Why do so many doubt the moon landing?

LMFAO! Buuuulllcraaappp!
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If NASA wanted the funding to visit the Moon they would get it. How much do they spend yearly on the International Space Station?

You need public approval too...which isn't there when they bring up going back

i don't doubt the moon landing, but a front organizations called NASA never landed on the moon. NASA is a scam fooling the sheeple

Regarding the Van Allen belts, and the nature of the radiation in them, they are doughnut-shaped regions where charged particles, both protons and electrons, are trapped in the Earth's magnetic field. The number of particles encountered (flux is the technical jargon, to impress your friends!) depends on the energy of the particles; in general, the flux of high-energy particles is less, and the flux of low-energy particles is more. Very low energy particles cannot penetrate the skin of a spacecraft, nor even the skin of an astronaut. Very roughly speaking, electrons below about 1 million electron volts (MeV) are unlikely to be dangerous, and protons below 10 MeV are also not sufficiently penetrating to be a concern. The actual fluxes encountered in the Van Allen belts is a matter of great commercial importance, as communications satellites operate in the outer region, and their electronics, and hence lifetimes, are strongly affected by the radiation environment. Thus billions of dollars are at stake, never mind the Moon! The standard database on the fluxes in the belt are the models for the trapped radiation environment, AP8 for protons, and AE8 for electrons, maintained by the National Space Sciences Data Center at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center. Barth (1999) gives a summary which indicates that electrons with energies over 1 MeV have a flux above a million per square centimeter per second from 1-6 earth radii (about 6,300 - 38,000 km), and protons over 10 MeV have a flux above one hundred thousand per square centimeter per second from about 1.5-2.5 Earth radii (9,500 km - 16,000 km).

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Oh bullshit! NASA would LOVE the funding to get back to the moon, congress isn't going to give it to them, at least anything approaching the rate of funding they had in the 60's. ISS only costs about 1.7-1.8 billion a year. In the Apollo days, Apollo ate up nearly all of NASA's 30+ billion dollar budget! Apollo's total cost was about 100 years worth of the ISS budget in 2005 dollars.

Last Edited by Astromut on 10/01/2010 11:40 AM

they hate america

Bingo.

Probably the same people who think the earth is flat

The ever-present shills on these threads can do the daisy chain circle jerk dance until the cows come home...but it is still so ridiculously obviously faked.

I don't hate America. I hate the evil system that has taken control of your country and systems long ago and use you as tools for the NWO. Nowadays I also hate the never ending propaganda crap that comes out of your entertainment industry.

OK I'm a shill for real science!

You may be a lot of things Nikky LaVey, but I doubt that you are a shill or a scientist.

And the U.S. asn't been able to do it again for 41 YEARS!

We haven't had the will or funding to go back!

No offence intended by the way. You are one of my favorite posters here.

None taken!

and even if our astronuts went through it they would have all gotten cancer and died early, not lived to be 100 year old american heroes like they did.

Indeed it was. The full quote, given at the google book link, as it appears on page 303, is very enlightening.

"As for walking on the Moon, sometimes I wonder if that really happened. I can honestly say--and it's a great surprise to me--that I have never had a dream about being on the Moon. It's a great disappointment to me." -- Neil Armstrong.

That is odd. You'd think he would dream about the Moon at least sometimes...

BINGO!

It is called facts which you seem to ignore.

Who knows why people dream of some things and not others.

As for taking things out of context people here pull that trick all the time.


For the record Neil Armstrong was a crappy pilot and shouldn't have been on any moon missions.

I always wondered why Chuck Yeager was never chosen fly for NASA ... Not long ago I found out why. He was training military astronauts for spy missions that ended up being cancelled.

What facts are they?