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originally posted by: turbonium1
originally posted by: choos
originally posted by: turbonium1
originally posted by: choos
he sure was self-conscious of this given he kept his silence for more than 40 years..
basically what you are saying is that Apollo was genuine right up until October 7 1968 and in a little over two months they were able to hoax Apollo 8..
but more impressively, in a little over 9 months they faked Apollo 11.. 9 months..
Far more impressive to buy their story it worked that way for REAL missions, to get a clue on the real problem!
At the time, man has never gone past LEO. The next mission, Apollo 8, planned as LEO, too.
Within six months, it is revised. It will now go beyond LEO - this has never been done before. But that's no problem, we'll keep on going to the moon, and orbit it, then go back to Earth.
Simple, just revise it to go to the moon, instead of LEO!!.
That would only be true if Apollo 7 failed..
You seem to think flying manned missions in LEO means we can fly manned missions to the moon, no problem...
Apollo 7 was successful, but it was still just an LEO mission...
Apollo 8 (supposedly) was the first manned mission to go beyond LEO, the first manned mission to go entirely through the Van Allen Belts, the first manned mission to reach the moon, the first manned mission to orbit the moon (10 times), and the first manned mission to fly from the moon, back through the VA Belts again, and safely return to Earth. All done without a hitch, just two months after Apollo 7 was in LEO...
We had never even sent a SINGLE LIFE FORM beyond LEO, let alone go through the entire VA Belts, out to the moon, and back to Earth. The VAB alone is an area of hazardous radiation, which we are STILL trying to understand today. There are also SPE's, GCR radiation, micrometeorites, and so on, within the deep space environment.
The LEO environment is closer, and much more understood, and much safer, than the very hazardous, unknown environments of VAB/deep space, yet we sent MANY life forms into LEO before we ever sent humans there.
nothing to worry about, folks!
What a joke...
An additional test flight of Zond’s manned capabilities, it proved the spacecraft could keep animals alive on a round trip mission. Zond 5 had a rag-tag crew of sorts. Crammed inside were turtles (properly steppe tortoises), wine flies, meal worms, plants, seeds, bacteria, and other living matter. There was also a human analogue on board. In the pilot’s seat sat a 5 foot 7 inch, 155 pound dummy filled with radiation detectors.
The 11,850 pound Zond 5 launched from Tyuratam on Sept. 14, 1968. Fifty-six minutes after launch, the spacecraft’s Block D stage fired and started it on its translunar journey. The coast took three-days. Zond 5 took high quality photographs of the Earth from more than 55,000 miles away before reaching the moon on Sept. 18. It flew around the farside coming within 7,363 miles of the surface before starting its return to Earth.
Like most early flights of a new spacecraft, Zond 5’s mission had some hiccups. On the way to the Moon, contamination on the optical surface of the stellar attitude control system rendered it useless; the spacecraft switched to backup sensors. Before reentering the Earth’s atmosphere on Sept. 21, the gyroscopic stabilizing platform went offline and an attitude control sensor failed. But without a self-destruct command the spacecraft hurtled unfettered towards the Earth. Unable to make a guided reentry, the passengers aboard Zond 5 pulled upwards of 20 Gs as the spacecraft fell on a ballistic path to a backup splashdown area in the Indian Ocean.
Even off target, help was nearby. Soviet recovery forces a little more than 62 miles away found the spacecraft the next day and recovered its passengers. Everyone on board was fine. The turtles had lost about 10 percent of their body weight, but they were active and hadn’t lost their appetites. The flight was survivable, and a manned followup mission was clearly in Zonds future.
But NASA was already a step ahead of the Soviets. On August 12, the space agency had decided that Apollo 8 would go to the Moon in December. It would fly with just a Command Module since the Lunar Module was behind schedule but Apollo couldn’t sit around and wait. Besides, the agency needed deep space and lunar orbital experience. Zond 5 just added an external pressure to NASA internal drive to get to the moon by the end of the year.
originally posted by: turbonium1
You seem to think flying manned missions in LEO means we can fly manned missions to the moon, no problem...
Apollo 7 was successful, but it was still just an LEO mission...
Apollo 8 (supposedly) was the first manned mission to go beyond LEO, the first manned mission to go entirely through the Van Allen Belts, the first manned mission to reach the moon, the first manned mission to orbit the moon (10 times), and the first manned mission to fly from the moon, back through the VA Belts again, and safely return to Earth. All done without a hitch, just two months after Apollo 7 was in LEO...
We had never even sent a SINGLE LIFE FORM beyond LEO, let alone go through the entire VA Belts, out to the moon, and back to Earth. The VAB alone is an area of hazardous radiation,
which we are STILL trying to understand today.
