End of Conspiracy Theories? Spacecraft Snoops Apollo Moon Sites

Yahoo (Space.com) ^ | Fri Mar 4, 2:34 PM ET | Leonard David

[SunkenCiv]

New imagery of old Apollo touchdown spots, from the European Space Agency's (ESA) SMART-1 probe, might put to rest conspiratorial thoughts that U.S. astronauts didn't go the distance and scuff up the lunar landscape. NASA carried out six piloted landings on the Moon in the time period 1969 through 1972... Bernard Foing, Chief Scientist of the ESA Science Program... told SPACE.com that the SMART-1 orbiter circling the Moon has already covered the Apollo 11, 16, 17 landing sites, as well as spots where the former Soviet Union's Luna 16 and Luna 20 automated vehicles plopped down... Foing said that each Apollo site, where the engine blast of the two-person landing craft stirred up the landscape, could be worthwhile targets for SMART-1 imaging.

[SunkenCiv]

Smart-1 On Track For Moon Encounter
	Posted by SunkenCiv On General/Chat 10/24/2004 8:34:37 AM PDT · 14 replies · 207+ views RedNova.com | Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 11:34 CDT | European Space Agency The SMART-1 mission was designed to pursue two main objectives. The first is purely technological: to demonstrate and test a number of space techniques to be applied to future interplanetary exploration missions. The second goal is scientific, mainly dedicated to lunar science. It is the technology demonstration goal, in particular the first European flight test of a solar-powered ion engine as a spacecraft’s main propulsion system, that gave shape to the peculiar route and duration (13 months) of the SMART-1 journey to the Moon. The long spiralling orbit around Earth, which is bringing the spacecraft closer and closer to the...
Europe targets the Moon
	Posted by areafiftyone On News/Activism 03/04/2003 9:45:26 AM PST · 61 replies · 54+ views BBC News | 3/4/03 Europe's first mission to the Moon looks set for a July blast-off. Scientists and engineers working on the Smart 1 spacecraft are hoping to fly around the 15th of that month - but it all depends on the status of the launcher. Currently, Europe's rockets are grounded following the high-profile failure of a vehicle in December last year. But it seems the rocket's operators, Arianespace, are confident enough about the outcome of a post-accident review of systems to give Smart 1 a provisional launch date. "We've just been told we can go for July," Dr Sarah Dunkin, one of the...
Europe's moon mission blasts off
	Posted by HAL9000 On News/Activism 09/27/2003 10:36:29 PM PDT · 18 replies · 34+ views CNN.com | September 28, 2003 <p>KOUROU, French Guiana -- Europe's first mission to the moon has successfully blasted off aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana.</p> <p>The rocket, carrying the unmanned SMART-1 lunar exploration probe and two other commercial satellites, took off at 8.14 p.m. (2314 GMT) Saturday from the European Space Agency (ESA) launch centre at Kourou, on the northeast coast of South America.</p>
Fly me to the moon (1st Euroweenie moon probe set for October)
	Posted by mhking On News/Activism 08/22/2003 7:47:02 AM PDT · 17 replies · 30+ views The Economist | 8.21.03 The first European mission to the moon is scheduled to blast off in October ALTHOUGH many missions have been sent to our lunar neighbour, the lure of the moon remains enormous. If all goes well, in October, another attempt to prise free a few more lunar secrets will launch from French Guiana. Scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) are looking for clues that may shed light on the moon's origins, and also search for hard evidence of water-ice in craters near the poles. The tiny, 370kg (816lb), probe known as SMART-1 will hitch a ride into space with two...
European Moon mission set for blast off (Update)
	Posted by bedolido On News/Activism 09/26/2003 8:51:12 AM PDT · 55 replies · 60+ views New Scientist | 09/26/03 | Will Knight Europe's first mission to the Moon is set for blast off from Kourou in French Guiana just after midnight, local time, on Sunday. SMART 1 will be launched from the European spaceport between 2302 and 2321 GMT. It will be taken into space by European's Ariane 5 rocket, along with an Indian science probe and a commercial satellite. It will take 15 months for SMART 1 to reach the Moon. On arrival it will enter into polar orbit enabling it to view the Moon's surface from every angle. The probe will then spend six months combing the lunar landscape for...
Europe's first Moon probe prepares for launch
	Posted by RightWhale On News/Activism 08/08/2003 9:09:49 AM PDT · 13 replies · 48+ views spaceref.com | 8 Aug 03 | staff Europe's first Moon probe prepares for launch ESA PR 50-2003. Europe's first probe to the Moon, SMART-1, is about to begin a unique journey that will take it into orbit around our closest neighbour, powered only by an ion engine which Europe will be testing for the first time as main spacecraft propulsion. The European Space Agency's SMART-1 spacecraft was delivered to Kourou, French Guiana, on July 15 and is currently being prepared for launch atop an Ariane 5 during the night from August 28 to 29. The launch window will open at 20:04 local time (01:04 on August...
ESA develops a smarter way to travel through space
	Posted by callisto On General/Chat 06/11/2002 6:07:17 AM PDT · 8 replies · 63+ views European Space Agency | 06.11.02 | ESA 11-Jun-2002 As scientists demand more from space missions travelling to other worlds and beyond, traditional rocket technologies are beginning to show shortcomings. In response, ESA are helping to develop a new type of rocket engine, known as solar-electric propulsion, or more commonly, an ion engine, that can mark a whole new era of space exploration. Solar-electric propulsion is ESA's new spacecraft engine. It does not burn fuel as chemical rockets do; instead the technique converts sunlight into electricity via solar panels and uses it to electrically charge heavy gas atoms, which accelerate from the spacecraft at high velocity. This drives...

