im sure some people who reply will have heard the rumor that the nasa space mission to the moon was really fake footage and we didnt get on the moon what do you think?

well I can`t say for sure - I`ve seen a documentary on Discovery about this and the arguments those people brought in favor of the "nasa faked moon landing" variant are quite strong (there`s no wind on moon, but the flag they put there was waving...also, some shadows were just "wrong" speaking of direction and some more...)

so, we`ll probably never know

When I first saw the documentary, I believed that it was staged, since that is how the evidence seemed to point, but after reading the rebuttles to those points on the related Wikipedia article, I again believed that we actually landed on the moon. I believe that the explainations given there are very reasonable, and so, yes, I believe we actually DID land on the moon.

As I heard now NASA wanted to make a moon-station, and peoples will live there.
But i think we need new technology to explorer space. I hope we can find life there....

We landed.

If we really wanted to stage something we would have done it before Yuri Gagarin went into space first. Although I wonder if Apollo 13 could have been a result of that fake landing. Of course I would take what wikipedia says as a grain of salt, for all the bad publicity they been having lately. I think that conspiracy theorist have to much time on their hands to think we faked the landing.

Now going back to the moon now, would be pointless, we don't have the budget to do so and I would think are allies would think it would be stupid of us to risk something like that. Of course it has been the stepping stone we need since sci-fi and of course anime that shows us in outer space. They admit it will be very expensive, I wouldn't doubt the upkeep would be expensive either.

Of course think what kind of dangers we could be facing, solar wind from our sun, the lack of air, meteorites and all the other small debris that is floating out there, that was place by us. It is useful but just as dangerous to do so at the same time.

I think we definitely landed, although I don't really see the point in the moon base, as current technology doesn't make it very affordable.

One comment I have heard about NASA is that all the innovation is gone. Back when space flight was in its infancy, the technicians working at NASA were innovative, they had to be, else America would never have got into space. Now the people working at NASA are not nearly as innovative, so they are still using the methods of getting into space as 50 years ago.

They are still using the methods of 50 years ago because it has been working. But right now they are working on a reusable space shuttle that can be used time and time again for flight. Trust me, they have been working but sometimes they aren't given sufficient funds to do the project they'd like to. They also have contests for people outside of NASA to come up with ideas and prototypes as well.

As for the moon, yes it happened. That wikipedia article shows it all. Even the flag waving has an explanation. It'd be pointless to try and make something up like that anyway.

I never thought that the moon landings were fake or something but having read the wikipedia article about it and doing a small research on the topic it really makes me think, What if it really was a hoax? Well surely the technology available at that time seems to be quite adequate considering the minimalistic computer power and it also seems a bit fishy as the radiation levels in space could have easily proved fatal for humans. Now comes the question, Why would they have had done that? The answers could be many, One of them being the urge to prove supremacy in space wars over Russia. It could be something different too like distracting people from the real troubles of the day.
I am not a firm believer in hoaxes/conspiracy theories and all but questions like these really make me think twice before trusting any so called facts by the Big Bosses.

This post has been edited by me_boxer_dude: Dec 8 2006, 08:55 PM

well about you thinking why would we make something like that up anyway i heard a rumor saying we wanted to beat russia or something...again by we im referring to Americans