[137] Conspiracy theorists claim that the computers during the time of the Moon landings would not have been advanced enough to allow for human space travel to the Moon and back;[138] they similarly claim that other contemporary technology (radio transmission, radar, and other instrumentation) was likewise insufficient for the task.[139]. At least some of the telemetry tapes from the ALSEP scientific experiments left on the Moon (which ran until 1977) still exist, according to Dr. Williams. In another blow for B-2, the European Space Agency apparently will not use the facility to test the upper-stage engine for the successor to its Ariane 5 rocket. It spotted traces of the Apollo landings. This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. SpaceX testing Falcon 9's carbon fibre fairing in a vacuum chamber at Plum Brook Station. Its walls are 2 feet thick to withstand the blast of powerful . For technical reasons, the Apollo 11 lander carried a slow-scan television (SSTV) camera (see Apollo TV camera). Penn Jillette made note of this in the "Conspiracy Theories" episode of his television show Penn & Teller: Bullshit! [174] Furthermore, lunar meteorites are so rare that it is unlikely that they could account for the 380kg (840lb) of Moon rocks that NASA gathered between 1969 and 1972. Baron and his family were killed as their car was struck by a train at a train crossing. [184] A 1999 Gallup Poll found that 6% of the Americans surveyed doubted that the Moon landings happened and that 5% of those surveyed had no opinion,[185][186][187][188] which roughly matches the findings of a similar 1995 Time/CNN poll. 12. Who filmed Neil Armstrong stepping onto the Moon? [23] Indeed their article on space exploration describes the Apollo 11 landing as "the third historic event" of the space age, following the launch of Sputnik in 1957, and Yuri Gagarin's flight in 1961. In addition, the center decided to begin removing the Plum Brook Ordnance Works (PBOW) concrete bunkers that had stored munitions during World War II and NASA records and equipment in later years. The arms of the crosshair are washed-out on the white stripes of the flag (Photo ID: AS15-88-11863), Close-up of the flag, showing washed-out crosshairs. On July 17, 2009, NASA released low-resolution engineering test photos of the Apollo 11, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 landing sites that have been photographed by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter as part of the process of starting its primary mission. The photos were taken by a hyperspectral camera fitted as part of the mission's image payload. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Moon-landing conspiracists focus heavily on NASA photos. ", "End of Conspiracy Theories? Plum Brook is part of the Glenn Research Center, located some 80 kilometers east in Cleveland. SELENE orbited the Moon at about 100km (62 miles) altitude. [151], In 2004, Martin Hendry and Ken Skeldon of the University of Glasgow were awarded a grant by the UK-based Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council to investigate Moon landing conspiracy theories. In northern Ohio, the glorious past of America's trains is on full display. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center (GRC) is leading the design and build of the new world-class vibroacoustic test capabilities at the NASA GRC's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, USA. [150], In 2002, NASA granted US$15,000 to James Oberg for a commission to write a point-by-point rebuttal of the hoax claims. 1. In December 2009 NASA issued a final report on the Apollo 11 telemetry tapes. Also, radio transmissions between the astronauts on the surface and in orbit were independently recorded. In this image, the Earth is lit by moonlight, not sunlight. This implies that the world's major observatories (as well as the Hubble Program) are complicit in the hoax by refusing to take photos of the landing sites. The NASA Space Environmental Test (SET) Project is tasked to develop new environmental test facilities to support NASA's developing space exploration program. Other Federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and the Department of the Interior, set up offices in the empty Engineering Building. [a][15] Folklorist Linda Dgh suggests that writer-director Peter Hyams' film Capricorn One (1978), which shows a hoaxed journey to Mars in a spacecraft that looks identical to the Apollo craft, might have given a boost to the hoax theory's popularity in the post-Vietnam War era. 5. In addition, safety officials considered several sites to be hazards. Dan Leone is a SpaceNews staff writer, covering NASA, NOAA and a growing number of entrepreneurial space companies. 7. 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The Space Power Facility (SPF) at the NASA Glenn Research Center's (GRC) Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio is already the home of the world's largest thermal vacuum chamber. The program demonstrated several technologies employed by large wind turbines today. It is argued that, because the USSR was unable to do this, the United States should have also been unable to develop the technology to do so. Down in the O&C Building at KSC, the EM-1 Orion spacecraft hardware has almost completed standalone testing. Here, highly specialized facilities allow NASA and the international space community to carry out complex and innovative ground tests. