I think it was fake, personally. If they were to shoot it again I may find it a little more realistic.

Does this look real to me? i don’t think so. haha.

I don’t think program like Photoshop existed back in the 50s.

NASA probably didn’t have enough solid facts and evidence to prove it.

Thursday, July 13, 2006: The original high-quality video tapes of Apollo 11, which were apparently sent by NASA to the National Archives and then were returned to the Goddard Space Flight Center, have gone missing (see the pdf by John M. Sarkissian). The quality of the video broadcast to the world on television was of much, much lower quality than the video originally received – or manufactured! - by NASA. Obviously, if you were going to fake the moon landing, you might have a motive to ‘lose’ the high-quality tapes, where artifacts of faking could be seen. This was by far the biggest moment in the American space program. You’d think they would care about hanging on to the evidence.

I dont think we ever landed on the moon. If we really did, why havent we been back?

I've seen video clips of the flag waving, and later on clips of the flag not moving. Shouldnt the flag be still, since there is no gravity on the moon?

It's probably some issues with the budget after Hurricane Katrina.

Besides, they have to plan these things. Like design the spacecraft and stuff like that.

Why would there necessarily have to be alot of people in on it? People may have been paid off.

They could have blackmailed their families. Or threatened them.

Maybe they didn't even know it.

Did you hear about how NASA lost the original tapes of the moon landing? They were being sent back to NASA from the Air & Space Smithsonian (I think it was a Smithsonian) and it was misplaced.

I think it's real. I mean, China went to the moon too. (Right?) So China staged their moon-landing too? Eh, I'll believe that it was real U.S. history.

^ I posted something about that. The 4th post.

It's pretty convenient how they "misplaced" it.
And I have never heard of China going to the moon. I'll go Google it now.

I posted something about that. The 4th post.

It's pretty convenient how they "misplaced" it.


And I have never heard of China going to the moon. Their space program is CRAP.

I've seen video clips of the flag waving, and later on clips of the flag not moving. Shouldnt the flag be still, since there is no gravity on the moon?

While I find the universe to be quite interesting, I honestly DO NOT see ANY point in the "Space Race" except to fufill human curiosity. Whatever we find out isn't going to affect us in any way, and I don't understand why we have to put so much money into it. If anything, if we really went to the moon, the reason - "beating" the Russians - was completely stupid.

1. Complete hoax—The idea that the entire human landing program was faked. Various sources argue that the technology to send men to the Moon was insufficient and/or that the Van Allen radiation belts made such a trip impossible.
2. Partial hoax / Unmanned landings— Bart Sibrel argues that Apollo 11 and subsequent astronauts had faked their orbit around the Moon and their walk on its surface by trick photography, and that they never got more than halfway to the Moon. A subset of this proposal is advocated by those who concede the existence of laser mirrors and other observable human-made objects on the Moon. Marcus Allen represented this argument when he said "I would be the first to accept what [telescope images of the landing site] find as powerful evidence that something was placed on the Moon by man." He goes on to say that photographs of the lander would not prove that America put men on the Moon. "Getting to the Moon really isn't much of a problem—the Russians did that in 1959, the big problem is getting people there." His argument focuses around NASA sending robot missions because radiation levels in space were lethal to humans. Another variant on this is the idea that NASA and its contractors did not recover quickly enough from the Apollo 1 fire, and so all the early Apollo missions were faked, with Apollo 14 or 15 being the first authentic mission.[4]
3. Manned landings, with backup stagings— Dr. Brian O'Leary once suggested that, as a hypothetical situation, NASA could have falsified some portion of the video and photographs of the moon landings to replace those damaged or lost during the actual mission. Hoax proponent David Percy apparently took O'Leary's hypothetical as a sincere belief. O'Leary has since reasserted the idea as merely hypothetical..[5]
4. Manned landings, with cover-ups—William Brian and others believe that, while astronauts did land on the Moon, they covered up what they found, whether it was gravitational anomalies, alien artifacts, or alien encounters.[6] Phillip Lheureux, in Lumieres sur la Lune (Lights on the Moon), said that astronauts did land on the Moon, but that, in order to prevent other nations from benefiting from scientific information in the real photos, NASA published fake images.

The Cold War. A war without any real fighting. Just actions. That's why. Americans wanted to "win" the Cold War.

Yeah, I know all about the Cold War and all that, but I think the reason behind the Cold War was kind of iffy, too...

I think it's because there's no wind on the moon. (Which is supposedly why the astronauts' footprints are still there, so they say.)



While I find the universe to be quite interesting, I honestly DO NOT see ANY point in the "Space Race" except to fufill human curiosity. Whatever we find out isn't going to affect us in any way, and I don't understand why we have to put so much money into it. If anything, if we really went to the moon, the reason - "beating" the Russians - was completely stupid.

Anyways, that's my rant on that. As for the mission being faked, perhaps. I mean, people saw the spaceship liftoff and everything, didn't they? So you're saying that they had to plan a secret place for the spaceship to land and everything?

If this is true, then that is sad, wasting so much money only to get Americans' spirits up just a bit higher. How incredibly pathetic.

I really hope the government and NASA were not that stupid.

I forgot about the whole foot print thing.

I dont really see the point in trying to return to the moon. Theres no way we could colonize up there or anything.

The lunar soil samples consist of angular agglutinates and glass beads with nearly a total absence of quartz. The lunar soil samples show no evidence of iron (III) oxide, which is formed when iron oxidizes or rusts. Iron titanium oxide or ilmenite is found in the lunar soil and is black in appearance. Lunar soil also contains plagioclase feldspars which appear white, olivine, green, or as a yellowish-brown mineral. All three sets of lunar samples are similar in chemistry and mineralogy.

Soil and rock samples from Earth are composed of rounded grains, primarily of quartz. Many samples contain some iron (III) oxide that gives the soil a red, yellow, or brown coloration.

Hoax proponents argue that Wernher von Braun's trip to Antarctica in 1967 (two years prior to the Apollo missions) was in order to study and / or collect lunar meteorite rocks to be used as fake Moon rocks. Because von Braun was a former SS officer, it is suggested by hoax proponents (including Aron Ranen),[55] he would have been susceptible to pressure to agree to the conspiracy in order to protect himself from recriminations over the past.

heard something about the moon rocks having the same composition as some rocks found at the poles. I'll go find it.

I didnt mean that colonizing is impossible, I just dont see it happening any time soon. Theres gotta be another planet out there somewhere, thats more capable of sustaning life.

Not necessarily. I dont think we'll need to colonize somewhere else within the next 100 years. Heh I think it'll be a little longer than a few decades to get past the asteroid belt, especially if we've got a flight to the moon planned for 2020.

I guess thats possible, but we havent even made it to Mars yet. The conditions may not even be appropriate to do so. Living on the moon in 20 years? How would that even be humanly possible?

And we might have to colonize Mars soon. At the rate global warming is going, Earth's future is dim.

WHAT?! So you think the fight against communism and the Soviet Union and the Cuban Missile Crisis was "iffy"?

Thats very true. With warmer temperatures, and the ice caps melting. Hopefully that wont happen in our lifetimes though.

Could you imagine though what i'd be like? I wonder most of the civilized world would go, or just a select few to repopulate?

Have you heard the theories that we used to inhabit another planet? I forget which one... but there's like a statue or something there that closely resembles something in Egypt. I guess I should research that.

Have you heard the theories that we used to inhabit another planet? I forget which one... but there's like a statue or something there that closely resembles something in Egypt. I guess I should research that.