Charlie Duke: The Apollo 16 Moon Landing

[@bmoore1672]

Had the pleasure of meeting General Duke in 2012 while in the military. He is a class act, very humble, and wonderfully approachable about his Apollo experience and his life.

[@horacezontalbeam]

Class actor.

[@TomTimeTraveler]

I also met Charlie Duke in 1985. He autographed a couple of space books and I had my picture taken with him. I asked him a couple of questions and he graciously answered them. (I had about 1,000 more….). Yes, a class act and a genuine American hero. I often wonder: “what his eyes have seen…”

[@maxcorder2211]

As an Air Force Pilot and Vietnam Veteran, I salute you Charlie. Not only for your astronaut accomplishments, but for your and Dorothy’s wonderful Christian example of how to find peace and joy in life. I’ve been there and it can be a hard road.

[@kflybye]

What a fabulous interview! Thank you Eric and Charlie! It couldn’t have been better…….blessings to both of you.

[@ku4uv]

Thank you for your service.

[@greghartman1754]

What a wonderful interview and Charlie is a wonderful man. What a life!

[@jameslyons4919]

Yes Charlie is a wonderful man and I am proud of him and all the rest that contributed to getting men on the moon and back. As far as these moon landing hoax theorist they are the same as the flat earth theorist and are a bunch of ding dong thinkers living in their creepy world of delusion.

[@mathbrown9099]

What a brilliant, Christian man. I am so impressed to have had this experience watching the program. Thank you Eric, and your team for achieving this marvelous opportunity to interview an American Giant, who is humble and gracious.

[@rippenburn]

Christian? He's a liar and a cheat.

[@bernarddougcook6787]

Guess what, it never happened. If you still believe let me know, I've got a pile of evidence for ya.

[@2005charger]

Yes, he is a Christian man and a genuine American hero.

[@kendemers8821]

General Duke is the "whole package". He's a humble hero, willing to talk about his human fallibilities, and a God fearing man. Much respect to you, Sir!

[@horacezontalbeam]

God-fearing enough to swear on the Bible - on camera? None of them have because it could be held against them in court.

[@williammann9176]

@@horacezontalbeam oh come on Mr. Lawyer would not hold up in court. But as for Mr. Sibrel demanding the astronauts swear on the Bible. Mr. Sibrel has been caught in so many lies.

[@rozzgrey801]

@@horacezontalbeam Some astronauts did swear on Bart Sibrel's bible so he didn't mention them as that didn't suit his fake story. It's only held as contempt of court if you lie whilst under oath in a court room, so swearing on the bible while lying isn't an indictable crime.

[@KPL400]

@@horacezontalbeam absolute tosh..

[@rippenburn]

@@KPL400 Uh-oh. looks like the plumbers tool is on to you Horace! How do you pronounce that anyway? Kipple, Kerpul 🤔😅

[@cos2mer2]

Riveting!!!!! Not only his magnificent life and story, but his brilliant 86 year old mind and memory!!!

[@jawbone60]

What a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, beautiful man! A hero and genius!! A man so humbled he admits his shortcomings and turns his life over to God!!! Just a wonderful interview and joy to hear him speak. I could listen to him for hours!!! Thank you!

[@Pet.Wifey.Voice.Of.Reason]

Finally! He had been promising to post this Forever! (Well, okay, for just a couple months). But really, it is so good to see posts on this channel again. Please, I beg you to keep them coming.

[@patbiggam8138]

Precious testimony at the end of this interview. So special. ❤

[@jgunther3398]

Something that's apparently been reported wrong all these years, or crept into the public consciousness wrong, is Armstrong had a few seconds of fuel left before he would crash. Duke says the actual situation was he had a few seconds of fuel left before he would have to abort the landing and head back to the command module! Very good and entertaining interviewer. Thanks!

[@toucheturtle3840]

What people fail to realise is that the LEM was 2 separate modules, each with their own fuel supply. The hoax believers can’t be bothered to watch the hours of footage taken on the moon or even understand what they’re watching even if they tried.