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you . Several scenes in 2001 show dust billowing as spacecraft landed, something that would not happen in the vacuum environment of the Moon. Note the near-transparency of the exhaust, even in air (water is being sprayed up from below), Atlas uses non-hypergolic kerosene (RP-1) fuel which gives a bright and very visible exhaust, 1.5MN (340,000lbf) of thrust, Bright flame from first stage of the Saturn V, burning RP-1, 3. On the makeup of the Moon rocks, Kaysing asked: "Why was there never a mention of gold, silver, diamonds or other precious metals on the moon? Dgh sees a parallel with other attitudes during the post-Watergate era, when the American public were inclined to distrust official accounts. These may be labeled studio props. The fairing is an essential piece of hardware for the Hawthorne, California, companys commercial satellite launches. NASA shelved other major programs, such as a space station and long-duration human journeys to other planets. [119] A crude, real-time scan conversion of the SSTV signal was done in Australia before it was broadcast worldwide. Longuski argues that it would have been much easier to really land on the Moon than to generate such a huge conspiracy to fake the landings. The first was a 100-kW experimental wind turbine at Plum Brook that Lewis researchers erected and operated. We hypothesized that (a) endorsement of COVID-19 conspiracy theories is positively associated with support for VR, and (b) psychological distress modifies the relationship between COVID-19 conspiracy theories and support for VR. The tapes are believed to have been stored rather than re-used. The most notable claim is that the six crewed landings (1969-1972)were faked and that twelve Apollo astronautsdid not actually walk on the Moon. The reactor first went critical on 14 June 1961, and was finally shut down on 5 January 1973. The sites, which had been exposed to the elements for years, were beyond restoration. The Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility (formerly known as Plum Brook Station) is part of NASA's Glenn Research Center in Ohio. [Meta] Sticky Comment. Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that some or all elements of the Apollo program and the associated Moon landings were hoaxes staged by NASA, possibly with the aid of other organizations. Because von Braun was a former SS officer (though one who had been detained by the Gestapo),[170] the documentary film Did We Go? A Fraud! The steady reduction of NASAs budget in the late 1960s and early 1970s coincided with the agencys decision to develop the space shuttle. The facility's decommissioning began in 1998, and the last of its structures was demolished in May 2012. Plum Brook Station is a test facility for NASA's Glenn Research Center. 3. Motivation for the United States to engage the Soviet Union in a Space Race can be traced to the then on-going Cold War. It was shut down 12 years later . 4. There was very little activity at Plum Brook until the late 1980s when Lewis Research Center reactivated four test sites and resumed testing. The astronauts had relied on computers to aid in the Moon missions. [153] In November 2004, they gave a lecture at the Glasgow Science Centre where the top ten claims by conspiracists were individually addressed and refuted.[154]. Rule 2 does not apply when replying to this stickied comment.. Rule 2 does apply throughout the rest of this thread.. What this means: Please keep any "meta" discussion directed at specific users, mods, or r/conspiracy in general in this comment chain only.. It shows the Earth with the correct background of stars, Long-exposure photo (1.6 seconds at f/2.8, ISO 10000) from the ISS in July 2011 of Space Shuttle Atlantis re-entry in which some stars are visible. In even worse shape is Plum Brooks Combined Effects Chamber, which was designed for large-scale experiments with liquid hydrogen, but never used. There are identical backgrounds in photos which, according to their captions, were taken miles apart. Moon Landings? The MythBusters crew tested many of the conspiracists' claims. The Apollo Guidance Computer was on the Lunar Module and the command and service module. [113] Parkes had a bigger antenna than NASA's antenna in Australia at the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station, so it received a better picture. This would have been an intolerable embarrassment to Mr. Kubrick, especially since the release of Dr. Strangelove. Blueprints and design and development drawings of the machines involved are missing. The photos contain artifacts like the two seemingly matching 'C's on a rock and on the ground. 