Were the moon landings faked?

Question

Why when the astronauts raised the US flag on the moon was it moving (flying) when theres no wind in space?!

That's just one of the weird things about the supposed lunar landings.

Answer 1

Irish, this question has been asked thousands of times.  And thousands of times we have explained that there is no atmosphere on the moon and every time you see the flag moving someone is fiddling with it.  There's a wire in it to keep it out straight.  It only would raise questions if your understanding of basic astronomy and physics is worse than the average high school student.  That's the case of most of the conspiracy theorists (don't call them skeptics; all the skeptics are on the side of science here).

Answer 2

Open your eyes. There is a support along the top edge of the flag.  

Answer 3

did you watch that video with the facts on how we didn't go to the moon, because it was so convincing, I'm really skeptical now!

Answer 4

Which is more probable?

We went to the moon with less computer power than a modern digital watch, and we're going back. Then off to Mars, and later Zeta Reticuli.

or

Your government has sold you out and plans to force this on you soon:

http://www.verichipcorp.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gXGTcd6...

Answer 5

Your Answer:

The SIX moon landings weren't faked. 400,000 people were involved in making the Apollo 11 moon landing happen. The Apollo Moon landings were among the most completely documented and observed events in history. The conspiracy "theories" that claim otherwise are a bunch of nonsense without even a single compelling piece of evidence. Most of the questions raised are based on ignorance of basic physics and optics. Video special effects were in their infancy in the late 60's so that faking a landing on the Moon would probably have been more difficult than actually going there, and it seems highly unlikely that the hundreds or even thousands of people who would have had to be involved in such a conspiracy would have kept it a secret for so long. Ultimately you'll have to decide for yourself if the marginal evidence offered to show this was all a hoax is compelling enough to overturn the overwhelming evidence that it actually occurred, but make sure you check the facts carefully, you need to be a little skeptical of the skeptics, too. For more detailed debunking of this ill-conceived notion, see sources.

Flag Waving

The answer is, it isn't waving. It looks like that because of the way the flag was deployed. The flag hangs from a horizontal rod which telescopes out from the vertical one. In Apollo 11, they couldn't get the rod to extend completely, so the flag didn't get stretched fully. It has a ripple in it, like a curtain that is not fully closed. In later flights, the astronauts didn't fully deploy it on purpose because they liked the way it looked. In other words, the flag looks like it is waving because the astronauts wanted it to look that way. Ironically, they did their job too well. It appears to have fooled a lot of people into thinking it waved.

Shadows Not Parallel

the Sun really is the only source of light. The shadows are not parallel in the images because of perspective. Remember, you are looking at a three-dimensional scene, projected on a two-dimensional photograph. That causes distortions. When the Sun is low and shadows are long, objects at different distance do indeed appear to cast non-parallel shadows, even here on Earth. If seen from above, all the shadows in the Apollo images would indeed look parallel. You can experience this for yourself; go outside on a clear day when the Sun is low in the sky and compare the direction of the shadows of near and far objects. You'll see that they appear to diverge. Here is a major claim of the HBs that you can disprove all by yourself! Don't take my word for it, go out and try!

Who Filmed Neil Armstrong

A Lunar Module camera provided live television coverage of Armstrong setting foot on the lunar surface at 10:56 p.m. EDT.

Radiation Hazard

The time on the moon was limited to avoid radiation effects. Armstrong and Aldrin spent less than 3 hours on the Moon.

According to the Vision for Space Exploration, NASA plans to send astronauts back to the Moon by 2020 and, eventually, to set up an outpost. For people to live and work on the Moon safely, the radiation problem must be solved.

"We really need to know more about the radiation environment on the Moon, especially if people will be staying there for more than just a few days," says Harlan Spence, a professor of astronomy at Boston University.

"The first global mapping of neutron radiation from the Moon was performed by NASA's Lunar Prospector probe in 1998-99. LEND will improve on the Lunar Prospector data by profiling the energies of these neutrons, showing what fraction are of high energy (i.e., the most damaging to people) and what fraction are of lower energies.

