we landed on the moon 40 years ago

(21-07-2009 23:44 )firekind Wrote:  giggles. you are so funny. seriously you could give alan carr a run for his money.

Seriously though, any evidence that the nine manned voyages to the moon were faked?

Makes me wonder who really gives a shit, haven't we got enhough worries on our own planet without worrying whether or not some old geezers landed on a peice of rock a million miles away 40 years ago??

(22-07-2009 00:59 )perana68 Wrote:  Makes me wonder who really gives a shit, haven't we got enhough worries on our own planet without worrying whether or not some old geezers landed on a peice of rock a million miles away 40 years ago??

where's your sense of history? plus with all the crap thats goin on these days, it nice to have something like this to distract from it.

Yep I take your point - plus the lunar landings did advance science massively, providing benefits to everyday life no doubt. I'm just not sure what actually landing on the moon gave us, but I'm happy to stand corrected

(21-07-2009 23:48 )vostok 1 Wrote:  Seriously though, any evidence that the nine manned voyages to the moon were faked?

There were 7 manned missions to the moon, not 9.

The missions were Apollo 11 through to Apollo 17. One mission was aborted before reaching the moon, but the other 6 were successful.

(22-07-2009 12:30 )elgar1uk Wrote:  

(21-07-2009 23:48 )vostok 1 Wrote:  Seriously though, any evidence that the nine manned voyages to the moon were faked?

There were 7 manned missions to the moon, not 9.

The missions were Apollo 11 through to Apollo 17. One mission was aborted before reaching the moon, but the other 6 were successful.

Apollo 16 Astronaut Charlie Duke would disagree with you elgar. Listen to what he says at 31 secs in this clip:



"we've been to the moon 9 times, why did we fake it 9 times if we faked it"

There were 9 manned voyages to the moon, 8 were successful in their objectives, 1 was deemed a "successful failure" but achieved an orbit of the moon for a free range trajectory .

Apollo 8 and 10 both went to the moon, without a landing.
Apollo 8 orbited and Apollo 10 tested the LEM piloted by Stafford and Cernan at an altitude of 37,000 feet.

Nasa would disagree with you also:
A couple of quotes from the Apollo 8 press kit:
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a410/A08_PressKit.pdf

During the second or third Earth orbit, the Saturn V
third-stage englne will restart to place the space vehicle
on a path to the Moon.

As many as seven live television transmissions may be
made from Apollo 8 as it is on its path to the Moon.

Good point vostok. I was forgetting that you can visit the moon without actually landing there.

(22-07-2009 14:35 )elgar1uk Wrote:  Good point vostok. I was forgetting that you can visit the moon without actually landing there.

No problem elgar, it is just that the conspiracy theorists claim that it is impossible to even leave earth orbit, let alone orbit the moon.

Then you have nutters like this guy:
who claims that even satellites are not real, while at the same time he claims that his local Jewish community center is a base for Alien UFO's!

Re: the video above - I'd just like to say that I was once a member of my local UFO group, and compared to some of the weirdoes I met there this guy is a rank amateur.

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I'm skeptical, i mean they probably could there but how did they get back?