Do you think we went to the moon?

With a good telescope, you can see the stuff we left up there.

We stopped sending people to the moon, because it fell from favor. Stupid people in charge didn't think we were getting anything out of it. Kinda like Bush now...cutting science & research funding off. I really hope he gets something that science could have had an answer or cure for if they had been able to continue. THAT would be poetic!

The stuff they are building now, (& a friend of mine is working on it), is based on the Apollo rockets of the 60's & 70's. I lived thru that stuff, watched it in school, watched them orbit over head with a telescope, worried when A 13 almost didn't make it back. It did happen, don't be one of the stupid masses in this country please?

In the 60's there was a space race. The USA wanted to put someone on the moon. It was accomplished. However not long afterwards the STS project was launched.

The STS project was to replace the saturn rockets with a re-usable launch vehicle for advanced laboratory space studies. As a re-usable engine it was pitched as being cheaper, reusable, etc. It had drawbacks, not being able to reach escape velocity from the surface of the Earth is the primary one that keeps it from being viable for a moon mission.

There was significant opposition to the STS program both within and without NASA. Once design and plans had been laid in order to make sure the STS platform succeeded the saturn rocket designs and systems were gathered up and destroyed. The theory was that as long as people had a fallback, they would emperil the STS program. There were significant monies tied in STS and certain members of the government took steps to ensure there were no alternatives.

The USSR, never made it to the moon, because they lacked the required navigational system.. in a way this was geniuses working against each other and the US simply won at navigation. The USA built the correct propulsion units (saturn rockets), and those were stable enough to be used. The USA also had the significantly better navigation system then the USSR was using.

Some have mentioned the VARB, (Van Allen Rad belt) but that was not a factor. The radiation belt itself was disregarded by Van Allen even if you went directly through it. Also NASA timed the launches and made sure to skirt the belt. It was not something unknown at the time.

Edit: Adding info to deal with original questions's followup: Radiation was a definite concern for NASA before the first space flights, but they invested a great deal of research into it and determined the hazard was minimal. It took Apollo about an hour to pass through the radiation belts - once on the outbound trip and once again on the return trip. The total radiation dose received by the astronauts was about one rem. A person will experience radiation sickness with a dose of 100-200 rem, and death with a dose of 300+ rem.

Additional information can be found here: http://www.braeunig.us/space/hoax.htm

Just for your knowledge, the radiation in your dental chair will probably also not kill you. It will make you MORE likely to develop cancer. Hospitals and Dentists know you would sue them to death if they didn't take those precautions.

To this day, there is no feasible way to reach the moon without combinations of technology. We don't have the saturn rockets anymore and while I believe at least someone may have designs.. no one knows who and where. However the russian proton rockets do exist, and are the only rocket vehicles strong enough to make the escape of Earth gravity from the Earth's surface. I believe they are a little unreliable, and I would assume that the Russian navigation system has come up to speed, although the USA may still be ahead there.

I find it extremely likely we went to the moon. The Saturn V rocket was measured and its velocity and payload (3-6T) were among the only capable of escaping Earth's gravitational pull. To imply that we would/could not field the hot shots willing to risk this would be incorrect. We did field them. To put it bluntly, we had the money, we had the astronauts, we had the rockets, we had the navigation system, and we had the payload. In short, there was very little reason to lie.

Honestly, if you believed this was a hoax. Do you really think the russians would have stopped unless they really thought it was true? They would have claimed it's an American hoax and continued progress to reach the moon.

We landed on the moon. There just is not a lot of reason to go back, unless we are going to establish something permanent, which is problematic.

Yes, we did go to the moon. Although the technology may have seemed "poor" they actually used technology that people are still trying to develop commercially, such as fuel cells. The reason why the mission was stopped was because the cost to go to the moon was extremely high and non of the equipment was reusable. Sure the space shuttle was expensive to built, but they don't go and build a new one after every launch, they rotate between the existing shuttles. Also, the new Crew Exploration Vehicle, who NASA just recently awarded the contract to Lockheed Martin, is being designed to return to the moon and eventually build a permanent base there. As far as the crap about the American Flag waving in the wind when there is no wind on the moon... look closer at the pictures, NASA as said that they installed wires in the flag to make it look like the wind is blowing it.

Ohh, and they also Nationally anncounced the days when the Saturn 5 would be launched, so the general public could see the launch. I highly doubt that the astronauts just did circles around the earth without the russians knowing...

One more thing, read some articles about the Van Allen radiation belt, even he Jame Van Allen himself said that it would not kill astronauts if they went through this belt. It would only do damage if they parked themselves their and did not move, but they blasted through it and only skimmed it... nice try on that one.

It's not really about having better technology, it was that in the 60's we were in a race to go to the moon, it was sort of a pride thing. We went, and I assume didn't find a lot of usefulness to going there to justify the huge price tag so we stopped going. We now use the space shuttle- which is more advanced than what was used in the 60's, and the tests performed on those missions along with hauling cargo up to space is more useful than missions to the moon were, and the space shuttle is simply not designed to be able to land on the moon, it's an orbiter, and can only land on a regular runway here on Earth. Yes, we have much greater technology now, and if we wanted to- we could design a new vehicle capable of landing on the moon and do just that.

