Did the Moon-men have a sense of humour?

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I was watching a channel 5 documentary on the Moon landings been faked, which is rubbish as there is sufficient evidence to prove that man landed on the Moon.
However, what interested me in the programme is the side of the astronauts that you never see.

Example 1: Neil Armstrong was asked by the sceptic "can you put you hand on this bible and swear that the moon landings were not faked?" Neil replied, "that is probably a fake Bible"

Example 2: The sceptic approached Buzz Aldrin and said, "you never went to the Moon, you are a fake, a liar, a coward." Buzz replied by giving him a splendid powerful right hook.

Oh, and they did go to the Moon.
 
To be fair to them, they've probably had the same thing said to them for years and years. I too would be pretty miffed if I constantly had the same accusations thrown at me against what would probably be the greatest achievement of my life.
 
I am curious as to whether the implication made, in the film Apollo 13, that Swiggert wanted to use the LEM to make a one way journey to the lunar surface rather than try to use it to get back to Earth, was actually based on historical fact?
 
Orionaut said:
I am curious as to whether the implication made, in the film Apollo 13, that Swiggert wanted to use the LEM to make a one way journey to the lunar surface rather than try to use it to get back to Earth, was actually based on historical fact?
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Swigert was never going to the moon - he was the Command module pilot.
 
Of course they went to the moon but this means that we'll have the usual CT brigade here again spouting endless posts with their baseless nonsense.

Methinks it's time to head to the GD space station. Adious amigos. :D
 
Don't know anything abuut the landings being fake however just watched the clip of Buzz punching the guy, apparently he had being lured to the hotel under false intentions and then harrassed and called a coward and liar. He's probably had to put up with this for decades.


As to why subsequent landings haven't been made, seems to be down to money and ambition, they want bigger and better which means more money and fancier tech.

http://www.space.com/7015-40-years-moon-landing-hard.html
 
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I think when we move to the new orian module we'll see another moon landing because its will be much easier than with the shuttle lol
 
Orionaut said:
I am curious as to whether the implication made, in the film Apollo 13, that Swiggert wanted to use the LEM to make a one way journey to the lunar surface rather than try to use it to get back to Earth, was actually based on historical fact?
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Incredibly doubtful.

A) Jack Swigert was the Command Module Pilot and therefore wouldn't have been going to the lunar surface even before the oxygen tank blew itself to Narnia and back.
B) I know in the film there's a line from Fred Haise about wishing they could have taken the Aquarius down and 'done a little prospecting', but that was seemingly just wistfulness at losing the mission that they'd gone up to do.
C) That might be one of the more stupid things I've heard from anything relating to Apollo conspiracies :p
 
Orionaut said:
I am curious as to whether the implication made, in the film Apollo 13, that Swiggert wanted to use the LEM to make a one way journey to the lunar surface rather than try to use it to get back to Earth, was actually based on historical fact?
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Did we watch the same film? I don't remember that at all. There is a sequence when, during the transit of the moon, Lovell (Hanks) regrets not being to get the chance to walk on the surface (which I'm sure anyone would feel), but never any suggestion of a 'suicide' run.
 
Apollo 13 had to go to the Moon after the incident in order to 'sling-shot' around the Moon to increase their velocity back to Earth. Beautiful Physics.
 
We did land on the moon but I do know a lot of shots were in fact faked. Its been proven by many many video and photography experts. This was likely done for propaganda purposes.

Whenever I see Buzz Aldrin he seems a nice enough guy. He also believes he saw Aliens but of course he is a crackpot low intelligence nutter who happens to have multiple degrees
 
lunar said:
Apollo 13 had to go to the Moon after the incident in order to 'sling-shot' around the Moon to increase their velocity back to Earth. Beautiful Physics.
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Had the SPS (service module main engine) been available to them then they could have done a direct abort - turn around and fire the SPS to return straight to Earth. At ~56 hours into the mission they were still close enough to Earth for that to be viable. But when you've had a bloody large bang from inside the service module, you don't tend to trust the engine on the back end of it! Plus the electrical system of the CSM had been shot to hell by the loss of oxygen and the shock of the explosion slamming a bunch of valves in fuel cell country shut, so who knew if it even could be fired?

As it was, they had to do a burn of the LM descent engine before they went around the Moon to get back onto the free return trajectory - they had been aiming for a landing at Fra Mauro, and that meant leaving the free return trajectory to get there. Then a burn two hours after the closest approach to the Moon (PC, or pericynthion, +2) to get some speed up and aim for a Pacific ocean landing. And then two mid-course corrections after that, one of which they had to do with the little directional thrusters of the RCS because the descent engine was out of action by then.
 
The shots were not faked. The shots used were a fraction of what was filmed, as the others were either out of focus or poor in quality.
I don't know much about photography, but you must realise that the Moon has no atmosphere and the surface is highly reflective. E.g. Take a picture of someone standing on snow; you will see extra light on the face and clothing.
 
It's easy enough to understand why people think the moon landings were fake.

As a feat of science and engineering the scale of the effort was mind-boggling and the technology they used was laughable by today's standards. Plus no one has been back since.

Visiting the Kennedy Space centre is a real eye-opener in understanding what was involved, and I was lucky enough to be there when a rocket actually launched. Truly amazing stuff.

The sooner we spread into space the better. But again when you look at the challenges involved, it seems such a vast undertaking I do wonder who'll have the foresight to do so.
 
RaohNS said:
We did land on the moon but I do know a lot of shots were in fact faked. Its been proven by many many video and photography experts. This was likely done for propaganda purposes.
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I assume you have some solid links for us proving this?
That's bordering on the higher end of the crazy scale :p
 
RaohNS said:
We did land on the moon but I do know a lot of shots were in fact faked. Its been proven by many many video and photography experts. This was likely done for propaganda purposes.
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And here we go. This isn't the time or the place for such garbage. Stop it.
 
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