Scientific Doubts About Moon Landings

[Guest guest]

Did man really walk on the Moon or was it the ultimate camera trick,

asks David Milne? The greater lunar lie. In the early hours of May

16, 1990, after a week spent watching old video footage of man on

the Moon, a thought was turning into an obsession in the mind of

Ralph Rene. David Milne (07-25-03)

 

 

"How can the flag be fluttering," the 47 year old American kept

asking himself, "when there's no wind on the atmosphere free Moon?"

That moment was to be the beginning of an incredible Space odyssey

for the self-taught engineer from New Jersey. He started

investigating the Apollo Moon landings, scouring every NASA film,

photo and report with a growing sense of wonder, until finally

reaching an awesome conclusion: America had never put a man on the

Moon. The giant leap for mankind was fake.

 

It is of course the conspiracy theory to end all conspiracy

theories. But Rene has now put all his findings into a startling

book entitled NASA Mooned America. Published by himself, it's being

sold by mail order - and is a compelling read.

 

The story lifts off in 1961 with Russia firing Yuri Gagarin into

space, leaving a panicked America trailing in the space race.

 

At an emergency meeting of Congress, President Kennedy proposed the

ultimate face saver, put a man on the Moon. With an impassioned

speech he secured the plan an unbelievable 40 billion dollars. And

so, says Rene (and a growing number of astro-physicists are

beginning to agree with him), the great Moon hoax was born.

 

Between 1969 and 1972, seven Apollo ships headed to the Moon. Six

claim to have made it, with the ill fated Apollo 13--whose oxygen

tanks apparently exploded halfway--being the only casualties.

 

But with the exception of the known rocks, which could have been

easily mocked up in a lab, the photographs and film footage are the

only proof that the Eagle ever landed. And Rene believes they're

fake. For a start, he says, the TV footage was hopeless. The world

tuned in to watch what looked like two blurred white ghosts gambol

threw rocks and dust. Part of the reason for the low quality was

that, strangely, NASA provided no direct link up. So networks

actually had to film "man's greatest achievement" from a TV screen

in Houston--a deliberate ploy, says Rene, so that nobody could

properly examine it.

 

By contrast, the still photos were stunning. Yet that's just the

problem. The astronauts took thousands of pictures, each one

perfectly exposed and sharply focused. Not one was badly composed or

even blurred. As Rene points out, that's not all:

 

The cameras had no white meters or view finders. So the astronauts

achieved this feet without being able to see what they were doing.

There film stock was unaffected by the intense peaks and powerful

cosmic radiation on the Moon, conditions that should have made it

useless.

They managed to adjust their cameras, change film and swap filters

in pressurized clubs. It should have been almost impossible to bend

their fingers. .

Award winning British photographer David Persey is convinced the

pictures are fake. His astonishing findings are explained alongside

the pictures on these pages, but the basic points are as follows:

 

The shadows could only have been created with multiple light sources

and, in particular, powerful spotlights. But the only light source

on the Moon was the sun.

The American flag and the words "United States" are always brightly

lit, even when everything around is in shadow.

Not one still picture matches the film footage, yet NASA claims both

were shot at the same time.

The pictures are so perfect, each one would have taken a slick

advertising agency hours to put them together. But the astronauts

managed it repeatedly.

David Persey believes the mistakes were deliberate, left there

by "whistle blowers", who were keen for the truth to one day get

out. If Persey is right and the pictures are fake, then we've only

NASA's word that man ever went to the Moon. And, asks Rene, why

would anyone fake pictures of an event that actually happened?

 

The questions don't stop there. Outer space is awash with deadly

radiation that emanates from solar flares firing out from the sun.

Standard astronauts orbiting earth in near space, like those who

recently fixed the Hubble telescope, are protected by the earth's

Van Allen belt. But the Moon is 240,000 miles distant, way outside

this safe band. And, during the Apollo flights, astronomical data

shows there were no less than 1,485 such flares.

 

John Mauldin, a physicist who works for NASA, once said shielding at

least two meters thick would be needed. Yet the walls of the Lunar

Landers which took astronauts from the spaceship to the moons

surface were, said NASA, "about the thickness of heavy duty aluminum

foil". How could that stop this deadly radiation? And if the

astronauts were protected by their space suits, why didn't rescue

workers use such protective gear at the Chernobyl meltdown, which

released only a fraction of the dose astronauts would encounter? Not

one Apollo astronaut ever contracted cancer--not even the Apollo 16

crew who were on their way to the Moon when a big flare started.

