The whole moon landing ordeal smells very fishy to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_...ax_accusations
At the time of Apollo, the Soviet Union had five times more manned hours in space than the US. They had achieved:

1. First manmade satellite in orbit (October 1957, Sputnik 1).
2. First living creature to enter orbit (November 1957, Sputnik 2).
3. First to safely return living creature from orbit, two dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats (August 1960, Sputnik 5).
4. First man in space (April 1961, Vostok 1).
5. First man to orbit the Earth (April 1961, Vostok 1).
6. First to have two spacecraft in orbit at the same time (though it was not a space rendezvous, as frequently described) (August 1962, Vostok 3 and Vostok 4).
7. First woman in space (June 1963, Vostok 6, as part of a second dual-spacecraft flight including Vostok 5).
8. First crew of three cosmonauts on board one spacecraft (October 1964, Voskhod 1).
9. First spacewalk (EVA) (March 1965, Voskhod 2).

Then the US just went to the moon, no problem. And then there is all the evidence of a hoax.

Don't tell me. One of those people who stood out at Cape Canavaral breathless with aw as that rocket blasted off into space (tho I don't believe it went to the moon), right?

Don't you think it's weird that the source tapes are conveniently missing? I do.

Moon Landing Tapes Missing

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/0...06081509 3030

Aug. 15, 2006 — NASA officials are searching for the original videotapes from the first moon landing in 1969 in the hopes that they can use modern technology to produce sharper images of the event.

The video, including footage of Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon, was transmitted from the moon to tracking stations in California and Australia. The images that were then sent to Houston — and seen by the rest of the world — were substantially degraded.

Space program veterans believe the original tracking station recordings are stored somewhere at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Telephone calls Monday night to NASA and Goddard spokesmen were not immediately returned.

"I would simply like to clarify that the tapes are not lost as such, which implies they were badly handled, misplaced and are now gone forever. That is not the case," John Sarkissian, operations scientist at the Parkes Radio Observatory in Parkes, Australia, told the Space.com Web site.

Sarkissian also rejected any suggestion of wrongdoing on the part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "The archiving of the tapes was simply a lower priority during the Apollo era," he said.

In a paper published in May, Sarkissian wrote that the use of digital processing techniques on the tapes would make it "possible to recover the original high quality TV of the first lunar EVA (extravehicular activity) and make it available to the public for the first time."

"The Apollo 11 mission represents a defining moment in human history," Sarkissian wrote. "For the sake of posterity and the benefit of future generations, it is imperative that the search for the Apollo 11 magnetic data tapes be more vigorously pursued."

Someone made a great movie, and I believe it is called Capricorn 1. it tells a story about the moon landings.

Seriously guys...

I don't normally get this way, but since some of you don't seem bright enough to do it yourself, I'll connect the dots for you.

If, indeed, we never went to the moon - what have dozens of dozens of scientists - all over the world - been aiming various laser beams at since the Apollo 11 mission?

We've learned the moon is moving away from us, ya know...

http://physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/apollo/lrrr.html

What about all those variously-funded and internationally owned scientific community "listening posts" that independently picked up human voice transmission from the moon every mission since Apollo 11? Were they just making it up, too?



So someone wanted to grab a bit of history and stuff the footage in their attic when it came to the tapes... or whatever... That, and all the other half-wit evidence that people have come up with to argue we never went to the moon doesn't disprove the fact that like any scientist in the world that wants physical proof that we went to the moon is welcome to observe the evidence and have at it.

Here's a decent page to thumb through, if you're still not convinced: http://www.braeunig.us/space/hoax.htm

It's you loonies that claim things, knowingly, like "we never went to the moon" that give 'conspiracy theories" a bad rep.

Skepticism is a healthy thing.

Idiocracy isn't.

And spreading idiocracy is down-right unhealthy.

:2 cents:

Funny shit man! Where did that come from?

Right on, cause after all money is no object, right?:upsidedow

Less moon and more poon. Maybe a little of Uranus too. ;)

I can't believe there are people that are so dumb they think we didn't go to the moon.

You should take a look at what companies like Lockheed Martin are up to if you think we haven't been to the moon since 1972... lol...

And here's some lady talking about how NASA airbrushes shit in the moon pictures...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6rt7mnz4J5E

The better question might be --- why should they have repeated it before now?

Really, what did they find on the moon besides rocks? Unless they are ready to build a station on it and like it was said "use it as a jumping-off point" I've never seen the point of NASA spending billions more just to go back and land there and what?... knock a few more golf balls around? TV ratings? Yeah, that'd be fun.

I didn't believe in the theory till i read something pointing out the lack of a blast crater under the lander

http://ginacobb.typepad.com/photos/u..._on_moon_1.jpg

Pretty steady "sandy" surface eh?

If that actually landed, it sure the hell wouldn't look like this :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

1. No blast crater or any sign of dust scatter as was seen in the 16mm movies of each landing [3], p. 75.

No crater should be expected. The Descent Propulsion System was throttled very far down during the final stages of landing. The Lunar Module was no longer rapidly decelerating, so the descent engine only had to support the module's own weight, which by then was greatly diminished by the near exhaustion of the descent propellants, and the Moon's lower gravity. At the time of landing, the engine's thrust divided by the cross-sectional area of the engine bell is only about 10 kilopascals (1.5 PSI)[11], p. 164, and that is reduced by the fact that the engine was in a vacuum, causing the exhaust to spread out. (By contrast, the thrust of the first stage of the Saturn V was 3.2 MPa (459 PSI), over the area of the engine bell.) Rocket exhaust gases expand much more rapidly after leaving the engine nozzle in a vacuum than in an atmosphere. The effect of an atmosphere on rocket plumes can be easily seen in launches from Earth; as the rocket rises through the thinning atmosphere, the exhaust plumes broaden very noticeably. Rocket engines designed for vacuum operation have longer bells than those designed for use at the Earth's surface, but they still cannot prevent this spreading. The Lunar Module's exhaust gases therefore expanded rapidly well beyond the landing site. Even if they hadn't, a simple calculation will show that the pressure at the end of the descent engine bell was much too low to carve out a crater. However, the descent engines did scatter a considerable amount of very fine surface dust as seen in 16mm movies of each landing, and as Neil Armstrong said as the landing neared ("...kicking up some dust..."). This significantly impaired visibility in the final stages of landing, and many mission commanders commented on it. Photographs do show slightly disturbed dust beneath the descent engine. And finally, the landers were generally moving horizontally as well as vertically until right before landing, so the exhaust would not be focused on any one surface spot for very long, and the compactness of the lunar soil below a thin surface layer of dust also make it virtually impossible for the descent engine to blast out a "crater".[11], pp. 163?165

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_...ax_accusations

That'll be fun to read when I have some more time.

o kay just for you: bill clinton can't keep a fucking blow job in the white house secret and yet they faked the space program. is this your GIANT thought for the day?

:1orglaugh:thumbsup

Bill Clinton got caught getting a blowjob from an intern so that means there is nothing top-secret going on within the United States government.

Great fucking logic there... :error

And why would you bring up Bill Clinton of all people? Bill Clinton is a fucking boob and never had any kind of top secret clearance. Why would the people in charge of black projects let Bill Clinton in on it? For some reason people act like the President knows about everything that goes on... lmao...

It's not a secret that was too big to keep. People have been spilling the beans about this secret since 1971!

Many of whom are no doubt sitting in a rubber room somewhere as we speak.