NASA To Take Photos Of Lunar Landing Sites, End Conspiracy Theories

5:59AM July 8, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

Suck it up, conspiracy theorists, because soon your cuckoo stories about the US simulating the Moon landings will be over forever. NASA has confirmed to Gizmodo that the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will take photos of all the Apollo landing sites:

Jesus Diaz: Would the LRO return images of the moon landings when it flies over them?
Grey Hautaluoma (NASA Headquarters, Office of Public Affairs): Yes, it will. We don’t have a timeline yet for viewing the Apollo sites, but it will be in the near future.

There you have it. Soon we will have photos showing the remains of the Apollo Lunar Modules, also known as LEM (Lunar Excursion Module.) Built by Grumman Aircraft Engineering, the Lunar Module was 20.9-foot tall, with a 14 feet diameter and a landing gear span of 29.75 feet.

However, the Lunar Reconnoissance Orbiter will only be able to take photos of what is known as the Descent Stage, the bottom part of the LEM that housed the main propulsion system. This part was left on the Moon’s surface, while the Ascent Stage launched after each mission to rendezvous with the Command Module orbiting around the Moon.

Other remains left on the Moon include the Lunar Roving Vehicles, used in Apollo J-class missions: Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17. Since they are 3-meter long, the LRO will be able to distinguish them as well.

Comments

Sal

July 9, 2009 at 3:47 PM

Forget the moon that hoax was 40 years ago. 9/11 is the real issue. Did the US gov’t allow/participate in 9/11?

The answer to that query would explain the illegal wire-taps, suspension of habeas corpus, banning of books like “America Deceived” from Amazon, detaining of dissenters in fences miles away from events, and multiple wars based on lies.

How can the gov’t be innocent in 9/11 when we have caught it lying so many times (WACO, Ruby Ridge, no WMDs, USS Liberty, Operation Northwoods, Gulf of Tonkin, Pearl Harbor, ETC.)?

In law, if you determine a person lies ONCE during his testimony, it can be assumed that he lied in the remainder of his testimony. How come we do not hold the gov’t to the same standard as it holds us to?

The gov’t lied to us about Iraq and more Americans have died there than in 9/11. If the gov’t lied about Iraq then why is everyone so reluctant to believe that the gov’t lied about 9/11?

Final link (before Google Books bends to pressure and drops the title):
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000083883

Arthur Guy

July 9, 2009 at 6:18 PM

What are these photo’s going to be filmed in a studio as well with a fake moon landscape like they did before? NASA are a pack of liars and you cannot believe anything they say or do.

elk

July 9, 2009 at 8:18 PM

If NASA didn’t go to the moon, don’t you think that the USSR wouldn’t have found out about it and exposed the conspiracy?

They would have tracked the communications between Apollo and Houston. They would have been able to track the mission all the way ot the Moon and back. The KGB would have had spies in NASA.

And if they had any doubt about NASA’s truthfulness, they would have milked it for all that it was worth.

And that’s before we got onto the small matter of the reflectors left on the lunar surface that are used to bounce measuring beams back towards the Earth…

tony peters

July 10, 2009 at 4:06 AM

Conspiracy theorists? Like the government has ever told the truth about anything? Oh yeah, the new photos will prove it. Has anyone heard of Photoshop?
Look at the first photos in LIFE magazine. They are perfect, in fact too perfect, with lighting coming from different sources, etc. They show the camera used and it has no protection from extreme temperatures or radiation. In 1969 they did NOT have the technology to send people to the moon and have never been back. I wonder why?

Aron Ranen

July 11, 2009 at 9:24 AM

I made a film called DID WE GO?
I was paid $65,000 from the State of Ohio to try and prove we really landed on the moon.

I traveled all over OHIO trying to get Neil to talk…he will not talk to anyone.

Here is link to my film on youtube. It opens with me on WLW-AM Radio in Ohio, trying to reach out to Neil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM3Mt1Vym3g

please share this link

cheesecow

July 12, 2009 at 11:14 PM

About transmitting live images. When we look at the Moon we basically see the same side of it always. Now on the Moon, an odd thing happens because of this, you will see the Earth in the same location in the sky always. The Earth will also have “phases” of light/dark like we see the Moon throughout the month. Once the transmit/receive antenna is pointed to Earth from the surface of the Moon it need not track the Earth to be aimed right. Satelites orbiting the Earth and various ground based receivers around the Earth will pick up the transmission and relay it to it’s destination. Sounds very odd indeed, but look it up if you ever want to learn anything.

Karl

July 14, 2009 at 10:08 AM

It should be illegal to deny that the moon landings happened, just like it’s illegal to deny the holocaust in Germany. It’s not funny in the least. It’s sick, and dangerous.

Mike

July 18, 2009 at 1:37 PM

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html

These are the first images their will be lower altitude higher res photos these were just done in passing before final orbit was established.
for the non believers..well fake or not my father put food on the table while working on radio equipment for the Apollo missions so they were doing something.

Thomas

July 18, 2009 at 7:23 PM

I find it incredible that a lot of moon landing skeptics refuse to accept that we have landed men on the Earth’s Moon but believe in the existence of God and an afterlife both of which cannot be proven.

buzz

July 19, 2009 at 8:41 AM

Great – fake photos of fake photos. The technology for a claculator or digital watch did not exists but we landed men on the moon. Get the Hubble or another telescope to shoot the landing sites. It was all a studio filmed cold war production.

Danny

July 19, 2009 at 10:11 PM

IF YOU WERE IN THE MOON YOU WOULD SPEAK ABOUT IT FREELY, AS THE SAND AND ROCKS LOOKS, AS YOUR BODY BEHAVED, DESCRIBING AS THE SIGHTSEEING WAS, YOU WILL BE HAPPY OF TALKING ABOUT IT AND WILL DO IT A TENT OF A THOUSAND TIMES… WELL, AT LEAST AS ANYONE WILL CERTAINLY DO YOU WOULD TAKE A 180 OR 360 DEGREES VIDEO SHOT. BUT NEITHER THAT WE HAVE. WHAT WE SEE IS TWO FRIGHTENED MAN HIDING AND SAYING NONSENSES. IT IS A SO SORRY SITUATION FOR ALL OF US.

David

July 21, 2009 at 6:41 PM

There is already some proof on that the first landing did happen and that is a scientific experiment that has been used since they went there. Its a reflector for laser that they placed on the moon so that the distance could be measured.
There is no other way to explain why they get a clear laser back other than they really have been there.

Also all over the world on the 20 Juli 1969 all radiodishes where pointed at the moon and most of them just to listen for fun cause nasa only used a few and they could hear the austronauts from the commandmodule and the entire landing. There is no other way for that to possible than that they where there. There is no way they could have faked a signal from the moon that other listened to.

And final the first to say that it didnt happend should have been the Sovjets. They listened to and even sent a probe that can be seen flying in some footage from the lunarlander. There is no way that NASA would know it was there and what it looked like and still its on their footage flying in the sky. And the sovjets never claimed that it was a fake because they know they where there.

All these evidence has never in anyway been overproofed to be fake. They even dont talk about them because every single one of them is by them self enough proof that they where on the moon Juli 20 1969.

/David

Dude

September 24, 2009 at 1:08 PM

So its almost October 2009… the satellite has been up there for what? A month now? So where are the pictures?

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