What is the truth about the apollo 11 mission to the moon.?
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The found moon rocks, they spoke in code because the cold war was still on and we didn't want the Russians getting valuable information for their space program.  No reports of other crafts, but on an earlier mission one astronaut thought he might be witnessing tiny craft, but it was actually the sun reflecting off the icy urine his own capsule had just discharged
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"Was the Apollo moon landing a hoax?"\nThe article starts out,\n"Yes, they walked on the moon. And yes, some people insist they did not--that it was all a huge conspiracy. "\nhttp://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmoonhoax.html
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6 manned missions landed on the moon (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17). Each Apollo mission has 3 astronauts, 2 of which descended to the lunar surface and walked around. That makes a total of 12 people (all Americans) who have ever walked on the moon.\n\nThe most notable NASA tragedies would be Apollo 1 (fire during a test, 3 people killed), the Challenger explosion (space shuttle exploded during liftoff), and the Columbia disaster (orbiter broke up on re-entry).
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Several people have written books trying to disprove our landing on the moon.  I have not actually researched this, but for one thing, supposedly there is no dust on the moon like the ton of dust our astraunats walked through that day.  The photos have been disputed as made up and I believe our corupt government is capable of pulling this off.....)(
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There were six Moon landings. In the Apollo program, Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 landed on the Moon.
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no...they didnt land on the moon at all and lot of evidence points that the moon landings were faked\n1,,to reach moon the astonauts had to pass beyond the van allen belt.which is a protective barrier of charged particles cosmic rays etc..beyond which they wud b exposed to intense harmful cosmic rays...thir aircraft apollo 11 had only a thin lining of lead for protection which is not at all sufficient...so it is suggested dat apollo 11 just cirled up before reachuing the van allen belt\n2,,moreover the photographic film wud hav been clearly damaged while passing thru the belt as it does it if its passeed thru an ordinary xray machine\n3,,the camera that the astros used i.e. hasselblad wree old fashioned and changing their photographic plates is a very tricky process requiring handling of delicate plates n nimble fingers...this task was impossible 4 the astros as they wore thick rubber gloves\n4,,one of their pics shows the terrain behind aldrin fading away into the horizon while there is no atmosphere on moon to cause such an effect\n4,,more over in one of the pics some suspiciuos equipments reflection can be seen on aldrins visor..it can cl4early be seen againt the darkness of the horizonwhere one might expectto glimpse a piece of film equipment if it had been shot in a film studio\n5,,moreover the absence of stars in the pics,lack of scortch marksand a crater under the lunar module which wud hav been formed by its landing are suspiciously missing\n\nhence too much to prove that the landings were faked \n\nits the second time i have ansewered this question...n it was the best answer
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The moon landing was an actual event. I don't see why people have to keep insisting it's all staged. I mean it was a huge triumph for the US and people aren't even proud of it?!
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c don't u think it's even to think a bi that the moon landings are faked\nhow can a country do that\ncommon one day another country will definitely land on the moon and they will definitely find out whether the Americans had actually landed on the moon \nOK if that's no enough proof OK i will give u more a strong proof\nwhat about all those instruments that were actually set up by the Americans in the moon\nwe still receive signals from those machines and they give us a lot of info about many thing that's happening in moon\n\nc this whole story was just something that Media brought about for there existence\nmany became famous from all this\nall this notion was brough about by those guys without even thinking a little bit\nand as for the waving flag\ncommon man the spacecraft was still working the air from it could have made it to wave to & fro\nare u satisfied
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Apollo was not a hoax, please.  The program gave us some of the technology that you are using right now.  \nYeah, the U.S. government spent millions just to make it look like we went to the moon just to spite the ruskies.  Trust me, they are not creative enough to hatch a scheme like in the movie "Wag the Dog".
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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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Not, it is a derivative of moon land, in actual fact no one can reach the moon. NASA reach moon, it was a plant but not a moon. Even now they sent two sat's to sun....are you believe they manage to reach the sun.\n\n1) Because, your teacher teach you that there is a person reach the moon from NASA. \n\n2) But my grand mother say that there is her grandma sit down in the moon, prepare dinner for me. \n\nabove two item which one is true?....you need marks to pass the exam. So you begin to believe the teacher....on the other hand my grandma want's me to take a dinner with full happiness. that she would like to say my dinner from the moon. \n\nfrom the above two information, which you choose to predict to your teach.\n\nMy conclusion is that every thing can be done by human. why you want to predict the teacher that the NASA actually land on the moon. so don't think too much to predict the teacher....try to follow their instruction...once you reach as a scientist. Then you think toomuch like me......\n\nYoung scientist.
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YOU ARE RIGHT.\nAmerica is making fool, they never landed on moon, it is all fake story.
