can you believe this?

Question

there are rumours that NASA is all fake. man did not go to moon. it was just some fake pictures taken somewhere in the underground. in my opinion, this sort of seems to be true but i can't quite agree. what about you?

Answer 1

My niece works for NASA as an astrophycisist. She has a PH.D in astronomy. If any of these rumors were true she would tell us.

Answer 2

NASA did lots of stuff to give the moon landing more of a climax feel, for example the one step for man kind speech was extremely planned, and the flag which blows (there's little gravity on the moon let alone wind), these are all effects to make people more excited. I remember reading something about a reflection too and some obscure light but I forget the exact details.

It's no wonder people think the whole event is a rumour, because of how many small facts have been exaggerated to make the whole thing more interesting and exciting.

I for one believe the moon landing was real though.

Answer 3

NASA really did send men to the Moon. The conspiracy theories come from people who haven't really examined the record properly. The waving flag argument trotted out so often is just so much crap I can hardly believe it. The flag does not wave, it is held out across the top by a rod sewn into it precisely because it WON'T wave on the Moon. But more than that, you can see that it doesn't wave on all the TV and film footage, unless someone happens to be waving it. Once it is left alone it stays completely static. The worrying thing is the number of people who point to a STILL picture and say the flag is waving!

Over the past seven years I have seen the complete film and TV from all the manned Apollo flights except 14, 16 and 17, thousands of photographs, film progress reports of the development and unmanned flights, read books written by the people involved, read documents from the time, met and spoken to some of the astronauts and ground controllers, seen some of the hardware used, even handled lunar rock and soil samples. By contrast the conspiracy theorists have glanced at a few pictures, seen a few clips out of context, and failed basic science classes. Not only that, but a few of them are outright liars and frauds, and I do not make that accusation lightly but as the result of personal dealings with them.

NASA is real. Apollo was real. Men have been to the Moon. Two flights orbited it, six landed and one flew past without landing. 24 men went there, 12 walked on the surface. The hardware and facilities developed in Apollo saw use afterwards in the Skylab program, and many are still in use today. The amount of evidence is simply overwhelming if you put in the effort to look at it.

Answer 4

The only fakes connected with this no-manned-lunar-landings conspiracy are the morons who dreamed it all up, and those who are naive and scientifically challenged enough to believe them. Of course there is that flag "waving" on the surface of the airless moon and all the "scientists" who use that to support the faked-landings argument. Golly Gee Whiz...I wonder if just maybe that flag had some plastic strips embedded in the flag's field to make it look like it was waving. Naw, nobody would ever think to do something like that.

And isn't it just a tiny bit strange that not a single person out of all the millions who worked on the Apollo program has come forward to claim the whole thing was a hoax.

Then there's that nasty Van Allen radiation belt that any mission to the moon would have to pass through. Let's see, the astronauts were in that zone for two hours at the very most. Wow..! That means they'd have been zapped, fried and sizzled by about as much radiation as a patient gets having their teeth xrayed.

I'd post more, but right now I'm off to Cleveland to visit with Elvis who works in a donut shop there. I'm going to ride my skateboard the whole way 'cause the Earth is flat and tilted 23-degrees downhill towards Ohio.

Answer 5

Another conspiracy theory.

I'm not American and have no national pride or prestige to consider but just look at the evidence.

Telescopes, both radio and optical, were trained on the spacecraft from all around the Earth during both take off and landing and the crew were photographed getting into and out of the craft.

Radio communication from the craft was monitored closely by receivers that could be aimed precisely at the craft and would not pick up any transmission from outside that very narrow cone.

The orbit of the craft itself around the Moon could be observed from Earth as could the radio black-out as it went behind the Moon. The Lunar Lander was observed, admittedly indistinctly-during both landing and take off by numerous telescopes.

The crew answered detailed and unscripted questions from the Moon's surface, during the flight and prior to landing etc.etc.

I'm afraid conspiracy theories like this are similar to the ones the "Flat Earth Society" try to use to convince us that the Earth isn't spherical but is in fact a flat disk.

Answer 6

A far too common question with an almost obvious answer of yes landing on the moon is easy compared to conspiracy's involving thousands of people even if they didn't land in the 60's you would really have to be stupid to claim we couldn't do it now rendering the idea that America would have claimed the moon and thus this conjecture has now suddenly become proof that they were fake so why haven't they done it now a moon base has almost entirely no purpose

Answer 7

People who make up these stupid conspiracies are just stupid and paranoid, and think that their government and the world is lying to them and is out to get them... Hey if they are so paranoid, why don't they move somewhere else and leave all the right minded people in the U.S, it would be easier on the citizins who are right of mind.

And do you seriously think that if the Russians had even the slightest hint of it being a fake that they would have kept quite this long... NO! They would have said something long ago... and F.Y.I every single conspiracy that any paranoid freak has ever come up with has been disproven by the people who actually know what they are talking about!

Answer 8

Of course NASA is real and of course they sent several manned missions to the moon.

Think about it this way - to fake the moon landings would require hundreds of people to work in secret making films with impressive special effects. They would also have to fool the Soviets who were monitoring the whole thing, including tracking the radio signals by triangulation. They would have to place the reflective monitors that were left by the Apollo crew.

All in all, it would be more difficult to have convincingly faked the whole thing than to actually complete the mission.

Answer 9

If NASA is all fake then the space shuttle is fake too. But I have seen the space shuttle launch and land in person. And I have seen them fly over in orbit in person several times, right on schedule as NASA predicted. And the Apollo missions really did land on the Moon. See the source for lots of detailed information, including thousands of pictures and numerous videos showing the flags NOT waving..

Answer 10

Some people say that the first apollo missions were faked because we didn't have the tech and NASA ws worried that the crew might get fried like appolo 1 test, so they filmed it at a secret place like area 51 and make it look like it's real so the Soviets feel bad. (Capitalist propaganda!) There is some evidence like no crater at the landing spot, etc. but they can be disproven easily. For example the spaceship put a laser mirror on the moon so we can calculate the distance from here to the moon with a laser and it was successful. So that means something got to the moon in some kind of way.

Answer 11

That's just crazy. Of course NASA is real. I've been to both the Houston and Florida facilities, seen the boosters tested in Mississippi, and been to the plant near New Orleans where they make the fuel boosters for the shuttle. If they are not real, they sure have put on a huge expensive show for 60 years.

As for the moon, who knows. Maybe it was faked because we couldn't do it when we said/thought we could. But again seems like a big expensive facade to maintain for 50 yrs.

As for now, do you think if it was all fake all the other nations involved with us in the International Space Station would be going along with it? Why? What would be the purpose/motive?