Was the moon landing really just a hoax?

Answer 1

Those who say the six Apollo missions that landed, Apollo 13 which was almost a disaster and the Apollo missions that just orbited the Moon or ran practice dockings were faked are lying. They have been deliberately and consciously lying for years and have been caught out faking the sound track of NASA videotape.

The flag isn't waving, it is wobbling, it had a rod along the top to keep it from drooping - the stars are not visible because the camera diaphragm was stopped down and/or the exposure time was short - the "C" mark is a fibre on a copy of the original photo and does not appear on photos made from the original negative. Only people utterly ignorant of basic optics and basic photography would believe the nonsense that these frauds spout.

Tens of thousands of people, not all of them Americans worked on the Apollo project. If it had been faked, some of them would have known but none of them who had any real knowledge have ever said the missions were faked. After 38 years that is just incredible.

Despite the generally uninformed US opinion, many people outside North America had actually got past the stage of grass skirts and mud huts by 1969. There were people outside the USA who could track the Apollo capsules by radar or by radio. In particular scientists and engineers in the Soviet Union, but plenty of other countries too. None of them yelled "fake" in 1969.

Even radio amateurs could tell if the Apollo radio and TV transmissions came from the general direction of the Moon, this is actually not hard to do. No radio professional or amateur inside or outside the USA yelled "fake".

The only liars are those who claim the landings were faked.

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http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11TVcom...

Answer 2

The Apollo landings were real, and twelve White men did, in fact, walk and/or ride around the lunar surface. The science from the moon landings and the evidence that they took place is consistent in making the factuality of those landing the most likely explanation, from the point of view of a reasonable person who didn't participate in Project Apollo himself.

Now, why is it that certain people behave as if that weren't the case? That is, why do some folks keep asking questions that have obvious answers and keep raising objections that aren't really important? Let me give an example.

"Why did the flag that the astronauts set on the moon billow out? The moon has no air and so there could not have been any wind! This PROVES that the moon landing was a HOAX!"

No, it doesn't. It proves that NASA (and the US government who authorizes NASA's funding) wanted the US flag to be seen standing on the moon. Being perfectly aware that there is no air on the moon to create wind, they devised a substitute means for holding the flag extended, namely, an aluminum rod sticking through a loop of nylon fabric at the top of the flag.

That's the caliber of objection, which the Apollo-hoax meisters bring forward. Those questions are fatuous and ignorant to a degree that it is difficult to believe that those asking them are serious.

So why would anybody insinuate that the Apollo moon landings were hoaxes, using deliberately fatuous questions? Is there something else, some (pardon the conflict in terms) ACTUAL HOAX, for which they are trying to find ways to encourage belief, using the Apollo moon landings as a sort of a verbal laboratory, and then studying the debunking techniques used to defend the moon landings so that they can be misapplied, afterward, to an actual hoax?

Have you noticed that the comic book Superman seems to look more and more and more Jewish as the years go by?

Answer 3

Although my wife's father performed fuel calculations for the original Apollo landing, I'll spare you that speech. Instead, I will encourage you to watch two programs. The first show is called Conspiracy Moon Landing that it currently showing on the National Geographic Channel and it pretty much obliterates all of the popular conspiracy theories.

I would also encourage you to watch a movie called Capricorn One. Made it 1978, it is a fictional story about a fake mission to Mars. Although it is a science fiction story, it is a good example of how utterly impossible it would be to fake a moon landing for any length of time.

12 men walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972 and we have neither the resources nor the technology to pull off that big of a hoax for so long. Hundreds of thousands of people have worked on the space program. It would be far easier to put someone on the moon than to try and fake it and keep it secret for nearly 40 years.

The landings came at a time when our space program was ultra competitive with the former Soviet Union. Remember how big of a deal it was when Sputnik was put into orbit? They had the technology to monitor our moon shots and transmissions. Don't you think they would have called us out if they had evidence that it was all fake?

Perhaps the most definitive proof of our trip to the moon is what we left behind. For the last 35+ years, scientists have been beaming lasers to the moon and measuring the return times. How are they doing this? The beams are reflected back by equipment left on the moon on at 3 different locations.

Case closed.

Answer 4

The moon landings were real. Setting aside all the "evidence" to the contrary for a moment, just consider this: so very many people would have had to be in on the conspiracy that there is no way that the secret could have been kept. Even if special agents went around to everyone working on the project and threatened to kill them and their entire family if they blabbed, someone would have let the secret slip, especially after 30+ years. Man hasn't gone back to the moon because of the expense and for the simple fact that there is no reason to.

Answer 5

If you purchase a powerful enough telescope --- or just have access to one --- you can actually find the various landing sights. The descent stages of the LEMs are still sitting on the moon after all these years. Not to mention 2 or 3 Rovers with drained batteries, and various experiments the astronauts set up.

Ironically, many of the people who believe the Apollo landings were fake also believe that UFO abductions are real. Magical thinking can be fun. As Carl Sagan said, Americans are the best entertained people in the world.

Answer 6

I think the landings were real.
There are sites that say that it was a hoax and sites that refute the conspiracy theorists' 'evidence'. Unless you have expert knowledge in the fields they are talking about, how do you decide?
Well, one big pointer -- the Russians didn't claim it was a hoax, and in that Cold War age of propaganda, you would expect them to, wouldn't you.
BTW, the Russians got there first with unmanned craft, but never thought that manned landings were important.

Answer 7

If it was a hoax then hundreds if not thousands of engineers and scientists would have to be involved. This could not be kept secret for a month let alone 37 years. In other words no, I don't think it was a hoax

Answer 8

No, it wasn't a hoax. And Elvis is still dead also. Think about it. If it were a hoax,, why would they keep going back again, and again, and again and run the risk of all of that coming out? One time, would be all they needed to prove it could be done. If it were a hoax, why would they keep pushing it by going back? WHY!

Answer 9

No the moon landing was not a hoax, I watched in awe as the apollo misions took off from the launch pads and as niel armstrong took one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind,, it was the biggest step man had ever taken in that day and age,, Besides it would be to costly to fake all that,, It was real and no doubt about it,,

Answer 10

One could almost think it could have been considering the state of turmoil the US government was in at the time, but it wasn't. If you have a powerful enough telescope you can see the remains of the 6 LEM's that landed there nearly 40 years ago.