There are also SPE's,
GCR radiation,
The most constraining exposure limit is that for the BFO for which the 50 cSv/yr is not achieved until ≈30 g/cm2
www.cs.odu.edu...
micrometeorites,
The LEO environment is closer, and much more understood, and much safer, than the very hazardous, unknown environments of VAB/deep space, yet we sent MANY life forms into LEO before we ever sent humans there.
nothing to worry about, folks!
What a joke...
originally posted by: turbonium1
It doesn't mean the calculation was valid, as we have no way to verify it. But it is a point of interest, nonetheless.
Bill Kaysing worked as a technical writer for Rocketdyne, a company involved in the Apollo program. During this time, Kaysing claims, NASA carried out a feasibility study which found they had only a 0.0017 per cent chance of landing a man on the moon and returning him to earth
Bill Kaysing has claimed that the chance of a successful landing on the moon was calculated to be 0.0017% (1 in 60,000). The source of this information appears to be a report prepared by the Rocketdyne company in the late 1950s. This assessment was, of course, based on understanding and technology existing at the time of the report. As tremendous resources were poured into the problem over the next decade, the reliability studies improved dramatically.
During the mid-1960s the Apollo Support Department of the General Electric Company in Florida conducted extensive mission reliability studies for NASA. These studies were based on very elaborate reliability models of all of the systems. A reliability profile over the course of a mission was generated by computer simulation, and a large number of such simulations were carried out for different scenarios. Based on those studies, the probability of landing on the moon and returning safely to earth never dropped below 90%.
originally posted by: onebigmonkey
a reply to: turbonium1
A massive number of assumptions on your part.
It was not given by NASA to the Dutch Government. The actual lunar sample was.
Youhave no evidence that anyone ever claimed it was lunar rock at all, certainly no-one from NASA did. A simple misunderstanding is being presented as your proof of what, exactly?
originally posted by: onebigmonkey
You said it yourself: you don't know if the calculation was valid and you have no way of verifying it, but you were more than happy to throw it in as some sort of proof Apollo didn't happen.
originally posted by: onebigmonkey
Bill Kaysing was a liar not because he managed to pull a small percentage out of nowhere, but because he claimed we didn't go to the moon. Even if the actual source of that figure turns up, he is still a liar.
originally posted by: turbonium1
originally posted by: onebigmonkey
a reply to: turbonium1
A massive number of assumptions on your part.
It was not given by NASA to the Dutch Government. The actual lunar sample was.
Youhave no evidence that anyone ever claimed it was lunar rock at all, certainly no-one from NASA did. A simple misunderstanding is being presented as your proof of what, exactly?
Your argument is - Nobody at NASA ever claimed it was a genuine moon rock. And NASA didn't give it to the former Dutch PM, but NASA gave a genuine lunar sample to the Dutch Government.
It isn't relevant whether or not NASA gave a genuine lunar sample to the Dutch Government. If the sample was genuine, it could have been obtained by unmanned craft, or from Antarctica, or elsewhere on Earth. It doesn't excuse the fake moon rock being given out. They are entirely separate events, as well.
If NASA did present the fake rock, instead of the US Ambassador, you'd still say 'NASA didn't claim it was a genuine moon rock'.
It doesn't matter if NASA or the US Ambassador presented the fake rock,
or that NASA didn't say it was a genuine moon rock.
The two parties (the US Ambassador and the former Dutch PM) wholly believed it WAS a genuine moon rock, that NASA's Apollo 11 astronauts had procured directly from the lunar surface.
The US Ambassador got the fake from the State Department, before he presented it to the ex-PM.
I don't know how/if NASA was involved in the fraud.
However, the fake was given during Apollo 11's visit, and the 'plaque' listed the names of all three Apollo 11 astronauts. This would indicate NASA is 'in' on the fraud, at least would have known about it.
Another point - the fake is supposed to look like a moon rock, so who would know better than NASA what a fake rock should look like? The fake rock was supposed to fool the US Ambassador, and the former Dutch PM, as being a genuine Apollo moon rock.
They WERE fooled into thinking it was real. The US Ambassador recently admitted he had no reason to think it not being a real rock.
There is no getting around it - . You can say NASA wasn't giving it out, and that NASA didn't claim it was genuine - the fact is that the US Government, most certainly the US State Dep't, wanted to fool people into thinking it was a genuine Apollo moon rock.
Why would the US Gov't go to all the trouble of wanting to find something that looks like a 'moon rock'?
Why would the US Gov't put a piece of petrified wood under glass, put a plaque below it, state that this chunk of wood is to commemorate the Apollo 11 visit, and even include the names of all 3 Apollo 11 astronauts?
The US Gov't would have no reason to fool people with a fake rock.
