I saw this short movie on the internet about the space program. Is it true?
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No, of course not.  The video was just made for entertainment purposes.
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Phil Plait's website http://www.badastronomy.com as mentioned by others has gobs of info, but really the "moon hoax" junk really started in earnest in about 1978, coinciding with the release of a movie who's plot was about how NASA must fake a manned Mars mission.  The film, "Capricorn 1" was released in 1978.\n\nAlso, if you are actually doing a report on the 60's and the moon landing, you probably want to steer clear of the "conspiracy," as it really is quackery of the highest caliber.
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Yes it is  well documented that we did.\nIt really would have been impossible to fake. and even more impossible to conceal a hoax of that magnitude for this long.\n\nThere is a vast deal of technology that came from the space  program .\nThe Apollo spacecraft was seen during its trans-Lunar coast by observers on Earth. Amateur astronomers were able to sight the spacecraft, exactly where they should have been, during the trans-Lunar coast and amateur radio operators were able to listen-in on the command module in Lunar orbit. The explosion of Apollo 13 was caught on video tape by an amateur astronomer. Russia and radio telescope observatories not owned or controlled by the USA also tracked the Apollo spacecrafts and transmissions.
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Yes, I've seen it.  In fact, it's on my hard drive.\n\nThough it has a few good merits, it's still is what it is.. \n\nA Conspiracy Theory.
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Technological advances.\n\nMany of the miniaturized components that we take for granted when we listen to our IPods or film someone with our less than one pound video camera are a direct result of the space program as they need to make components as small and light as possible in order to get the items into orbit.\n\nSome of the compression algorithms that we all use to send large files through the Internet are a result of NASA having to create them to receive data from the damaged Galileo mission to Jupiter.\n\nAre you aware of global warming and the hole in the ozone layer? NASA...\n\nDo you like the fact that weather reports show satellite images of storms headed for you that are currently hundreds of miles away in the middle of the ocean?  NASA...\n\nAre you impressed by cochlear implants that allow deaf people to hear for the first time?  NASA...\n\nEver thrown a Nerf Glider?  NASA...\n\nAs you can see, NASA has done a TON of positive things for Americans.  This just scratches the surface.
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NASA launched the STEREO shuttle at the end of last month to gather data on the sun. I watched the entire count down and lift off. It was very educational. That baby flew at speeds exceeding 10000 meters per second. They had some weather problems and the launch got held back about 20 minutes, but when it launched it was really worth it. The next launch is on December 7th and I highly reccomend watching it. Its better than most of the crap on television!
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It wasn't faked. I agree, the technology involved was bare bones but still capable. Here are some quotes that help counter some of the conspiracy theories:\n\nIn some photos, the crosshairs appear to be behind objects, rather than in front of them where they should be, as if the photos were altered.\n\n        * In photography, the light white color (the object behind the crosshair) makes the black object (the crosshair) invisible due to saturation effects in the film emulsion. The film particles that ought to have been black were exposed by light from the adjacent brightly lit particles. Ironically, this saturation effect would not happen if the crosshairs were drawn on in post, and so is evidence of genuine photos. Attempting to alter photos that already have crosshairs would make the compositing process far more difficult.\n\nThe quality of the photographs is implausibly high.\n\n        * The astronauts were trained in the use of their gear, and shots and poses were planned in advance as part of the mission. NASA selected only the best photographs for release to the public, and some of the photos were cropped to improve their composition. There are many badly exposed, badly focused and poorly composed images amongst the thousands of photos that were taken by the Apollo Astronauts. Many can be seen at the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. Photos were taken on high-quality Hasselblad cameras with Zeiss lenses, using 70 mm medium format film.\n\nThere are no stars in any of the photos, and astronauts never report seeing any stars from the capsule windows. \n\n         *Stars are also never seen in Space Shuttle, Mir, International Space Station Earth observation photos, or even sporting events that take place at night. The sun in the Earth/Moon area shines as brightly as on a clear noon day on Earth, so cameras used for imaging these things are set for daylight exposure, with quick shutter speeds in order to prevent overexposing the film. The dim light of the stars simply does not have a chance to expose the film.