If they did why have they not returned to the landing site and collected all there equipment like the moon buggy and what has happened to all the other stuff they left behind.
2007-10-09 01:29:27 · 29 answers · asked by trickytrev 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Hey listen guys im not saying they did not land on the moon just thought it would be interesting if they returned to stop or this scepticism.lol
2007-10-09 01:53:57 · update #1
First of all, we landed on the Moon 6 times during the period 1969-1972. This is a matter of historic fact, substantiated by hundreds of hours of video, thousands of photographs, nearly a kiloton of rocks brought back, and millions of witnesses. Only a handful of cranks dispute this.
There is no reason to return to the landing sites. Each landing was in a different part of the Moon, to maximize the information gathered. No one today has the money or the will to mount a further return mission, which is unfortunate, since there is a lot more to be learned about the Moon.
2007-10-09 01:40:12 · answer #1 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
yes of course they landed on the moon. the question about collected all the equipment is silly. why would nasa spend millions of dollars to recover outdated equipment from the moon. the program was designed with the idea of leaving stuff behind to save on weight for the return trip. as far as what has happened to it-it is still on the moon, just sitting around. I am not an expert, but i would guess that it has deteriorated somewhat over the past 30+ years...
seriously, do some research. all the myths about the "faked moon landing" are totally misguided and uninformed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examination_of_Apollo_moon_photos
2007-10-09 08:46:57 · answer #2 · answered by forjj 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know they went to the moon. You can do science with the data returned, it's as simple as that. Every astronomer in the world, down to my humble self, would have to have been in on the 'hoax'.
The equipment they left behind is still there, and will probably be there for billions of years! Why should anyone go back to collect stuff that is no longer of use? The rover, the descent stage of the LM etc were abandoned to reduce the mass ratio so that the return to orbit needed less fuel. They weren't left by mistake!
Some of the experiments they left behind are still returning data! The collosal ignorance of people who bang on about the hoax theory both depresses and angers me!
2007-10-09 08:44:13 · answer #3 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Oh be serious. The moron who started the "fake moon landing" myth probably realises he was wrong by now!
The reason they left the stuff there was because it wasn't worth the additional fuel required to bring it back. It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per kilo to blast stuff into space, so extra fuel for carrying the moonbuggy off the moon seemed a bit extravagant.
Check out www.snopes.com for some interesting reading on all the crap lies like this that have managed to gain credibility through the gullibility of people over the years. It does make very interesting reading.
Advice Angel....with no air, any movement given to the flag when it was touched by the astronauts would continue for very significantly longer due to the lack of friction with the air. That easily explains the movements of the flag (which incidentally look NOTHING like movement due to wind anyway).
2007-10-09 08:38:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we did go to the moon.
if you doubt it, Look around online.
There are many telescopes that have photographed the equipment left behind for skeptics like yourself.
Everything we took to the moon was designed to be left behind.
Why waste fuel hauling it back? It's not needed.
China will land on the moon in the next 10 years.
For the sad girl above regarding the flag:
There was no wind. There was a rod in the top of the flag to keep it rigid for the Photo. In straightening it out the flagpole wobbled back and forth. No wind. When the pole stopped wobbling, flag stopped fluttering.
At least watch the footage before you declare it untrue.
2007-10-09 08:38:52 · answer #5 · answered by Smug Monkey 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
There is no real reason to think men did not land upon the Moon. I think FOX started this nonsense about a fake landing, and some morons prefer to believe silly conspiracy theories to truth. I have seen several TV shows that refute the dumb FOX lies. It is often more trouble than it is worth to collect such stuff that was left behind. It might cost a billion bucks to retrieve a few thousand dollars worth of stuff. No one with good sense sees any reason to try to prove anything to morons who believe such stuff as the faked Moon landing. Even if someone brought all of this stuff back, the believers would just say they were faking it again. Who cares what fools say?
2007-10-09 10:37:08 · answer #6 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Five of the Apollo missions actually did land on the moon. Three additional lunar landing missions had been planned, as Apollo 18 through Apollo 20. Because NASA's budget was shrinking and the decision not to produce a second batch of Saturn Vs, these missions were cancelled to make funds available for the development of the Space Shuttle.
2007-10-09 08:40:05 · answer #7 · answered by Tina R 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
YES.
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
The reason they haven't returned is COST and JUSTIFICATION. What would you hope to achieve,
and what is that worth in relationship to the enormous cost
to go back again?
About all that stuff they left behind... It takes an anormous amount of rocket fuel to blast off from the Moon and reach Moon Escape Velocity to fly back to the Earth. I will admit, it doesn't take as much as on Earth, but you must realize that they had to haul all that fuel up to the Moon in the first place to have it ready to use when they were ready to go back. The more weight you carry on your launch, the more fuel you use trying to reach Escape Velocity. So it only makes sense to lighten your load as much as possible to return home. Ditch all the unnecessary stuff and blast off.
Moon's Gravity = 1/6 of Earth's Gravity
Hope this makes sense to you.
Zah
2007-10-09 08:53:25 · answer #8 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
YES MEN WERE ON THE MOON!!!!!
We still use the LASER reflector they left behind to measure the exact distance to the moon.
All this speculation about it being a hoax is just a hoax.
Only the hard of thinking who need conspiracy theories in their lives believe differently.
We have not been back because various American administrations were shortsighted enough to cut funding.
2007-10-09 11:30:57 · answer #9 · answered by djoldgeezer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ofcourse we didn't, neither was the americas discovered you can't go there or you'll fall off the edge of the world. The micro processor never really happened, it's all a conspiracy (a circuit that small just can't work). The fusion bomb isn't possible, there's no way we could reach the pressures and temperatures required to initiate fusion. I'm sick off all these intellegent rational people saying that man has done these things.
2007-10-09 08:57:17 · answer #10 · answered by zebbedee 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