have you seen it sparky? Looks like it was put together in someone's shed. I can just about conceive the thing getting there, but taking off and getting back through the atmosphere? nope.

Do you believe it?

Since 1969 how many people have stepped foot on it?

Why has Russia not done it since?

In fact why has the USA not done it since?

In fact why has China not done it since?

It should have been just like Mount Eeverst, it took man a long time to do it but 1000s have done it since.

Seems all very suspect to me

Landing on the Moon was never done in the name of science, it was about building bigger and better rockets and dominating your enemies. The only scientist ever to set foot on the Moon was on the last mission.

There seems to be a new impetus on landing on the Moon, China, India, the Ruskies and again the US want to go there. I can guarantee there is ulterior motives to this.

Met Elvis and Hitler last time I was up there.

the base, the bit with the glorified tinfoil, was left on the moon. i was like you, i only started to doubt it happened once i saw what they went to the moon in!

Why? you are not saying that is was a true depiction?

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So you bring up something that you have no opinion on?

No point wasting my time with you. Is it?

;) ;)

right-ho

There is a similarity with the South Pole expeditions - no-one went there on foot between 1912 ( 1914 Shackleton attempt failed ) and 1958. Why - presumably getting there symbolises human achievement, but once it's been done, what's the point. Well it took the USA 6 moon landings to realise there was no further point, no economic advantage, no new information to learn by having a human there. That's changing now - new powers want a symbol of how far they've come, it can be done cheaper than before, and we've thought of lots of new experiments we'd like to do, and mankind may journey there again. Like with the South Pole, we're now interested in sampling the air, crushing deep glacial ice and seeing what isotopes come out, measuring the sun's brightness in summer and the temperature. Back in 1911/12 we just wanted to prove we could do it.

Besides, there are ladders going much of the way up Everest now. When there are ladders to the moon you'll see plenty of tourists going up and down.

Iwantyourbraincells, escapee from the politics forum.
Being as stupid as always too.

Poor Lisa

Getting battered on the forum by a winker

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Good answer Bongo but I think I've stated the main reason.

Kennedy made his famous speech before American's had even sent a man into space and was in response to Yuri Gagarin going into space. The Russian's had beaten them to everything before hand and were winning the ratings war. The Moon landings were never about science it was about winning a cold war.

BTW the Russian's tried and failed to bring an automated rock sample back only a few weeks before Apollo 11 succeeded.

apollo 11 astronauts,i think,were there as a piece of equipment had to be aligned correctly.a reflective surface to gauge the distance of the moon from earth.some folks will never believe though.buzz sorted one out a few years ago.

...and still funny.old guy should have been a boxer.

tbf he was dead quite a few years before

um, he was a bit dead at the time, but yes, all the impetus came from a desire to beat the Russkis. Of course, if there were ANY reasonable doubt about whether the landings were genuine, the Russians would have been all over it.

Sparky has gave you the answer to your question, Wit-Ham.

There's images here taken from space but they're not clear :

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html

You conspirator's would want some clearer images, not sure if the Japanese, Chinese or Indian's have them.

which moon first ?

Earth has a second moon, of sorts, and could have many others, according to three astronomers who did calculations to describe orbital motions at gravitational balance points in space that temporarily pull asteroids into bizarre orbits near our planet.

The 3-mile-wide (5-km) satellite, which takes 770 years to complete a horseshoe-shaped orbit around Earth, is called Cruithne and will remain in a suspended state around Earth for at least 5,000 years.

Cruithne, discovered in 1986, and then found in 1997 to have a highly eccentric orbit, cannot be seen by the naked eye, but scientists working at Queen Mary and Westfield College in London were intrigued enough with its peregrinations to come up with mathematical models to describe its path.