Comments on: Moon Hoax originator has died

By: John Flushing

John Flushing — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:21:25 +0000

Personally, I think the best proof that we went to Luna would be to send a space probe into orbit, and take a picture of the bottom half of the landing craft. (The bottom half of the landing craft is still there, assuming that we actually went there). They already took a picture of the Opportunity Rover, in order to prove that the Opportunity Rover exists. It would make sense to do something similar with the Apollo vehicles.

By: Darrel Doberstein

Darrel Doberstein — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:53:12 +0000

Could you explain me more about the second paragraph, please.

By: Reed

Reed — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:25:35 +0000

I think we went to the moon but I just don’t believe the official version. We went and we found many artificial artifacts or things up there. The rest is a mistery.

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:27:12 +0000

57. Martin Roberts Says:

I have not seen a single piece of footage showing an astronaut jumping higher than he could on earth. Beyond all reasonable doubt, we did not go.

Given their cumbersome, awkward spacesuits and the weight of the Oxygen tanks and other gear they were wearing don’t you think the fact they could jump *at all* is proof they were indeed on the Moon?

We have more than ample evidence that the Apollo moon landings – not just 11 but also :

12 Charles “Pete” Conrad, Alan Bean & CM pilot Richard Gordon
14 Alan B. Shepard, Edgar Mitchell& CM pilot Stuart Roosa
15 David Scott, James Irwin & CM pilot Alfred Worden
16 John W. Young, Charles Duke & CM pilot Ken Mattingly
&
17 Eugene Cernan, , Harrison H. “Jack” Schmitt & CM pilot Ronald Evans

All these men (& sorry ladies but they were all men) did indeed land on the Moon.

Also that Apollo 13 (Lovell, Haise & Swigert)in arguably the greatest adventure yet encountered in space circle dtehMoon and retruned safely – just -forty years ago this year.

Also that Apollo 8 (Lovell, Anders, Borman) and Apollo 10 (Stafford, Young, Cernan) circled the Moon successfully wghile other Apolloand manned space misisons achieved some incredible – but real – accomplishmenstand successes and flew into space.

This is not in dispute – or at least the evidence is so great and overwhelming and the claims to the contrary so unsupported by the actual available evidence that it shouldn’t be in any dispute. Not really.

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CM = Command Module.

By: Messier Tidy Upper

Messier Tidy Upper — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:08:09 +0000

Bill Kaysing was a man.
An individual who, I gather, had some good ideas.
However, he will probably go down in history for promoting and stubbornly clinging to one particular very dumb, nasty and easily debunked idea despite having many oportunities to change his mind – namely the ridiculous and, frankly, insulting idea that the Moon landings (& indeed pretty much *all* human spaceflight) were deliberately faked.

As a person Bill Kaysing might’ve been okay, but his Moon Hoax idea was utterly wrong and deluded.

Its a shame that he personally didn’t have the wisdom and courage to accept when he was wrong and admit he’d erred – as we all err from time to time.

(Me probably more than most! )

Rest In Peace Bill Kaysing.

May your Moon Hoax ideas soon rest forever with you.

And thanks Phil Plait for showing more grace and forgiveness towards this poor foolish human being than I’d have done & for your post above.

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By: Martin Roberts

Martin Roberts — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:43:26 +0000

I have not seen a single piece of footage showing an astronaut jumping higher than he could on earth.
Beyond all reasonable doubt, we did not go.

By: george

george — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:36:43 +0000

Bill Kaysing is a Great Man. A Man that talks the Truth absent of fear of any kind. When Kaysing said there is no Blast Crator under the LEM. He said, That to me is conclusive evidence of a Hoax.
He said, No way am I looking at a Lander that landed on the moon.

