Try this handy experiment. Grab your favorite camera, film or digital. If film, load it with 400-speed film; if digital, set the ISO to 400.
Go out and take a picture of the full moon (at night, obviously); for a decent exposure of the moon, the shutter speed should be 1/500th of a second and the aperture should be f11.
Now, tell me how many stars you see in that picture. I can virtually guarantee the answer will be 0; the stars are too dim for that level of exposure to record. You’ll have to expose for several seconds to capture the brightest stars, which will leave the moon a fuzzy white blob.
It is simply not possible to capture the range of brightness between the moon and the background stars in the same exposure, especially not with film. That’s why you don’t see any stars in the Apollo photographs. It’s also part of why the shadows on the surface look so stark; again, the range of brightness between the lit surface and the shadows is at the limit of what film can record.
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His name was Ed Fendell, a controller in Houston in charge the remotely-controlled camera on the LRV.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …