Apollo Moon Landing Hoax - Why Fake a Moon Landing?
Whether the conspiracy was possible or if there was a motive for faking the landings, is a big part of the moon hoax.
Many conspiracy debunkers say that there was no reason for the US to fake the moon landings.
This is false, as at the time America was publicly losing the space race, as Russia had put the:
First man/woman in space.
First animal in space.
First three person mission in space.
And the first space station in orbit.
Even though these landmarks were achieved using crude methods, (i.e. putting a man on a rocket or adding a extra man on a two maned spaceship) to the public eye, it would seem as if the US were losing the space race. And ‘IF’, and only if the US couldn’t put a man on the moon in time, then the deadline that JFK set, and public pressure, could have forced the government to fake a moon landing.
So the US did have a motive for faking a moon landings, but how would NASA have carried out this enormous conspiracy?
There are two options: Wide spread and Minimal.
Wide Spread Conspiracy
In this hoax imagine that you are the contractors, NASA tells you about the moon landing conspiracy and pays you for your services that your not giving. You make announcement to the public telling them that your making rocket parts. (This is for the share holders.) Then at the first day of work you tell everybody in the factory that their not really making rocket parts, and that if they play this out they’ll be set for life. Employees that don’t comply get stern death threats from NASA officials.
The advantage to this is type of conspiracy is, no real equipment has to be made, except for a rocket to go up and a lander to come down.
The disadvantage to this is how many people are told about the conspiracy. At one point over half a million people were involved in the Apollo project at one time, and the conspiracy believers are saying that no one came forward even on their death beds (dead men/women can not be killed) and out of all of those people nobody saw a sense of duty to tell the people of their country the truth!!
Also were are all of the people who worked at Apollo and are now living it up with their “keep quiet” money (if you can find any millionaires, that worked at places like Rocketdyne, at the time that the rockets were being made (or not), they got their money from no apparent source, and their around about 50+ please notify me at moonhoax@gmail.com.)
Minimal Conspiracy
In this conspiracy only the top people of NASA are told. The good news about this, is that these people work for NASA, so the secret will die with them.
The bad news is the contractors will think that their making real rocket parts, and so they will make a flight worthy rocket, and even though the NASA quality control wont care if the rocket works, the contractors will, and will notice if their is something wrong with their merchandise, so NASA’s rockets would be flight worthy, and if so, there would be no reason to fake the moon landings.
But many conspirators say that NASA just told the people what to make, and they made it.
Think about it, NASA hire these people because they know there stuff. Even a junior engineer, wouldn’t need the full picture of the space craft designs to make their own bit of the rocket.
All this doesn’t make sense. Unless, it wasn’t the rockets themselves that were wrong, but something else that wouldn’t work, (i.e. they couldn’t stop radiation damage ((see above))) then the contractors could build a space worthy rocket to get to the moon, without them knowing that their was some unforeseen problem. BUT this would cost a lot of money for something that would never be used.
Keeping the Moon Conspiracy Alive
But there is one smudge, on the squeaky clean slate of NASA’s record. If we sent 6 manned spacecraft to the moon in ten years, then why in 30 years with so many technological advances haven’t we been back once? NASA says that there was a budget cut and this can be explained for the first 10 years after the Apollo missions, because of the build up of nuclear weapons (due to the cold war) would have cost money that could have been taken away from NASA.
But what about the other twenty years? Some people say that the risks are too high to justify another moon landing, but there will always be somebody ready and willing to risk it all, for the good of mankind and scientific advancement. A possibility is we still don’t have the technology to go to the moon, because we didn’t go to the moon in the first place.