This could have been excused if they stated on the plaque it was NOT a genuine moon rock. Since, supposedly, NASA does not allow genuine moon rocks to be given out, that would have worked for an excuse, even if it wasn't true.
But the fake was INTENDED to fool these people, and the only reason they would try to deliberately fool people is because they never went to the moon.
No other reason they'd ever do this.
originally posted by: turbonium1
originally posted by: onebigmonkey
You said it yourself: you don't know if the calculation was valid and you have no way of verifying it, but you were more than happy to throw it in as some sort of proof Apollo didn't happen.
No, I only wanted to correct you that Kaysing did not claim he had calculated it. I never said it was proof of anything, and that's why I said the calculation can't be verified as genuine. If it were genuine, then certainly we could not have gone from almost no chance, to 100% possible, within just a few years time.
We cannot prove if the figure IS genuine, so it's a moot point anyway.
Really? You think everyone who believes we didn't go to the moon is a liar?
At least, you think that makes Kaysing a liar, right?
He believed that we didn't go to the moon. He based that on evidence he presented in his book.
As you obviously have no idea why this does not make him a liar, I hope you can learn a little more about the subject of lying, and what is not lying.
originally posted by: choos
it wasnt the first to go into the VAB.. Gemini missions went into it.. and why do you ignore all probes that went through while taking readings???
We had never even sent a SINGLE LIFE FORM beyond LEO, let alone go through the entire VA Belts, out to the moon, and back to Earth. The VAB alone is an area of hazardous radiation,
originally posted by: choos
i bet when you go to work or whatever you do outside of your home and you run into this along your path:
you would think "oh no, a gate is blocking my path.. looks like i cant reach my destination, i better go home"
originally posted by: turbonium1
No. I said it was the first manned mission to go entirely through the Van Allen Belts. Read my actual sentences before you go on making up false statements about what you 'think' I've said.
We had never even sent a SINGLE LIFE FORM beyond LEO, let alone go through the entire VA Belts, out to the moon, and back to Earth. The VAB alone is an area of hazardous radiation,
No, but I would think you would come up with an actual reply to the fact no life forms were ever sent beyond LEO before humans (supposedly) did. This falls a tad short, although no worse than most of your previous desperate attempts at supporting your case.
originally posted by: onebigmonkey
No, the plaque is quite clear about what it indicates, everything else is out of your mind.
originally posted by: onebigmonkey
No it wasn't, because no-one ever claimed it was a moon rock. No-one. Not one. Ever.
originally posted by: onebigmonkeyAdmitted'? Very biased form of words there. Please give us the exact quote so we can see his confession.
originally posted by: onebigmonkey
It looks nothing like a moon rock.
originally posted by: onebigmonkey
To commemorate the goodwill visit of Apollo 11.
originally posted by: onebigmonkey
Again, you're making things up - you have no evidence for people's motives, you have no evidence that it was intended to be seen as a lunar sample.
originally posted by: onebigmonkey
No, I think people who think we didn't go to the moon are either liars or stupid. Kaysing may well have been both.
originally posted by: onebigmonkey
His evidence is made up nonsense - he plucks 'facts' out of thin air with no support for them whatsoever.
originally posted by: onebigmonkey
He makes claims in it that are not true. What does that make him?
originally posted by: turbonium1
As I think the same of most people who think we DID go to the moon. But I would not think of going around accusing people of such things without evidence to support it. To accuse people without any proof would be even MORE stupid, and a BIGGER lie, don't you agree?
I think his evidence is totally valid, solid support for the moon landing hoax. Not at all made up. He thought it was solid evidence, which would explain why he cited it in his book.
You might think his claims are not true, that is your opinion. I disagree with you.
He believed the moon landings were hoaxed, and believed the evidence he cited was absolute proof it was a hoax.
He is not a liar for believing it was a hoax, or believing he had evidence to prove it was a hoax.
Now, what would that make someone who ignores all of those facts, and keeps on falsely accusing him of being a liar?
originally posted by: turbonium1
You might think his claims are not true, that is your opinion. I disagree with you.
originally posted by: turbonium1
You might think his claims are not true, that is your opinion. I disagree with you.
He believed the moon landings were hoaxed,
N - How 'bout any actual atmosphere, like John Glenn in space, Yuri Gargarin - were they actually in space?
BK - I doubt it.
N - So the Soviet Union faked that Yuri Gargarin was in space, and that dog that died, Laika, really didn't die?
BK - Mmm...I don't think he was up there. See, there was a fellow by the name of Lloyd Mallin in the early '70s who wrote a very detailed book saying that all - well, nearly all - possibly all of the Soviet space exploits were faked, and he proved it with photographs and technical data and so forth. I still have a copy of that book.
nardwuar.com...
originally posted by: Misinformation
Only the propagandist deal in Absolutes ....