by John Traveler

Created on: August 18, 2008

Was the Apollo moon landing real or a hoax?

I think you will find, if you do even the most superficial research into the stories alleging the Apollo moon landings to be a hoax, that profiteering from the sale of books and other media hyping the conspiracy is the common thread shared by all. What they represent as "evidence" in purported documentaries, hardly qualifies as such in any scientifically contextual use of the word. Furthermore, their inability to refute any of the immutable intrinsic evidence which confirms mans' visits to the Moon, indeed their blatant attempts to ignore it, or lack of intellectual sophistication with respect to any understanding of such proof, raises question of their own sagacious integrity. Let me offer a few examples.

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE

There exist in the national archives, thousands of pictures taken on the Moons surface as well as those taken in orbit of the moon. There were no digital cameras in the 1960's, so the negatives still exist for all of these pictures. Hoax theorists might suggest that these pictures were all staged here on Earth, a convenient bit of conjecture, but which is unsupported by any evidence, even bad evidence, like producing testimony to the fact by any of the hundreds of photographers, set designers and other technical experts that would have been required to produce the facade. But here's a question that might be more difficult for them to invent and answer for. How is it that some of these pictures (again on film not video tape) show the cratered back side of the moon which is never visible from Earth? Maybe the moon doesn't really look like that on the back side. Here's a suggestion, visit the link below and look at the few out of thousands of pictures in existence from the Apollo 11 mission here, note the granularity of detail of the moonscape and then consult with a Hollywood specialist to see how much time and effort it would take to produce props of this quality. It would probably be cheaper just to go to the Moon in the first place.

http://www.apolloarchive.com/apollo_gallery.html

All this being said, the possibility that all of these photo's were secretly faked can not be dismissed. Yes it is possible, but highly improbable.

ELECTRONIC EVIDENCE

There are thousands of hours of telemetry and voice recordings which were transmitted between the Earth and the Moon during the Apollo missions, and it is within the subtle details of these communication signals we find evidence of such quality that it

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