Comments on: NASA FAKED A SHUTTLE IMAGE!!!!!

By: Phil Plait

Phil Plait — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:35:57 +0000

Matt (220): I'm an idiot? OK. But maybe you'll want to read the next post after this one. This is an excellent example of why you should follow Wheaton's Law. If you turn out to be wrong, you don't look as silly.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:54:08 +0000

Phil, you are an idiot. That’s an image from a flight simulator showing the intended design for the new STS. You debunkers should put a little thought into your rants.

By: Albert

Albert — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:26:38 +0000

With most of the Mars landings being failures, why this new atempt to land a larger mars device on mars?? If the moon landings were real, with reasonable doubt, and it has not been explored beyond a few miles and not on back side why not learn from this to travel easier and faster thru space. A ship could constructed in orbit, fueled and supplied and travel with less needs than from earth. It could use a drive that would not need fuel that now is used to get in to orbi. It could orbit moon and use a lander as before. (If that is a fact.) …… Unless the moon is alien property and we were told to stay away!! The other is that space outside of the space stations orbit is extremely dangerious for our technology to have maned flight.

By: nonhocapito

nonhocapito — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:17:18 +0000

But is it conceivable that, out of curiosity, never in twenty more years they felt like turning the camera outwards, maybe during one of the passages in the dark, to show us what must be a breath-taking show of billions of stars shining on?
Think about it: you are in space and there is no atmosphere between you and the stars. That would be a never-before-seen memorable event. Any of us would have the immediate impulse and curiosity to look into space and report back the incredible impression, that nowhere on earth, not even in remote areas of Chile, can be experienced. And yet, the silence about the stars, once again and like with Apollo, is deafening.

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By: Jesvant

Jesvant — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:33:45 +0000

Yeah there is no space shuttle, or space program anywhere on the earth. The americans dont have the technology, the only real rockets are like the V2 launched by the Nazis, and that was merely a ballistic missile

FAKE !

By: Pablo

Pablo — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:26:54 +0000

This picure is the kind of composition that aircraft manufacturers do all the time with their cockpits; as I pilot, I have seen lots of promotional material related to avionics, planes and other stuff that use similar photos, even of stuff in “orbit” which clearly couldn’t fly outside the atmosphere. Perhaps NASA should clarify this, but if you want to use this picture to imply somehow that NASA lies at large, it would be a gross mistake firstly because it is publicity material created as a common practice in the aerospace industry, not scientific stuff. Then, one thing is not conencted to the other: The fact that one prepares a fake image for publicity pursues doesn’t necessarily imply anithing as eviudence for the credibility of research pictures. If that were not the case, then nothing coming out of the U.S. could be considered serious because you also produce pictures of Mickey Mouse.

By: anand

anand — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:24:24 +0000

pudingi … podaanga panni…

By: RAYMOND

RAYMOND — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:06:22 +0000

Look they used the best fake photo they had,out of 200 shots.

By: Fernanda

Fernanda — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:58:39 +0000

The CONSPIRACY is actually that all these pictures coming from NASA are TRUE and GENUINE. The REALITY/FACT are all the MONEY and POLITICS/ STRATEGY involved by making people believe in all this rubbish..REMEMBER that USA became a potency recognized worldwide with all this moon landing history created in studio and as RESULT pumped their economy generating billions and reaching WORLDWIDE PRESTIGE with this “EVENT”. Why wouldn’t they do it again? Especially now that USA’s economy is in trouble…sounds a great idea! Would you ever believe in “someone” that lied to you once before? Do you believe that a man can be GAY for one day and became straight again? Do you believe in fathers XMAS? Oh Please! Come OOOOONNNN!!There is a BIG gap between what people want to believe and what is really TRUE

By: Drai

Drai — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:32:56 +0000

That image looks like it came straight out of a fallout 2 game.