[@gordonduffett5138]

American exceptionalism is a blessing to the world. These men possessed unparalleled courage, inspirational stuff! Love Socrates in the City, please keep these coming Eric. Blessings from, South Africa

[@JadeDragon407]

I've always enjoyed tales like his, perhaps in part of being a native Houstonian, and considering flying to such places ordinary wings cannot take you. I came along after this time, but I remember when I was in school, we'd always get to watch the space shuttle launches; it was special every time, and very emotional in 2nd grade with Challenger in '86. It was always pretty wild in a way to think that but a 30 minute drive away was a building with people who were communicating with those folks taking off out of FL. I can only imagine later, after he found the Lord, how that must've reflected back to him the time he saw Earth out the window. Another great SITC talk discussing the little idiosyncrasies of life. >>;=)

[@allanmwangi2085]

Psalms 19:1-3 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. I just love how this conversation has concluded with the simple basic principles of life - that man needs a saviour. It was a good one 👏👏

[@LisaHollingsworth]

Eric, you make Johnny Carson and The Tonight Show seem like such a bore. SITC is always uplifting, educational, and inspirational. Thank you.

[@applesnicolle5144]

That’s exactly why Eric doing this is special - mindless celebrity drivel is for mindless masses. Typical TV is McDonald’s intellect

[@twogamer7149]

Except those ultra doubtful by nature, if you listen to Charlie’s description of each event closely, you will know his experience is truthful. There is no way he could make it up consistently on the fly for so many consistent details. As a matter of fact, many many others who worked on Apollo have been telling cogent and consistent facts that you will get the big picture. It’s a remarkable era of human adventure.

[@rippenburn]

Ok. If I can point out one glaring error in another testimony from this charlatan (apart from the ones he makes here about the rock being "unique" to the Moon and the photos), would you begin to question his authentcity? Well TwoGamer, WOULD YOU?

[@robertgrandefors6017]

Im from Sweden. Had the Great opportunity to actually meet both Charlie Duke, Buzz Aldrin and Walt Cunningham and joining them for a full night gala dinner at the Ronald Reagan presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA, july 2019, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo XI moonlanding 1969. Wonderful evening to eat dinner under the retired Air Force One, and having the actor Gary Sinise (Apollo 13, Forrest Gump) as our host, and Gloria Gaynor singing the National anthem. Just in the small crowded audience among us there were 12 space shuttle astronauts, whom together had flown more than 30 missions in space. Just wonderful!! Thanks a lot to my Great hereos and godspeed!

[@horacezontalbeam]

Are you sure that wasn't the Oscars?

[@yammer-k4t]

My favorite astronaut ever since he was CapCom for Apollo 11.

[@horacezontalbeam]

Yeah. I just love the bit where he tries to warn the crew that the camera is still on and we can still see the Earth through the window 😂

[@williammann9176]

@@horacezontalbeam Now what are you talking about?

[@Eric-en9hk]

This conversation was sooo good!

[@coltong9090]

An absolute legend.

[@mariaf4746]

What an amazing interview!!! Thank you, Eric and General Duke!

[@kevincoleman5912]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! What a blessing both now and for the future

[@debbievarner1660]

Wow what an impressive man. Enjoyed every minute of the interview.

[@coltong9090]

One of the best guests I’ve seen. Incredible.

[@vinasinaga9509]

My most favorite SITC talk so far. Thank you!!!

[@helensarkisian7491]

I always enjoy listening to Charlie Duke.

[@jy5261]

It was a great evening! Thank you, @socratesinthecity.

[@mathbrown9099]

Charlie, 1202 Alarm!!!!! “You’ve got a lot of guys about to turn blue, they’re breathin’ again.” Charlie Duke to Neil Armstrong on the landing of Apollo 11.

[@kimberlyevans9637]

This gentleman is amazing! He was 86 at this time and so articulate.

[@spinrocky7558]

Bart Sibrel is the "crazy" guy's name. His arguments and exhibits really are thought provoking. "FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE MOON" and "ASTRONAUTS GONE WILD" are the referenced videos Duke mentioned. Shows "Buzz's punch" as well.

[@horacezontalbeam]

It was so simple. Just swear on the Bible for a $5,000 cheque. I don't think any of the Apollo nuts took up his offer. And yet they are quite willing to spout passages from the Bible as they fly around the Moon. Liars the lot of them.

