If you're going to actually build a rocket powerful enough to push the required amount of payload to the moon, build actual LEMs and CSMs and put them on top of it, and then successfully launch 7 of them, there really isn't a whole lot left that would make faking it worthwhile. At that point it's just a bit of math to get your trajectories right, so you might as well, you know, just go to the moon.
Once that's established, there really is no reason to believe there was a hoax other than there being some other fundamental obstacle to getting there, like the Van Allen belts or solar radiation, but we know that no such obstacles exist. People who claim humans can't go into space because of radiation are simply misinformed.
Hudson Murphy
>public failure and loss of crew would be unacceptable
Are you aware that the 3 man crew of Apollo 1 was killed on the ground in a fire during a test of the capsule?
Are you aware that Challenger exploded during ascent, killing the 6 astronauts and one civilian schoolteacher on board, while the scene was broadcast live to classrooms full of kids across America?
Are you aware that Columbia burned up during reentry because of damage of the heat shield, killing another 7 astronauts after their orbital mission had been completed?
Kayden Hall
fake
meth heads would've scrapped your house by now
Nolan Morris
>If you're going to actually build a rocket powerful enough to push the required amount of payload to the moon, build actual LEMs and CSMs and put them on top of it, and then successfully launch 7 of them, there really isn't a whole lot left that would make faking it worthwhile. How about making it work?
Building a rocket that looks big enough is a different and far easier thing from building a rocket actually capable enough. Putting together a plausible spacecraft is a different and far easier thing from making one that actually works on the first try.
Imagine the humiliation for America if they tried and failed, as the Soviets did.
>Once that's established, there really is no reason to believe there was a hoax ...other than that they did it in the 60s, a mere dozen years after the first object ever launched into orbit, and then nobody's been able to do it again in half a century, including NASA, despite all of the technological advancement since.
>other than there being some other fundamental obstacle to getting there, like the Van Allen belts or solar radiation, but we know that no such obstacles exist. We know solar radiation makes surviving the trip a crapshoot. The doses after a solar flare would be enough to cause acute radiation sickness, never mind cancer.
As for the Van Allen belts, they are certainly an obstacle and to flatly deny that they pose one is not putting yourself on the side of rational argument.
Cameron Morales
>like the Van Allen belts or solar radiation, but we know that no such obstacles exist
Space Shuttle crews had to avoid the Van Allen radiation belt in fucking low earth orbits, and moonfags want us to believe astronauts survived days in it.
Brayden Harris
>>public failure and loss of crew would be unacceptable >Are you aware that the 3 man crew of Apollo 1 was killed on the ground in a fire during a test of the capsule? Not the same as failing on an actual trip to the moon.
Furthermore, this sheds considerable doubt on the competence of NASA to have pulled off half a dozen moon landings without losing a single crew in space. This kind of accident would be quite likely in a hoax program: building a real fake capsule, doing real fake tests on the ground, so even most of the people working on it could believe it was real, but not being competent enough to even get through them without killing some people.
>Are you aware that Challenger exploded >Columbia Are you claiming that anyone who doubts the moon landings necessarily also denies that the shuttle flew? Because these are separate issues.
Asher Williams
I know this is /x/ territory, but apparently most people on Veeky Forums never venture outside of their head-in-sand idealistic muh science litter box, so let me tell you that there is some good and bad news about Challenger: the good news is that the crew survived since they never flew onboard, the bad news is that it shows what a lying and deceitful organisation NASA is.
Nolan Flores
There was more to it than showing up Russia.... How else could we prove the Earth is a sphere? Or that space is infinite and you are nothing but a spec... ... Are you convinced by your coddling government-backed single source of information known as NASAH.
