Man did not land on the moon (video clip included): Which facts are wrong and which are right?

Question

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1138935117048624484&q=moon+conspiracy&total=872&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

I was wondering because the basis of this movie makes a lot of sense (the part about the USSR kicking America's butt in the Space Race and then they suddenly land on the moon), but as a theorist myself, I like to investigate before I believe.

I know, but I asked which parts are valid and which part is junk.

Answer 1

Damastie, 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 2

The US had already overtaken the USSR during Project Gemini. Apollos 8 and 10 had orbited the Moon before Americans with Apollo 11 "suddenly land on the Moon"!

The view from those low orbits was SPECTACULAR. Do you also doubt that the Americans orbited the Moon?

Answer 3

Man landed on the Moon 6 times. Twelve men did it. The whole world, including the Russians were watching. They watched the astronauts get into the Apollo capsule 330 feet above the ground, they watched the Saturn V's take off, they televised the trip to the Moon, the weightlessness, brought back pictures of the moon from orbit, brought back rocks that have been studied by thousands of geologists around the world (rocks that had never been seen anywhere else). Then they returned, splashed down in the middle of the ocean in full view of another set of cameras, were picked up by US Navy personnel who opened the hatches and helped them out.

I watched it happen. I know people in NASA. I know the Russians would have told the whole world if the landings did not take place. I know that television programs that are controversial sell advertising because a lot of people watch. I've heard all the "fake landings" arguments and seen them ALL get shot down. I'm not going to waste 45 minutes watching a video put together by a bunch of guys trying to sell books and videotapes. Abraham Lincoln and JFK weren't really assassinated either. They both live together in a retirement home in Arizona, along with Hitler and Elvis. It's a stupid waste of time to try to disprove the most widely and closely watched events of the 20th century, but there are stupid (perhaps 'sly' would be better) people willing to try it, just like those who say the Holocaust of WWII didn't happen. Investigate all you want, but ignore the super-slanted video on google/FOX.

Answer 4

Since when do trolls call themselves "theorists"?

Ohh... I get it... that is short for "conspiracy theorist". Never mind.

The part about believing is quite telling, though. This is more about religion than knowledge. Well, can't argue with faith, no Sir!

Anyway. I believe according to Yahoo rules I have to answer the question.

1) The US went to the moon and won the political stunt.

2) The USSR gave up after the political stunt was over.

3) We never had total nuclear war. Which is pretty much what Kennedy had in mind when he initiated the program.

4) Everybody won.

5) I know scientists who work with moon-rocks. And somehow I can't help myself but to think they would be very pissed if they couldn't see tell-tale signs that those actually came from the moon but looked like something from someone's back yard.

:-)

Answer 5

All of it is junk.

Just get one thing clear: the USSR was NOT kicking America's butt, and the American landing was NOT 'sudden'. The Russian firsts were followed only weeks later by the Americans doing it better, and during the mid-60s the Gemini program saw ten two-man flights from NASA which gave practice in rendezvous, docking, spacewalking, navigation, control of multiple spacecraft, long duration flight, and many other things needed for lunar missions. During that period Russia didn't send one single cosmonaut up, and when they finally did resume manned flight it was a disaster and led to the death of a cosmonaut.

The lunar landing was the result of a series of logically progressive flights, starting from suborbital one-man flights, though orbital missions, two-man flights, long duration flights, rendezvous and docking flights, tests of Apollo hardware in Earth and lunar orbit, and finally a landing, followed by six more landings, each more ambitious than the last.

Answer 6

Some idiots actually believe that it was all fake because they cant see stars in the background of the photos but they refuse to learn about photography and why bright close objects will wash out the dim stars. They won't even think about comparing them to current space pictures of today like this one taken in August 2007 from the space shuttle:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071127.html

They see the flag snap as the pole holding it up is extended, and the idiots claim that's the flag waving in the breeze but everyone knows there is no wind on the moon so they say it has to be fake.

They buy into the conspiricy theories because they think it is an exciting thing to do. They are sad lonely fools who have nothing better to focus their pathetic lives on.

There, the link works now.

Answer 7

I don't have time to watch a 45-minute video. My suggestion is for you to read this website and match what the writer says with what's discussed on the program. I'm sure that most of what they can come up with is dealt with on this site.

http://www.braeunig.us/space/hoax.htm

This one is much more detailed:

http://www.clavius.org/

There were six successful moon landings. I'm not usually a flag-waver, but I'm beginning to agree with those who say that it's an insult to those who went there and those who made it possible. It's like saying D-Day was faked because the population wouldn't stand for the War being called a tie.

Answer 8

I can't view that video with my browser, but I've seen many similar ones.

It is one of the best documented facts in human history that twelve men landed on the Moon during six voyages in the years 1969-1972. There are thousands of pictures, hours of video, 800 kg of Moon rocks, and millions of witnesses. The "evidence" of a conspiracy is based on massive ignorance of astronomy, space travel, and history.

Answer 9

I think that video is the same one that Phil Plait, aka the Bad Astronomer, debunks quite expertly on his website. Here's the link:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

By the way, before calling yourself a theorist, you should look up the scientific definition of the word theory.

Answer 10

I have no interest in watching a fictional video about the moon landings; they did in fact occur.