Probably something they shot into the moon. 'Look at the shiney thing on the surface! It's a reflector and not crash reckage. Bad luck your telescope can't make it out. Please believe us.'
Maybe the Yanks downloaded their own photos to the Ruskies by hacking their computers to make them think that they took the pictures themselves?
^ I don't know.
I don't get the "moon landing sceptics". SURELY you agree that there are man-made satellites orbiting the Earth. Since sputnik you can look up at night (best just after sunset) and see them passing over. The ISS is brighter than Venus; you can't miss it.
If you agree we have satellites then it's not much of a jump to get to the Moon. You just get into the right orbit and whoosh on out over to the moon. About 6 days travel time. Getting there is almost possible with amateurs these days. Staying in space for long periods is of course well known, I think even 1 year aboard the ISS(?).
Now getting people there is a bit harder, especially alive people. One has to slow down from that enormous speed and land a vehicle safely on the surface without killing its occupants. Again, this was done a few times, landing the rovers on Mars was a harder feat.
What impresses me the most was getting back. Came across this while surfing around looking for a trajectory video that might explain it all a bit better. It's amazing what's on the web these days.
ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19630011448.pdf
Very pretty diagrams. I don't pretend to understand the Maths.
Looks like Australia was a likely landing point at that stage.
Cost of sending Mars rover is estimated at circa 2.5 bln $ . Which means that our Gina could afford to buy be herself 20 - 30 vehicles.
That is sort of money that one person could have and still need more, since whole the biggest and richest country in the world hardly could scrap the pennies to afford any space program.
For 5 bln bucks you could build a space tram that will send everything in space at the cost $1 per kg using magnetic gun. Only problem nobody has spare few billion bucks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarTram
how many rovers have they sent to mars under the guise of the same mission
it's nothing but a distraction and accounting rort to funnel funds into other operations
No atmosphere to stop it moving, no real gravity either...the pole was thin the top bar thinner. When it was planted into the ground the springy-ness of the assembly caused it to 'wobble' giving the appearance of wind. It did stop eventually.
The cameras were chest mounted Hasselblads so there are no reflections of cameras in front of faces before anyone mentions that one!
As a kid I watched every bit of tv i was allowed on all the missions, and read every available newspaper. Check out the special effects in Where Eagles Dare and On her Majesties Secret Service 2 films from '69 and tell me that NASA was capable of producing seamless footage of capsules landing in the sea and the moon footage.
Cheers Col
Yeah so totally fake, done by two old guys with a plank of wood tied to ropes, they did out one night on the way home from the pub...