[@Ruda-n4h]

Sibrel displays total ignorance of Apollo procedures and equipment and just makes a series of conjectures and assumptions that have no basis in scientific or historical fact.

[@Ed-eq8ui]

There's nothing thought-provoking about Sibrel's arguments. Just stop.

[@spinrocky7558]

Trekies smh

[@mikeo678]

I watched him speak a couple years ago. Fantastic man. I even got a high five from him.

[@shipwright6122]

“God is the author of science”

[@wesmcdowell5405]

"In the places I go there are things I can see, that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z"..... That one got me.

[@MCowie]

The Steve Miller bit was one of the best bits from Eric.

[@debrat777]

Loved loved this! Wonderful!

[@Mote.]

I've been watching Apollo mission documentaries. The guys had such personality. This video is good. Charlie Duke is a good speaker. And I watched the "Smarter Every Day" video with Luke Talley, he also has that charm.

[@davidmoser3535]

Did the host do his homework?Did he listen to Duke at all.? Just let Duke talk.

[@LynnS-gd8wq]

All of the astronauts talk very little about actually being on the moon. They talk about the rocket, the rocket taking off, the view of the earth from looking out the window....mostly things that happen in low earth orbit. They seem to not know much about what to say after that....the horizons look close....they all say this. We were too busy to think about it. It's very odd.

[@williammann9176]

The dickens you say!!! guess you have not listened to very much.

[@LynnS-gd8wq]

@@williammann9176 Well actually I have.

[@williammann9176]

@@LynnS-gd8wq Not really then.

[@ossalomheleno248]

it's really sad. And yes, some of us had listened and studied this a plenty of years... what I hope now is that they could spill the beans

[@williammann9176]

@@ossalomheleno248 What beans were you hoping to be spilled? Where did you do your studying of this?

[@loganwrogers]

I'm only here for the introductions

[@hossskul544]

34:41 i'm confused at this point, the host seems to think that this man is the one that said "the eagle has landed" but it wasn't him it was Neil Armstrong, what else is he trying to get him to say that was famous words ?

[@TheRykpaalt]

Inspiring.

[@MarvelousLXVII]

I sent him an email years ago saying "How could anyone think the moon landing was false after watching how enthusiastic you are talking about it?" I actually sent back an email and said, "It was great fun!" What a great man. I'm am an Atheist but I am glad he found Jesus if that makes any sense. I don't believe in Jesus but his belief looks like it was a positive for his life.

[@toucheturtle3840]

Jesus is a metaphor as is the holy grail. The sooner we realise, the sooner we can stop behaving like playground bullies. I’m an atheist too. God comes from within.

[@MarvelousLXVII]

@@toucheturtle3840 Exactly right.

[@toucheturtle3840]

@@MarvelousLXVII My nickname is Marv…😂

[@MarvelousLXVII]

@@toucheturtle3840 My real name is Marv lol.

[@rekunta]

Aside the sermon, an interesting discussion.

[@twogamer7149]

46:00 Bill Anders had similar description that the violent vibration at the top made him wonder something was wrong. 😂

[@yolo_xenophone]

AHHH this is hilarious!!!! my lord this talk is so damn refreshing for my mind!!!!! Thank you to everyone who help produce these talks! Also i NEEED BRIG. GENERAL CHARLES’ TIEEE

[@wtillett243]

Love this!

[@Psalm1968]

We just recently interview Mr. Duke as well! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZ6qpKKQoNGamdU

[@franciscoop1063]

This had the potential of being a really insightful interview if it wasn't for the 'ego' of the interviewer constantly trying to garner attention for himself.....😐

[@carolynbillington9018]

fun and beautiful interview

[@janiemalina6283]

Wow❤!!!

[@testedtruths6978]

“You get shot you get shot” Eric Metaxas

[@dks13827]

We did many, zillions, of great things. Now, 'we' are dirt.

[@uaerhan]

Is there any chance to mute that hard laughing lady in the back?

[@beaconterraoneonline]

Perfect.

