Ok folks, here comes the translation. It's a pretty long article, so Ill just take out the 'important' parts...

What evidences do we really have of the moon landings? could it have been just a large hoax carried out by NASA to beat the russians?

Here are some arguments for and against the hoax.

Some hoax believers believe the core of USAs government was behind this hoax, others believe that it is a worldwide conspiracy by all space corporations.

Radiation

The van allen belt, discovered in 50ties, several tests made with small rockets holding tissue samples etc, measured levels, solar flares could kill people, danish scientist quoted, links to radiation pages...
"but the spaceships' hulls were thick enough to protect the astronauts from the radiation they would normally encounter".

Lunar Module

And then there's the LM, which HBers claim was so unstable that it would tilt if any of the astronauts moved around inside it.

But that's not true, the LM had a feedback system that measured if the mass balance moved, and during decent the rocket engine could compensate for this. Lunar gravity is also only a sixth of earth's.

'why is there no dust on the LMs landing pads' asks a danish hoax writer.
During decent the LMs rocket engine would blow away most of the dust, sideways so that it would not get up on the pads.

- Astronomer Philip Plait from Sonoma State University goes through the most common hoax claims on his website (link). He explains how most hoax believers forget that there is no atmosphere on the moon, and that dust set in motion will not billow as on the earth.

The waving flag

the flag waves when the astronauts are setting it up, and in some pictures you can see how it's waving without anyone touching it.

- debunking (telescopic rod, flag doesnt wave when nobody is touching, wrinkles may make it appear to be waving.. etc).

When the lunar module took off from the moon there was no visible exhaust from the engines, clearly faked.

- mix of propellants was used, which created a see through exhaust, and would not be clearly visible in vacuum..

about the rocket (link)

no stars/shadow anomalies

debunked in lenght, with all the common explanations (3d terrain, short exposure times, etc).

Dead astronauts

Apollo 1 fire, Bill kaysing claims, baron report, fire investigation, security investigation, etc. link to baron report and complete list of Apollo astronauts.

rocket engines wont work in vacuum

lenghty debunking on that, physics etc, thermodynamics...

discussion about reentry etc, "why were there no brake rockets, reentry by that speed would be lethal, etc", long explanation about the heat shield and so on.

water landing

long hoax believer post about how it would be impossible to walk out alive from a landing like that. the velocity of impact would be 40km/h, and the capsule didnt go further down than 50cm, so the impact would be lethal if there wasent some sort of special chairs in that capsule, and there were none during launch... etc

and the debunking is short, shutes combined with air resistance would slow the capsule down to around 32km/h impact...

lunar rocks

if the lunar landings were really a hoax, why didnt the russians do it first?

a short explanation about lunar rocks, how they prove man went, almost 400kg of em, etc. Russians also sent their own probes and picked up samples, which were then compared with the US rocks.

US/Russian cooperation

worldwide freemason conspiracy, US working together with russians, etc. 'We know now that since Apollo 11 didnt land on the moon, and supposedly the russians had Luna 15 in lunar orbit at the same time the eagle was supposed to land, we have evidence that the russians worked together with the americans'...

a short summary of info about Luna 15 and Apollo 11 launch dates etc.

Then the article ends with 'there are no telescopes on earth capable of viewing great enough detail on the moon to find out if the moon landings were real, but in 2003 japan is sending a lunar probe into lunar orbit, and hopefully then we may get the final answers'.


The End (with some links)

then again, why wouldnt the japanese be in on it?

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