Do you believe the Moon Landing was staged?

Question

Please add any evidence you have come across supporting your answer.

Personally, I think that the moon landing was staged. I think that there is more evidence disproving its validity than proving it.

Please, those of you who believe it, don't bash those who don't. I've seen a lot of other questions with people saying that people who don't believe are just looking for attention, stupid, or are unpatriotic.

Also, please mention it if you actually saw the moon landing broadcast. Thanks.

Answer 1

You;re not stupid, looking for attention, or unpatriotic.

You're just very gullible.  Every bit of "evidence" disputing the Moon landings (PLURAL) has already been disproven a dozen times over.

Answer 2

>>Personally, I think that the moon landing was staged. I think that there is more evidence disproving its validity than proving it.<<

Then with respect you have not been looking very hard, nor taking the time to understand what you are looking at. Your use of the word 'landing' suggests you haven't even done enough research to know that there was more than one. The first landing was Apollo 11. The last Apollo Moon mission was Apollo 17, and then there was Skylab and the Apollo-Soyuz flight, which all used Apollo hardware. h**l, the launch pads at Cape Canaveral and Mission Control in Houston were built for Apollo, and they seem to work OK. Apollo was the most heavily documented event of the 20th century, and all that documentation is in the public domain. Search for it.

>>I've seen a lot of other questions with people saying that people who don't believe are just looking for attention, stupid, or are unpatriotic.<<

A lot of them are. Sorry, that's just how it is.

I suggest you bring your 'evidence' along to www.apollohoax.proboards21.com and discuss it there.

[Edited to add] Why do you believe the first landing was staged if the others weren't? The second landing took place in November 1969, only a few months after the first. Why fake the first if you're able to go for real a little while later? What about the flights leading to the landing that didn't land, the ones before Apollo 11? What about the first landing makes you think it was staged? I'm sorry, but I'm really not convinced you know as much as you say you do about the Apollo project.

Answer 3

The words, "I think..." cannot rationally precede the words, "...the moon landings were staged."

Three uncredentialed, opportunistic conspiracy theorists, (one of whom is clearly psychotic), using the most utterly debunkable "evidence" they can think of, have actually presumed that they have outwitted 40 years-worth of scientists and engineers all over the world, including the former Soviets, by "exposing" this alleged hoax.  And incredibly, their embarrassingly stupid theory is being swallowed, hook, line, and sinker, by millions of people.  Not a single legitimate engineer or scientist anywhere in the world questions what is one of the most stunning achievements in human history.  These three crackpots have insulted thousands of brilliant, dedicated people with this garbage, and legions of scientifically and technologically illiterate followers mindlessly trash NASA's achievements without even bothering to look up the simple refutations of these hoax claims.

At least you came here to ask, but you already said what you believe.  Now after all these great answers, given to you by people who are *knowledgeable* in this subject, we'll see if you actually learn from them or if, like so many others who come here the same way you have, you stubbornly bang your oh-so-exciting conspiracy drum to drown out the facts.

Edit: Hey, if people don't like my tone today, I can understand that, but I've noticed that every good and correct answer to this question has at least one thumbs down.  Yahoo! Answers should require users to score 60 or higher on an IQ test in order to be permitted to thumb answers.

Answer 4

yes, i did see apollo 11, from launch to splashdown. i was only 7 in the summer of 1969, but everybody, and i do mean everybody, who was there remembers it.

this isn't a matter of belief or proof. project apollo is a matter of historical fact, carefully and extensively documented, and independently observed. half a million ppl worked their butts off to make it happen.

questioning it merely demonstrates abysmal scientific ignorance. it's not smart, nor is it clever. it's just idiotic.

Answer 5

I say it happened. There is no doubt in my mind. I've heard it all.

And yes, I watched the Neil Armstrong moon walk live on July 20, 1969.

Answer 6

yes and smoking does not cause lung cancer.

Answer 7

You obviously haven't done any serious research on this topic, but are just repeating some half-truths you've heard on some cheap TV show. All of these points have been refuted in detail on web sites like these:

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxap...

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

http://www.clavius.org/

The six Apollo Moon landings are among the best documented events in human history: thousands of pictures, hours of video, nearly half a ton of Moon rocks, and millions of eye witnesses, including myself. Yes, I saw the live telecast from the surface of the Moon in July 1969. There is not a single scientist in the world who doubts that they took place. To deny them is to discredit the magnificent achievement of the team which went to the Moon, and to reveal abysmal scientific ignorance.

