A recent poll shows 6 percent of Americans believe the Apollo moon landings were faked. Even with the mass amounts of data and logic that debunks all the conspiracy theory’s. People still feel that NASA faked the whole thing.
Lets take a look at some of the conspiracy theory’s and see if we can prove them wrong.
Every Apollo mission before number 11 was plagued by about 20,000 defects apiece. Yet, with the exception of Apollo 13, NASA claims there wasn’t one major technical problem on any of their Moon missions.
A simple and obvious explanation lies within the difference between “defects” and “major technical problems”. None of the Apollo missions, with the exception of number 13, experienced a major technical problem that prohibited the crews from successfully completing their missions. The early Apollo missions were to shake out and take care of the software and hardware bugs in they systems.
The poor video quality of the first moon landings was a deliberate ploy so nobody could properly examine it.
Television pictures of the Apollo 11 landing were sent directly to Earth from the surface of the Moon using the Lunar Module’s antenna and power supply. This put a restriction on the amount of bandwidth forcing NASA to use black-and-white, slow-scan TV camera with a scan rate of 10 frames-per-second at 320 lines-per-frame.
The black sky should be full of stars, yet none are visible in any of the Apollo photographs.
The answer is very simple: they are too faint. The Apollo photos are of brightly lit objects on the surface of the Moon, for which fast exposure settings were required. The fast exposures simply did not allow enough starlight into the camera to record an image on the film.
If you get a chance go and watch the episode of Mythbusters that busts the myths that claim we did not land on the moon.
Lets take a look at some of the conspiracy theory’s and see if we can prove them wrong.
Every Apollo mission before number 11 was plagued by about 20,000 defects apiece. Yet, with the exception of Apollo 13, NASA claims there wasn’t one major technical problem on any of their Moon missions.
A simple and obvious explanation lies within the difference between “defects” and “major technical problems”. None of the Apollo missions, with the exception of number 13, experienced a major technical problem that prohibited the crews from successfully completing their missions. The early Apollo missions were to shake out and take care of the software and hardware bugs in they systems.
The poor video quality of the first moon landings was a deliberate ploy so nobody could properly examine it.
Television pictures of the Apollo 11 landing were sent directly to Earth from the surface of the Moon using the Lunar Module’s antenna and power supply. This put a restriction on the amount of bandwidth forcing NASA to use black-and-white, slow-scan TV camera with a scan rate of 10 frames-per-second at 320 lines-per-frame.
The black sky should be full of stars, yet none are visible in any of the Apollo photographs.
The answer is very simple: they are too faint. The Apollo photos are of brightly lit objects on the surface of the Moon, for which fast exposure settings were required. The fast exposures simply did not allow enough starlight into the camera to record an image on the film.