Re: I'd never thought I'd think this: WE NEVER WENT TO THE MOON!

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| Russia Surpasses Americans In Space Race
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| Russia Continues to Surpass Americans in the Space Race
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| Russians had wanted to go to the moon. However, there were many concerns
with
| safety. The Van Allen Belts released a deadly radiation that could easily
fry a
| person to death. Plus, the moon is 250,000 miles away - quite a distance.
While
| I'm not familiar with how fast the rockets were, traveling at 1,200 miles
per
| hour, it would be approximately a 20-day journey each way, provided there
were
| no problems. Even at 2-3 times that speed, it would still be a difficult
| journey. The amount of fuel required would be staggering, with the added
weight
| of people, food, air, supplies, etc. Yet somehow, these rockets managed to
go
| much, much faster in a zero atmosphere with nothing with which to propel?
| Perhaps, the speed is possible, yet one cannot deny the deadly radiation
rays
| out in space known as the Van Allen Belts.

This was one of my biggest questions. Given the technology we had back
then,I still find it
an impossibility.

| | In 1965, the U.S. made a fake moon landscape, which was used for testing
a space
| vehicle. Some have suggested the scenery for the moon landing was faked.
Could
| this have been it?
| Russia seemed to continue to have "firsts" - except for the moon landing.
On
| April 19, 1971, they had the first Space Station. The Soviets launch
Salyut 1,
| the first orbiting space station. Salyut 1's original crew reportedly
died
| during re-entry on June 30, 1971. Georgi Bobroeolski, Vladislav Volkov,
and
| Victor Patsayev had spent a new record of 23 days in outer space.

I think that fake landscape still exists....used as a science museum or
something. It would be interesting to
know if there are any similarities etc. Also, doesn't it take a while for
the sound to return to earth from the moon?? The astronauts didn't seem to
have a lapse or at least not a very discernible one when they
talked to each other and earth??? AND how did they manage to carry all that
fuel to take OFF again???
There wasn't much said about what they actually DID or were doing once they
took off to come back to earth.

| Indeed, there is definitely something wrong here. If you take a moment to
view
| video footage of the moon landing by U.S. astronauts from back in the
1960s,
| you'll notice that the dust kicked up by astronauts immediately settles
down,
| just as if it was sand on the beach. Yet we all know that not only does
the moon
| have less gravity, but it also has zero-atmosphere. Therefore, the moon
dust
| should travel further given the force and little to counteract it. Yet,
for some
| strange, unexplained reason, the moon dust resettles back to the ground at
the
| same gravitational rate of 32 ft./sec. as the earth.

I saw the whole thing on the tv when it was happening. I often wondered HOW
dust could settle
as fast as it did when they were running around. Wouldn't it have 'gently'
floated down with such low gravity??? And why did it land at all??? HOW
could the dust have the energy to fly up like that and not keep going?

| In a letter I received back from the astronaut Armstrong, which asked him
about
| this strange fact of the same gravitational pull on both the moon and
earth, the
| response I was sent surprisingly admitted that, yes, the gravitational
pull
| should be different. Of course, Armstrong didn't come right out and admit
that
| this was the case. That might be the death sentence for him - similar to
what 3
| other U.S. astronauts experienced in the 1960s when their simulated rocket
| mysteriously blew up during a ground test? Oh, it was just an accident?
It
| makes you pause for a moment.
|
| Now, of course, it looks like the race to Mars has begun. U.S. President
George
| W. Bush has stated that, perhaps, man will walk on Mars by the year 2020.
Bush
| stated that NASA may send astronauts to the moon again so that they may
| experience the effects of space travel shortly before sending them to
Mars.
|
| But if you look at the facts, you really have to wonder: Has man made it
to the
| moon yet?

I doubt it. But now with our more advanced technology even the trip to Mars
can be faked much
more realistically. What struck me as idiotic if not ODD is how the
astronauts were jumping around and
prancing around almost as if they were in a regular field here on earth.
Yes, they did seem to land softer
but given their mass and the energy when they jumped or ran they should
have been higher and ran and jumped more distances. Also, to me at least it
looked like they were running under water or something.
Frankly, I din't believe it then and I have even more doubts today given the
increased knowledge about
space etc. than we had back then. Even the video was pretty grainy and I
wondered how they got the
pictures back live like the way they did.Very few people even had colored tv
or could afford it, and all
the video equipments and even radios were still using the old tubes and
everything weighed tons....even
the tv sets. Look at the SIZE of computers back then. I worked in an office
where one whole ROOM was devoted to HUGE computers running ticker wheels and
producing tons of ticker tapes. They had to be constantly run and cooled
with huge fans. Anyways, I guess it was a good movie of the landing given
the times, but not a very believable one. Take a look at some of the old SF
movies and you will see similarities.