[@stephenkaake7016]

he mentions the skeptic, that was bart sibrel, he made a few films about the moon landings, one he tried to get some astronauts to swear on the bible they went to the moon, some of them ran away, he even offered a thousand dollars to neil armstrong to do it, but he turned it down

[@dannymccarty344]

Yah, NASA faked the moon landing. It isn't possible, even with today's technology. Look into the equipment they claim to have went there with. It didn't happen, period. Brainwashed people will believe the lies their told. Intelligent people are the easiest to fool. Their arrogance blinds them to reason.

[@stephenkaake7016]

@@dannymccarty344 I think someone went to the moon, at least in orbit, but the actual 'landing' is where it gets sketchy, even by nasa's own numbers the likelyhood of 6 successful landings is about 1-2% as joe rogan called it 'a technological miracle'

[@dannymccarty344]

@@stephenkaake7016 oh, you're one of those who believe only some of it was lies? NASA is fake. A huge tax paid scam. Too many holes in what we're told. Many people end up with the flat earther crowd (another constuct/rabbit hole) after actually learning the physics involved. The sphere is a fallible theory, riddled with contridiction.

[@carlbodene8150]

'Slave' Mason's , this guy is about as Christian as the Pope.

[@GT380man]

Replies are hidden. Bart Sibrel, like me, was a mad for it race into space kid in the 1960s. Crushing disappointment to realise it was fraud.

[@tombystander]

Imagine charlie talking to a competent interviewer who actually knew about Charlie's life or apollo 16. Really appreciate the content but what a missed opportunity

[@Dr.Pepper001]

I talked to a Gen Z guy recently and he couldn't tell me how many moons the earth has; so I figured it was futile to ask him if we ever sent men to the moon.

[@Michael-tz7tj]

1201 alarm. We're go flight!

[@moglu837]

wow i didn't know apollo 12 visited one of the surveyors 36:00. that's the ultimate proof that landings were real.

[@jp1170]

I highly recommend the book “Man on the Moon” by Andrew Chaikin if you’re interested in the Apollo missions. Its goes through chronologically every mission. Fantastic book

[@gordonicus4637]

"God is the author of science". A simple statement that means so much, when many would try to put God and science in opposition to one another. Praise God that He has made "The wisdom of the wise to be foolishness". Thank you Charlie for speaking this truth unashamedly...

[@robichard]

The host appears to me to be a pontificating ego maniac. His introduction of the guest was way too long and unnecessarily self centered.

[@roberticolari7447]

His accomplishments as an astronaut are note worthy his faith in Jesus and God are exceptional

[@sheilasmith7779]

Eric, please explain if the earth is a globe, how a plane's altimeter remains level when flying from Alaska to South Africa....or any two most distant earth points?

[@apocalips8008]

look up .. how does an altimeter work...

[@williammann9176]

@sheilasmith7779 WOW!!!! Really? If you only knew how silly what you said is.

[@sheilasmith7779]

@@williammann9176 Sir, no question is silly. But some comments are arrogant. Check your ego.

[@williammann9176]

@@sheilasmith7779 Ok, the question on it's own may not be silly. What is silly is why ask it here instead of looking it up where you can get the answer.

[@sheilasmith7779]

@@williammann9176 Why assume I have not searched for an answer? Even more interesting is why you have not provided an answer to my "silly " question?"

[@MarcLiberts]

Loved this but evolution is enough of a fact that it must be taken seriously.

[@kimberlyevans9637]

Parts of this are almost slapstick!

[@horacezontalbeam]

Most of Apollo was as well!

[@williammann9176]

@@horacezontalbeam How so Mr. Beam?

[@AlexA-ss4te]

"Walked on the moon" 🤣🤣🤣

[@horacezontalbeam]

He believes himself when he says it. I guess LSD can make you believe anything you want.

[@tracybormann5067]

He reminds my of Bush senior. So condescending.

[@horacezontalbeam]

But at least Bush senior didn't claim he went to the Moon.

[@tracybormann5067]

@@horacezontalbeam true.

[@williammann9176]

@@horacezontalbeam WOW!!!! every comment I read from you just confirms more that you have no idea what you are talking about.

