I came across this article on Google. Do you think it has any credibility?

Question

address: http://www.mindversusmind.com/NASA%20Goes%20Hollywood%20%20Part%201.html

Answer 1

No its just someones opinoin

Answer 2

No, it has no credibility whatsoever. The arguments are old, tired and fundamentally wrong.

Stars do not show up because the lunar surface is in daylight, and if you have a camera correctly set to capture a daylit scene it simply cannot capture stars as well.

The 'filled in with light' bit is simply the light reflecting off the lunar surface. Remember that the Moon reflects enough light that during a full Moon you can read by it here, 250,000 miles away. The picture he uses that says 'filled in with light' even has a perfect reflection in the astronaut's visor that shows the light from the surface, and the total lack of any other lighting fixtures on the scene!

The 'different background' pictures are a perfect example of parallax. Those mountains are many kilometres distant. Take a trip a few metres off to one side and what you see that far away won't change. Ever watched the land going past in a train? The stuff right next to the track whips by really fast, but the stuff in the distance appears to move along much more slowly. You can have a house and a road next to the train one second, and an empty field the next, but still have the same hills on the horizon.

And his radiation arguments are totally wrong, so badly that I can't even begin to dismantle them. What I will say is that Dr van Allen himself, the man who discovered the belts and for whom they are named, has said that they are no barrier to manned flights. The article totally misunderstands radiaiton. The fact that the guy suggests he was going to make an artifical van Allen belt using a microwave just shows the depth of his ignorance on that subject!

Answer 3

Bunk.

He repeats the same lame "proofs" that have already been debunked. He does not bring any additional information. Plus he admits that he does that over a few beers.

When the radio signals from the astronauts were received from the Moon, anyone could listen in, including the Soviets.

It is very easy to tell from which direction a radio signal comes from. Radio direction finding was already used early in the 1900s by ships, and Jansky had already built a directional radio telescope before 1932 so he could tell from which direction radio interference came (he discovered radio signals from the centre of the Galaxy!).

So, by 1968, radio direction finding was well established and the Soviets would have been happy to tell the rest of the world that the landing was faked. After all, they were well ahead in the space race up to that point (first satellite, first pictures of the other side of the Moon, first man in space, first landing on the Moon -- unmanned).

But they could tell that the radio signal came from the Moon.

An unmanned Soviet lander (which had landed BEFORE the Americans) and the Appolo astronauts left special reflectors on the Moon. Today we can measure the distance to the Moon very accurately by shining a laser on these reflectors. They are exactly where they are supposed to be.

Answer 4

Let's put science aside and talk politic. If the Moon mission was a fake, wouldn't you think that the Soviets would have been the first one to point it out. Can you imagine the scandals, the headlines, the shame and humiliation that the Capitalist pigs would feel if the righteous Communist party of the people of the Soviet Union could point out that the US faked the Moon landing? Well, they didn't. That should give you a hint about the validity of the whole situation.

Answer 5

no, not at all. The reason you dont see stars in the background is because of the settings on the camera. If you want to do an experiment, take a point and shoot camera, point it at the night sky when there are lots of stars out, and shoot. See what happens.
You will get no stars, because the camera is set up to capture pictures of people or objects nearby, not stars.
Its an easy experiment to do on a clear night if you have a digital camera.

Answer 6

No credibility at all.

This topic comes up repeatedly here. The simplest rebuttal is probably the best: the Russians never accused the Americans of cheating on the moon landings.

Answer 7

I think its a load of crap, where do you expect american space shuttles to be other than in space? Don't tell me that they went to hide the space shuttle after every liftoff.

Answer 8

Absolutely! Read Jack Whites Apollo photo studies and decide if you want to know the truth or not!