A spot of bait for the Moon Landing Hoax believers

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On this day in 1969, the Lunar Module 'Eagle' touched down in the Sea of Tranquility, and Man walked on the Moon for the first time a few hours later. Yes, it did happen. And yes, those of you who think it was hoaxed are a bunch of saliva-dribbling morons :)

NASA has given a schedule for their return to the Moon. The current plan has a mission penned in for June 2019, using the Orion command module and Altair lander. Does seem highly boring of them to go for a Moon mission again - even back in the '60s, a manned flyby of Venus was considered feasible!

NASA's current Project Constellation schedule is here. The shuttle is supposed to leave service in 2010, so presumably they'll use Russian craft for ISS missions between then and Orion becoming operational. I can't wait to see how it all pans out.
 
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well aren't they landing on the moon just to prove new technology and get a better success rate than the apollo missions. As something went wrong on every mission.

As they want to use it as a proof of concept for a possible mars mission. It would be great If I could see men walking on mars..
 
I think it's now pretty certain it wasn't a hoax, but the question is what did they slice out the original images, and airbrush out of the sky which has got the Russians in uproar
 
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TheBrooder said:
I think it's now pretty certain it wasn't a hoax, but the question is what did they slice out the original images, and airbrush out of the sky which has got the Russians in uproar
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As far as I'm aware, they edited some of the photos for the purposes of publishing them - this page details what was done to modify the classic portrait shot of Buzz Aldrin before it was used in published material. I don't think the Russians were ever in uproar about that sort of thing, you got a source anywhere?
 
I know some folk & managers at NASA, and they think the idea of a hoax is ridiculous, it's hard enough to do anything let alone stage a large-scale hoax :p
 
TheBrooder said:
well they're going to the moon themselves I believe
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Yes, by 2025 as I recall. India is planning to launch an unmanned probe called Chandrayaan to head for the Moon on September 19th this year. The Chinese have also expressed interest in heading there with a manned mission but haven't made any formal announcement of a plan for it.
 
psychas said:
it was a hoax.
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THe problem with it being a Hoax is, someone somewhere would have spotted something, a low paid security guard see's Aldrin having a smoke outside a warehouse in Area 51 and sells the story to the papers 20 years later for a bit of cash.

Either way, if their funding had stayed the same as it had been back there, as in comparitively the same, (say 2% of the budget back then and 2% now) rather than being drastically cut back I'm sure they could have done a lot more. But at the end of the day, putting a couple men on a far planet might be cool in sci-fi terms, but in reality offers us so very very little. Once someone pops up with a nice fuel/propultion method that makes moving around much easier and lighter with , basically, more space for errors, then it will pick back up again.

I mean if you had a "impulse" engine that would give us fuel and fast movement essentially at will, you can just alter course on the way rather than have to make the perfect shot from here to mars with a half centimetre out landing you a billion miles away from the planet without enough fuel to correct the problem.

A new propultion system, which would most likely use a new fuel, or maybe just a onboard nuke power station for all I know, is required for any significant advancement in the space program.
 
TheBrooder said:
http://rnd.cnews.ru/blog/?p=352
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So basically you point us to a website that is run by a Russian Magick.
That is not Russians in an uproar.

The simple thing is that Russia totally and utterley accepted that the USA got there before them.
They tracked the rocket & the lunar landing and most probably had quite a few men on the inside.
Even my own Grandad tracked it (G3AQW) all the way there & back with his ham radio so that would have been special if the USA somehow managed to fool all those ham radio enthusiasts.
Thats not counting the main dish that tracked it in Australia.
The Russians backed down and decided not to run their moon project but they still use the mirrors that the USA left there.
 
dmpoole said:
So basically you point us to a website that is run by a Russian Magick.
That is not Russians in an uproar.

The simple thing is that Russia totally and utterley accepted that the USA got there before them.
They tracked the rocket & the lunar landing and most probably had quite a few men on the inside.
Even my own Grandad tracked it (G3AQW) all the way there & back with his ham radio so that would have been special if the USA somehow managed to fool all those ham radio enthusiasts.
Thats not counting the main dish that tracked it in Australia.
The Russians backed down and decided not to run their moon project but they still use the mirrors that the USA left there.
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Very good but I'm not saying they didn't go to the moon, I'm not even saying there's a base on the moon or whatever others believe, I just read about it a few weeks ago and thought it was interesting that some photos have been sliced and airbrushed and that the Russians are all over it.

Make of it what you will, I personally think that NASA have acted strangely to certain things and that there's a possibility that they aren't telling us everything, whether that's proof of ET's or ancient structures on the Moon/Mars I have no idea and I'm not totally convinced by sceptics or 'believers' ... but it would be cool if they did exist though wouldn't it!

EDIT: BTW that's a Russian news site not an 'abovetopsecret.com' type site
 
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