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Someone would believe that because the videos/films of the event are the kind that could have been faked.  Someone might not have been a direct eyewitness to the event.  Someone might believe in a gov't conspiracy to divert huge amounts of money to covert projects or pockets.  Someone might believe the moon is not actually a sphere or is in some fashion incapable of being landed on.  Someone might be from a country or society that does not like the United States and was told convincingly that it was a fake (There is no way to prove this wrong other than taking the skeptic to the moon and showing him the remains of the landers)
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1) Twelve 12 American astronauts have walked on the moon.\n\nApollo 11: Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin\nApollo 12: Pete Conrad & Alan Bean\nApollo 13: << failed to land on the moon >>\nApollo 14: Alan Shepard & Edgar (Ed) Mitchell\nApollo 15: David Scott & James Irwin\nApollo 16: John Young & Charles Duke\nApollo 17: Eugene (Gene) Cernan & Harrison Schmidt\n\n\n2) Why haven't we been back?  \n\na) American astronauts visited the moon on six occasions.\n\nb) The "moon race" was an extension of the cold war. It was mostly about national prestige. We got there first and achieved our primary objective. There was some good science: surveys, measurements, sample collection. But it was mostly about being there first. Once we achieved our primary objective, there was no political will to go back. There still isn't.  Perhaps, if we discover He3 or something else valuable, there will be.\n\nc) I used to travel to Crested Butte, Colorado every year to ski. Because I don't go anymore, does it mean that I never went?\n\n\n3) What about the Van Allen radiation belts?  Wouldn't it have killed the astronauts?\n\nThe existence of the Van Allen radiation belts postulated in the 1940s by Nicholas Christofilos.  Their existence was confirmed in *1958* by the Explorer I satellite launched by the USA. \n\nThe radiation in the Van Allen radiation belts is not particularly strong.  You would have to hang out there for a week or so in order to get radiation sickness.  And, because the radiation is not particularly strong, a few millimeters of metal is all that is required for protection.  "An object satellite shielded by 3 mm of aluminum will receive about 2500 rem (25 Sv) per *year*."\n\n"In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. [6]. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation."  When the astronauts returned to Earth, their dosimeters showed that they had received about as much radiation as a couple of medical X-rays.\n\n\n4) The U.S. government scammed everyone?  \n\nIn 1972, there was a politically motivated burglary of a hotel room in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. There were only about six or eight people who knew about it. However, those people, including Richard M. Nixon, the President of the United States, failed to keep that burglary a secret. It exploded into a scandal that drove the President and a number of others from office.\n\nIf six or eight people couldn't keep a hotel room burglary a secret, then how could literally thousands of people could have kept their mouths shut about six faked moon landings? Not just one moon landing, but six of them!\n\n\n5) What about the USSR?  \n\nEven if NASA and other government agencies could have faked the six moon landings well enough to fool the general public, they could NOT have fooled the space agency or military intelligence types in the USSR. The Soviets were just dying to beat us. If the landings were faked, the Soviets would have re-engineered their N-1 booster and landed on the moon just to prove what liars Americans are. Why didn't they? Because the landings were real and the Soviets knew it.\n\n\n6) Why does the flag shake?  Where are the stars?\n\nTake a look at the first two websites listed below.  They deal well with all of the technical questions.\n\n\n7) Finally, please tell us what you would accept as definitive evidence that the six moon landings were real. Is there anything?
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it think it is a hoax... "The astronauts have kept out of the public eye", something happend. they were on their way to the moon, but i don't believe they have been on it! if you look around, read about it, it will become more clear. the pictures they have made don't match the actual event... i think they have been made in a hollywood studio. there has been pictures with some major mistakes, like the shadowing, footprints etc. everybody got his own opinion, and this is mine: it's a hoax.
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Each Apollo mission made it possible for the next.  Even though Apollo 11 did what the program intended (land and walk on the moon), every Apollo mission was historic!\n\nNow, lets step back a bit....and I'll tell you this from what I remember as a 7 and 8 year old child!!!\n\n1.  Apollo 7 tested a brand new Service Module (SM) and Command Module (CM) during a week in orbit around the earth.  They tested everything they could on that system, including starting and stopping the hypergolic fueled 22,000lb thrust engine on the SM to ensure it would work once they got to the moon.  Apollo 7, although it is never talked about, paved the way for a mission to the moon with Apollo 8.  Apollo 7 was a phoenix that rose from the ashes of Apollo 1 where three of our astronauts died in a tragic fire.\n\n2.  Because of Apollo 7's resounding success, and some worries about the Russians beating us, they threw the dice and came up with the plan to send Apollo 8 to the moon. So on December 21, 1968 (I was 7 and remember watching this on the TV), Apollo 8 was launched and became the first manned spacecraft to break away from the bonds of Earth's gravitational field. Apollo 8 was the FIRST manned flight of the Mighty Saturn V rocket with its first stage (SV-1) and 5 F-1  engines pumping out 7.5 million pounds of thrust; its 5 J-2 engines, the first engines designed to operate on liquid hydrogen and oxygen in the vacuum of space,  on the 2nd stage (SV-2), and finally its lone J-2 engine on the 3rd stage (SVB-IV) that placed them in a parking orbit around the earth, and then restarted and sent them on their merry way to the moon.    They were put in a free return trajectory meaning that once they got to the moon, they could if they wanted to, slingshot around its backside and then come home.   They didn't do that.  At the precise time the 22,000 hypergolic engine on the SM fired and placed them in orbit around the moon!  For the first time ever, man saw the backside of the moon!  They orbited the moon 10 revolutions during Chrismtas eve and Chrismas day, re-fired that 22,000 engine to break away from the moon's gravitational field and came home and splashed down close to the Christmas Islands.\n\nWho says Apollo 8 is not remembered.  Just look at that picture of earthrise.  That was a first from Apollo 8's cameras & astronauts.   Who can ever forget them reading from the book of Genesis as they orbited the moon.  I certainly won't!\n\n3.  Apollo 9 was the 2nd flight of the Saturn V rocket and they placed a brand new Lunar Excursion Module (LEM, shortened to LM for Lunar Module) in Earth's orbit and proceeded to test the LM until they were satisfied it worked properly.  This meant 2 astronauts leaving their mother ship (CM) and riding around above our atmosphere in a ship with no heatshield and a ship that's walls were made of mylar about as thick as a trojan rubber!  The mission was a resounding success.\n\n4.  Apollo 10 was the 3rd flight of the Saturn V and they took a LM to the moon and tested it.  Part of the mission called for using the descent stage of the LM and getting very close to the surface, but not landing.  They did that and then fired the ascent stage to see if it would work.  Unfortunately, a switch was in a wrong position and the craft started bucking and wobbling all over the place, leading Gene Cernan to say "son-of-a-b!tch" in response to the wild gyrations of the LM.  Needless to say, NASA was not happy with that, but they were glad the 2 astronauts found the switch, changed its position, and then docked with the Apollo 10 CM and came home.\n\n5.  So with Apollo 7's success came Apollo 8, then 9, then 10 and because they were all resoundingly successful in proving the rockets and the equipment, they (Apollo 11)  were able to land on the moon and walk on its surface 6 months before the end of the decade and fulfilling John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon and re
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Cartman - of course men walked on the moon.\n\nIgnoring all the tosh that the TV programme came up with (which has been shot down in flames so many times now I've lost count) and the fact that some people on here seem to be happy to believe any old rubbish without so much as a cursory look at the evidence, there are three things that clinch it for me.\n\n1. The moon rock that was brought back is different from anything anywhere else on Earth and has been portioned out to so many different universities and research labs that someone by now would have said that the rock was hoaxed.\n\n2. NASA employed thousands of people during the Apollo missions. None of them (other than one or two nut-cases who are trying to make a name or, more likely a bit of fast cash) have said that it was all a hoax. Don't you think that far more people would have come out and said something by now.\n\n3. Last, but absolutely not least, the Apollo missions left an experiment on the surface of the moon that allows an Earth-bound laser to be fired at it and reflected back to Earth so that the distance from Earth to Moon can be measured with extreme accuracy. I believe this measurement is taken with monotonous regularity. How would this be possible unless one of the astronauts set the reflector up on the surface of the moon?\n\nSo to answer your questions.\n\nThe kit they used may look like it came from Blue Peter, but then so did the ships that first crossed the Pacific or the Atlantic (how about Heyerdahl's balsawood raft Kon-Tiki ?)\n\nDon't get misled by the old computing power routine. It is perfectly possible to achieve many, many things without the aid of a computer. All a computer does is to speed up the processes. We are all losing sight of this fact as we get wrapped up in technology.\n\nDon't know what you mean by never attempted it again. The Apollo missions landed 12 men on the moon - what could be benefited by going again?  If you go back to my point 2, the amount of money required for the Apollo missions was colossal - NASA's funding was massively reduced and focus shifted to reusable space craft (the shuttle), and manned satellite stations (SkyLab) as the next step towards exploration further afield.\n\nIt has been proved a zillion and one times that the flag "fluttered" because it was wired to make it stand up. As there is no atmosphere on the moon (and therefore no air resistance), once the flag wire was touched or let go it continued to flex backwards and forwards (ie. it fluttered).\n\nWe have a tendency to underestimate the capability of previous generations. Thats why we have people who say aliens built the pyramids and space astronauts built Macchu Picchu. Let's (for once) celebrate the ingenuity and undeniable bravery of the men who risked their lives in the pursuit of exploration.