Was the moon landing fake?

Question

my dad who is an engenier (idk how 2 spell it) told me it would be hard to make it there with todays technology and my science teacher thinks it could have been fake..... also the picture shows the U.S flag moving like its in wind, but theres no wind in space...look http://static.taume.com/image/Apollo-11-Moon-Landing.jpg

thanks for the help

Answer 1

No it was not.

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

The flag was supported by an L-shaped frame

Actually, the moon does have an atmosphere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon#Atmosp... ), and you could say that space has a certain kind of wind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_shock ).

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Don:

The same laws of physics exist below the atmosphere as well as above it. Apples fall from trees for the same reason large objects attract each other. We've known this for 321 years since Newton wrote /Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica/, where he works this out and calls it universal gravitation. His work was revised by Einstein in 1916 when he published his ideas, calling them general relativity which describes gravity as a property of the geometry of space and time.

In short, there is gravity wherever there is a mass large enough to significantly warp spacetime.

You can test your claim by driving out the beach and laying down close to the water at low tide. If the tide doesn't come in as the moon orbits overhead and you don't get wet, you can say you have some evidence.

Answer 2

Ok I will retract what my first answer was  because I read some of the other answers and then looked up a few things so the moon does have a gravity but less then what earths is Ok so there is a possibility that it really did happened, so I am not ashamed to say I'm wrong when Iam wrong.

Answer 3

Yes they did land on the moon, only people who

- hate the government

- know less science than a Highschool student (like "Don" with his "the moon has no gravity nonsense")

- want to make money with their books and videos

- simply are trolling

claim otherwise.

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. .

Just one example:

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 believable that NASA would miss a waving flag if they wanted to fake it?

Answer 4

it's not blowing in the wind... The 'no gravity' is just holding it up like that at the particular time. I don't believe it is fake. After all we have accomplished since then Why would we need to fake landing on the moon.. We have satellites that travel the solar system.. and Space stations that are designed for medium-term living in orbit, for periods of weeks, months, or even years. Why fake something as simple as landing on a moon when we can Build a Hotel for astronauts in the middle of space?

Answer 5

wow sooooo many more people believe it happened then i thought, i personally have mixed emotions about the moon landing and frankly it does ot concern me, if they did... they did, if they did it in a studio set then that's how they did it.

Answer 6

the flag moving is from the air conditioner in the astronaut's space suit... and also when their craft lifted off there will be energy that will make anything move around the craft...

i beliv that the landing is true...

bcuz i dont think u.s. will spend money for the rockets if they wont go there....

cuz we surely know that spacecraft lifted off bcuz theres live audience..

so i dont think they wuld spend that much money.. if they wont go..

and destroy ppl's life - Apollo 1 R.I.P.

so i think its true....

also how wuld they get the pictures of earth if they didnt take a picture from the moon.... or from the orbit of the moon..

trust me its real!! theres conspiracies.. but it aint true..

first look at the possibilities that it really happened.. b4 goin to the hoaxes...

theres lots of proofs that they went there..

moon rocks??

Answer 7

the astronuts could have swung the flag out at a certain velocity as there are no resistance in space, the flag with velocity will keep moving rather like wind blowing the flag

Answer 8

The moon landing was 100% real. Your science teacher said it could be fake?! Science teachers can be psychos and morons... take mine for example. She thought Saturn was the last planet in the solar system.

No offense, but your dad is completely wrong. It would be very easy to land man on the moon today. Obviously a lot easier then it was back in 1969.

As for the flag, there is a simple explanation. True, there is no wind on the moon. There was a horizontal bar holding the flag up, and when astronauts touched it, it moved. But it wasn't *waving*, it was crumpled. Same thing would've happened with a folded piece of toilet paper if they put it on a flag post on the moon.

The only time it was moving was when an astronaut walked by it... this was because of his Co2 exhaust. But all other times it was just crumpled and not waving... as you know, it is impossible to have a flag wave on the moon.

Answer 9

How can a still image show a US flag moving like it is in the wind? Think about it. And then watch a video of the same flag. On the ALSJ page is a one hour video with the flag. Wind?

And your science teacher is doing a bad job. Throw Occam's Razor at him.  

Answer 10

www.clavius.org

Answer 11

I am also an engineer. If you were my son or daughter, I would say this: I am disappointed in you. You choose to spend your time asking questions about conspiracy theories that have been asked and answered thousands of times already. You are not thinking for yourself. You are traipsing down a path of ignorance because it is entertaining to do so and because your friends think it's fun. You don't even bother to write in English, and I am fairly certain that you will take my words the wrong way and profess great outrage, as if I am the problem.

