions of pages of documentation, and a basic understanding of science all add up to the conclusion that Apollo was a genuine and successful project.

Answer 3

There have been 9 missions to the moon, with 3 guys on each mission. 3 of those guys went twice (Lovell, on Apollo 8 & 13, Young, on Apollo 10 & 16, and Cernan, on Apollo 10 and 17).
Of the 24 guys making the trip, 12 landed.

Answer 4

Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 missions orbited the Moon.

Apollo 11 was launched July 1969. It carried 3 astronauts: Commander Neil Armstrong, Commander Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Aldrin. As Collins orbited the Moon in the Command Module, The Lunar Module landed and Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the surface.

Apollo 12 carried Commander Pete Conrad, Command Module Pilot Richard Gordon, and Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean. As Gordon orbited in the Command Module, the Lunar Module landed and Conrad and Bean walked on the surface.

Apollo 14 carried Commander Alan Shepard and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell both of whom walked on the surface and Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa.

Apollo 15 carried Commander David Scott and Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin both of whom walked on the surface and Command Module Pilot Alfred Worden.

Apollo 16 carried Commander John Young and Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke Jr. both of whom walked on the surface and Command Module Pilot Thomas Mattingly Jr.

Apollo 17 was the last Apollo mission to land on the Moon in 1972. It carried Commamder Eugene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt both of whom walked on the surface and Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans.

Mark's comments regarding the Van Allen belts are totally unfounded (as is usually the case with those spreading conspiracy rumors).

After the belts were discovered in 1958, Oak Ridge National Laboratory biologists conducted research in the 1960's on radiation effects on small animals and sent bacteria and blood samples into space. Their research concluded that proper shielding would protect living organisms and electronic instrumentation. Astronauts traveling through the belts received around 360 milirems radiation dosage. Effects are similar to receiving two chest x-rays or smoking 20 cigarettes. A person living in Denver receives around 330 milirems per year. With the current protective shielding, astronauts would have to spend 13,900,000 hours in the belts to receive a lethal dose.

Answer 5

I have searched on net as well and found pictures of Faeries, evidence that George Bush is a clone of Adolf Hitler, and testimony that Sylvia Brown's predictions are 100% aaccurate.

. . . doesn't mean that any of it is true.

Answer 6

12 American astronauts have walked on the moon.

Answer 7

Right. They say it couldn't have been done with 1960s technology. --That robots planted the reflector. --That the astronouts would not have survived the Van Allen Belt. They know otherwise, but denigrate the accomplishment because it was done by Americans.

Answer 8

9 i think