Did Man Really walk on the Moon??

[Shelley_c]

Originally Posted by lasto

and the final question is : what did we gain by spending millions on sending a man to the moon ????

Nothing

Look at the bigger picture lasto. Space travel is the future and having you eggs located in one basket is pure silliness. Although you think nothing was gained the science that was gained is invaluable.

And it was billions that the Americans spent during the mercury/apollo era.

With regards to the moon landings, I personally don't think they were faked. The conspiracy theorists have nothing better to do with their time but to create tales and capture the public's imagination in a negative way.

Reflectors (to determine whether the moon was spinning away from the earth) was placed on the moon and lasers setup on earth to confirm this. 4 vehicles are still present on the moon. They didn't get there themselves esp the reflectors.

Personally, I don't think they were faked. Nasa should have already been setting moon bases and taking advantage of the moon (think of the fuel saved) Costs are said to be a quarter of what the take off costs are. I believe when the americans said by the end of the decade they would land a man on the moon and return him safely they did just that.

[AWS]

The question isn't did man step on the moon, it's why haven't we been back?

[Shelley_c]

Money, and towards the latter stages of the appollo missions the taxpayers where getting tired of it. Routine as it may have been I personally don't think it should only fall on americas heads in returning to the moon. Russia had a space program that nearly rivalled americas, they are the most expereinced in living in space for long durations. China have a great space program on the go (could even rival nasa one day) and the european space agency is very advance. Nasa and the european space agency worked together on the cassini mission to saturn so I can't see why all the countries can't pull their resources and knowledge together and returning to the moon. Would cut down the financial burden on one country.

[Trip]

I believe man has been on the moon. There is no convincing scientific arguements to prove otherwise. I guess I'll take the americans at their word .
Space travel is probably on the back burner for awhile. Too much unrest in the world to be worried about how far you can lob a golf ball on the moon. IMO

[AdrianH]

These images show the actual site and footprints seen from space :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8157368.stm


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[DieselMinded]

The moon landing only happened because of the Cold War and we had to show our muscles

Google : Apollo vs. Sputnik

[Shelley_c]

And let's not forget the testing beforehand. Nasa using pure oxygen in their capsule and exposing wires which frayed and sparked an explosion cooking 3 astonauts to their deaths. infact, one of the astronauts advise another astronaut who wasworried & killed (Gus Grissom) to complain but he didn't for fear he would have been taken off the program.

During the early stages, Nasa where guilty of cutting corners and putting the lives ahead of the need to gain one step ahead of the russians.

Let's also not forget if it wasn't for the talents of Wernher von Braun and had the russians not captured him first in world war 2 it would have been a whole different story.

That said. The mercury program made this all possible. The astronauts took a hell of chance perform spacewalks and performing docking procedures that even made the apollo program even possible.

[JakeS]

I watched a whole documentary about how we could not have got to the moon in that day and age.

My question is:

If they really got to the moon, why are they struggling to get this robot things to land on it still? and loosing signal with some of them? surely if they sent man there, and never lost signal at all? then sending a robot should be easier?

[napy8gen]

after 40 years no man land on the moon again?

I simply not believing it and will not believed it. They can fool some kids to inspire them but not me.

I want new prove, I want new images, I want new astronauts on the moon.

Now we are in the millenium ages,modern technology is far more better, why not prove again you landed on the moon, I dont buy those 40 years crap new enchanced images.

NASA been the most big liar in the world.

They knew 7 layers of sky/space. and they never touch the second layer just yet.Each layers guarded by angels and prophets.

[Reycer]

Here's what's got me. 40 years ago we learned how to get to the moon, and walk on it. 40 years later we can't figure out the toilet:

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ? The bathroom lines at the already crowded space shuttle and space station complex got a lot longer Sunday because of a flooded toilet. One of two commodes aboard the international space station malfunctioned, right in the middle of complicated robotic work being conducted by the two crews. The pump separator apparently flooded.
Mission Control advised the astronauts to hang an "out of service" sign on the toilet until it could be fixed. In the meantime, the six space station residents had to get in line to use their one good toilet. And Endeavour's seven astronauts were restricted to the shuttle bathroom.



There have never been so many people ? 13 ? together in space. The toilet repair work fell to Belgian Frank De Winne, who had to don goggles, gloves and a mask.


Flight director Brian Smith declined to speculate whether overuse caused the toilet trouble.
"We don't yet know the extent of the problem," Smith told reporters. "It may turn out to be of no consequence at all. It could turn out to be significant. It's too early to tell right now."
Teams of specialists in Houston and Moscow hurriedly convened to discuss the problem. The Russian-built, multimillion-dollar toilet flew up on a shuttle last November.


Smith said there is no urgency to the bathroom situation, at least for now. But he said if the toilet remains out of action for several days, "then we'll readdress the situation and see what we have to do."
Going into this mission, NASA wanted at least four of Endeavour's crew to use the space station's bathrooms, so the shuttle waste water tank would not fill up.


As long as Endeavour is docked to the space station, it cannot eject any waste water. The nozzle is located near the newly installed porch on the Japanese lab; the attach mechanisms for experiments could corrode if sprayed by water.


Two bathrooms ultimately are needed for a full station crew of six. Smith said he did not know how long six occupants could rely on a single toilet.
Both the shuttle and station are equipped with other ways for the astronauts to relieve themselves, Smith said, including Apollo-era urine collection bags.
Much of Sunday ? the eve of the 40th anniversary of man's first moon landing ? was spent using a pair of robot arms to move a large cargo carrier, loaded with batteries and spare parts, from the shuttle to the station. It was a relatively quiet day sandwiched between spacewalks.


The 13-by-8-foot platform holds an antenna, pump and engine for the station's rail car, all of which will be removed and secured to the space station during a spacewalk Monday. NASA wants to store as many big spare parts as possible at the space station, before shuttles stop flying at the end of next year.