There's one thing that I think many of the Apollo-hoax people seem to forget. It would not be impossible to disprove that the program, assuming that one had sufficient resources, it's hard to imagine that the event could be staged so flawlessly that not a single hole or even a small inconsistency with science could be found.
So ask one's self. If you could go back to 1969, to investigate the landing, what sorts of things would you ideally want to have in order to disprove the landing? Here is my list:
1. An intense interest in American technical capabilities, with special attention paid to American technology in the field of rocketry and spaceflight.
2. Their own in-depth expertise and direct experience in the field of spaceflight. Ideally, they should have their own team of world-class rocket designers and engineers, with the experience necessary to immediately detect any inconsistencies in Nasa’s claims.
3. The manpower necessary to collect and analyze all the publicly available information regarding the Apollo project and Nasa’s activities in general.
4. Numerous moles and informants within American industry and government. Ideally, some of them would even have high level positions and security clearance.
5. The capability to track and monitor Nasa communications and telemetry information. An extensive system of ground and spaced-based radar and remote sensing, specifically designed to track missile launches and determine the trajectory would also be extremely helpful.
6. Direct experience with the Moon, with knowledge gained from sending unmanned probes. This would allow for even better assessment of the validity of Nasa claims. Additionally, having independently collected samples of lunar material would also come in very handy in order to compare to the analysis of the Apollo samples.
7. The ability to assess the capabilities of the Apollo spacecraft by calling Nasa’s bluff and offering to have one of their own craft rendezvous with an Apollo command module in earth orbit, thereby verifying many of the capabilities of the spacecraft.
8. (Most importantly). A strong incentive to expose any American cover-ups over something as public as the Apollo project, and make a fool out of the Capitalist West. This would be especially true if there were an unofficial “race” to the moon, which would come to symbolize the struggle between two ideologies.
If you haven’t figured out, I'm referring to the the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had the best and the brightest minds in space at the time, and also had extensive experience with space flight.
Had any of the aspects of the Apollo landing raised a red flag or caught the attention of the Soviet space progra or seemed inconsistent or implausible, the Soviets would have had a great PR opportunity. Exposing such a hoax would have been the ultimate opportunity to show the superiority of Communism over the US system, in which the nation is forced to resort to fakery to appear technically superior.
The Soviet Union did not find the idea of a moon mission farfetched. Quite the opposite; they had their own plans for the moon, with their massive N-1 rocket, which never flew successfully. They also had their own probes, spacecraft and even small samples of lunar material from an unmanned probe. After the end of the cold war, it also became apparent that the Soviet Union had infiltrated the US government to levels which were previously unthinkable.
And yet, if you believe the Apollo Hoax crowd, they found a Hoax, where Nasa was able to fool another superpower.
So ask one's self. If you could go back to 1969, to investigate the landing, what sorts of things would you ideally want to have in order to disprove the landing? Here is my list:
1. An intense interest in American technical capabilities, with special attention paid to American technology in the field of rocketry and spaceflight.
2. Their own in-depth expertise and direct experience in the field of spaceflight. Ideally, they should have their own team of world-class rocket designers and engineers, with the experience necessary to immediately detect any inconsistencies in Nasa’s claims.
3. The manpower necessary to collect and analyze all the publicly available information regarding the Apollo project and Nasa’s activities in general.
4. Numerous moles and informants within American industry and government. Ideally, some of them would even have high level positions and security clearance.
5. The capability to track and monitor Nasa communications and telemetry information. An extensive system of ground and spaced-based radar and remote sensing, specifically designed to track missile launches and determine the trajectory would also be extremely helpful.
6. Direct experience with the Moon, with knowledge gained from sending unmanned probes. This would allow for even better assessment of the validity of Nasa claims. Additionally, having independently collected samples of lunar material would also come in very handy in order to compare to the analysis of the Apollo samples.
7. The ability to assess the capabilities of the Apollo spacecraft by calling Nasa’s bluff and offering to have one of their own craft rendezvous with an Apollo command module in earth orbit, thereby verifying many of the capabilities of the spacecraft.
8. (Most importantly). A strong incentive to expose any American cover-ups over something as public as the Apollo project, and make a fool out of the Capitalist West. This would be especially true if there were an unofficial “race” to the moon, which would come to symbolize the struggle between two ideologies.
If you haven’t figured out, I'm referring to the the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had the best and the brightest minds in space at the time, and also had extensive experience with space flight.
Had any of the aspects of the Apollo landing raised a red flag or caught the attention of the Soviet space progra or seemed inconsistent or implausible, the Soviets would have had a great PR opportunity. Exposing such a hoax would have been the ultimate opportunity to show the superiority of Communism over the US system, in which the nation is forced to resort to fakery to appear technically superior.
The Soviet Union did not find the idea of a moon mission farfetched. Quite the opposite; they had their own plans for the moon, with their massive N-1 rocket, which never flew successfully. They also had their own probes, spacecraft and even small samples of lunar material from an unmanned probe. After the end of the cold war, it also became apparent that the Soviet Union had infiltrated the US government to levels which were previously unthinkable.
And yet, if you believe the Apollo Hoax crowd, they found a Hoax, where Nasa was able to fool another superpower.
