Hi guys, I believe the landing happened but I have some doubts and I need someone to explain it.
Does this evidence prove the hoax?
Missing lunar rocks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_and_missing_moon_rocks
Feel free to peruse the Lunar Sample Compendium:
LinkIf you are a scientist, you may request lunar samples for study here:
LinkMissing telemetry data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes
Last year my family took our first trip ever to Green Bay, Wisconsin for my brother-in-law's wedding. It was a lovely trip, and I took hundreds of pictures - all of which I subsequently deleted from my camera's memory chip. An idiotic mistake? No, because I'd transferred all of the images to two other computers and other data backup media.
Similarly, all of the data on the Apollo 11 telemetry tape was transcribed and the embedded slow-scan video signal was converted to conventional video tape. Nothing was really lost-lost. In the last decade we realized that modern computers could do a better conversion of the video, but we didn't know that 30 years ago. None of the footage has been lost.
Radiation of Van Allen Belts
http://fas.org/spp/military/docops/usaf/2020/app-f.htm
To put the space weather radiation hazard to human life in perspective, at geostationary orbit, with only 0.1 gm/cm2 of aluminum shielding thickness, the predicted radiation dose (REM) for one year continuous exposure, with minimum-moderate solar activity, is estimated to be about 3,000,000; using 5.0 gm/cm2 of aluminum shielding, the REM for one year continuous exposure would be reduced to about 550. (Note: REM = dose (RAD) x Relative Biological Effectiveness (RBE) of particular ionizing radiation.) Although drastically reduced by shielding, 550 REM for a sample population would cause radiation sickness and about 50 percent deaths. Astronauts protected with only a spacesuit during normal-length extra-vehicular activity at geostationary altitude could receive about 0.43 REM per day under minimum to moderate solar activity conditions, which is sufficient to damage the eyes and other vital organs. Under high solar activity, and most importantly during large solar flare occurrences, daily REM values could be a thousand-fold higher and probably lethal. In comparison, an earth-bound person would have an estimated total yearly radiation dosage in the range of 0.17 to 2.6 REM; the daily dosage would be approximately 4.7 x 10-4 to 7.1 x 10-3 REM (2 to 3 orders of magnitude less than the astronauts daily dosage in our example).
What does this means?
It means that it's a good thing that the Apollo missions avoided that part of the Van Allen Belt and were short enough to minimize the risk of getting caught by a solar flare (kind of like how you avoid getting your picnic rained on).
Here are a couple of videos illustrating the path Apollo 11 took to avoid the thickest part of the belts:
TLI Orbit,
TLI Orbit SliceHere is a report on the American experience with space radiation:
LinkThe Soviets also wanted to send men to the Moon. They cancelled these plans for political reasons, but not before they flew their Zond spacecraft around the Moon several times unmanned. Here is their report on the radiation environment:
Link (Note in particular the last sentence on page 4).
The Japanese know a thing or two about radiation exposure. Here is a recent paper they did on shielding astronauts for long-term lunar stays:
LinkIs it possible that USA could have bribed Russia with grain shipments to keep the conspiracy?
No. We were fighting proxy wars with them around the world. The opportunity to disgrace their enemy would have been too good to miss. Besides, Anybody on Earth with the proper equipment could track the Apollo missions. Here is one man's story:
Link.
Hope this helps. It's barely a snowflake on the tip of the iceberg of information freely available about Apollo.
