Apollo 11 – Michael Collins

Apollo 12 – Richard Gordon

Apollo 14 – Stuart Roosa

Apollo 15 – Fred Worden

Apollo 16 – Thomas Mattingly

Apollo 17 – Ronald Evans

MHCTBers are these too all liars in your view?

Plus, of course,the whole Apollo 13 crew that also circled our Moon : Jim Lovell, John Swigert, Fred Haise & the crews of Apollo’s 10 ( Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan, John Young) & Apollo 8. (James Lovell, Frank Borman, William Anders.)

Basically Do you really expect us to believe all these good individuals are lying -flawlessly?

Well … ???

Neil Armstrong,
Buzz (Edwin) Aldrin,

Apollo 11 – first Lunar landing. Aldrin would later write an autobiography as well detailing his very interesting if sometimes troubled life.

Charles “Pete” Conrad
Alan Bean

Apollo 12 – the second Lunar landing. Alan Bean would later paint many scenes from his Lunar adventure from memory.

Alan Shepherd
Edgar Mitchell

Apollo 14 – third lunar landing – & Al Shepherd was the first American in space with the ‘Mercury’ programme. Mitchell as we all know is hardly the quiet secret-keeping type!

David Scott
James Irwin

Apollo 15 – fourth Lunar landing

Charles Duke
John Young

Apollo 16 – fifth Lunar landing. Both Duke & Irwin later became preachers if that carries any weight for those who think preachers are more honest than, say, scientists. NOT a view I hold personally I’ll add, but one I know some do.

Harrison Schmidt
Gene Cernan

Apollo 17 – sixth & so far last lunar landing. Schmidt, a geologist was the first and only scientist to walk on the Moon, the other astronauts mostly came from air-force or navy backgrounds.

Now according to the MHCTBers *all* of these brave and honourable men (& many hundreds more people as well) who have have different characters, abilities and backgrounds, who have written, painted, and talked about their lunar experiences are all consistently and continually lying!

Moreover, the MHCTBers would have us believe that all these men ( & many hundreds more involved in the Apollo program) who have been interviewed, studied, debriefed and questioned are *perfect* flawless liars who have never once “slipped up” and accidentally revealed “the secret.” Not to the media, not to their partners, not to their kids, not once, ever.

Yeah riiiight.

Besides can anyone just imagine being the dude in charge of telling the Apollo astronauts – Buzz Aldrin and Pete Conrad, Jim Lovell and Al Shepherd and the rest :

“Hey, you know we’ll actually be faking all this so you’ve got to act .. & lie really well .. and then hide somewhere while we somehow fool the Russians and ya gotta keep this so secret and.. ” *WHACK! *

[Person telling them this falls over with bloody nose and black eye from Buzz Aldrin’s killer left hook! ]

… And that’s before we even get to the mountain of other evidence like all the photos, moon-rocks, experiments left behind, et cetera …

@ 9 Bob Portnell :

Almost no chance of imaging a waving flag, though.

Definitely no chance of the flag waving – not unless a meteorite just hit it or a moonquake gives it a shake!

Actually, my understanding (which could be wrong & all but ) is that the flag actually fell over during the LEM’s ascent stage lift-off … Course that’s just for Apollo 11 but not sure if the others had flags too or not … & whether they fell over too or not.

I don’t know Jack. I wish we could get a 1000 pixel image of the LM base, but my understanding of the Resolution is different from yours and I wonder who has it right. My understanding is that the LRO is capable of a pixel resolution of half a meter as you say, but since the LM base is only a few meters across, that would present an image of no more than 10 – 12 pixels? Still, that will be enough for an image eh? I bet that would make it onto BA’s top 10 astronomy images of 2009.

My kinda guy!

- Jack