No, we have never made it to the moon, looking at the pictures, and videos, to see the proof. All the videos of the moon walks, and moon cars being driven look really real, but if you watch it at twice the nomral seed you can see its clearly nothing different then if you where driving on Earth. The moon walks are a little different, and harder to see that they are fake, with those the best way to do it is to watch above the man, sometimes you can see a 'spark' of light in the top of the video above their head which is a tell tell sign of a support wire, offten you can even see them lift up funny when they move to walk, or be taking a step then be half way in the step before being lifted up higher. There is also proof in the shadows, with the sun being the only light they had, all shadows should be going the same way, but in almost all the pictures and videos, you can clearly see the shadows going in atlest two different directions. Other times, such as the video of the man walking down the ladder to get to the moon, the ship is dark, and he is in the ships shadow, yet you can see him clearly, and make out details which you shouldn't be able to see in the shadow, can be seen. Anyone remember seeing them hit a golf ball on the moon? Turn your oven to 250 and place a golf ball inside, see how well it holds up. Lets not forget the waving flag, which would hold up better at 250F but with no wind on the moon should not be waving in the 'wind'. The list of proof it was fake keeps going, while the proof is only the goverments word it happened.

I always leave the chance for conspiracy theories open, though I am not one of those conspiracy nuts. I think there are 3 possible things that happened. 1) We never went to the moon and video taped the whole thing to win the crucial politcally motivated space race...2) We actually did go and everything seen on t.v. was real...or 3) We actually went, but the real video was not broadcast, but a reinactment of the actual space race was done in a studio, and the real moon landing had already happened. The third option seems very logical because to believe the goverment would broadcast a live version of the moon landing for all eyes to see, seems awfully odd to me. What if something happened like the lunar shuttle's engine exploded and killed the men near it....what if there actually were aliens and they started devouring our astronauts? But if we never did go to the moon that would explain why NASA cannot find the american flag on the moon's surface with the hubb;e telescope and if we went back we wouldnt be able to explain where the flag went would we? Also, George Bush and his administration is too stupid to acknowledge science or medical fields and believe that everything should be left to the hands of god, or at least he pretend to believe that. Having said all that, the place we should be focusing on is beneath us, under the ocean.....that is where all the cures for diseases and explanations to where we came from reside.

not a chance, i have many friends that thin i am crazy and that's fine. but there are just to many reasons why we not only did not go, but could not have gone, let alone now. absolutely not 38 years ago.

show me one picture of the junk we left behind from a telescope. non exist because there is nothing there.

we have telescopes that can see a new planet 13 light years away, but we can't seem to have one powerful enough to see what may have been left behind on the moon, interesting.

i think people are afraid to admit that the government lied to us. it is amazing that we had a spaceship that could land flawlessly on the moon and take off again with no problems, yet 38 years later we can't even make through the van Allen belts Radiation field that surrounds the earth, there are good reasons for this. look it up.

thx for letting me rant

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Of course! There have always been conspiracy theories, in the past, the present, and likely in the future. You're right that technology in the 60s was inferior then to what it is now, but it was still sufficient enough to get astronauts to the moon. How do we know they actually went there?

- Moon rocks: Can't argue with the facts

- A laser refractor planted on the lunar surface: this allows a laser on Earth to beam to the Moon and back, giving the exact distance between the Earth and Moon

- There's a bunch of conspiracy theories, but they have all been disproven; there's some videos you can watch on the subject on the internet

As for why we haven't been back to the Moon, in one word, "politics". Travelling to the moon was the forefront of the space race between the US and Soviet Union. The Soviets launches the first satellite and cosmonaut, but the US "won" the space race because they were the first to land on the Moon. After this, the government was reluctanct to give funds to NASA for another Moon program, even though NASA had several projects in mind. However, there are plans to go back to the moon in the near future....

I am currently working on the New Spaceship that will go to the MOON, it is called ORION. Yes, we went to the moon, and the engineers that designed the Apollo Capsule are Genius. They were far ahead of their time, the technology was not poor back then, just the first time anyone did anything like that! We still reference their ideas and drawings today. The requirements on the new ship are much greater than those on the Apollo, so it is taking a while to design it. They had about 5 times the money and 10 times the people working on it back in the 60's so we are doing the best we can with the amount of money Congress is giving NASA. If you want us to get there faster tell your Congress and Senator to give more than 1% of the national budget to NASA.

I was really impressed about the moon landing back then and like millions of others I never stopped to think how was it possible? NASA had all the right stuff right? Well,it only took one look at the technology 20 years later when the space shuttle flew to realize that we never went to the moon! They were still doing the same thing,orbiting the earth! And those videos from the moon landing are still being debated by experts!So,if we use a telescope can we see the junk they left behind,moonrover,us flag,etc.?Just another conspiracy theory folks!