By: Alan G. Archer

Alan G. Archer — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:43:07 +0000

Cameron,
I will answer your questions as best I can.
You ask, “Why would Gissem put a big lemon in the photo of an Appolo mission and then shortly after he and his wife are killed?”
Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom attached a large home-grown lemon to an Apollo simulator that he was dissatisfied with. Later that week, on January 27, 1967, Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire during a test of the AS-204 Command Module (Apollo 1). His widow, Betty Moore Grissom, lived on into the 21st century.
Concerning Buzz Aldrin, you ask, “Why does Buz cry every time someone asks him about the trip?”
Every time? Mr. Aldrin has spoken dry-eyed about the Apollo 11 mission on a number of occasions.
A good question: “Why didn’t they leave a flag up there for later telescopical viewing and proof?”
Conceivably, a pair of Apollo astronauts could have, with respectful intentions, unrolled a large, UV-resistant flag across the surface of the Moon. An American garrison flag (6.1 m x 11.6 m) on the Moon, for example, would require a truly mammoth telescope in Earth orbit or on the surface of the Earth (with adaptive optics) to detect it. Such telescopes have yet to be built. A better, less expensive solution would be to place a high-resolution camera in lunar orbit, like the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera currently in operation, to image the large flag at a surface spatial resolution of 0.5 m per pixel or better. But there is no guarantee, of course, that all people would accept such large flags visible from Earth or from a lunar orbiter as proof that the Apollo missions were authentic. (Thomas Demski’s “The Superflag” is 154 m in length. If that flag were on the Moon, the Hubble Space Telescope may be able to resolve a one or two pixel image of it. Unfortunately, the epic flag weights some 1,361 kg on Earth, the weight of more than six Lunar Rover Vehicles.)
Lastly, you ask, “How can you travel 950,000,000 miles in 3 days at 1,000,000 miles an hour?”
I can not do this. Are these distance, time, and velocity figures related to an Apollo mission?

By: Alan G. Archer

Alan G. Archer — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:44:08 +0000

Cameron,
I will answer your questions as best I can.
You ask, “Why would Gissem put a big lemon in the photo of an Appolo mission and then shortly after he and his wife are killed?”
Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom attached a large home-grown lemon to an Apollo simulator that he was dissatisfied with. Later that week, on January 27, 1967, Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire during a test of the AS-204 Command Module (Apollo 1). His widow, Betty Moore Grissom, lived on into the 21st century.
Concerning Buzz Aldrin, you ask, “Why does Buz cry every time someone asks him about the trip?”
Every time? Mr. Aldrin has spoken dry-eyed about the Apollo 11 mission on a number of occasions.
A good question: “Why didn’t they leave a flag up there for later telescopical viewing and proof?”
Conceivably, a pair of Apollo astronauts could have, with respectful intentions, unrolled a large, UV-resistant flag across the surface of the Moon. An American garrison flag (6.1 m x 11.6 m) on the Moon, for example, would require a truly mammoth telescope in Earth orbit or on the surface of the Earth (with adaptive optics) to detect it. Such telescopes have yet to be built. A better, less expensive solution would be to place a high-resolution camera in lunar orbit, like the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera currently in operation, to image the large flag at a surface spatial resolution of 0.5 m per pixel or better. But there is no guarantee, of course, that all people would accept such large flags visible from Earth or from a lunar orbiter as proof that the Apollo missions were authentic. (Thomas Demski’s “The Superflag” is 154 m in length. If that flag were on the Moon, the Hubble Space Telescope may be able resolve a one or two pixel image of it. Unfortunately, the epic flag weights some 1,361 kg on Earth, the weight of more than six Lunar Rover Vehicles.)
Lastly, you ask, “How can you travel 950,000,000 miles in 3 days at 1,000,000 miles an hour?”
I can not do this. Are these distance, time, and velocity figures related to an Apollo mission?

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:42:48 +0000

The reason I know for a fact man did not go to the moon is the Bible tells me this.
God gave man dominion only over the earth, not the heavens.
The moon is included in the heavens.
Man did not walk on the moon, he never even went there.
Thank God for the Holy Bible where every answer to every question is.
I appreciate Bill Kaysing’s great work in expsoing this hoax.
God used him.

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:02:50 +0000

With the latest news about the erased original footage of the landing,is certainly a fly in the ointment. NASA’s explanation is defies belief.When you are talking about a moment in time featuring mankind’s greatest accomplishment (costing $billions) and they erased the tapes? Yeah right. I think the wheels are starting to fall off folk and poor Bill will be laughing from the grave. I’m sure there’s more to come.

