New View of Iconic Moon Walk

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I thought the moon landing was already validated when dozens of observatories (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Mcdonald observatory, Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation, and Haleakala High Altitude Observatory just to name a few) use a retroreflectors that were left on the moon during apollo 11 by man who landed on the moon to measure the distance between the earth and the moon.
I thought the moon landing was already validated when satelite stations from all over the world (Soviet Union's Space Transmissions Corps, Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station in Australia, Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station in Australia, Carnarvon Tracking Station, Pic du Midi de Bigorre in France, and The Madrid Apollo Station in Spain, and Jodrell Bank Observatory in the UK if you want specific examples and there are a LOT more that i'm not listing) were monitoring the apollo missions as they traveled to, and landed on, the moon. ALL of them I have listed and many more have confirmed the moon landings of the apollo missions.
I thought the moon landing was already validated when the lunar orbiter recently took pictures of the apollo landing sites which shows equipment and manmade tracks left on the moon.
I thought the moon landing was already confirmed by the astronauts and hundreds of thousands of people involved in the apollo missions.
I thought the moon landing was already validated when the apollo missions brought back 382 kilograms of moon dust and rocks.
I thought the moon landing was already validated by the pictures and videos of man on the moon.
If the moon landing was a hoax to win the cold war then why on earth would the Soviet Union have several observatories that confirmed our lunar landings?

brian of KS 2:43PM April 30, 2010

I figure there are two ways to validate the USA man Moon landing. This would count as indesputable evidence. One, turn the Huble telescope on the supposedly US flag on the Moon et al... Second, as soon as the Chinese commense their manned Moon landing within five or so years and set up their colnization. They will be probably more than happy to let us know if they (Chinese) are the first to land on the Moon or not. However, they might lie.

Scott of MN 3:54PM April 11, 2010

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WeightLoss Tips of 5:30PM March 19, 2010

Steph of NC. You are an idiot to think the moon landing was a hoax. We did not have the technology in the 60's to make that up. Go find Bigfoot and tell him your story.

d notgrass of NC 3:30PM January 20, 2010

They would not have to reuse tapes, please that's the government for you. the moon landing video seemed too fake and the shadows were from a fake light source. that's why they are 'restoring' the original video. We did not land on the moon in 1969.

steph of NC 12:03AM January 10, 2010

The next time we send a couple of guys on a $40b vacation they should, at a minimum, take a decent camera. Those grainy videos of the moon landings were so low quality as to be embarassing.
I fully support manned expolration of the solar system - I just want to see it a little more clearly!

MODONN of FL 11:45AM October 12, 2009

i believe you all just had the homer simpson complex, you got bored with the article and so you made up your own story in your head. They reviewed the tapes, extrapalated all the data they could and then reused them as per precedure. you dont save the mayonaise jar once you used all the mayonaise, but you can recycle it

d of PA 9:51AM July 27, 2009

How could anyone at NASA record over original moon walk tapes....for the price of a tape?? This does not make any sense at all....something is not right.
Incidentlly, I was very disappointed when I visited the Kennedy Space Center, that hardly anything was said about the moon landing or moon walks...it was like the subject did not exist...I thought it would have been the greatest of NASA's acheivments. Maybe they did not have any tapes to play anymore!

K Wilson of FL 5:55AM July 22, 2009

OK yea I believe I believe! Right! Its so nice to know NASA is trying to save us money by reusing the moon walk tapes, I bet Dick Cheney was the photographer at the time too! Remember this is the time that our greatest presidents lived Johnson and Nixon. Ya right and Winnie the poo is real to ain't he? Integrity, what's that?

omni of NY 9:56AM July 19, 2009

I have to agree with R. and Brad: it does seem that that was too idiototic to be true. Do we really have that stupid a group of people in charge of such things ? or is it a smokescreen for something even more intolerable. What are the rest of us doing -or not doing- to even allow something like this to happen.

Dorothy M. Bergfels of NY 2:38AM July 19, 2009