“The onus is on NASA to refute each and every argument challenging

Comment on Apollo Moon Landing Hoax by LunarOrbit.

“The onus is on NASA to refute each and every argument challenging the moon landings.”

Ummm, no, it isn’t. By your logic, if I accuse you of murder it is up to you to prove your innocence. That’s not how it works in a fair society. We believe in ‘innocent until proven guilty’, not ‘guilty until proven innocent’.

NASA has provided a ton of proof that they went to the Moon. If you accuse them of faking the whole thing then it is up to you to prove it.

“This may seem strange, but the logic is quite clear: I can make a dozen arguments arguing that NASA never put a man on Mars. Even if eleven of those twelve arguments are false – only one correct one is sufficient to demonstrate that NASA did not put a man on Mars.”

So if I make a dozen arguments that you murdered someone, and you are not able to show that every single one of those arguments is wrong, then you must be guilty. Right?

What, you don’t have any witnesses to your whereabouts on the night of the murder? You were alone? Gee… you sound guilty to me.

“There is a tendency of those defending NASA to use ad-hominem or ad-personam attacks; those questioning NASA tend to be more polite.”

I think you’ve got things backwards. There was a comment made just a few posts above yours by someone named John Robinson in which he called everyone who believes the Moon landings really happened “sheep”, and accused us of having the reasoning capability of children. And this is just one example.

“A question that continues to puzzle me: why didn’t the Soviets put a person on the moon?”

Because their N-1 Moon rocket had the tendency of going “BOOM!” and they couldn’t figure out how to fix it in time to beat the US.

“Even if the Americans had put the first man on the moon, the Soviets could have had the glory of putting the first woman on it.”

At great expense. It hardly seems worth it to nearly bankrupt your economy just to come in second.

The Soviets reaction to losing the race was to claim they weren’t even trying. We know that is false.

“Final point: there are two distinct points that need to be proved:

a) Whether NASA could land a man on the moon in 1969.”

There is no reason why they couldn’t. Hoax believers tend to paint the 1960s as some kind of technological stone age, but it wasn’t.

“b) Whether NASA did land a man on the moon in 1969.”

The evidence overwhelmingly supports their claim that they did. Therefore, there is no reason for me to believe they faked it.