[@rootvalley2]

With the flat earthers it’s not about the earth being flat…

[@Downsdddgh]

There will always be doubting Thomas's. Its okay. It makes the moon landings even better. My conversion to Christianity, or should I say the exact moment God gave me proof, was of course mind boggling. Most think it a nice story. Thats okay. I'm good with that. It's just further proof that God's revelation to me was not a crazy coincidence but the Will of God. Of course in that moment I thought... Why me...

[@tracybormann5067]

Oh my. I just had a thought. Could monkey pox actually be shingles?

[@AviViljoen]

Orange is the new black.

[@MaryPinkHair]

For as smart as human beings are it doesn't make sense for them to have a short lifespan.

[@dealerovski82]

Someone tweet Candace Owens she should watch this interview for some basic american history lessons.

[@freek45044]

9 moon landings? Ya right! Not sure what you’re trying to achieve here Eric?

[@williammann9176]

@freek45044 No one said 9 moon landings. 6 landings and 3 went out to the moon but did not land.

[@FunInTheSunInExyWA1]

Still don’t think anyone has walked on the moon… 😴

[@gregorytoews8316]

Don't know whether to believe you, but that doesn't change the fact some people actually don't believe men have walked on the moon. If men actually didn't, we're observing a successful hoax. IMO a manned lunar landing is less difficult to achieve than this hoax, in which case the hoax becomes the less likely possibility.

[@stevenwhite8937]

So only about 6,000 years of dust….

[@mikewhiting5707]

If you got sceptical during training, I wonder how mgmt would handle that…

[@robertmayfield8746]

I love this interview, but the last part was weird. Discussion creation or evolution, is like discussion dinosaurs or mammals? Doesn't make sense.

[@EDKguy]

He says he walked on the moon... I'm not buying it - Eric Metaxes

[@joanpujadas6517]

It's incredible that he didn't suffer harmful effects of radiation passing through Van Allen radiation belt

[@Sam-fp8zm]

lol. i like the way someone else put it. "we went to the moon in a tin can that had less technology than a casio wristwatch but now we have lost the technology".

[@zizipop3703]

Indeed, in the age of COVID deception and Russian collision, this is completely laughable!

[@tracybormann5067]

Yes, isn't it? In tin foil and cardboard, no less.

[@chriswilliams8607]

If you check NASA docs you will find tons of stuff about it how they took care of this problem to avoid problems, which obviously worked out fine.

[@joanpujadas6517]

@@chriswilliams8607 no, i do not find that. What i DO find is an unmanned Artemis I 16 November 2022, which it was suposed to be but did it with test dummies. Did ANY other manned missions go through Van Allen radiation belts? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_spaceflights#Summary Will any of the next achieve it? Artemis II, Chandrayaan3, Nova-C, Peregrine I, SLIM, Hakuto R,etc? Only 9 manned space Missions CLAIM that; Apollo's 1968 to 1972, during cold war and R.Nixon's presidency. Apollo's missions may be the biggest scams of the last century.

[@tokenjoy]

The moderator is insufferable. General Duke is great as always.

[@shirleymason7697]

“ Return of the God Apothesis,” by a scientist, Steven Meyer - works to prove Creation.

[@michaelalexander917]

If I robbed 9 banks and my defence was "If I robbed a bank, I would rob one and let it go, not do it 9 times!", the judge would have me certified. Not laud me as a hero and release me.

[@glenmiller4273]

Maybe you should be certified..... with that convoluted attempt at an analogy.

[@tyronelol]

Yeah sorry but nobody has landed on the moon lol...

[@joen5651]

Yeah sorry but you’re wrong. The evidence for the 6 Apollo moon landings is overwhelming. The third party evidence is overwhelming. Charlie Duke is a wonderful human and hero, not a liar.

[@tyronelol]

@@joen5651 Yeah nah nobody has landed on the moon and your so called "evidence" is laughable.

[@joen5651]

@@tyronelol Nope, multiple countries have photographed the Apollo landing sites with their own lunar orbiting satellites and have confined the landings. Moon rocks have been studied and verified by scientists around the world. Radio astronomers around the world tracked the Apollo spacecraft to the moon and could listen in on the communication. Even the Russians tracked the missions and confirmed themselves. To this day, independent astronomers can use lasers to bounce off the lunar retroreflectors tang were set up and calibrated on the moon by Apollo astronauts. The evidence is absolutely overwhelming.