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Nash (Executive Producer, Writer), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories&oldid=1141029494, This page was last edited on 23 February 2023, at 00:31. The three main theories are below. The many allegations in Kaysing's book effectively began discussion of the Moon landings being faked. [40], The American Patriot Friends Network claimed in 2009 that the landings helped the United States government distract public attention from the unpopular Vietnam War, and so crewed landings suddenly ended about the same time that the United States ended its involvement in the war. They have found that the Apollo 11 tapes were sent for storage at the U.S. National Archives in 1970, but by 1984, all the Apollo 11 tapes had been returned to the Goddard Space Flight Center at their request. After Apollo 18 was canceled, the other LRV was used for spare parts for the Apollos 15 to 17 missions. Cropped photo of Buzz Aldrin saluting the flag (the fingers of Aldrin's right hand can be seen behind his helmet), Cropped photo taken a few seconds later, Buzz Aldrin's hand is down, head turned toward the camera, the flag is unchanged, Animation of the two photos, showing that though Armstrong's camera moved between exposures, the flag is not waving. [1] Since the late 2000s, high-definition photos taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of the Apollo landing sites have captured the Lunar Module descent stages and the tracks left by the astronauts. The lens was originally a still photo lens and needed changes to be used for motion filming. 11. Opinion polls taken in various locations have shown that between 6% and 20% of Americans, 25% of Britons, and 28% of Russians surveyed believe that the crewed landings were faked. There appear to be "hot spots" in some photos that look like a large spotlight was used in place of the Sun. Close-up of later generation prints of AS16-107-17446, 9. [166][167] The Indian Space Research Organisation launched their uncrewed lunar probe on September 8, 2008 (IST), from Satish Dhawan Space Centre. According to the article, Dr. Richard West said that his team would take "a high-resolution image of one of the Apollo landing sites." The second stage of the launch rocket or the Lunar Module ascent stage or both made no visible flame. Original photo of Buzz Aldrin during Apollo 11, The more famous edited version. The deaths were an accident. The Gas Handling Area was removed in March 2010, followed by the High Energy Rocket Engine Research Facility (B1) and Nuclear Rocket Dynamics and Control Facility (B3) facilities in fall 2010. Some staff members found new positions at Lewis, but hundreds of others were soon out of work. The number of deaths within the American astronaut corps during the run-up to Apollo and during the Apollo missions is similar to the number of deaths incurred by the Soviets. Marcus Allen, a conspiracist, answered that no photos of hardware on the Moon would convince him that human landings had happened. Some main arguments (set in plain text) and counter-arguments (set in italics) are listed below. In 1961, NASA's Plum Brook Reactor Facility in Sandusy, Ohio went live, with a focus on researching nuclear-powered vehicles first airplanes, and then rockets. Some of the main facilities hadnt been used for years. For much of the early stages of the Space Race, the USSR was ahead of the United States, yet in the end, the USSR was never able to fly a crewed spacecraft to the Moon, let alone land one on the surface. The number of photos taken is implausibly high. Analyses by scientists worldwide all agree that these rocks came from the Moon no published accounts in peer-reviewed scientific journals exist that dispute this claim. [123] Senior engineer Dick Nafzger, who was in charge of the live TV recordings during the Apollo missions, was put in charge of the restoration project. [124] In time for the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, Lowry Digital had been tasked with restoring the surviving footage. + NASA Home > Centers > Glenn Home > About Glenn > Testfacilities The radio telescope at Parkes Observatory in Australia was able to receive the telemetry from the Moon at the time of the Apollo 11 moonwalk. The digital technology on Earth during the time of the Moon landings was just in its infancy. The original SSTV transmission had better detail and contrast than the scan-converted pictures, and it is this original tape that is missing. In the 1970s the center expanded the scope of its work into new areas, such as renewable energy sources. A street in front of NASA's D.C. headquarters has been named in honor of the Black women who were essential to early spaceflight. Moon landing conspiracy theoriesclaim that some or all elements of the Apollo programand the associated Moon landingswere hoaxesstaged by NASA, possibly with the aid of other organizations. Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick is accused of having produced much of the footage for Apollos 11 and 12, presumably because he had just directed 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is partly set on the Moon and featured advanced special effects. For example, 2001 was released before the first Apollo landing and Kubrick's depiction of the Moon's surface differs greatly from its appearance in the Apollo footage. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Mass media have a terrible impact on people who lack guidance. David Scott drops a hammer and feather on the Moon, 1. In December 1972 NASA canceled all of its nuclear propulsion and power programs, resulting in the closure of Plum Brook Station [today, the Neil Armstrong Test Facility]. In some photos, the crosshairs appear to be behind objects. The fact sheet was reissued on February 14, 2001, the day before Fox television's broadcast of Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? 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