 

"They should have been fried," says Rene. Furthermore, every Apollo

mission before number 11 (the first to the Moon) was plagued with

around 20,000 defects a-piece. Yet, with the exception of Apollo 13,

NASA claims there wasn't one major technical problem on any of their

Moon missions. Just one defect could have blown the whole

thing. "The odds against this are so unlikely that God must have

been the co-pilot," says Rene.

 

Several years after NASA claimed its first Moon landing, Buzz

Aldrin "the second man on the Moon"--was asked at a banquet what it

felt like to step on to the lunar surface.

 

Aldrin staggered to his feet and left the room crying

uncontrollably. It would not be the last time he did this. "It

strikes me he's suffering from trying to live out a very big lie,"

says Rene. Aldrin may also fear for his life. Virgil Grissom, a NASA

astronaut, was due to pilot Apollo 1. In January 1967, he baited the

Apollo program by hanging a lemon on his Apollo capsule (in the US,

unroadworthy cars are called lemons) and told his wife Betty: "if

there is ever a serious accident in the space program, it's likely

to be me."

 

Nobody knows what fuelled his fears, but by the end of the month he

and his two co-pilots were dead, burnt to death during a test run

when their capsule, pumped full of high pressure pure oxygen,

exploded. Scientists couldn't believe NASA's carelessness--even a

chemistry student in high school knows high pressure oxygen is

extremely explosive. In fact, before the first manned Apollo fight

even cleared the launch pad, a total of 11 would be astronauts were

dead. Apart from the three who were incinerated, seven died in plane

crashes and one in a car smash. Now this is a spectacular accident

rate.

 

"One wonders if these 'accidents' weren't NASA's way of correcting

mistakes," says Rene. "Of saying that some of these men didn't have

the sort of 'right stuff' they were looking for."

 

NASA won't respond to any of these claims, their press office will

only say that the Moon landings happened and the pictures are real.

But a NASA public affairs officer called Julian Scheer once

delighted 200 guests at a private party with footage of astronauts

apparently on a lunar landscape. It had been made on a mission film

set and was identical to what NASA claimed was they real lunar

landscape.

 

"The purpose of this film," Scheer told the enthralled group, "is to

indicate that you really can fake things on the ground, almost to

the point of deception." He then invited his audience to "come to

your own decision about whether or not man actually did walk on the

Moon". A sudden attack of honesty? You bet, says Rene, who claims

the only real thing about the Apollo missions were the lift offs.

The astronauts simply have to be on board, he says, in case the

rocket exploded. "It was the easiest way to ensure NASA wasn't left

with three astronauts who ought to be dead," he claims, adding that

they came down a day or so later, out of the public eye (global

surveillance wasn't what it is now) and into the safe hands of NASA

officials, who whisked them off to prepare for the big day a week

later.

 

And now NASA is planning another giant step--project Outreach, a one

trillion dollar manned mission to Mars. "Think what they'll be able

to mock up with today's computer graphics," says Rene

chillingly. "Special effects was in its infancy in the 60's. This

time round will have no way of determining the truth."

 

Space oddities:

 

Apollo 14 astronaut Allen Shepard played golf on the Moon. In front

of a worldwide TV audience, Mission Control teased him about slicing

the ball to the right. Yet a slice is caused by uneven air flow over

the ball. The Moon has no atmosphere and no air.

A camera panned upwards to catch Apollo 16's Lunar Lander lifting

off the Moon. Who did the filming?

One NASA picture from Apollo 11 is looking up at Neil Armstrong

about to take his giant step for mankind. The photographer must have

been lying on the planet surface. If Armstrong was the first man on

the Moon, then who took the shot?

The pressure inside a space suit was greater than inside a football.

The astronauts should have been puffed out like the Michelin Man,

but were seen freely bending their joints.

The Moon landings took place during the Cold War. Why didn't America

make a signal on the Moon that could be seen from Earth? The PR

would have been phenomenal and it could have been easily done with

magnesium flares.

Text from pictures in the article show only two men walked on the

Moon during the Apollo 12 mission. Yet the astronaut reflected in

the visor has no camera. Who took the shot?

The flags shadow goes behind the rock so doesn't match the dark line

in the foreground, which looks like a line cord. So the shadow to

the lower right of the spaceman must be the flag. Where is his

shadow? And why is the flag fluttering?

How can the flag be brightly lit when its not facing any light ?

And where, in all of these shots, are the stars?

The Lander weighed 17 tons yet the astronauts feet seem to have made

a bigger dent in the dust.

The powerful booster rocket at the base of the Lunar Lander was

fired to slow descent to the moons service. Yet it has left no

traces of blasting on the dust underneath. It should have created a

small crater, yet the booster looks like it's never been fired...