50 years since moon landing! Or was it a hoax?

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According to this article, 5-6% of the public (the American public, I presume) still believe that the moon landing never happened, it was a clever hoax perpetrated by some evil villains. Many of these same people are flat earth theorists. The earth is a stationary disc, central to everything, and the sun and the moon are just lights circling around. Here's the article:

https://tinyurl.com/y42dwno7
 

Well I do not know what happened up there but......I tend to believe they did go.

However, my mother worked for Neil Armstrong for 2-3 years when he taught at University of Cincinnati.

She told me that when she started she was instructed sternly .... to never mention the moon landing. I've always wondered why ?!

I picked her up from work once, & I had to go inside to her office space/cubical .......she told me beforehand , if Professor Armstrong is in the office.....do not approach him, I'll introduce you to him....[she did] .....and do not mention the moon....period. {I didn't} Mostly what he said were compliments about my mother.....

Again, always wondered why all that was.... the way it was?
 

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Maybe she was not supposed to mention the moon landing because it was considered a "classified" subject, and Armstrong was not allowed to discuss it outside of official channels?
 
I always wondered WHO took the pictures of Armstrong going down to the moon's surface.
A Hollywood back lot, maybe ?

The whole thing has been solved now. It happened !!!
 
I worked for General Dynamics Astronautics all during the beginning of the missile business. We put the booster under Armstrong. Atlas the first ICBM. I was a photographer.

ASTRON_1.jpg7 original Astronauts at our plant San Diego

John_Glenns_109D.jpgJohn Glenn's missile Atlas 109d leaving our plant.
 
I was always amazed by John Glenn’s bravery to be tucked away in that very tight space capsule and having to circle the earth three times. How many of us would do the same?
 
Neil Armstrong really did, yes he did, set foot on the moon. Apollo mission was real. I do not care what others say, saying it was a hoax, never really happened. That is a lie, you are being lied to. Do not let others determine your level of intelligence by believing their lies. Also, you can search out things for yourself. Choose for yourself the truth. Who you choose to listen to is vital.
 
Falcon said:
I always wondered WHO took the pictures of Armstrong going down to the moon's surface.
A Hollywood back lot, maybe ?

The whole thing has been solved now. It happened !!!
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I've wondered myself....so how did they get that shot? I've never heard an explanation?
 
The camera that shot Armstrong first stepping on the moon was stowed in the descent stage of the Lander. Armstrong deployed it into shooting position by pulling a cable (lanyard? cord?) from the top of the ladder. Aldrin turned it on and off from inside the cabin.
 
The moon landing was real, wrestling on tv is fake.

Below is a urban legend about Neil Armstrong after setting foot on the moon and saying his famous, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." He also made another remark, "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky." Why did he say it? I'm not going to say if it's true or false.. :confused:

When Apollo Mission Astronaut Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he not only gave his famous “One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” statement, but followed it by several remarks, including the usual COM traffic between him, the other astronauts, and Mission Control. Before he re-entered the lander, he made the enigmatic remark “Good luck, Mr. Gorsky.”Many people at NASA thought it was a casual remark concerning some rival Soviet Cosmonaut. However, upon checking, [they found] there was no Gorsky in either the Russian or American space programs.
Over the years, many people have questioned him as to what the “Good luck, Mr. Gorsky” statement meant. On July 5, in Tampa Bay, FL, while answering questions following a speech, a reporter brought up the 26- year-old question to Armstrong. He finally responded. It seems that Mr. Gorsky had died and so Armstrong felt he could answer the question. When he was a kid, Neil was playing baseball with his brother in the backyard. His brother hit a fly ball which landed in front of his neighbors’ bedroom window. The neighbors were Mr. and Mrs. Gorsky. As he leaned down to pick up the ball, he heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky, “Oral sex? Oral sex you want? You’ll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!”
 
HazyDavey, cute! ;)

Getting back to the "One small step" remark, I always thought that was kind of hokey sounding. Apparently it was made up by some committee or NASA officials, who wanted a statement that could be engraved on monuments. So Armstrong had to memorize that sentence, along with all the other mental feats he had to accomplish. Nobody would say that awkward, stuffy-sounding sentence as a result of landing on the moon.

It always seemed to me that a more honest reaction would have been something like "Wow!" or "Yee-haw!" or even "Holy S...!"
 
raybar said:
The camera that shot Armstrong first stepping on the moon was stowed in the descent stage of the Lander. Armstrong deployed it into shooting position by pulling a cable (lanyard? cord?) from the top of the ladder. Aldrin turned it on and off from inside the cabin.
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Now i know....Thanks.
 
Sunny said:
HazyDavey, cute! ;)

Getting back to the "One small step" remark, I always thought that was kind of hokey sounding. Apparently it was made up by some committee or NASA officials, who wanted a statement that could be engraved on monuments. So Armstrong had to memorize that sentence, along with all the other mental feats he had to accomplish. Nobody would say that awkward, stuffy-sounding sentence as a result of landing on the moon.

It always seemed to me that a more honest reaction would have been something like "Wow!" or "Yee-haw!" or even "Holy S...!"
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I'm certain the classy Mr. Armstrong realized that the whole world was watching, and tried to make his first words on the moon something people would remember. And he did.

To me, not "hokey" sounding in the least. The words were perfect for that time.
 
About 25 years ago I accompanied an elementary school class trip to JPL. When I saw the size of its tracking room with dozens of stations for high-level scientists and engineers to monitor the space and moon flights (which was replicated numerous times around the world in various countries) I laughed inside at the very thought that the moon landing was a Hollywood sound stage type hoax.

Three people can't keep a secret. A conspiracy that would require thousands of highly educated scientists and engineers to sacrifice their integrity in a pretense? Not possible.
 
What I thought was interesting was the pattern of thinking. The same paranoid types who think the earth is really not a sphere, all those space photos, etc. are faked, and the government is out to fool us, are the same people who believe the moon landing was a hoax.
 
Love you hollydolly! Of course it happened. It is part of real history, the history that really did happen!
 

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