NASA to locate Apollo remains on Moon

Tormod · 07-12-2005

For the first time since the 1970s, a NASA spacecraft will get clear pictures of Apollo relics on the Moon.

"In 2008 NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will carry a powerful modern camera into low orbit over the Moon's surface. Its primary mission is not to photograph old Apollo landing sites, but it will photograph them, many times, providing the first recognizable images of Apollo relics since 1972."

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...htm?list149261

I look forward to seeing how the hoaxsters will respond to this...

orbsycli · 07-12-2005

i would love if they actually went to all of the trouble of launching landing debri into the moon to make it look like the apollo missions were real.

i am still so confused, and stuck in the middle when it comes to believing it or not. there are so many things that say it's wrong, but then how could it be? i'll have to see these pictures for sure..

Turtle · 07-12-2005

___New data on Earth's favorite neighbor is welcome news to me. I played the video of the Lunar take off in the link you give; twice. Well written articl.

Boerseun · 07-12-2005

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I look forward to seeing how the hoaxsters will respond to this...

...Did anybody check wether NASA signed any rental contracts for a Hollywood studio recently?

Imagine - a small landing site built with dinky-toys in a large warehouse full of cement powder, craters carefully sculpted strewn over the floor, and a camera suspended on a cable taking "real live footage" as it crosses the warehouse in its "orbit". If they zoom in close enough to the lander's relics, they'll see "Mattel" printed on the side next to the micrometeorite-pitted US flag. Or even a radical Al Qaida astronaut trying to set fire to the US flag in the vacuum. If the flag burns, its a studio.

Hoaxsters - gotta love 'em.

BlameTheEx · 07-12-2005

Boerseun

Don't be too sure - if the Americans can make an american flag that flies with no air perhaps Al Qada can make one that burns.

Anyway I am going to lobby for NASA to send a committee of sceptics with the orbiter to check that there is no cheating. Lol.

Harzburgite · 07-12-2005

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Anyway I am going to lobby for NASA to send a committee of sceptics with the orbiter to check that there is no cheating.

I don't believe they will be real sceptics. They will be actors hired by NASA to play the part of sceptics.

saidevo · 08-21-2006

Seems that the missing NASA moon landing tapes are back in the news since the beginning of this month. And since the publication of Dan Brown's novels, you do have an idea about the "capability" of NASA and other US research centers in actual and make-believe scientific research.

Did man really land on the moon or not? Why doesn't NASA come out clean even after all these years?

It is widely opined that it is not possible to cross the Van Allen radiation belt, using a spacecraft as it would take several inches of lead shell to protect an astronaut from a dealy dose of radiation from the van allen radiation belt, that the space capsules were made of very thin metal, so radiiation would just pass right through it. What exactly is this radiation belt and where is it?

Wikipedia has run an elaborate discussion on this subject. It seems that the issue is not settled yet.

What is the opinion of the forum members on the arguments for and against the issue?

TheFaithfulStone · 08-24-2006

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It is widely opined that it is not possible to cross the Van Allen radiation belt, using a spacecraft as it would take several inches of lead shell to protect an astronaut from a dealy dose of radiation from the van allen radiation belt, that the space capsules were made of very thin metal, so radiiation would just pass right through it. What exactly is this radiation belt and where is it?

It is widely opined by people who don't know any better. Even if you were parked in the belt with only 3mm of sheilding, you'd get about about 25 Sv a year (which is a LOT) but if you just travel through it for a few days, and if you time it so you're not traveling through it when it's especially hot (as they did during Appollo) then you only get about 20 mSv - about what XRay techs takes in a year.

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And since the publication of Dan Brown's novels, you do have an idea about the "capability" of NASA and other US research centers in actual and make-believe scientific research.

If it's in Dan Brown, it's make believe. Don't trust the man for science.

TFS

Mercedes Benzene · 08-24-2006

Why do so many people think that the Apollo missions were a hoax???

Tormod · 08-24-2006

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...since the publication of Dan Brown's novels, you do have an idea about the "capability" of NASA and other US research centers in actual and make-believe scientific research....

Man, you really use reliable sources.

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Did man really land on the moon or not? Why doesn't NASA come out clean even after all these years?

And with "come clean" you mean...?