I specifically used the phrase because it is not politically correct and is in the sphere of cultural understanding at that time.
I do have some first hand knowledge of the moon shot. My Dad worked for GE at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama as a computer programmer on the parts inventory for the Saturn Rocket. At that time it was the largest program ever written. I have the vivid memory of living ten miles away from the Redstone Arsenal/Marshall Space Flight Center and hearing the thunderous roar and the ground shaking for several minutes as they static tested the first booster engine. In 1980 I experienced a 7.0 earthquake and I am a witness that nature didn't come close to a tied down Saturn Rocket Engine shaking the Earth.
I was with my family at the Marshall Space Flight Center Museum when a voice came across the PA system, saying that the first raw film of Ed White's spacewalk had just arrived. I was privileged to be one of the first people on Earth to crowd into the little theater to watch that film and see the wayward glove float out of the hatch.
Any conspiracy to fake the whole moon shot would have required a myriad of people to keep a secret. I pity any fool that could believe that possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQfauGJaTs
Hey since this video is being discussed, can you give us specific details about what sort of color video camera, circa 1970, was left behind on the moon to take the shot of the Apollo 17 lift off from earth?
How did they transport such a huge and heavy color camera from that era to the moon, with a tripod big enough to hold a color camera from that era?
And what company manufactured and equipped the camera it with a transmitter to use it as a remote from earth to tilt and zoom and follow the take off of the Lunar Module in real time?
You’ll take notice, that the camera panned and tilted up in real time.
No delay.
The comments are priceless, too.
Also, the camera should still be there, on the moon, correct?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQfauGJaTs
Hey since this video is being discussed, can you give us specific details about what sort of color video camera, circa 1970, was left behind on the moon to take the shot of the Apollo 17 lift off from the moon?
How did they transport such a huge and heavy color camera from that era to the moon, with a tripod big enough to hold a color camera from that era?
And what company manufactured and equipped the camera it with a transmitter to use it as a remote from earth to tilt and zoom and follow the take off of the Lunar Module in real time?
You’ll take notice, that the camera panned and tilted up in real time.
No delay.
The comments are priceless, too.
Also, the camera should still be there, on the moon, correct?
I ask because of the infamous “NASA FAKING SPACE BADLY 1983” video, where a fellow FReeper helped me realize there was a matte shot or chromakey shot with the “Big Head” guy and the Shuttle... here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pVm7p4nkwo
maybe you have a better explanation of the “continuous cloud cover” on the earth in these shots?
That would be great, if you could identify the types of c.1970 color video cameras that were used on the moon. Or do you think these were film cameras on the moon that were fitted with electronic remote controls from earth, replete with transmitters?