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

I mean there's video of it, so... that's like proof.

[@gregorytoews8316]

The evidence you just wrote that comment is less credible than the evidence men have walked on the moon.

[@KK96303]

Duke no more went to the moon than neither you or I did.

[@williammann9176]

@KK96303 The dickens you say!!! So what has you convinced that Apollo did not happen as told?

[@KK96303]

@williammann9176 You are on the wrong comment. This is the 'NO TROLLS" section. So, good day to you.

[@williammann9176]

@@KK96303 LOL What is the colour of the sky in your world? Have a good day yourself

[@neilarmstrongsson795]

Aldrin admitted on the Conan show that what you saw wasn't real, it was animation.

[@KK96303]

@neilarmstrongsson795 It wasn't animation,.....the entire Apollo moon landing has been confirmed to have taken place on a military air force base in New Mexico. It even had a U.S. intelligence codename for it. Two giant hangars were built with walls and ceiling painted black. Then, about 100 dump trucks of sand and stone were brought in. Then, a generous application of concrete dust was applied to the entire set, inches deep. The lunar module was then assembled on site. There was also a highly-restricted personnel access roster to the set that included Lyndon Johnson(who was only there the first day), James Van Allen, James Webb, Wernher Von Braun, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Gene Krantz, and a few others. 'Capricorn One' got it right.

[@woodsrunner7102]

Rockets never go strait up...they always arc out of your perception...into the ocean...they know they cant leave. On vernavin brauns grave stone is psalm 19: 1...it speaks of the firmament...coincidence?

[@yassassin6425]

A rocket cannot enter orbit by going straight up.

[@williammann9176]

@woodsrunner7102 WOW!!!!!! Again with every comment you show more and more your ignorance.

[@Codeman68]

A rocket that goes straight up will start coming down as soon as it runs out of fuel. At some point all rockets that want to achieve orbit have to turn parallel to the surface to achieve orbital velocity. Do your research, as you conspiracy theorists would say?

[@bgilchrist228]

"Went to work for Von..... apollo 11" another astronot freudian slip with a smirk from the gatekeeper.

[@shirleymason7697]

“ Return of the God Apotheosis,” by , a scientist - works to prove Creation.

[@scottt7586]

Men never landed on the moon

[@williammann9176]

@scottt7586 ....and what has you convinced Apollo did not happen as told?

[@Ed-eq8ui]

@scottt7586 ... and you obviously did not finish high school.

[@ferencszabo6562]

Lie

[@ThrivingReality]

Wonder if he will have a deathbed confession to being a horrible human being that lies to the whole world.

[@williammann9176]

@ThrivingReality None have made a deathbed confession yet. Maybe because there is nothing to confess.

[@ThrivingReality]

​@@williammann9176 Bad timing... there is actually a deathbed confession of someone involved in the moon missions that I saw recently, wild stuff.

[@williammann9176]

@@ThrivingReality Are you talking about that Bart Sebrel video where he has a the guy is talking about his father's deathbed confession? If so, that video had so many just straight historical time line errors in it. It is a pile of rubbish. If it is not that one, then who and where can it be found?

[@neilarmstrongsson795]

I don't think it was their own choice to lie, there hands were tied.

[@williammann9176]

@@neilarmstrongsson795 You are assuming there was a lie. What has you convinced Apollo did not happen as told?

[@mikewhiting5707]

Mass formation psychosis…

[@apocalips8008]

the only real example of MSP occurred in Germany in the late 30s and early 40s...

[@DadaPoopoo]

@@apocalips8008 Uh huh. It's always the Nazis. I'd call you names but I think you might be smarter than that.

[@rippenburn]

I don't what takes more balls - going to the Moon in a spacecraft that could never be tested to get you back home, or claiming you did it when you know you didn't.

[@williammann9176]

@rippenburn "Never tested" You say? Never heard of Apollos 5, 9 & 10? What has you convinced that he did not?

