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was the moon landing fake?
I mean how did the astronauts get their oxygen for such a long voyage? wont it run out?
13 Answers
- Anonymous8 years agoFavourite answer
no,
they brought lots of bags of chips
so they had plenty of air
- Jason TLv 78 years ago
No the Moon landings (plural, there were six) were not fake.
A typical human sult consumes about 550 litres of oxygen per day. An Apollo lunar mission had three men and lasted about two weeks. 3 x 14 x 550 = 23,100 litres of oxygen. Sounds like you'd need a big tank, but that's gaseous oxygen. If you compress it into a liquid, it takes up a lot less space. Oxygen has an expansion ratio of about 1:860. In other words, 1 litre of liquid oxygen becomes 860 litres of gaseous oxygen when allowed to evaporate. Or, the other way round, 860 litres of gaseous oxygen can be compressed and stored in the form of 1 litre of liquid oxygen.
23,100 / 860 = about 27 litres of liquid oxygen. That can be carried in a tank less than one cubic metre in size. In practice they needed more than that to allow for safety margins and the fact that oxygen was used in the fuel cells to produce electricity and water, but since the spacecraft for the first landing had a total of three large oxygen tanks (two on the CSM and one on the LM) plus the pre-filled oxygen tanks in the spacesuit backpacks, they could easily carry more than enough for a two-week journey to and from the moon.
- 8 years ago
Lack of Oxygen/energy, extreme temperature, lack of atmosphere, etc are not my reason for not believing in the moon landing. Take away all scientific evidences and just watch the three astronauts (including Neil Armstrong) in the press conference after they presumably returned from the moon (you can watch it on the Youtube). They all look depressed, worried and guilty, and you know by INSTINCT that they did not walk on the moon !
Also, if we went to the moon 6 times 40+ years ago, why haven't we gone back to the moon ? Heck, everyone knows that no man has gone beyond 400 mile from the earth due to the deadly cosmic radiation in the past 40+ years and do you believe we made a return trip to the moon which is 239,000 mile away ??? Before calling others "conspiracy idiots" Think about it !
- RaymondLv 78 years ago
No.
You can carry compressed oxygen (and they did).
You can also "scrub" the air in order to clear it from CO and CO2, while refreshing its oxygen (they had canisters of chemicals with excess oxygen in the molecules).
If you have enough of both (pure oxygen PLUS scrubbing canisters) you can have oxygen for a long time (think about nuclear submarines carrying months of it - it is not "new technology").
If you make the trip too long, then yes, you would eventually run out. But they did not, so they did not.
- 8 years ago
No, it was not faked. In the Apollo 13 mission (with the "Houston, we have a problem" quote, and made famous by the movie of the same name, they had serious atmosphere problems, not really so much by lack of oxygen, but by excess CO2 and lack of heat.
They took liquid oxygen with them and used CO2 scrubber technology. They knew how much O2 was needed, and took that much plus a safety margin. O2 was also used for fuel cells to generate the electricity they needed.
- Anonymous8 years ago
The entire mission from launch to splashdown was 8 days. Pressurized oxygen and CO2 scrubbers could keep them alive for weeks if necessary.
- ?Lv 78 years ago
No. Oxygen is a gas, and it can be compressed in large quantities into very small cylinders.
The six Apollo Moon landings are among the best documented events in human history: thousands of pictures, hours of video, 382 kg. of Moon rocks, and millions of eye witnesses, including myself. There is not a single scientist in the world who doubts that they took place. To deny them is to discredit the magnificent achievement of the team which went to the Moon, and to reveal abysmal scientific ignorance.
The proofs of the Moon landings have been documented in detail on web sites like these:
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html
http://www.braeunig.us/space/hoax.htm
If further proof is needed, NASA recently released images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter showing 5 of the 6 Apollo landers, still on the surface of the Moon:
- ?Lv 78 years ago
Liquid oxygen stored in tanks (it was a LOX tank that broke on Apollo 13), CO2 scrubbers.
- ?Lv 78 years ago
Yes it was, but all the proof of the sham was destroyed when the world came to an end on 12.21.12, so you might as well stop asking and get back over to biology and work on the Big Foot cover up.
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Source(s): [n] = 10ⁿ - LockeLv 48 years ago
You should ask mythbusters, they already did a special on the moon landing, but this would be interesting to see how they prove it.