With such knowledge in hand, scientists can begin designing spacesuits, lunar habitats, Moon vehicles, and other equipment for NASA's return to the Moon knowing exactly how much radiation shielding this equipment must have to keep humans safe."

"The recent Fox TV show, which I saw, is an ingenious and entertaining assemblage of nonsense. The claim that radiation exposure during the Apollo missions would have been fatal to the astronauts is only one example of such nonsense." -- Dr. James Van Allen

Yes, there is deadly radiation in the Van Allen belts, but the nature of that radiation was known to the Apollo engineers and they were able to make suitable preparations. The principle danger of the Van Allen belts is high-energy protons, which are not that difficult to shield against. And the Apollo navigators plotted a course through the thinnest parts of the belts and arranged for the spacecraft to pass through them quickly, limiting the exposure.

Men Who Knew Too Much Killed

We landed on the moon 6 times. Twelve astronauts walked on the moon, while 6 more orbited. In addition, Apollo 10 and 13 orbited the moon (with 3 astronauts each) without landing. From the total of 24 astronauts who went to the moon with or without landing, only 3 have died and these men are mostly in their 70's now.

Men who walked on the Moon

Name Mission Age Now

Neil Armstrong Apollo 11 77

Buzz Aldrin Apollo 11 78

Pete Conrad Apollo 12 died 7/8/99 age 69

Allen Bean Apollo 12 76

Alan Shepard Apollo 14 died 7/21/98 age 74

Edgar Mitchell Apollo 14 77

David Scott Apollo 15 76

James Irwin Apollo 15 died 8/8/91 age 61

John Young Apollo 16 77

Charles Duke Apollo 16 72

Eugene Cernan Apollo 17 74

Harrison Schmitt Apollo 17 73

Men Who Orbited the Moon Without Landing

1. Frank Borman - Apollo 8 age: 80

2. Jim Lovell - Apollo 8, Apollo 13 (intended to land) Age: 80

3. William Anders - Apollo 8 age: 74

4. Tom Stafford - Apollo 10 age: 77

5. John Young - Apollo 10 (later landed on Apollo 16) age: 77

6. Eugene Cernan - Apollo 10 (later landed on Apollo 17) age: 74

7. Michael Collins - Apollo 11 age: 77

8. d**k Gordon - Apollo 12 (had been slated to land on Apollo 18) age: 78

9. Jack Swigert - Apollo 13 age: 77

10. Fred Haise - Apollo 13 (intended to land; had been slated to land on Apollo 19) age: 74

I would say that 3 men having died, out of 24 who went to the moon, is not outside the normal death rate for any group of men. In addition, these men died in 1991, 1998, and 1999. This ranges from 19 to 27 years after the last moon mission. If they wanted to keep them quiet, they certainly would have done it much sooner.

Lastly, since we were in a space race with the Soviet Union and they were monitoring our space flights, do you think there is any chance that they wouldn’t have exposed us if it had been a hoax?.

Answer 6

The other weird thing is that they left behind retroreflector dishes that can be seen, EVEN BY AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS TO THIS VERY DAY, with the proper laser and telescope equipment.  It's basically incontrovertible evidence that we landed on the Moon.

The flag was waving because something bumped it, or it shifted in the soil, and the wires holding it up began oscillating.  With no air resistance, the motion would not be damped out quickly.

Answer 7

hard to  prove...

some say it is a multi-million movie..

i think the light from the sun to the moon should be much more brighter than this since there is no layer that blocks the sunlight like the earth have..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7860803@N06...

Answer 8

i know that this topic is never really going to be proved to an individual unless u have the government documents to truly prove it, and of course those are classified so dont count on it.  However, I feel that the moon landing was not faked.  The fact to this is that it has been done multiple times so I feel that that cannot be faked as well as the fact that look how many people have been part of NASA and were taken to make that moon landing.  So a government fake of that landing would have to many variables that the government would not be able to control.  So I will say that I feel that the moon landing happened and was not faked.