Answer 8

I also think it was staged.  It should be pretty easy to do again if we were able to do it way back then, right?  The times they claim someone was there only spanned about 2 years.

I don't think that is anywhere near believable.

Answer 9

NASA has i.e.

- eyewitnesses

- a whole load of documentation (including the tracking data from foreign countries)

- thousands of pictures

- hours of film

- the laser reflectors

- >300kg of moonrocks

- a congratulation from the russians

Most of the landingdeniers counterclaims don't even need an expert to be shown wrong, they are just stupid. .

i.e. Hoaxers claim that the flag was waving in some wind

Now everyone who bothers to do some research (instead of relying on the fraudulent Snippets the Hoaxers show)  will find out, that the flag was held up by a wire, and appeared only to be waving while (and shortly after) being handled by  one of  the astronauts.

You also have to ask yourself if it is really believeable that NASA would miss a waving flag if they wanted to fake it?

If you want to discuss this further may I recommend

http://apollohoax.proboards21.com

We look forward to your "evidence" but I suggest you read through the links supplied by "Geoff G" first.

Answer 10

i know there has been a TON of controversy whether the moon landing was staged or not. i can tell you that it was not staged. think about it. when the u.s. was the first to land on the moon, we won the arms race against the ussr. this angered them a lot as (obviously) they wanted the praise and glory. so honestly, think about it. it could have been any russian or russian immigrant that could have released that video, trying to make the u.s. look really stupid. and really, do you think the u.s. would lie about something like this? it is so catastrophic that if we were caught it would ruin our reputation and other countries would think we were liars. and you have to look at the success of our other rockets now. we never could have gone to mars or the moon AGAIN without trying it a first time and knowing what works! i really doubt that we staged this whole thing.

Answer 11

It wasn't staged......and yes I know because I watched it on TV......I was young but I do remember seeing the Astronauts riding the moon rover.  Special effects in the 60's sucked so they couldn't have pulled it off...it would have looked like an episode of Star Trek..... The Astronauts brought back samples and the effects of weightlessness on the human body helped designed the Space Shuttle and helped them train civillians to go up in it.....it wasn't as easy as you think, it was actually quite expensive.  We never went back because we were too busy with the Cold War and trying to make bigger and better nuclear missles than the Russians. (Where do you think all the space budget was focused on.....).  Who cared about landing on the moon again when the Russians had five more ICBM's than we did.....Lately we've been more focused on Mars than the Moon because we believe we've found evidence of ice on Mars (whereas the Moon was just a ball of dust and rock) and where there is frozen water there may have been some kind of life.

Answer 12

I watched all the moon landings (there were 6) on TV and had the pleasure of meeting one of the men that actually walked on it (Charlie Duke)...so, its preposterous to think the moon landing was faked in any way.  And there is plenty of proof that it happened...like the hundreds of pounds of moon rocks and soil samples the astronauts brought back!

Answer 13

Of course.  He even blew his lines.

Answer 14

yes it was faked and proof is everywhere..... it's not hard for any reasonable minded person to realize the evidence is completely dumb-proof... meaning any idiot could look at it and KNOW (not think) it's fake...

look at the evidence yourselves... i'm sick of giving you all the facts only to have you turn around, spit in my face and tell me i'm a conspiracy theorist!

wake the **** up people!!!

Answer 15

No, the Moon landings were not staged, nor were they phony in any way.

Do you honestly believe that the Russians, our mortal enemies at the time, who had every capability to track every meter of the trip to the moon and back, would have remained silent in collusion with the U.S. if it were a fake?  Instead, they congratulated us on being the first, and have always respected us because of our achievement.

And I was one of millions around the world who watched the whole thing.  I was 16 at the time of the first landing (19 when the last mission lifted off), and was perfectly capable of discriminating between reality and a fake.

As a scientist, I am absolutely sure that everything we saw during the six different missions on the moon was genuine.  The "proofs" that the nay-sayers trot out are pure horse manure, easily debunked.  See, for example:

www.badastronomy.com

www.clavius.org

Answer 16

What hole is this irrational faithlessness filing? The answer to conspracy theories like this is always: why make it up? If the lie doesn't make money, why lie? What value does that add? Bravado at beating the Russians? I have been watching "When we Left Earth." All those old guys just keeping up the lie? And to make up something at that level would require more secrecy and production capabilties, script writers et al  than any Cecil B Demile film.

