There are many researchers who are called conspiracy theorists, conspiracy advocates. These people are convinced that even modern cosmonautics is a fake, a spectacle for the population to divert attention from important issues. And the fact that there were no American manned flights under the Apollo program - they are even more confident of this.
This topic has been visited not only by blogs, forums, but even books have been written. Books with facts and calculations that refute the traditional modern history of astronautics. Quoting all the strange facts from them is not enough even a few articles.
One of the doubts among conspiracy theorists is the lack of reliable evidence of finding lunar modules on the lunar surface. Those photos that are available are supposedly photoshop. Yes, they really are not as high-quality as detailed space images of the Earth in Google maps of European or American cities. I suggest you watch them.
There is such a map showing the landing sites of various spacecraft on the lunar surface. Including the Apollo program.
Promotional video:
Images of the LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) spacecraft launched by NASA, an artificial satellite of the Moon. The photographs seem to show that all the manned vehicles are in place. But conspiracy theories require more detailed images, with higher resolution. Whether the LRO is capable of this is unknown. Maybe this is the resolution limit of his cameras, or maybe there is more detailed data. But why these more detailed images will not be released to the public is also a question.
Judging by this information, LRO is still in operation and takes pictures of the landing sites of various vehicles and movements of the lunar rovers.
Photo from the NASA website. LRO filmed the crash sites of the Apollo lunar modules and the crash sites from other spacecraft that have expired.
Research site Lunokhod-1.
I wanted to double-check at least some of these photos. There is a resource on the Internet (quickmap.lroc.asu.edu), where you can see the surface of the Moon in a resolution of 0.5 meters by 1 pixel.
Knowing the coordinates of the landing sites of the lunar modules, I suggest looking at them on this map:
Link to the map.
Apollo 11 landing site. The sun shines from the left. The link to this place was shown by the reader. But with the search for the remaining lunar modules, something did not work for me. According to the coordinates indicated in the table above, I did not find anything. I tried it in different ways, focusing on the places indicated in the title chart. Maybe you, the readers will succeed - let me know the link in the comments. But let's not attribute this to a conspiracy. Let's move on to other interesting facts.
For some reason, the missions of Apollo 17 and Luna 21 (Lunokhod 2) practically coincided not only in time, but with the place of landing and research. But our Lunokhod was not collecting evidence of the American landing. The places were too far away. And why exactly in the same area and at the same time is a mystery for software developers.
Lunokhod-2 would never have left this crater along such a route. The Apollo 17 lunar module was still very far away. At least according to official information and data from the LRO. But I also did not find the path from Lunokhod-2. Despite the map resolution is 0.5m per pixel. The trail should have been visible, but alas.
And now I will cite the main oddity of the Apollo lunar program for myself. Everyone knows high-quality images of the lunar module:
Don't you find anything strange? Why this "plywood paneling"? After all, it was inside these screens that the astronauts launched back into the orbit of the moon. Are they thin sheets of metal to save weight? Okay, they're in spacesuits and just keep it dustproof. But another point: why were the supports wrapped in foil (or reflective film)? Obviously not plastic - let it be foil. Why do the supports need this thermal protection? Why is the starter module without foil?
The most incomprehensible photo for me. Why wrap the lunar module support bowl in foil too? Also thermal protection from the heated lunar surface? But nobody canceled the heat transfer. And this foil will not help much. the support has contact with the heated ground.
But that's not all. When landing, the lunar module had to blow out lunar dust from under itself, and this dust simply had to get into the support bowl. But we see that there is no dust from the word at all inside the bowl.
Under each descent vehicle, under the lunar module, there should be a funnel, roughly similar to the places where these modules fell:
But as we saw above, lunar dust blown apart is not observed under any of the six modules of the Apollo program. Strangeness too.
I think that it is precisely because of such blunders that conspiracy theories appear. And they still appear due to such staged filming:
I will not completely reject the official version that the Americans were on the moon. But the fact of something staged like in a movie is present in this. But why? What's the point of this?
Why all the technologies used in Saturn-5 launch vehicles after the completion of the lunar program were forgotten, lost is also a question. The USA buys RD series engines from us. What looks strange after such successes in their rocketry and near space exploration.
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Author: sibved