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[SunkenCiv]

mostly alpha order:

NASA challenges Moon hoax claims
BBC News Online | 11/07/02 | Dr. David Whitehouse
Posted on 11/07/2002 1:36:35 PM PST by GeneD
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/784641/posts

NASA Debunks Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy
Government News
Source: CNN.com
Published: 02/19/2001 Author: Richard Stenger, CNN.com Writer
Posted on 02/20/2001 14:30:57 PST by GeekDejure
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a92f0211352.htm

NASA hires writer to debunk Apollo theory (Theory that Moon missions were faked)
Galveston County Daily News | October 31, 2002 | Ted Streuli
Posted on 10/31/2002 6:35:19 AM PST by No Truce With Kings
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/779237/posts

NASA Pulls Moon Hoax Book
BBC | 11-8-2002
Posted on 11/08/2002 3:09:00 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/785428/posts

NASA Unsure of How to Counter the 'Moon Hoax'
The Associated Press | January 5th 2003 | MARCIA DUNN
Posted on 01/05/2003 5:06:37 PM PST by ContentiousObjector
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/817393/posts

Footage NASA never wanted you to see (video link)
moontruth.com | July 20, 1969 | Moontruth
Posted on 11/19/2003 3:31:13 PM PST by mikegi
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1025207/posts

Lessons of the "Fake Moon Flight" Myth (corrosive media culture alert)
The Skeptical Enquirer | March, 2003 | James Oberg
Posted on 05/16/2003 11:43:14 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/912909/posts

[SunkenCiv]

• Apollo 15 Landing Site Spotted in Images
• Apollo 16 Landing Site Overview

[cripplecreek]

"might put to rest conspiratorial thoughts"


I wouldn't count on it, the conspiracy theorists are amazingly resilient. The only proof they'll ever see is of an even greater conspiracy.

[Old Sarge]

might put to rest conspiratorial thoughts

That's like trying to argue sense into a Socialist!

[blam]

[Enlightiator]

'' Oh please, so now we have a fake photograph from a fake moon orbiter proving that Apollo landed on the moon? And looking at that photograph, when did we get rivers on the moon? And look at the features in the shadows...thats a photoshopped grainy photo of almost any small town on earth from 30,000 feet. '

[Enlightiator]

:) Tinfoil hat off now. ;)

[SunkenCiv]

:') Don't stop on my account. ;')

[cripplecreek]

You overlooked the obvious. It would have clearly taken an advanced civilization to build the large yellow arrows and letters.

[blam]

"You overlooked the obvious. It would have clearly taken an advanced civilization to build the large yellow arrows and letters."

The Nazca aliens use those as navigational aids.

[Enlightiator]

You overlooked the obvious. It would have clearly taken an advanced civilization to build the large yellow arrows and letters.

Good point - and not just ANY advanced civilization - "A", "B", "C"... now what are the odds of just any advanced civilization developing symbols that are perfect matches for the English alphabet? I would say far below 10E-16. I am convinced that the photograph, including the large yellow letters on the ground, are proof that said moon photos are of earth. :)

[boris]

There's only one thing you need to know. There is a 'corner cube reflector' on the moon. Scientists bounce lasers off it to determine the prcice (receeding) distance to the moon. It was placed there by an Apollo astronaut. The robotics technology of the day was insufficient to do the emplacement. Question closed.

--Boris

[SunkenCiv]

Of course the reflector could have been placed robotically. That's not evidence of human missions to the Moon.

But there's absolutely no evidence that the Moon landings were hoaxed.

[boris]

"Of course the reflector could have been placed robotically. That's not evidence of human missions to the Moon."

Not with the robotics of 1969, it couldn't.

[SunkenCiv]

Apollo 11 Laser Ranging Retroreflector Experiment
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo11/A11_Experiments_LRRR.html

"Laser beams are used because they remain tightly focused for large distances. Nevertheless, there is enough dispersion of the beam that it is about 7 kilometers in diameter when it reaches the Moon and 20 kilometers in diameter when it returns to Earth. Because of this very weak signal, observations are made for several hours at a time"

[SunkenCiv]

Are Apollo Moon Photos Fake?
02/26/2001 Ian Williams Goddard
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/iangoddard/moon01.htm

Mars Rovers a Fraud
Procto News Service | 05/08/2005 | donprocto
Posted on 05/08/2005 7:13:13 AM PDT by donprocto
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1398979/posts

[SunkenCiv]

well, I'm convinced.

http://www.dc8p.com/html/moonhoax.html

http://www.dc8p.com/html/moonstream.swf

[SunkenCiv]

Google

[SunkenCiv]

World's biggest telescope to prove Americans really walked on Moon
(HOLD MY BEANIE ALERT)
The Sunday Telegraph | November 24, 2002 | Robert Matthews
Posted on 11/23/2002 5:00:25 PM PST by MadIvan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/794743/posts