We Went to the Moon

Counters to the “evidence” that “we never went to the moon”.

What They Claim & The Truth

• Most of the information in this PowerPoint came from BadAstronomy.com and Clavius.org

• Conspiracy theorists claim that NASA / the USA never sent people to the moon – and to back up their ideas, they put forth a number of “facts” which they don’t support adequately, and their inferences can be shown to be false.

The “Issues”

• Waving Flag• Stars in the pictures• Multiple light sources / weird shadows• Fiducial Marks• Exhaust crater• All pictures are “perfect”

The Issues not spoken of• What would the secrecy really take!• What about the Russians?

Stars

• Why are there no stars in the pictures??? That Proves it’s fake!!!

• Go out tonight, in the WalMart parking lot – take a picture of your car and friends standing around it. WoW – no Stars!!! When you expose an image for the people – on Earth or the Moon – the shutter closes too fast to image the stars.

• Earth in UVfrom A16 onthe moon

The Flag

• People say, if there is no air, how can the flag “wave”

• Look carefully – the flag is very straight at the top – it is held horizontal at the top by a stick! It was folded up originally, and the astronauts unfolded it. Instead of completely straightening it, they left it a little rumpled.

• It ALWAYS has the same ripples!!!

“Waving flag”

See the stick at the top?

Perfect images

• Some people say that all the images are perfect, and that “proves” it was faked.

• Those people just haven’t looked at ALL the images – while a lot are good (the astronauts did a lot of practice on Earth) – a number are not great.

• You can see copies of them ALL at UH Manoa – POST Building.

• Not all images taken on the moon are perfect!!

• Tilt / cut off!

Fiducial marks

• To help analysts later, the cameras had marks etched in them, these are called “Fiducial marks”

• In some images, the marks seem to fade behind the object being photographed. This is due to the chemistry of photography – when the contrast change is high, you can get some bleed over.

• Fiducial marks

• When something is real bright, the film “bleeds” around the small dark bits.

Shadows – it’s NOT Flat!!!

• Some people look at the shadows and freak out – different angles, different lengths

• It all has to do with the fact that the ground is not flat under them. There are small craters that can change the way we see the shadows. As well as the angles.

• Shadow and helegeschein

• Cool glowaround theshadow of the head oftheastronaut!

• The ground is not flat or level

Shadows and Flag

• WoW! The shadows are different lengths! That PROVES it was faked and they used 2 lights. (uhh, if they used 2 lights wouldn’t you see 2 shadows per person?)

• It’s just thefact thatthere is a slope!!!

• Lighting issues– No stars– You can see on

the “dark side”

• When you expose for bright, the faint stars don’t appear

• There is enough reflection from the surface to fill in the “back”

Put them together!!

• “C rock”

• Fiducial mark

• Tire marks

• “C-rock” blow up of the print used to make other prints!

• Someone brushedtheir hair!

• This hair is not onthe original transparency!

Exhaust Crater?

• No crater from the exhaust! (well, not much)

• When you do the calclulations, the force is small per unit area, and not a lot of dust was carried away!

Mystery?

• “Mystery shadow on the moon”

• Taken in orbit!! “E” is the RCS thruster

• #3 is the “terminator”

A great Image!!!

• Waving flag? (see the stick?)

• Where is Young’s shadow?

• What’s up here?? (hint – John Young is!)

• Camera taking star pictures

• Cone3D

Landed

• Apollo 11 Tranquilitatis Armstrong / Aldrin

• Apollo 12 Ocean of Storms Bean / Conrad

• Apollo 14 Fra Mauro Shepard / Mitchell

• Apollo 15 Hadley Scott / Irwin

• Apollo 16 Descartes Young / Duke

• Apollo 17 Taurus-Littrow Cernan / Schmidt