\n\nhe color and angle of shadows and light are inconsistent.\n\n        * Shadows on the Moon are complicated because there are several light sources: the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon itself. \n\n The Moon's surface during the daytime is so hot that camera film would have melted.\n\n        * There is no atmosphere to efficiently couple lunar surface heat to devices such as cameras not in direct contact with it. In a vacuum, only radiation remains as a heat transfer mechanism. \n\nThe launch rocket produced no visible flame.\n\n        * Hydrazine (a fuel) and dinitrogen tetroxide (an oxidizer) were the Lunar Module propellants, chosen for their reliability; they ignite hypergolically –upon contact– without a spark. Hypergolic propellants happen to produce a nearly transparent exhaust. Hypergolic fuels are also used by several space launchers: the core of the American Titan, the Russian Proton, the European Ariane 1 through 4 and the Chinese Long March, and the transparency of their plumes is apparent in many launch photos.\n\nThe flag placed on the surface by the astronauts flapped despite there being no wind on the Moon.\n\n        * The astronauts were moving the flag into position, causing motion. Since there is no air on the Moon to provide friction, these movements caused a long-lasting undulating movement seen in the flag. There was a rod extending from the top of the flagpole to hold the flag out for proper display. The fabric's rippled appearance was due to its having been folded during flight and gave it an appearance which could be mistaken for motion in a still photograph.\n\nThese are only a few quotes. They all seem much more convincing then the arguments the conspiracy theorists present.
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You know I was just thinking about this yesterday.\nIf you recall the footage of the lunar lander…it was pretty small. Remember the astronauts climbing down the ladder?\nWell what about the lunar car buggy? That was pretty large.\nWhere was it stored?\nHow did they take it out of the lander?\nHas anyone seen footage of them taking it out of the lander?
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Yes and the video is great as well.\n\n"The stars that pierced the sky\nHe left them all behind\nWe're left to wonder why\nHe left us all behind" **
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I know it's a hoax because they filmed it in my backyard.  My parents had a place that had craters and a lot of white cheese and NASA asked us if they could use it for the astronaut's training...we agreed and then we found out that the astronauts were falling in the craters and putting flags in them and eating the cheese and saying they were on the moon.  We had to move away due to the embarrasment to our family and we were in hiding for many years.  It's only now I can tell you this because it's been over 30 yrs but if you don't hear from me anymore, it will be because NASA came back.  To verify my story, just ask Al Gore..he made global warming with a big window fan and now he is trying to blow it everywhere.
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I once heard that NASA supports a program for investigating the human brain and how to control it, as well as ESPERs. I'm not sure though.
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There was a cover-up, but not full blown. NASA didn't have 100% reliability in the video and photographic end to show the World. When problems came up they substituted shots to make it look like a flawless mission, which it wasn't. True there is some glaring impossibilities in some shots, about 95% was shown unedited. But just because some areas were was faked doesn't mean the whole mission was faked.\nSo, Yes they were on the Moon, No, they didn't get the only photo that really mattered in a high enough quality to parade proudly before the whole world watching,(first step off the ladder),because of a bad camera angle and subject in almost complete shadow.Yes, you have a good question.\n\nAdditional thought:\nReleasing this video and stills event were probably "Production" oriented people running the "show".\nThey see information as not necessarily an absolute document of the events, but a presentation.\nThey rely on 2 "rolls".\nThe A Roll which has the primary information on it.\nThe B Roll which can be relied on to fill production errors.\nIdeally you would air only the A roll in a perfect documentary, but that didn't happen.\nB roll info was inserted to fill the gaps.\nSomeone had to make the decision as to whether it was more important to have a documentary or a production.\nIt would have looked very bad to have unusable video and stills for long or important events. "They can send a man to the moon but they can't take a picture?"\nSo we all saw a production.
