"Fake, fake, fake, fake!"
Posted on 08/13/2006 10:31:14 PM PDT by seacapn
The original film footage of astronaut Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon, one of the most important artifacts of the 20th century, has been lost.
The television broadcast seen by about 600 million people in July 1969 is preserved for posterity, but the original tapes from which the footage was taken have been mislaid, most likely in NASA's vast archives at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
The footage could transform our view of the moon landings, offering images far sharper than the blurred, grainy video shown around the world. It also could lay to rest the conspiracy theory that the landings were faked on a Hollywood soundstage.
Despite its iconic status, the television footage was the equivalent of a photocopy of a photocopy. It came from a camera that had been pointed at a black-and-white monitor on Earth. The image on the monitor, in turn, had been stripped of much of its detail.
To make sure the transmission would make it back to Earth, the images sent from Apollo 11 were recorded at 10 frames per second, and had to be converted to 60 frames per second in order to be broadcast. In the process, much of the detail was lost.
Stan Lebar, now 81, was in charge of the images from Apollo 11. What he saw was so blurred that he initially thought something had gone wrong.
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Speaking of the Russians, a faked moon landing is one of those things that the Soviets would've loved to rub our noses in - if only they had a suspicion that we'd tried to win the Space Race by cheating. They monitored our comms between the spacecraft and Houston carefully, yet, no complaints.
The level of technical wizardry which you attribute to NASA makes one thing plain: it would be cheaper and easier just to go ahead and send up a manned flight.
And what about other countries? How did we fool them? Many countries certainly had the technology to track the mission. I guess they must have been in on the hoax too!
Great post Defend.
BTW, the conspiracists that were alive at the time mostly just want to sell Conspiracy Theory books.
Then tell me why JFK said in 1961 that he wanted a man on the moon by 1968, and it happened while this year Bush says he wants a man on the moon by 2015. Everything I ever learned taught me that once you do something it doesn't take as long to do it the next time. So you tell me what's wrong with this picture? Besides the lunar lander blew up the year before they say they landed on the moon. Tell me that quality control fixed the problem that quick and gave the go ahead. Your theory is also wrong. I was an adult when they say they landed on the moon. So much for all the conspiracy nuts not being born at the time.
Oh gee. I didn't say they didn't climb into a capsule and take off. I said they didn't land on the moon. Sure astronauts have died on the launch pad. What does that have to do with this issue?
Hey, I have a bunch of rocks over here. They are all from moon. Prove that they aren't.
Why? It's the same station that Cronkite broadcast the supposed landing on. Do you tell people to not believe that broadcast?
Right. I just watched it last weekend at a party at George Soros's house.
I don't believe that explanation at all. Everyone has humbling experiences and they do talk about them. Otherwise you wouldn't know about them.
How did the camera get out there and get set up if Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon?
My mom took a Polaroid of the TV when Neil stepped on the moon.
Maybe she would donate it.
I use all sources to form by belief.
"Fake, fake, fake, fake!"
"How did the camera get out there and get set up if Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon?"
You have got to be kidding! Go back and review the video and sequence of events and ask that question with a straight face.
And that would prove that they had TVs back then. Right?
I have, I did, and I have a straight face.
Yeah.
TVs and transistor radios, too.
I can understand. Sometimes it is really really hard to provide proof. I'll leave it at that.
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