By: Paul Kersey

Paul Kersey — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:40:34 +0000

I only found out about the moon trip hoax stuff while researching Bill Kasying online. Bill wrote and distributed several other books, some of which I collected and found interesting. One was a magazine sized pamphlet called HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS. It’s a shame that didn’t see larger circulation. His common sense thinking surely helped someone out there. He also wrote Great Hideouts Of The West and a number of books on eating cheap, growing your own garden, hot springs locations, etc. Just run KAYSING on ebay and you’ll find some of his old books for sale. That said, let’s not walk around talking trash about Bill Kaysing. I don’t see his theories on the moon trip any better or worse than the Kennedy assassination theorists. People waste time of their own free will, so let ol’ Bill rest in peace. He didn’t kick in your back door and rob you of your time; you went of your own free will.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:51:07 +0000

Why would the Russians rat out the USA for faking the moon mission? Aren’t they our friends? They’re all good Commies right? Aren’t the Commies our friends? Or is it just our favored nation trade buddy, good ol Communist China?

Oceania was never at war with Eurasia. You must be mistaken.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:35:16 +0000

Tudza

Exactly. I agree. It sounds silly that anyone could believe Kaysing. Never mind though. Managed to convince everyone in my presentation that the hoax theory was in fact in itself a hoax.

By: tudza

tudza — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:36:21 +0000

Nick

Many countries picked up the radio traffic from the moon. You think many of them, oh Russia maybe, wouldn’t have called us on it if these signals weren’t obviously what they should be?

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By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:24:28 +0000

Hello Phil,
I’m not an astronomer by any stretch of the imagination and only recently in fact heard about the conspiracy theory that the moon landings were faked. However the story has I admit intrigued me as to why anyone would disbelieve it happened. Having done the research, I heard of yourself and Mr Kaysing and that FOX programme but probably won’t get a chance to see it. I am doing a presentation on the antithesis of the moon landings and would appreciate any help you can lend. I’ve head all the theories about staged photos, parallel shadows and deaths of certain NASA officials from the time but I would much rather hear the evidence that blows that all out of the water. Is there any chance you could write a short e-mail that I can include in my presentation, or do you have any links to other sites that might help?
Thankyou for your time
Nick Wells

By: Cameron

Cameron — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:03:13 +0000

We live in a society of cheaters and cheated. The cheaters (media, gov officials, industry leaders) all promise to give pleasure or protection for those who follow with total disregard to the people and environment. We have seen conspiracies before – Watergate. Most people (around 93% apparently) are sheep and the cheaters prey on these people as they are so easy to convince. Why would Gissem put a big lemon in the photo of an Appolo mission and then shortly after he and his wife are killed? Why does Buz cry every time someone asks him about the trip? Why didn’t they leave a flag up there for later telescopical viewing and proof? How can you travel 950,000,000 miles in 3 days at 1,000,000 miles an hour?

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:43:12 +0000

A couple of things that don’t get talked about much is that firstly how come the Soviet Union who had spent billions of dollars on their attempts to get to the moon didn’t spot that it was a fake and tell the world !

Another point to ask the hoax believers is that why, after making the first hoax, did NASA go on to make another 6 (including one with an accident)?

You will always get people who jump on to the conspiracy bandwagon, just look at the 9/11 atrocity and the nutters who say it was the CIA that did it, I wonder how many of them belong to the Flat Earth Society.

Anyway thank you for your book Phil, like you I am very pleased to have lived to witness the greatest achivement by the human race in its eniire history

By: syed

syed — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:01:18 +0000

help me here, i am 11 years kid. i need to know if he really died in space.

p.s tell me the truth at my msn that is soccer4life_97@hotmail.com.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:34:38 +0000

ive spent the last 48 hours basicly none stop reading about the supposed hoax, its fascinating to me,

the picture at the top of this page is truely one of the most inspiring photos i have ever seen in my life (and actaully brought tears to my eyes)

thanks for the artical, some really good comments on here that really make me think
thanks
Tom

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:30:57 +0000

I think we went to the moon and anyone who thinks other wise I think is a dork!!!!!!!! Did you no america and russia were having a cold war.

By: Wil Tracer

Wil Tracer — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:41:20 +0000

Thank you for this thread.

By: KaiYeves

KaiYeves — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:24:48 +0000

It’s a good picture, BA. I feel those same feelings when I see it. It pushes home what Dr. Sagan said a lot, that if for no other reason, exploring space is worth it because it shows what being human truly means. This picture is not about hate, it’s not about fighting, it’s not about causing harm to another, it’s about science. It’s about learning. Together. Together to the stars.