[@rippenburn]

@@williammann9176 Let me see ... just Googling this. Ah yes, here it is. Apollo 5 - low Earth orbit. Apollo 9 - low Earth orbit. Apollo 10 - never landed. Besides the fact that NASA has never launched anything from the surface of the Moon, Grumman never proved the lunar module concept on Earth, let alone the Moon. They never landed the lunar descent stage, neither did they launch the lunar ascent stage. The lunar ascent stage on each mission was never tested. Over.

[@williammann9176]

@@rippenburn The LM ascent stage engine was test fired literally hundreds of times on Earth. It was the simplest of engines. It was fired 3 times in space. So they had a good idea it was reliable. The LM descent had the same kind of testing. They knew the loads it can take. Two technologies from the same Era. The 747 and the Concord. How were they sure they would not crash and burn the first time. There comes a point where you have to jump in the deep end. They did and it worked. 6 landings Even used the LM as a lifeboat once.

[@rippenburn]

@@williammann9176 The LM ascent stage engine was a firework - it either worked or it didn't. But that's not the point. Neither the command module, service module, lunar descent or ascent stage were ever tested in lunar conditions prior to Apollo's 8, 10 or 11. NASA had never attempted to launch anything from the lunar surface prior to sending two men to land in a craft they had never attempted to land. Flight testing planes like the 747 and Concorde are completely different because you can test the design in the wind tunnel, in a controlled environment and eventually in practice (my boss worked on the wing fuel balance system for Concorde, no kidding). They never tested the LM. Why not - because they didn't have to - no man was ever in danger! Nothing more than stage props.

[@williammann9176]

@@rippenburn The testing in wind tunnels could only be done with models. No wind tunnels to fit an actual 747 or Concord in. So it was just very intelligent guess work by intense simulations in yes wind tunnels. But they never sent those planes up uncrewed to test them. They had drone aircraft going back to the 40s. So they risked crews on the very first flights of planes that had never been tested in the air before. Apollo SPS and LM engines were all tested in vacuum chambers on Earth. They were fired hundreds of times. Apollo 10 tested their LM in Lunar orbit and actually tested PDI and an abort sequence. Something those claiming hoax never bring up is all the audio. Except for a few sound bites usually taken out of context. NASA still has every bit of audio going back to May 5, 1961 right up to the ISS today. They have every bit of audio about 50 channels from every Apollo mission. That would be a terrible amount of scripting and getting the controllers and astronauts to be voice actors. All the mountains of documentation still exists. All of it open to the public. Nothing was ever classified. There was just no platform till recently to present it all. In the 60s they had no idea of the coming internet and social media. If it was faked they would see no purpose for g oing into such detail. Go to "Apollo In Real Time" There you can hear every channel of audio from about 30 hours pre launch till the crews are on the carries for Apollos 11, 13 and 17. They also synced up many of the photographs and all the cine and video shot on those flights. I was lucky enough to be standing by that digital countdown clock you see at KSC for the launch of Apollo 16. One of the most aw inspiring things I have ever witnessed. Quite the prop.

[@arashahsani]

This would have been a great interview if earth and moon were balls spinning around the sun and nasa was not a mendacious organisation.

[@gregorytoews8316]

Why would that make it great?

[@anonymoushuman8344]

NASA isn't a mendacious organization, it seems to me, but it is an arm of federal government and a part of the U.S. defense structure. It's fair to say that NASA is part of what Eisenhower called "the military industrial complex." I think it's only rational to evaluate the evidence and arguments regarding the Apollo landings for one's self, with an open mind, and to draw one's own conclusions. I don't think it's irrational to seriously question such things, especially given the context of the Cold War. It might be that some of the photos and video footage were faked even though the landings were real, to insure the appearance of success even in the event of failure. We were extensively lied to about how things were going in Vietnam (see The Pentagon Papers), and about the assassination of President Kennedy, while parts of CIA were doing unconscionable things that came out a little later in Congress during the Church Committee hearings. So it's not at all crazy to question what really happened with Apollo. Did the Pentagon and the intelligence community have the means to pull off fakery on such a grand scale? Yes. (It would have required deceiving most of the people in NASA and its contractors, too.) This doesn't mean they did so, nor that they didn't. What's rare (and desirable) is to seriously pose the question, and to really think about all that we accept solely on authority and convention. Socrates was sentenced to death for encouraging young people to do just that. The earth and moon are indeed balls traveling around the star we call "the sun" -- among other things. But people who question this shouldn't be faulted for it. It's actually more rational and more scientific to question everything and to try to evaluate the evidence for one's self. It's a process. Science isn't (or shouldn't be) about taking things on authority.

