2007-09-05 19:04:51 · 21 answers · asked by truthfinder 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Americans
2007-09-05 19:07:35 · update #1
Yes, we did. In 1969.
2007-09-05 19:10:14 · answer #1 · answered by Jess 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes. we did, and we came back as well. The conspiracy theories have all been debunked several times over, but still, these nuts still seem to crop up time and again. If you had done a simple search with your favorite search engine, or searched here even, you would have found this answered MANY times before. It never ceases to amaze me how many people believe this conspiracy crap and like you, do not look before you leap. The Discovery Channel has done 2 shows specifically on this and why the theories are bogus. For example, the shadows being in different directions on the ground. Look at a shadow from a pole as it crosses a curb. It is horizontal on the road, vertical as it shines on the curb and then horizontal again on the sidewalk. If the sidewalk is not level with the road, the shadow on the sidewalk will make a different angle than the same shadow on the road. If the vertical shadow on the curb were obscured so you could not tell it was from the same object, you would see shadows apparently from different items. In 2 dimensions, you can NOT tell if a surface is angled or not relative to the viewpoint. Oh, and another thing, no stars in the sky. There are no stars visible for the same reason you do not see stars in the daytime. The rest of the frame is SO bright, the stars are lost in the background. You can prove this yourself by taking a picture of the moon when it is full, exposing it like any other object in sunlight. A typical sunlit exposure for ASA 100 is f5.6 at 1/60th sec. Take this same exposure of the moon. When you process the film, you will see a perfect exposure of the moon on a totally black background since the exposure time will underexpose the night sky, rendering the stars you see as invisible to the film. It is a trick of the light since the film does not have the latitude of your eye to various levels of light.
2007-09-05 19:39:42 · answer #2 · answered by rowlfe 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is plenty of evidence that those who say the Apollo landing did not happen are at best wrong and at worst deliberately lying to sell cheap and nasty TV shows and books.
If the Moon landings in 1969 and later had been faked thousands of scientists and radio experts around the world would have known straight away. Specially the Russians, but also Germans, French, Spanish, Australians, British, you name it. I heard the Russians actually radar tracked the Apollo craft on their way to the Moon, this would have been easy enough in '69 for at least part of the distance.
Not everyone who worked on Apollo was a US citizen, I know one Australian who was in on it and there were many more. Most of the staff of the ground stations in Australia were Australians, there were also ground stations in Spain.
Almost anyone who was good with tools and had a bit of money could build a suitable antenna and tune a suitable radio into the transmissions from the Moon. There is nothing secret about the construction of such antennas, I have a book on it right here.
The astronauts brought back hundreds of pounds of Moon rocks which were analysed by scientists all over the world. Not all of them were US citizens either. If those rocks had been faked those scientists would have seen it. In any case, the Russians also returned Moon rocks to Earth in three unmanned probes and published the analysis results. The American samples were consistent with the Russian ones.
In addition, the ages that were determined for these rocks were (and still are) older than all rocks found on Earth except for meteorites.
The Apollo program came to an end because the US public lost interest, when that happened, funding dried up and NASA could not afford to send any more.
This site is devoted to the mostly Australian men and women at the Honeysuckle Creek tracking station in Australia which received some of the Apollo transmissions. You can hear one man talking directly to the astronauts on the Moon.
http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/......
2007-09-05 21:50:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they had no reason to lie.
The best way to support it is the recent discovery of the isotope helium-3 in high concentrations on the moon, which is highly useful in nuclear fusion. That claim would have to be supported by evidence or some very intellegent people are liars.
2007-09-05 19:17:29 · answer #4 · answered by Nick B 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes we went there 6 times. The first one being the July 20th 1969 landing.
2007-09-06 05:17:15 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Smith 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes yes yes yes and yes.
They orbited it 8 times, landed there 5 times, played golf once, ride the rover thrice, made contact with a lunar probe once (which was already there), returned over hundreds of kg of lunar soil and took thousands of pictures.
How come anybody still in doubt?
2007-09-05 19:28:30 · answer #6 · answered by Travis Huynh 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YES! How many times does this need answering a day?
Go over some old "Answers", you wont have to go back to far, and you will find that there are many answers supporting that indeed man did land on moon. Enough of the conspiracy stuff! Please don't ask about 2012 either...
2007-09-05 19:12:09 · answer #7 · answered by Tony 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
For Pete's sake. Did Columbus go to America? Apparently it was staged at a secret film studio in the Nevada desert.
2007-09-05 21:26:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Um.....Traci Terry? That would be Neil Armstrong.
Neil Diamond is the singer.
And, yes, we went. I watched it on tv. Every time they landed, every time the came back.
2007-09-06 12:16:44 · answer #9 · answered by tyrsson58 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-09-05 20:07:10 · answer #10 · answered by bestonnet_00 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