Answer 17

Hi.

Yes, I watched the Moon Landing and I am absolutely convinced that the whole thing was staged.  It started way back in the late 1940's with a few captured German WWII rockets (the V-2), progressed through the Atlas and Titan programs, and on through the sub-orbital and orbital programs and ended up with all of the 'staged' Moon Landings.

All of those various 'stages' went into those Moon Landings (there were more than one of them, as most people tend to forget) and all of the 'staging' for those few landings amounted to hundreds of millions of man hours and billions of dollars spent. (As well as a few lives lost)

But it worked and we did land on the Moon via a 'staged' program.

Doug

Answer 18

Vast conspiracy theories are pretty easy to debunk. Why? Because they involve too many people, *all* of which would need to remain silent without revealing a single incriminating detail... forever! Impossible.

Think about it. Think about the thousands of people who were involved with the moon landing and its media coverage in 1969. If it were fake, so many of those people would know about it that it would be impossible to contain a leak of the "truth" -- especially 40 years later when the rewards have increased and the consequences have faded away. Imagine the money that a NASA engineer would get from book and TV deals if he or she came forward with solid evidence of the hoax. Imagine the attention they would get; imagine the historical impact. This person would be a hero. And think about it... there would be almost no consequences, other than a little slamming in the press from the guilty parties. All of the people involved are retired, so there's little career risk.

And think about the very little reward that people are getting for remaining quiet about it. They get to keep sticking it to... the Soviets? Who cares? The Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore. Surely, one of those many, many people would say "this isn't worth it" and finally cross the line and reveal everything.

But that's not happening.

The same is true of 9/11 conspiracy theories: it just doesn't stand to reason that **every single person** with knowledge of the "conspiracy" would keep their mouths shut with very little incentive to do so.

Yes, all sorts of attempts at conspiracies exist, and sometimes governments are involved in them. But only the small, containable ones actually work... and even then only if the conspirators work really, really hard to maintain loyalty among every single person involved.

But it doesn't really matter, because you're just going to "thumbs down" anyone who doesn't agree with you -- doesn't matter if they use impeccable logic.

Answer 19

Actually, there is a wealth of evidence supporting the facts of the Apollo missions.  There is absolutely no evidence of any fakery.  Sorry, but as a scientist, I have to go with the evidence.  Quite apart from any other consideration, how gullible do you have to be to believe the Government is capable of keeping such a secret for 40 years, when their usual record is about 5 minutes?

Answer 20

Given that there is not a shred of credible evidence supporting it being "staged", that makes your position very weak.

I prefer to believe the ones who had the most to lose that day:  The Soviets.  They were ahead in the Space race (well ahead) up to that point.

When Neil took the first "small step for [a] man" the Moon was over the Pacific so that the signal had to be relayed through a radio telescope in Australia (Parkes).  Australians saw it on TV 7 seconds before Americans.

This means that the Soviets received it on many of their radio telescopes.  Given that they could tell the origin of the extraterrestrial signal (we humans can do that since 1931), they would have known right away if it had been a fake.

Believe me, they would not have participated in a cover-up.

And, of course, there has been more than one Lunar Landing.

Answer 21

I think it was staged only bcuz i kept on hearing it and hearing it and when i heard it i was schocked bcuz i used to believe but if u think about it why don't they go there now? U hear them constanly going into space but not on the moon..why?

And then i heard and saw the flag was waving out, if theres no air then why was it moving?

I don't even know wat to believe, it makes me sick.

Answer 22

The moon itself is a NASA hoax. Also, Earth is flat, and Elvis is alive and working in a donut shop in Cleveland owned by the Tooth Fairy.

But seriously, folks --- do yourself a real favor and *carefully* examine this website that totally and indisputably blows away all the nonsense about all six manned lunar landings being faked. (http://www.clavius.org/) That's assuming of course that you can understand the science and technology in the website.

Answer 23

I sat the tracking console and why stage it on the moon. U believe what U want but don't use in your job application. 10,000 Great Eng. would propagate such a lie.