By: Jaala

Jaala — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:33:47 +0000

Um excuse me everyone, but this photo, according to NASA’s own website was taken before the shuttle even launched. Like a month or two before! Egh. This is an image of the simulator. Therefore, you’re all wrong. Strange though, that the simulator view would include stars. Apparently, if we are to believe NASA, there are no stars that can be seen from space LOL.

By: Geoff de Ruiter

Geoff de Ruiter — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:52:57 +0000

May I make a suggestion, Can you check the curvature of the earth to see if it is congruent on either sides of the central dividing panel. It seems a bit off in that it seems the picture of the earth was spread too far across. Although it might be simply and optical illusion. If you find anything out please contact me

By: poopy

poopy — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:50:58 +0000

Im pretty sure he meant every word and didnt intend it as a joke there is nowhere in his comment to say he was joking, he said himself he got iit wrong, big whoop!

By: Silver Knight

Silver Knight — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:31:46 +0000

Oh, man… The comment thread was even funnier than the article itself! While I really and truly do hope that there are not actually people out there as dumb as a few of these people claim to be, I am saddened by the fact that there are indeed such people in the world. Any of you who did NOT understand this was humor, read the NEXT blog entry by this author before freaking out further about the “faked photo”.

Let’s start out by pointing out to anyone who might believe this post was serious (as others have pointed out in the comment thread also) that this post is tagged “Humor”. That might be your very FIRST clue that this was meant to make folks laugh and could not possibly have been intended seriously. Read on further in the comment threads and you find people pointing out other obvious facts that are also dead giveaways as to the humorous nature of this post such as the timing (dates) of the release of the photo and the planned mission, or other caption details from the original photo.

For the few crackpots who might STILL not be convinced this was humor and was intended seriously, try the link to the next blog entry – http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/29/ok-so-maybe-nasa-didnt-fake-that-image/ where the author himself clarifies the entire thing in detail for you. Grow a sense of humor and laugh at this like most of us did.

By: jgirvine

jgirvine — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:22:59 +0000

Swillter… This is obviously your first visit to the bad astronomy site. Try reading a few more posts before accusing PHIL PLAIT of not believing in the moon landing. See what books he has written. See what he gives lectures on!

By: Swillter

Swillter — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:31:52 +0000

U r sad mate i work at the astronaut training facilities . why would we work the bollocks off the astronaunts for no reason.DONT BELIEVE EVERYTHING U SEE ON THE INTERNET. if i wanted to i could edit my photo’s and put god only knows what on them.

P.S If you r so sure we didnt land on the moon then why is Richard Branson launch flights to space and the moon soon with Virgin Galactic u div h

http://www.virgingalactic.com/htmlsite/index.php?language=english
soz i dont know i to make a hyper link

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By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:13:55 +0000

I work at NASA – JSC in Houston. Sure, the image out the window is fake. It makes the photo more appealing to have Earth out the windows. So what? The image was intended to show the new MEDS instrumentation that replaced the old analog-driven stuff. I’m not even sure this is from a real orbiter – it could be one of the simulators in the SMS or GNS. Whoever put the label that is was a mission is misinformed.

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By: TheChewanater

TheChewanater — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:45:20 +0000

Obviously, it said WILL be on space shuttles in 2002. So yes, this image WAS faked, it was made before 2002! The only fault is their inaccuracies, but that doesn’t mean that the space shuttle program doesn’t exist!

By: Chris Funk

Chris Funk — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:10:51 +0000

Phil, please respond to this…

I have one question, are you serious?

Thanks,
Chris

By: Rene

Rene — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:34:25 +0000

If you’re read the original message carefuluy you can say that NASA never claimed it was an actual cockpit. They just made us aware of the fact that there was a new cockpit. And since everything looks so good in the picture, perhaps they’ve removed the windows, and the seats.

You said

There’s only one explanation: Someone at NASA faked the photo!!!

My question is ‘What did they fake?

Maybe it isn’t areal shuttle, but just a simulator.

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