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I hope this finally wakes up the nay-sayers so they can grasp reality.

So there is gravity on the moon that these items just didn’t float off into space?

Well… If they wanted to “fake” the moon landing…why would they design a lander that would leave evidence behind?…A Flag, and “moon buggy” tracks…those moon landing cover up conspiracy theorists are a strange bunch…

I am 35yrs old, I do believe we went to the moon but…
If we did go, why have we not gone in so many years, we just barely and literally touched the surface?
How could those tapes have been erased? I understand it was a “Live TV Event”. But seriously, you don’t save the tapes for historical purposes.

Note from Ned Potter–
Hello to j_in_neast. You asked a good question–why no tire tracks from the Apollo 15-17 rovers? NASA’s answer is that LRO has not settled into its final lunar orbit yet, and only if the sun is very low do such subtle details stand out. They got lucky with Apollo 14. Later in LRO’s mission, they say there should be higher-resolution images.
And Devils_Advocate, you raised the question about the erased tapes from the Apollo 11 EVA. It so happens I did that story three years ago, when it first turned out they were missing, and Stan LeBar, the retired engineer in charge of the design of the video camera system, was beside himself. He said they were not simply videotapes, they were data tapes with a lot more on them than video signals. That may–may–explain why someone later missed their importance, he told me. But you’re quite right. It would have been nice to save those tapes for history.

FAKE!!

One more note to Jodie… anything that has mass has gravity. The larger the mass, the more gravity something produces. The moon is smaller than the earth, which is why it has less gravity and the astronauts seemed to “bounce” in the videos. The moon definitely has enough mass for items such as fuel tanks to “stick” to it, but there’s no atmosphere – the vacuum of space sits right up against the moon’s surface. That’s why items left there decades ago are still sitting in the exact same spot.

Wow! Sure is nice to know that we are borrowing $$$ from China and Saudi terrorists to take crappy photos of moon garbage.

Jodie, the moon’s gravity is about 1/6th that of earth. The pictures are low resolution because as stated, the orbiter is still settling into its final orbit. It takes a little time for an orbiter to be positioned in a permanent orbit. Plus they’re testing everything for the long term mission. Tor, all that “crappy moon garbage” made the high tech electronics we use every day possible. The need to make the systems as compact and light as possible led to the development of electronics as we know them today.

To all those who question and doubt based on their own experiences: If you go out today in the deserts of southern California and north Africa you can find tracks from armored vehicles training for or fighting in WWII. Ye;s, Patton’s tankers and Rommel’s tankers left their marks, and even Mother Nature couldn’t, or didn’t, destroy them. So it is with the astronauts. Get over it, doubters, and find a new life and a new cause.

Grissom got killed over it, and White, and Nasa knows the truth…

Note to Ned Potter: The last article which dredged up the old argument about “whether the moon landings were worth the cost”, made me grimace. With one stroke of the pen, Obama squanders a trillion dollars in government stimulus, and the lemmings say nothing. What an outrage!

WATCH WHAT’S ABOUT TO HAPPEN, THESE “FORCED” INOCULATIONS??? I REFUSE TO THEY ARE TRYING TO REDUCE THE POPULATION, GET INFORMED. THE NEW WORLD ORDER IS TOTALLY CRIMINAL! INTERNET LAST AREA OF TRUTH.

I was ten years old and stood on the shore near Cape Canavaral and watched them lift off. We were about a mile away and you could feel the vibration. My family followed the entire journey – what an amazing time that was. Its been disheartening to see our space program cut so much. All of those progressive programs – energy, space, technology, etc. were programs continuous cut by the feds over time. I see how much is spent on “war” these days and think where the planet might be if we had kept up those more efficient, creative programs. It’s been a long lesson.

Everybody knows the moon landing was actually filmed on mars. Heh heh.

