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the flag waves without the astronauts touching it

Not in the linked video. The only times the flag waves are when they’re trying to set it into place, and towards the end when one of them brushes against it while moving across the frame. Without air to damp the motion, it waves for a little longer than we’d expect down here.

the dust went up when the rover drove through it, but there are numerous photos with the rover and no tracks behind it!

Uh-huh. In some cases it’s due to the angle of the photograph; in others it’s because the astronauts have obliterated the tracks by skipping through them (you can see the bootprints all over the place in one of them).

but the LEM left no sign of anything kicking up!

Not if you look carefully; you’ll see the rays of ejected material radiating from the descent stage.

Two things to remember about the descent stage:

1. In a vacuum, the exhaust plume expands immediately upon leaving the nozzle, so that the exhaust was hitting a much wider area than just under the nozzle (check out the videos of Falcon rocket launches at SpaceX.com; you’ll see the exhaust plumes expand and get much less flamey as the vehicle climbs out of the atmosphere);

2. The descent stage was throttled down to roughly 10% of total output for landing, or about 4000 N of force, compared to over 40,000 N at full power.

So you had a diffuse exhaust at low power. You’re not going to be digging any deep craters; you’ll blow off the lightest surface material, but that’s about it. It’s similar to a Harrier landing (except that you’re using a rocket instead of a jet).

lastly the laser refractors, the soviets managed to put them up as well with unmanned vehicles.

Yup. We decided to do it with people.

The challenge I’ve made several times is, if the Apollo scientific instruments were delivered by unmanned missions, where were those missions launched from? When were they launched? Where’s the paper trail for them (this is the government, there is going to be a paper trail)? You can’t launch a lunar mission from just anywhere on the Earth; your inclination must be favorable for a trans-lunar injection orbit, or you have to burn a lot of fuel to change your orbital plane (meaning bigger boosters which are harder to hide). The boosters must have been big enough to lift a few tonnes into high orbit, meaning they weren’t bottle rockets, meaning they would have been very visible. The Soviets would certainly have noticed and called us on it.

So, where were they? Come up with solid evidence for those launches, and you’d have some credibility.

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Who panned the camera?

His name was Ed Fendell, a controller in Houston in charge the remotely-controlled camera on the LRV.

Yes, he had to take the signal delay into account – he had to anticipate the liftoff and rate of ascent. …


Apollo Moon Landing Hoax – More Photographic Proof

Did you know that many of the people involved in the moon landing died from a car crash?

Upwards of 90 people die *every day* in car crashes in the US; it’s not at all surprising that a lot people “involved …


Apollo Moon Landing Hoax – More Photographic Proof

Some futher googling indicates that the original Saturn V plans are stored at MSFC in Huntsville, AL (which would make sense); however, the source I found isn’t authoritative (it’s a forum discussion with no links), so don’t take that as …


Apollo Moon Landing Hoax – More Photographic Proof

Paper copies were destroyed because storage costs money; many (not all) documents were saved to microfilm for long-term storage. Some of these documents are available online, such as:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-LMdocs.html
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-CSMdocs.html
http://klabs.org/history/ech/agc_schematics/
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ApolloDescentGuidnce.pdf
http://contentcat.fhsu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/cosmosphere

That’s far from a complete list; I’m sure there …


Apollo Moon Landing Hoax – More Photographic Proof

Even one picture of the stars while the ship was on the way to or circling the moon.

I’ve explained this before, multiple times. You simply cannot expose for the sunlit surface of the Moon and the stars at the …


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Who panned the camera?

His name was Ed Fendell, a controller in Houston in charge the remotely-controlled camera on the LRV.

Yes, he had to take the signal delay into account – he had to anticipate the liftoff and rate of ascent. …


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It doesn’t have to be pretty to work.

The foil acted as a thermal blanket, reflecting as much of the sunlight as possible to keep the base of the LM from overheating. The foil was only about 125 microns thick, …


Apollo Moon Landing Hoax – Scientific Evidence

The blueprints *weren’t* destroyed; they’re on file at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. Not that it matters; we couldn’t build the Saturn V today if we wanted to, because most of the technology it used is …


Apollo Moon Landing Hoax – More Photographic Proof

Did you know that many of the people involved in the moon landing died from a car crash?

Upwards of 90 people die *every day* in car crashes in the US; it’s not at all surprising that a lot people “involved …


Apollo Moon Landing Hoax – Camera Problems

It’s not a C, it’s an O.

And it *looks* like some kind of inclusion (a pebble embedded in a slightly softer matrix rock). It looks like the surrounding matrix has eroded a bit, leaving a small channel around the …