[@zepkauvaka8316]

SAAAADDD ... pity... why do they still claim to have made it to the moon? whyyyy???

[@horacezontalbeam]

Search "Dean Talboys". He's part way through a documentary series blowing it all apart.

[@williammann9176]

@zepkauvaka8316 so what has you convinced they did not go?

[@williammann9176]

@@horacezontalbeam Mr. Talboy like others claiming hoax has no idea what he is talking about.

[@KK96303]

@@horacezontalbeam Talboy is full of shit and a likely shill. We never went to the moon then, today, or tomorrow. You don't send man where you haven't sent the monkey. None of the Apollo 11 astronauts would swear on the bible on camera that they went. And many so-called Apollo astronauts shun away from sensitive questions on the subject. One of them didn't even know if they even went through the Van Allen belts or not. Gus Grissom knew that we couldn't go with a module built from a metal framework consisting of cardboard, paper machete, and scotch tape. And that was the real reason that Grissom was murdered on the launch pad. The launch pad fire was deliberately ignited to silence him as he was extremely critical of NASA failures. Chaffee and White were collareral damage in the fire. The world has been duped by this fabricated event for the past 54 years. From my own confirmed research of over 35 years, the Apollo 11 moon landing was staged in 1969 at Cannon Air Force Base in Clovis, New Mexico,.....NASA's studio engineers constructed two huge hangars, painted the ceiling and walls black(the real reason for no stars), brought in around 100 dump trucks of sand and stone. Then layered a generous dispensing of concrete dust over all that just to simulate a lunar surface. The entire event went by it's intelligence agency codename known as 'Operation Slamdunk'. Only 15 names were on a restricted access of the studio set that included Lyndon Johnson, Wernher Von Braun, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, James Van Allen, James Webb, Gene Krantz, and several other key figures in-the-know who all signed non-disclosure agreements. That first grainy film of Armstrong's 'One small step for man' speech as he made his first step was just a studio camera aimed at a t.v. screen of what was being acted out on the set. Aldrin and Armstrong never got into the Eagle on the launch pad.

[@Ruda-n4h]

Because they did. It was one of the most public events of the 20th century, viewed around the world. Any conspiracy would had to have involved hundreds of different people from many different countries over decades, including Great Britain, the former Soviet Union, France, Australia, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, China, Japan and India, from which not one credible witness has ever emerged. It would also have been impossible to cover up for such a length of time; the Watergate conspirators couldn’t keep their escapade silent for more than a few months. There are no ‘anomalies’ that cannot be explained scientifically and there is much third-party corroboration; for example, the spacecraft were tracked to the Moon, the rock and soil samples have been authenticated by many different scientists around the world for decades, the dust from the rover falls back in a way only possible in a 1/6g vacuum and Chinese, Japanese and Indian probes have photographed and or observed the equipment left behind at various Apollo landing sites.

[@zepkauvaka8316]

SAAAADDD ... pity

[@user-qi1qs8zj9t]

Delusion

[@apocalips8008]

a false belief or judgment about external reality, held despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, occurring especially in mental conditions.... do seek help...

[@user-qi1qs8zj9t]

@@apocalips8008 incontrovertible evidence. Like the cartoons on his tie or the cartoons from NASA? How about the word Gullible?

[@apocalips8008]

@@user-qi1qs8zj9t sure you are believing in the many conspiracy theories ?

[@livefreeordie4955]

Never happened

[@williammann9176]

@livefreeordie4955 "Never happened" you say. What has you convinced of that statement?

[@KK96303]

.....confirmed. We never went then, today, or even tomorrow. You don't send man where you haven't sent the monkey.

[@neilarmstrongsson795]

Most are aware that it never happened nowadays. These events are purely just to keep the money coming in, from those who remain believers.