These “pictures” prove nothing. I could do that in photoshop.
The moon landings were faked. All the facts show this without doubt. Anyone with a bit of knowledge knows this. For one thing the moon isnt a planet and so doesnt have any gravity. The “landers” should be floating in space. And why are there “tracks” on the moon? After 40 years they should have vanished. Outside my home a car track doesnt last 1 month. LOL!
Also look at the picture of the “flag” on the moon. It’s WAVING! But there is no wind on the Moon!
Don’t be fooled by the great scientific conspiracy. They use these things to control us to take away our freedoms. Put your faith in God not “science”.

Tor, NASA spends about 1/2 of one percent of the federal budget. Where’s the other 99.5% going…bombs and whatnot, maybe that’s better use of funds. Think about it.

I think Nasa was retared for not having more evidence of the laning in the first place.

Also even if better quality images show man made items only means that and not that man itself was there.
You can say we did land on the moon but then you have to say with all that experience 40 years ago why is it then that it will now take longer to get to the moon today with all that past experience and knowledge ?
Ever wonder why with 6 so called maned landings why everyone of those guys just fell off the public radar for 40 years ?

Do the naysayers believe for one minute that the Soviets would’ve allowed us to take credit for the biggest accomplishment in the history of mankind? The milked the launching of Sputnik for over ten years reminding the world after everyone of their launches that they had been first into space and first in putting a man in space as well. Sorry naysayers there’s zero gravity in your beliefs.

OK, as an environmental scientist, I was taken by how sensitive that environment is… it’s been 40 years, and it appears from the article that there has been NO degradation (or recovery) of the lunar landing sites.
GREAT story!!

Tor; Can you actually be so naive to believe that the government would take that small 0.8% of the national budget that goes to NASA and apply that toward starving children”? Have you actually gone to NASA’s web site and seen the programs they have where they look at the environment for farming and water?

my dad was a jet engine in the navy and hes very non-believing how can i prove him wrong he wants to know why there is no dust when the ship and departed, also why is the lighting wrong , and how can place a flag in frozen ground and if the footprints and shuttle landing spots are still how come there is pictures are so low res. also want to know who filmed and took pictures of the landing

Anyone who believes the moon landings are fake are morons and need to have some psychiatric help.

I downloaded the large images from the LRO site. I blew the images up to 400% and compared tham to the detailed landing site charts on Google Moon. The Apollo 15 image clearly shows the shadow of the buggy about 100 meters to the right of the decent stage. The Apollo 17 image show the shadow of the buggy about 150 meters to the left of the decent stage, but that part of the image is dark and it is hard to see. Tire tracks are visible between the decent stage and the buggy.
I can’t wait until the higher resolution images are released!

I have no way to verify anything our government claims about the moon prgram, as they have long since lost any credibility. The fact is no other nation managed to land men there in the intervening 40 years. Stranger still is that our Hubble telescope can snap glorious full-color pics of exploding nebula billions of light years away, but cannot manage to provide a single decent high resolution shot of our celestial neighbor a paltry 230,000 miles distant? We should be able to count the rivets on the lunar module; instead, we are treated to fuzzy pixelated shots that look like they were taken with a disposable camera.
For the curious, Google the Apollo 11 post-mission press conference. Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin appear morose and dejected, describing their never-before achievement like it was a funeral. Hardly the sort of reaction one would expect in such a situation. I don’t know what had these guys so bummed out, but I doubt it had anything to do with being tired or poor public speakers.

Tor: If we don’t eventually colonize space, there won’t be any starving children – or full ones. The alternative to space exploration and colonization is extinction – and not in a few billion years when the Sun expands, but much sooner. Feeding starving kids is important, but ignoring man’s long term survival is short sighted – unfortunately, most Americans are short sighted and agree with you.

Here is the deal, I dont care about any of the stuff that is pure speculation, heres the tracks, heres a tiny spec we say is a path, dont care. When they released photos of the original landing, the crosshairs in the photos disappeared behind rocks and other such objects. Any intelligent person knows those crosshairs are on the camera, therefore should ALWAYS be in front of ANY object. They werent. So when they can explain that to me I will never ask another question, until then I am always suspect.

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