Moon Conspiracy Conclusion
In my opinion, the Apollo moon landings were most probably real. There will always be an unease in my mind by the fact that we have never been back. But the conspiracy believers haven’t given ‘conclusive’ proof, that isn’t available without a price. :-))
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May 18, 2006at 12:26 am
Have just read this article; here is a thought on why we have not been back, yet. It’s really a case of ‘been there, done that, got the moon rock’. Okay, so we haven’t got the t-shirt or kiss-me-quick hat, but most space exploration since the moon shots has been concerned with getting a quick pay-back, either military or commercial. Also, since Challenger and Columbia, there is the safety aspect; NASA needs to be very sure of what it is doing.
I am sure that Neil Armstrong et al did go to the moon, and I am sure that we will go back, but only when there is a sound reason for doing so, which scientific advancement, I’m afraid, does not provide.
May 28, 2006at 11:59 pm
One would wonder why if NASA brass had been asked to fake the moon (presumably by the Nixon administration), they kept their silence when they were “rewarded” with ever diminishing budgets over the years. If there’s one thing bureaucrats won’t stand for, it’s losing their peice of the budget pie.
April 19, 2007at 5:26 pm
We need a simple photo taken FROM earth or at least the HUBBLE, without any kind of STUPID excuse (blured vision cause by the extreme magnification of hubble + proximity of the moon.
July 22, 2007at 12:51 am
This is a very good summary of the whole case, the believers, and the non-believers. You took a very friendly take on both sides, great job!
(I’m writing a research report on this “Moon Hoax” and this page has been very helpful.)
August 8, 2007at 8:42 am
And isnt it a bit odd why there are no succeeding trips to the moon? Aren’t there anymore interesting “finds” not worth going back there? If moon landing was possible how many years have passed, arent we suppose to have thought of a way to travel there for research?
June 2, 2008at 12:53 pm
I believe that in Apollo 14, one of the astronauts suits had a tiny leak and the photographs of that astronaut show him with a blue halo around him due to the scattering of the light through oxygen(???- help need a physicist to verify!!)
I cannot believe that anyone would even think of going to the trouble of faking this, it would also cast doubt on the reliability of the suits, so why would NASA want to fake all that?
Of course, it takes a brave man to continue his work with a leak in the suit, and that is what they all were, brave men- why do we want to deny that. America won the space race fairly and squarely with well designed systems ( unfortunately a result of initial tragedy) that weren’t even fully tested when they were sent to put a man on the moon by the end of the 60s.
I am still, to this day, in awe at this achievement.
June 27, 2008at 3:44 pm
Simple answer to the “why haven’t we been back” question: Because there was not enough political justification to keep the program going in the first place, and there hasn’t been enough to justify a return since then. When the public lost interest in the later Apollo landings, and when there were no more political space winners to capitalize on, the political push ended. And JFK dying took some of the wind out of that sail. Plans are now in place, and have been for 20 years to return to the Moon if budgets and political will allowed.
July 21, 2008at 7:07 pm
for me the lack of return journeys to the moon is very telling.
if it became mundane somehow to go back because they had been there already, surely they should have started building a base there with a view to colonising it. maybe not much to learn from being on the moon, but wouldnt it have been the best way to train for trips to other planets.
I honestly feel that the landings were hoaxed. i feel america felt pressure not to lose another race with russia and went to any lengths to avoid that scenario.
i believe every time they try to send man to space for real it ends in tragedy with the shuttle explosions etc.
also if our tv satellite dishes are takeing a signal from space. why does the tv guy need a compass to point it north, east , south or west ( depending on your local )
surely the optimum position to recieve a signal from space would be to point the dish directly up through the clouds.
September 14, 2008at 1:32 am
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September 14, 2008at 1:33 am
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October 4, 2008at 4:32 pm
I think it important to separate the idea of whether we went to the moon from the idea that a lot of the photos and communications were fake.
That is logical.
October 9, 2008at 6:58 pm
I think if the Moon Landings are real, the only way we’ll know f or real is if and when we do go back there , they will find a U.S flag, a moon buggy and the landing pod that was left there
Could this be the reason we never went back? Also there should be tonnes of human waste up there as well!