Date: August 31, 2010
Title: Apollo 11 Conspiracy
Podcaster: Thomas Hofstätter
Link: http://hidden-space.at.tf (The Hidden Space Project)
Description: After the first humans touched the lunar surface on July 20, 1969, many people did not believe in the achievement for all mankind. Several critics argued against the truth of Apollo 11 and the whole Apollo Program. In this podcast, I’m going to describe some major critics and their scientific explanation. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions to the podcast, feel free to write me an email to hidden-space (at) gmx (dot) at or visit me at my website at www.hidden-space.at.tf!
Bio: Born in 1993 near Vienna, Austria, Europe. Upper High School with focus on Computer Science.Interested in extreme small and extreme big, devious and uninvestigated things. My main aim is to bring astronomy to public and to establish secular interest in astronomy, physics and mathematics. Hoster of :: The Hidden Space Project :: at http://hidden-space.at.tf.
Today’s sponsor: This episode of “365 Days of Astronomy” is sponsored by From Mr. Thomas — Dedicated to my students: may they fly to work with jet-packs, and may some teach math to their students in their school on the moon. Welcome Back!
Transcript:
Welcome to this episode of 365 Days of Astronomy. My name is Thomas Hofst‰tter and I am the hoster of :: The Hidden Space Project :: at www.hidden-space.at.tf.
In this episode, I’m going to discuss the first lunar landing by Apollo 11 and some common critics. What’s the truth and what is just lie? I hope, you will enjoy it!
On July 16, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong, Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin and Command Module Pilot Michael Collins lifted off to the first manned mission to land on the moon. They stayed in orbit for some hours and touched the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. Through his job as commander, Neil Armstrong was allowed to take the first step on the moon. During that, he said the perhaps most prominent words in human history: “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind!”
That was the original mission sound from NASA.
Buzz Aldrin became the second to touch the lunar surface. Michael Collins had to stay in orbit in the Command and Service Module.
During their mission on the surface, Armstrong and Aldrin established several scientific experimental tools, which can be detected nowadays. Moreover, their footprints have been seen be the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from NASA.
After their eight-day mission, the three astronauts finally watered near the US coast and were picked up by USS Hornet on which President Richard Nixon awaited them.
Soon after the successful mission, there were several voices raised, claiming that Apollo 11 had been a fake and no human had landed on the moon. Now, I will present and discuss a number of their arguments.
The first and most common argument against the existence of Apollo 11 was the waving flag that was photographed by the astronauts. According to critics reasoning that’s not possible due to the lack of atmosphere. Hence there can be no wind making the flag wave.
But exactly this lack of atmosphere is the reason for the waving. The astronauts had some problems positioning the flag in the right position because the lunar soil was harder than predicted. That caused the flag staff to vibrate for a longer time. In the earth’s atmosphere, the flag would not have waved so long because the atmosphere would have slowed down the vibration.
Another curious detail is, that at the lift-off of the first three missions on the moon, the flag fell down because it was placed too close to the lander.
Another argument for critics is the lack of stars. It’s a fact that there are no stars on the photographical and video material. Hence, critics say, the Apollo missions never can be landed on the moon, but the whole story was produced in the studio.
Also this argument can be disproved. The moon has a similar reflectance to coal. Moreover, there is not atmosphere. Which means that the unfiltered sunlight is reflected by the surface. That causes the surface to seem very light and therefore, the camera’s exposure time has to be set to a low level. The stars are more faint and therefore aren’t visible at the multimedia material.
Nevertheless, the Apollo astronauts were enrolled in schools how to use the stars as guidance. Fortunately, this method never had to been used in reality. That would have meant that the computer had failed to maneuver them through space.
That’s it for today. I hope, you enjoyed it. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, write me an email to hidden-space (at) gmx (dot) at or visit me at my website at www.hidden-space.at.tf and observe basic questions of astronomy’s past and future as well as hidden and devious facts.
Thanks for listening and clear-skies!
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