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I don't believe we've been to the moon and SpaceXs failure further convinces me.

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MrsRobinsonsHandprints · 20/04/2023 17:30

I know I've posted this before and the majority of you think I'm batty, but I don't think we've landed on the moon.

3 billion USD, a giant leap in technological advances and yet it can't even launch.

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MissMissive · 20/04/2023 19:01

TrombonesAreNotBones · 20/04/2023 17:32

Ok. Thanks for letting us know.

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MumUndone · 20/04/2023 19:02

I think it's weird everyone believes it happened, sort of like a reverse conspiracy theory. We simply didn't have the technology then, we just didn't.

noodlezoodle · 20/04/2023 19:02

Oh I'm so embarrassed for you.

Switchwitch · 20/04/2023 19:03

GasPanic · 20/04/2023 18:32

I don't think so. They moved onto projects like the space shuttle, Skylab and the ISS. Now they are doing the Ares project.

I don't think there has ever been a significant time when the US hasn't been developing rockets or spacecraft of some type. And the technical expertise required to land robot spacecraft on Mars is much greater than that required in the moon landings, see 7 minutes of terror or whatever on the Curiosity rover landing.

I think they gave up for 4 reasons. i) they proved their point in the willy waving contest with the USSR. ii) It was expensive iii) it was bloody risky iv) there wasn't really very much interesting stuff there to make it worth going.

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Well it might not be the sole reason but it's well documented https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA163940983&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=15480666&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E926016

Why we can't return to the moon: the need for Knowledge Management - Document - Gale Academic OneFile

<em>Gale</em> Academic OneFile includes Why we can't return to the moon: the need for Knowledge Management by Murray E. Jennex. Click to explore.

https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA163940983&issn=15480666&it=r&linkaccess=abs&p=AONE&sid=googleScholar&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E926016&v=2.1

EpicChaos · 20/04/2023 19:03

The Russians will have tracked every inch that Apollo 11 travelled ( they were desperate to be first on the moon ) and if they could print out a trajectory, that proved that Apollo 11 went nowhere near the moon, they'd have had a field day with it and would have made a lot of noise about it.

MuffinToSeeHere · 20/04/2023 19:03

MumUndone · 20/04/2023 19:02

I think it's weird everyone believes it happened, sort of like a reverse conspiracy theory. We simply didn't have the technology then, we just didn't.

Of course we did. I'm baffled anyone would think otherwise.

SchoolTripDrama · 20/04/2023 19:03

🤣🤣🤣🤣

notimagain · 20/04/2023 19:05

MumUndone · 20/04/2023 19:02

I think it's weird everyone believes it happened, sort of like a reverse conspiracy theory. We simply didn't have the technology then, we just didn't.

As somebody who many years ago flew those previously mentioned inertial navigation equipped 747s I can promise you we did.

It's not my generations fault that later generations (quite understandably) had different priorities for the off-shoots of such tech.

DannyZukosSmile · 20/04/2023 19:06

Cool story bro. 😎

Nimbostratus100 · 20/04/2023 19:06

Aishah231 · 20/04/2023 18:05

In over 50 years the Russians and Chinese still haven't worked out how to send a manned crew to the moon. They can't work out how to get past the lethal radiation field. I'm with you OP - suspicious as hell!

what utter garbage! Why would the russians or chinese have any interest in sending a manned mission to the moon? Of course they could if they wanted to, but no reason at all to do it. The chinese have robots there as we speak

bossonext · 20/04/2023 19:07

You're almost as stupid as Elon Musk.

ChroniclesOfBanarnia · 20/04/2023 19:07

Me too OP.

Gingertail · 20/04/2023 19:09

The Russians and Chinese have had the opportunity to disprove the Moon landings and haven’t - and they’d be the most likely to want to do so.

Of all the thousands of people involved in the missions, surely if it was a big conspiracy then someone would have been able to prove it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings

Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings - Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings

DuckBushCityLimit · 20/04/2023 19:09

The cost of the Apollo programme was about $26bn at the time, getting on for the equivalent of $300bn today, so what SpaceX has spent so far is peanuts, really.

Nimbostratus100 · 20/04/2023 19:09

MrsRobinsonsHandprints · 20/04/2023 17:40

I mean this is MN, the bar for discussion isn't very high, if you'd rather discuss not using people's washing line/the attractiveness of obsese women 🙄or weird made up family dynamics you are, in fairness, spoilt for choice.

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but this thread lowers the average bar considerably ....

Sturnip · 20/04/2023 19:09

Maybe to help satisfy everyone’s curiosity, we could arrange to launch everyone who doesn’t believe in the moon landing into space?

HappiestSleeping · 20/04/2023 19:09

I confess to not having read the whole thread, and I'm pretty sure others will have said this, but it's possible to verify for yourself that we did go to the moon as you can conduct your own experiment.

Besides, somebody would have proof somewhere and how much would that be worth? If it was a conspiracy, it would be impossible to keep it quiet.

jaundicedoutlook · 20/04/2023 19:09

Is it easier to believe that hundreds or even thousands of people got together and conspired this, retaining perfect secrecy for decades afterwards for no practical reason; or is it easier to believe that, well, people went to the moon?

MuffinToSeeHere · 20/04/2023 19:13

Sturnip · 20/04/2023 19:09

Maybe to help satisfy everyone’s curiosity, we could arrange to launch everyone who doesn’t believe in the moon landing into space?

Oh for a like button. This is clearly the answers! Grin

knittingaddict · 20/04/2023 19:13

20% agree with you?

There really is no hope for humans, is there?

Butchyrestingface · 20/04/2023 19:19

but I don't think we've landed on the moon.

I can confirm that I have certainly not landed on the moon. I am perfectly willing to believe that you haven't landed on the moon either, OP, and I'm sure there will be others who are likewise similarly deprived.

Maireas · 20/04/2023 19:20

FrippEnos · 20/04/2023 18:44

The clangers :)

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No! Wallace and Gromit 😊

Butchyrestingface · 20/04/2023 19:20

knittingaddict · 20/04/2023 19:13

20% agree with you?

There really is no hope for humans, is there?

20% of Mumsnetters are flying spaghetti monsters, I can see the headline now.

Sammyandtheboocas · 20/04/2023 19:22

We haven't tried since Apollo13, neither has anyone else.

There was a space race, the Soviet Union were the first to have a man orbit the earth, and the USA landed on the moon. After a few disasters and Apollo 13, both countries had other things to spend the money, like the Vietnam War.

Simply, there's been no attemps to go to the moon since the early 70's.

I mean, it's bloody pointless now, it's just more dick waving.

GrouchyKiwi · 20/04/2023 19:23

Do you moon landing deniers think that Curiosity and other rovers made it to Mars?