Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin achieved the historic milestone of being the first humans to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969.
Armstrong’s iconic step onto the lunar surface has been etched in history as a monumental moment for mankind.
However, some doubters question its authenticity.
Among them is Alex Stein, who seeks clarification by discussing with former NASA engineer Charles Buhler.
“How were we able to go to the moon on these Apollo rockets in the 60s, but now today, we don’t have a rocket that can get there or at least send a man there? What’s that all about? Why is our space technology going backwards?” Stein asks Buhler.
“I think the biggest thing is there’s a couple of reasons for it. You know, 50 years ago, NASA had 10% of the federal budget. Now, we have less than 1% of the federal budget,” Buhler explains.
He also blames the lack of serious competition.
“We don’t have a conventional space race like we did against the Russians in the 1960s,” he says. “Now, we’re relying on companies to do it. NASA is funding a lot of companies to do the space race now, so that’s pretty exciting, if you’re a space enthusiast.”
According to Buhler, Artemis II is a spacecraft that will be sent to orbit the moon with astronauts as early as next year.
“Charles, they always say next year we’re going to send a man to the moon, next year, man on the moon — they’ve been saying that for 50 years,” Stein counters.
When Stein presses Buhler on whether or not the moon landing was faked and if so, why, Charles answers that “obviously” it wasn’t faked.
He cites moon rocks that he has in his lab at NASA as proof of the moon landing being real — but Stein was ready for that one, referencing the moon rock given to a Dutch museum by Neil Armstrong.
The rock was later found to be fake and made of petrified wood.
“And isn’t there moon rocks in Antarctica supposedly?” Stein asks, adding, “So isn’t it possible to get moon rocks on Earth?”
“It is, it truly is,” Buhler says. “We get Mars rocks too on Earth, whenever there’s a meteor collision. That’s possible.”
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Why isn’t anyone talking about the van allen radiation belt around our planet that would kill anyone trying to go to the moon or return home?
I checked it out. We CAN go through the van allen radiation belt. No serious harm will occur as long as the astronauts don’t stay there. The Apollo astronauts went through the thinnest part of the radiation belt.
The Van Allen Belt means nothing because the moon is NOT outside of our atmosphere. If space was a vacuum, as they claim, any hole punched through the firmament would allow our atmosphere to be instantaneously sucked out! We are in a “Close system”!
Why did Don Petit an astronaut, say we destroyed all the apollo information and it would take ages to reproduce and if we still had it he would go to the moon in a nano second. Why have several astronauts on the iss tell kids we have never been beyond low earth orbit which is suppose to be 1,200 miles. Since caught in that lie they are saying low earth orbit extends past the moon which is 238,000 miles. Neil Armstrong never successfully landed a module on earth, he almost got killed trying. The apollo crew said they never seen stars mike collins flew around the dark side away from the sun drowning them out.Yet he saw no stars. ISS Astronauts say they see them all the time. The apollo astronauts did not get radiation poison yet flew through the van alan belts. Kelly Smith says they can’t avoid the belts and we need to figure out a safe way through them. I could go on but I’m not writing a book. Their information does not align. Some one is lying,please tell me who
Mike
Watch the movie Capricorn One. With James Brolin, Elliott Gould, oj Simpson & other big names. Really interesting how you can fake just about anything.
Personally I never thought they went to the moon.
When landing, the dust was never kicked up. When the astronaut jumped off later, he kicked up some dust. That’s about all I remember about this so-called astronauts on the moon sham
Simple answer is no it wasn’t fake. That BS started way back in the 60s.
They said in the article above that NASA now has only 1% of the Federal budget compared to 10% back in the 60’s, yet and I live about 35 miles from the space center, they are sending off one rocket after the other constantly. Where is that money coming from to send so many rockets into space? I am suspicious of this and do not trust them.
I object to our sending “Men to the Moon” when 2 million of our people are starving to death every year, and 20% are children! There is no justification for “Man In Space” when machines do it better, faster, cheaper and safer. This tells me the men of NASA do not have the IQ to have access to a billon Dollars when
children are starving!
Yeah, I have to agree with you there. The reason they send people into space is for the publicity. If you send a machine into space or the bottom of the ocean or across town is no big deal, even though it can accomplish the same mission with a lot less money and risk. The race to the moon was for bragging rights against the Russians, who beat us into space with Sputnik.
As for the starving children, I’ve been watching those infomercials for 50 years and it’s all a grift. Government “giving” doesn’t work any better. If it did, why do we still have poor people after 60 years of welfare?
Get rid of manned space flight.
Retro rockets fired to slow the descent for landing. That would’ve thrown up an enormous cloud of dust. Yet the lunar lander doesn’t have a speck of dust on it. Explain THAT.
I was a kid in the 50’s and 60’s and was enthralled with NASA. Later I worked as an engineer for the Air Force Research Lab and NASA from 1989-2012. NASA hires some very bright people and they have excellent technical prowess. What has changed is their appetite for risk and DEI. Back in the 50’s and 60’s it was basically just white guys doing the technical work and if you screwed up you got fired. They were willing to take calculated risks and move forward. NASA had plenty of failures, too. It was accepted that flying experimental aircraft and spacecraft was dangerous and you’d do whatever you could to mitigate the risks, but there were always risks. I heard plenty of stories along the way from guys who were older them me.
Over the time I worked with/for NASA I saw a huge reduction in willingness to take risks. Adding extra levels of bureaucracy to a project takes much more time and money. The irony is that this didn’t actually reduce the risks. It just passed them on to subcontractors and other people. It didn’t make anything safer (thing Space Shuttle accidents).
The moon landing actually happened. That wasn’t faked. We’ll never do it again because we’re ruled by bureaucrats and we’re unwilling to take the real risks associated with space travel.