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there was a unmanned moon mission a couple of years before the manned, I'm not sure of the timespan. I think someone else can build on it.but anyway the astronauts went to this vehicle and pulled the camera lens, took it back, swabbed it and found that some one contaminated the interior with a sneeze or something. They fed it and sure enouph bacteria sprang up ready to rock. Gives you the spooks don't it
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They didn't stage it. \n\n> If it was not fake then where are the real tapes. why are > they missing. \n\nWhat "tapes" are these? film, video and data are freely available from NASA.\n\n> wht Buzz aldrin is not ready to give interviews. \n\nBuzz gives interviews all the time. Buzz even punched that gasbag Bart Siebrel!\n\n> And how did the video shows lift off from the moon when no > body stayed there to shoot it. \n\nRobotic camera.\n\n> HOw did flag waved? \n\nThe flag wasn't "waving" in a wind It had ripples in it from the moment it was unfurled, and with no wind to change that, they stayed static.\n\n> how they communicated via vaccumm. dose satellite \n> transmits signals in vaccuum. \n\nYes, satellites transmit signals in vacuum. And so do remote landing craft on the moon directly back to earth. And so do incredibly remote robotic spacecraft that are now beyond the edge of our solar system. And on mars. And orbiting Saturn. And on the way to Pluto. AND being "transmitted" at earth from interstellar radio sources like stars. Electromagnetic signals do not need a medium to be transmitted-they are their own medium. \n\nanswer all this and i belive that NASA did landed.
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I woke up to a news report on the radio about how NASA had lost contact with their shuttle, and there had been reports of falling and burning debris. I was sad.\nHonestly... We should be surprised that things don't go wrong more often. Launching into space is a delicate and dangerous venture. There are far more people who are killed each year by toothpicks than die for the purpose of space exploration. This is something we should be proud of.
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"Moon Hoax" proponents claim that the Moon landings of Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969 and subsequent missions never happened, but were instead staged and pre-filmed on Earth. The idea grew significantly in popularity after the release of the movie Capricorn One (1978), which portrays a NASA attempt to fake a landing on Mars, implausibly using a Lunar Module, designed to land on the airless Moon, on a planet with an atmosphere.\n\nIt is possible that a brief sequence in the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever (1971) which appears to show a Moon landing being simulated, may coincide with some of the first suggestions of the landings being faked. British playwright Desmond Lowden wrote a play called The News-Benders in 1967 in which all major technological advances since 1945 were shown to have been simulated; the play was televised in January 1968 and showed a Moon landing faked with models.\n\nThe now-defunct Flat Earth Society lodged one of the earliest complaints about the veracity of the Apollo missions (Schadewald 1980) (also see the external link to the Flat Earth Society). They claimed the various "earthrise" photos from Apollo 8, with the Moon in the foreground and the Earth in the background, were fakes. The primary basis of their claim was that it did not square with their belief that the Earth is flat (Newsweek 1969).\n\nIn his book A Man on the Moon, Andrew Chaikin mentions that at the time of Apollo 8's lunar orbit mission in December 1968, such conspiratorial stories were in circulation as rumoured facts. The first published attempt to establish such claims as factual was Bill Kaysing's self-published book We Never Went to the Moon in 1974 (Plait 2002:157), although perhaps the best known is NASA Mooned America by Ralph Rene.\n\nHoax skeptics claim that the Moon landing hoax accusations are conspiracy theories — claims that conspirators in the possession of secret knowledge are misleading the public in pursuit of a hidden agenda. In the Moon Hoax's case the hidden agenda is the United States of America's eagerness to land on the moon before their space race rivals, the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), who had beaten them into orbit by launching Yuri Gagarin into space in 1961, and achieved several other "firsts" in space exploration.\n\nTo know more about Issues and controversies please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_moon_landing_hoax_accusations
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Sadly, this e-mail is fake, and gives a bad name to christianity everywhere.\n\nFirstly, a computer program does not have access to history, only to the pre-programmed patterns which scientists feed it. If they were to measure BACKWARDS in time, there would be no way for a computer program to know that the sun stopped a day. \n\nSecondly, we would not need to know the future position of the sun, moon, or planets for satellites, because satellites orbit high in the Earths atmosphere and do not hurtle through deep space.\n\nThirdly, individual space crafts have their own paths researched and planned before launch, not based off a database compiled by other scientists. There is far too many variables in the universe to plan ahead more than a few months, much less over 100 years to 1000 years.\n\nFurthermore, there would be no reason to look at the positions in history, though I have already shown that a computer program could not reflect any unusual circumstances.\n\nFinally, the sun doesn't move. This program was supposedly tracking the position of the sun, but earth rotates the sun, not the other way around. Obviously the author was more concerned with making gullible people believe his version of religion than sticking to science.\n\nAlthough this is shameful to the religion, it neither proves nor disproves it.