[rockprof]

It's amazing what people will believe!

Check out http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/apollohoax.html if you're interested in the topic.

[anniegetyourgun]

This is gonna bum certain Freepers out....

[Alta Mura]

I wonder why they don't go back to the moon.

[APBaer]

"Doubters will no doubt dismiss the new book as just another attempt by the establishment to cover up the truth."


He can follow up with a series:

Is the earth truly flat?

Is the earth over 6,000 years old?

[LibWhacker]

While it's always a pleasure to read something by James Oberg, this is a big waste of taxpayer money and Oberg's time, if you ask me; there are still wackos out there who believe the Earth is flat. You'll never convince them.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The moon is made of spam.

[GunRunner]

I've always wondered how they (wacko conspiracy theorists) explained the gazillion ton Saturn 5 rocket. Was that just a prop too? And the members of the press who saw the astronauts get into the module; was there a secret exit that they used to get out before the damn thing blasted off?

Idiots.

[Burkeman1]

This is a bad idea. No amount of evidence will ever convince these sadly deluded people. They are disturbed people and so much of their personal identity- the center of their being and definitions of who they are is wrapped up in knowing the "Real Truth" about the lunar landings that even if they were taken to the moon themselves they would be unable to believe it and insist that they were in a hollywood set. In fact any attention payed to them at all only deepens their pyschosis. There are actually people who believe the earth is flat and have their "evidence" as well. Sad.

[mrsmith]

Last year's thread: NASA Debunks Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy

Sigh, the true believers will never be convinced.

[RightWhale]

Does it matter at all whether Buzz Aldrin and the others walked on the moon? I know what went into the moon landings, not just from reading books and watching documentaries. But the point is that we are no longer sending men to the moon. Sure, when you see Jupiter in the sky tonight, you can remember that there is a NASA spacecraft orbiting around that planet. And when you see Saturn, remember that another NASA spacecraft is near the planet and preparing to go into orbit around that. That's fine in itself, to think that the solar system is crawling with spacecraft everywhere. But we aren't sending men to the moon these days, and it doesn't matter that we once did.

[GunRunner]

Here's the "flag blowing in the wind" video:

http://www.moonmovie.com/flag_blowing.ram

[Jeff Gordon]

Did Tom Hanks really fly around the moon? Curious minds need to know.

[Bommer]

If NASA really wants to settle this once and for all, all they need to do is aim the Hubble telescope to the Sea of Tranquility and focus in on the decarded lower lunar module and the flag. Great that they would rather piss more tax payer money away on something that could be either proved or debuncked with a simple turn of a space telescope.

[u-89]

Your Tax Dollars at Work

[elbucko]

People that believe the moon landings were fake, should be shot on the sets were the moon landings were faked.

[Seruzawa]

If you really want to attract the tinfoilhat crowd, post a thread denying the existence of chemtrails.

[babygene]

In the mid sixties I was on the USS Godridch, and we were part of the Gemni recovery team.

(Project Gemini was a transitional step between the pioneering Mercury Program and the actual landing a man on the moon)

Many a space capsule we hoisted out of the ocean. Months an months of practice. Lots and lots of pictures. It's intresting to me that never did we pick up a capsule with anyone in it.

All of the real space shots seemed to land in a different ocean. It's odd to me that a few years before we landed on the moon (and got back) we couldn't bring the damm thing down in the right ocean. Remember, that at that time, we didn't have computers like we have today. We used slide rules.

In the seventies I was involved with RCA Astro, and was responsible for maintaining the computers at Cape Kennedy that were used for satilite launches. These machines were multiple HP 2116s that weighed 275lbs each and had 16K of core memmory. Along with all of the instrumentation, they weighed probably 10,000 lbs.

This equipment was needed to get the bird in orbit around the earth.

Could this feat have been aconplished with a sliderule ten years earlier, involving an orbit around the moon? I guess it is possible. A lot of luck had to have been involved. As for myself, I don't believe it.

[narby]

The sad thing is, it doesn't need to be that expensive to go to orbit or the moon. I firmly believe that the spacefairing countries want to keep their capabilities to themselves. Lest Osama or Saddam buys the same capability to drop things on us.

Don't know the links, but check out the "X Prize" on the net. It's a 10 million dollar prize for someone to fly 75 miles up. That's a long ways toward orbit/moon.

An idea I really like was submitted by an ex-Air Force fighter pilot. Build a jet aircraft with heat tiles like the shuttle and a rocket engine. Launch it without full fuel on the jets, and refuel with a tanker lots of kerosene. Fire up the rocket and boost to mach 12-15 and about 75 miles. Pop open a cargo door, dump out a third stage (stage 1=jet, stage 2=rocket, stage 3=cargo) which fires a small rocket to boost to final orbit speed. Then the aircraft re-enters.

You could launch such a thing with minimal crew every day. Might need to overhaul the rocket every dozen or so flights. Big deal.

Once you get orbital flight cheap enough, everything else gets cheaper. Even the spacecraft get cheaper, because you can afford to "mess up", and don't have to spend the megabucks during the design phase.

[DAnconia55]

One way they could stop all this (But they won't for other reasons..) ....

Is to release all images taken by all and any craft or device to the public, instead of selectively releasing images and editing...

[El Sordo]

It always amazes me that people fall for the "Moon Hoax" hype.

But, it also amazes me that people vote Democrat.....