After reading Bart Sibrel’s book Moon Man I am not sure we were even capable off going to the moon. He raises a lot of interesting questions on this.
(1) Going to and from the Moon through the Van Allen Radiation Belt
(2) Having enough fuel to even leave Earth Orbit to go to the Moon and get back. Von Braun said initially that they would need to send up extra rockets of fuel to even be able to blast out of earth’s orbit.
(3) Then there were the Space Suits and could they actually work on the Moon.
(4) My favorite how could the Lunar module possible have blasted off the moon to get back in orbit to hook with Command module. The more you look that thing it is an absolutely flimsy piece of equipment. Anyone wonder how they could have possibly loaded the Lunar Rover onto that thing and were was the power source to run the air conditioner and heater for the extreme temps for 3 days, they claim they used car batteries, well if you can;t change them they run out of power.
So many technical questions and no enough answers. Why has no other country gone to the moon, especially the Russian’s?
It was a couple of rads of radiation. They traversed it in about an hour and didn't linger in it. They even went through a thinner section near the pole. They would have been in serious danger if a solar flare hit during their trip
(2) Having enough fuel to even leave Earth Orbit to go to the Moon and get back. Von Braun said initially that they would need to send up extra rockets of fuel to even be able to blast out of earth’s orbit.
Von Braun's initial estimates in the 50s for single stage rockets. That was the math that forced multi-stage rockets.
Launch azimuth 75 degrees relative to equator, went out through the center of the belts and passed through only its weak fringe. Passage took under twenty minutes, and they spacecraft WAS decent shielding. Radiation exposure equivalent to a singe chest X-ray. Brought the dosimeters back to prove it.
Having enough fuel to even leave Earth Orbit to go to the Moon and get back.
It had enough fuel. Have you ever seem a Saturn V? Its a LOT of fuel. The trip to the moon and back were low energy coats. The spacecraft fell into the gravity well of first the Moon and then the Earth.
Then there were the Space Suits and could they actually work on the Moon.
Yes, fully tested and validated for reliable functionality in harsh radiation and vacuum conditions years before the launches.
My favorite how could the Lunar module possible have blasted off the moon to get back in orbit to hook with Command module. The more you look that thing it is an absolutely flimsy piece of equipment.
It WAS a light piece of equipment, but not so flimsy. The gravity on the Moon is 1/6 that of Earth and their is no atmosphere to impede acceleration. It was discarded once the crew transferred to the command module.
In short, the only people who believe that the moon landings were faked are people with almost no knowledge of physics, the history of communications and flight hardware, and the preparations/testing prior to the design and construction of the hardware. I might also mention a severe mathematical deficiency.
Read up on it. You'd be proud and impressed.
Why has no other country gone to the moon, especially the Russian’s?
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Because it is expensive in the extreme. And because only the US and Russia had the infrastructure to make it happen, except the Russians ran out of money and bowed out.
Currently, China’s lunar program is on track for 2030 or maybe 2029, if tests like the one on Feb 11th stay on track. All of China’s lunar tech is maturing at the same rate, unlike the US where we have not even started a lunar lander.