Did men really land on the moon? Is there evidence?

Answer 1

There is plenty of evidence that those who say the Apollo landing did not happen are at best deluded 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.

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.

President Nixon. a Republican, began to cut NASA funding in 1968, the year before the first mission. The mission went ahead because the equipment had been built and the people had been employed and trained. The Apollo program was a Democrat project. Later the program came to an end because the US public lost interest, when that happened, funding dried up still further and NASA could not afford to send any more. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.

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/....

Answer 2

Admiral, get this straight and don't be foolish about it any more, okay? The basic technology required for a manned flight to the moon was developed in Germany in the late 1930s through the mid 1940s. This technology needed a lot of refinement to make a safe manned flight a reality.

We worked on that technology through the 1950s and 60s, and made the first manned moon flight in 1969. It all fits together, and if you read all the history and don't let the wackos lie to you, it will be impossible for you to continue to be fooled into believing that the moon missions did not take place.

The American people were much better educated and more intelligent in the 1960s and 70s than they are now, and it would never have occurred to NASA engineers and managers that 35 years later a bunch of ignorant dolts with nothing to do would come up with a stupid conspiracy theory stating that the moon landings were faked.

If that had occurred to them, I suspect the engineers would have gone to the trouble to create a larger and more visible object of proof, to compensate for the decline in the quality of the American mind and its education that occurred during and after the Reagan presidency.

But there is a real physical proof available. The astronauts who landed on the moon left behind reflectors that are used every day by astronomers to measure the irregularities of the moon's orbit. This is done by bouncing laser beams off reflectors at known locations that were left by the astronauts. Ask your science teacher for information about these experiments. You can arrange to see this done with your own eyes.

Let me put the question to you this way: If you think the moon landings were faked, when did they become "fake?" When did the idea become popular that NASA had invented the idea of an imaginary moon mission and created a huge technological empire to fool people? When was all this fakery done? In the 60s? 70s? 80s?

And why? What was the point? And how did they fool all the people that reported the news, operated the machinery, built the moon rockets, and watched them take off and land?

Do you realize that one American in 500 was a part of the Apollo program? Millions of them are still alive. Are they fooling you? Why? If you go out to a football game, look around you. In the stadium there are people who worked on the Apollo program.

Ask around. You are surrounded by people who know for sure that American astronauts stood on the moon more than 35 years ago.

Answer 3

Yes, a total of 12 people landed on the moon (a total of 6 manned missions).
Yes, there is a lot of evidence (too much to list here).
I saw it, 700 million other people saw it, thousands of scientists and technicians were involved in the space program for years before the first manned landing.

I feel so sad for young people these days - historical events such as the 1969 moon landing are just entries in a book, they don't have the reality that is felt by those of us that were there.

Answer 4

Don't be fooled by the conspiracy theories; some look quite convincing until you see how the "trick" is done; for example, the fact that there were two light sources on the Moon but no lights were brought with the astronauts is used to claim that the second light source (the first being the Sun) must have been studio lights. But the second light source is the Earth: sunlight is reflected by the Earth and provides a second light source on the Moon.

Answer 5

There are 20,000+ photographs, hours and hours of film and TV footage, 800+lb of lunar rock and soil samples (which could NOT have been collected by unammned probes and which are universally agreed as being lunar in origin by geologists all over the world), surviving hardware, personal testimonies of hundreds or thousands of individuals, documents written at the time, books written since...

In short, there is a VAST pile of evice that man did indeed go to and land on the moon on several occasions between 1968 and 1972, and not one shred of evidence that it was faked.

Answer 6

Apollo 11 astronauts left a reflector on the Moon which we still use to beam a laser at and record the exact distance from Earth to Moon.

So yes, there is evidence.

Answer 7

Only many hours of video footage, thousands (maybe millions) of photographs, quite a few rocks, and the fact that trying to fake a Moon Landing and the cover-up it would take with thousands of people involved (not just once, but several times) would be totally impossible.

Doug

Answer 8

The first answer is spot on. Also, any evidence we did have, the non-believers claim is manufactured. The only way to please those that think it was faked, is to send them there. Of course, getting them back is another matter, there may not be enough funding to bring them back.

Answer 9

Yes. Books, videos, internet, the astronauts, etc.

Answer 10

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