I was there for the Apollo 17 launch. I was in the press area, 3 miles from the vehicle. The spacecraft was the equivalent of a 35 story building getting up and flying away. The ground shook. The VAB shook. The air shook. I did not see you there. You probably did not exist at the time. The amount of sincere effort that went into those missions is something that you have not experienced and that you have no apparent interest in. It will never happen again unless you want it to happen.

Do your homework. Take physics and calculus. Take aerospace engineering. Take pilot training. Earn your wings. In the mean time, ask new questions that have not been asked before. I grow weary of this onslaught of determined and dedicated ignorance for the sake of entertainment value.  

Answer 12

No, it was real.  There are all kinds of conspiracy theory nutcases who will say it was fake, or will tell you who "really" killed JFK.

The flag looks that way because that is the way the astronauts put it.

Answer 13

its most likley because the presidents and governments have hid alot of stuff from people like they have puctures and video of the presidents eyes turning green and boheimien grove alot of bad stuff

Answer 14

About the flag, it was starched or something. I remeber watching them unroll as if it was a crumpled up paper bag. It didn't wave so much and just wobble a little after they set it up

Just because your science teacher thinks it might be whatever, doesn't make it so. One of my science teachers was a real looser too.  

He once tried to explain the seasons were a result of the earth's poles tilting back and forth every year. In his haste, he had confused 'procession' - a process that takes thousands of years - with the seasons.  When I asked him why the North Star is always straight up above the north pole, he had no explanation. Because he never really understood what he was hired to teach.

It would be hard to go to the moon today in the same way every space flight is a very expensive and risky business. We've had two shuttle disasters to prove that. You can't take for granted the extreme amount of danger whenever you have that much rocket fuel in one place.

However, the technology to get the the moon is very well understood. The computers on the apollo missions were not as powerful as the scientific calculator you use in school to do your math. The early space shuttle used computers significantly less powerful that the average desktop computer is now.  

What you may not realize is that the technology to effectively fake anything you can see on TV has only come about in the last 10-15 years. It would have been completely impossible to fake the moon landing in 1969 and have it look so real that no one could tell. Now adays, you can't believe everything you see. Its just too easy to create special effects. But in 1969, there were no live electronic graphics, no way to do the things in real time they would have had to do to create a convincing illusion. It had to be real.

Answer 15

your dad is right, it would be hard to get there today... it was hard to get there in '69, too.  These things don't get easier.

your "science" teacher needs to learn to flip burgers, as that is likely his next career.  Its VERY hard to believe that anyone with a background in science would be fooled by the nonsense arguments about flag-waving and missing stars.  Its disturbing, too.  Public school, no doubt.

Answer 16

I'm also an engineer.  Your science teacher needs to be kept away from impressionable children, or else made to study.

It would be difficult to go back to the Moon with TODAY's technology because today's technology, while more advanced in some respects, is not well suited to landing people on the Moon.  It's not a matter of general progress; it's a matter of adaptability.  The space shuttle is far more advanced than the Apollo command and lunar modules, but it was simply built for different purposes.  Space technology is very specialized and generally only works for the mission it was intended for.

When NASA and the Nixon Administration decided to wind down the Apollo program, there was no more need to maintain or extend the Moon-landing technology.  So the production lines were dismantled and the engineers were reassigned to other jobs.  (The lunar module team, for example, sent many of its engineers over to help design the F-14.)  The plans were microfilmed and filed away and largely ignored.

We can't use the space shuttle to go to the Moon because it simply wasn't made to do that job.  It was made to carry lots of people and heavy loads into Earth orbit, and to land them back on Earth, and to be cheaply reusable.  (That last part didn't work out too well, we discovered.)  For example, my lawn mower isn't a 1970s dune buggy.  They both have wheels and an engine, and the lawn mower is quite a technological marvel compared to anything from the 1970s.  But the lawn mower was designed from the ground up to do a different job than the dune buggy.  If you wanted to go off-roading at the beach, you wouldn't try to build a dune buggy out of the lawn mower; you'd build a dune buggy from scratch.

So now 40 years later when we decide we want to go to the Moon again, we find that we have to duplicate a lot of the effort.  We can't just dust off the old spacecraft; they're museum pieces now.  We can't use the old plans to build new ships because they're 40-year-old designs, and you can't get the parts for them anymore.  Besides, as good as the Saturn V was (and it was VERY good), we can probably do better today.

So when we say we do or don't have the technology to go back to the Moon, you have to understand what that means.  No, we don't have spacecraft sitting in our hangars that can be used to go to the Moon. Yes, we do understand how to make machines to solve the problem of taking people to the Moon.

Answer 17

http://www.clavius.org/

Answer 18

I have heard speculations about this too. The biggest concern is about the flag. It does look like it is moving in the wind