[183], In a 1994 poll by The Washington Post, 9% of the respondents said that it was possible that astronauts did not go to the Moon and another 5% were unsure. The sites, which had been exposed to the elements for years, were beyond restoration. David Scott drops a hammer and feather on the Moon, 1. Last used in 1998 to test the upper stage of Boeings ill-fated Delta 3 launch vehicle, B-2s steam ejection system which has been broken for years needs $15 million worth of repairs before the chamber can properly simulate high-altitude conditions required for engine tests, according to the IG. Using the scientific process, any hypothesis that is contradicted by the observable facts may be rejected. The most notable claim is that the six crewed landings (1969-1972)were faked and that twelve Apollo astronautsdid not actually walk on the Moon. This suggests that a painted background was used. According to James Longuski, the conspiracy theories are impossible because of their size and complexity. Plum Brook Station facilities including Space Propulsion Research Facility (foreground) and Hypersonic Tunnel Facility (upper left), Plum Brook Station (Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility). In December 1972 NASA canceled all of its nuclear propulsion and power programs, resulting in the closure of Plum Brook Station [today, the Neil Armstrong Test Facility]. 1. [33] Since most conspiracists believe that sending men to the Moon was impossible at the time,[34] they argue that landings had to be faked to fulfill Kennedy's 1961 goal, "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. To broadcast the pictures to regular television, a scan conversion had to be done. Get top stories, military space news and more delivered to your inbox. Activities at the reactor were terminated immediately, and the other facilities would shut down by fiscal year 1974. The fact sheet was reissued on February 14, 2001, the day before Fox television's broadcast of Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? By the late 1970s, NASA decided to continue the maintenance of the reactor, Space Power Facility (SPF), Spacecraft Propulsion Research Facility (B2), Cryogenic Propellant Tank Facility (K Site), and the Hypersonic Tunnel Facility (HTF), but ceased protecting the other Rocket Systems Area sites. [125], Grumman appears to have destroyed most of its LM documentation,[116][126] but copies of the blueprints for the Saturn V exist on microfilm.[127]. [143] It has been claimed that when 2001 was in post-production in early 1968, NASA secretly approached Kubrick to direct the first three Moon landings. In some photos, the crosshairs appear to be behind objects. Plum Brook Station is located on 6,400 acres of land near Sandusky, Ohio, about 50 miles west of the main Glenn Research Center campus. This number includes the crews of Apollos 8, Faked Moon Landing Hidden Subliminal Messages in Stanley Kubrick's Movie 'The Shining', Last edited on 23 February 2023, at 00:31, "On Eagle's Wings: The Parkes Observatory's Support of the Apollo 11 Mission", Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, Apollo astronauts who flew to the Moon without landing, Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings, Apollo missions tracked by independent parties, Moon landing conspiracy theories in popular culture, List of topics characterized as pseudoscience, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, "NASA Spacecraft Images Offer Sharper Views of Apollo Landing Sites", "LRO slewed 19 down-Sun allowing the illuminated side of the still standing American flag to be captured at the Apollo 17 landing site. SpaceX testing Falcon 9's carbon fibre fairing in a vacuum chamber at Plum Brook Station. Some still think so", "Solar corona photographed from Apollo 15 one minute prior to sunrise", "Goddard's Journal: Are Apollo Moon Photos Fake? Termination of Plum Brook Activities (1973), Bruce Lundin Talk to Plum Brook Staff (1974), Capabilities and Facilities of Plum Brook (c1970), Potential Use of Plum Brook Facilities (1973), NASA Ohio Preservation Office Agreement (2012). Photography experts (including those unrelated to NASA) have replied that the oddities are consistent with what should be expected from a real Moon landing, and are not consistent with tweaked or studio imagery. It shows the Earth with the correct background of stars, Long-exposure photo (1.6 seconds at f/2.8, ISO 10000) from the ISS in July 2011 of Space Shuttle Atlantis re-entry in which some stars are visible. Lewis set up a job placement office at Plum Brook to assist those affected. There are identical backgrounds in photos which, according to their captions, were taken miles apart. The second stage of the launch rocket or the Lunar Module ascent stage or both made no visible flame. In December 2009 NASA issued a final report on the Apollo 11 telemetry tapes. An episode of MythBusters in August 2008 was dedicated to the Moon landings. In April 2001, Leonard David published an article on space.com,[157][158] which showed a photo taken by the Clementine mission showing a diffuse dark spot at the site NASA says is the Apollo 15 lander. Plum Brook is part of the Glenn Research Center, located some 80 kilometers east in Cleveland. We depend on ad revenue to craft and curate stories about the worlds hidden wonders. 7. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you . [180] Lick Observatory attempted to detect from Apollo 11's retroreflector while Armstrong and Aldrin were still on the Moon but did not succeed until August 1, 1969. [181] The Apollo 14 astronauts deployed a retroreflector on February 5, 1971, and McDonald Observatory detected it the same day. Because von Braun was a former SS officer (though one who had been detained by the Gestapo),[170] the documentary film Did We Go? In another blow for B-2, the European Space Agency apparently will not use the facility to test the upper-stage engine for the successor to its Ariane 5 rocket. NASA officials were happy to get the business and hope it will be. Today, a handful of test facilities are currently operational at Plum Brook, all of which rank among the largest and most powerful space environment simulation facilities in the world. Consider supporting our work by becoming a member for as little as $5 a month. The reactor was originally planned for the NACA nuclear airplane project. Copies of those tapes have been found.[120]. Plum Brook Station is a test facility for NASA's Glenn Research Center. In terms of astronaut/cosmonaut time, the USSR had 534 hours of crewed spaceflight whereas the United States had 1,992 hours. The center completed the effort with the demolition of the H Control Building, K Sites control building, and the J5 hortonsphere in late 2012. The combination of the Lewis Field and Plum Brook locations comprise over 6,800 acres of land and include 450 research and test facilities. Two of these a wind tunnel called the Hypersonic Test Facility, and the Cryogenic Components Laboratory, which is now slated for demolition have not been used in four years, the IG wrote. Engineers at NASA's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, began the first of a series of modal tests on a structural representation of the crew module adapter (CMA) for Orion. Then theres a wind tunnel called the Hypersonic Tunnel facility, which allows NASA to test the aircraft of the future at speeds up to seven times the speed of sound. The Space Power Facility has a recent history of attracting commercial customers, too. [41] In fact, the ending of the landings was not "sudden" (see Space Race above). On the demolition front, although Plum Brook has torn down 18 buildings and structures since 2012 reducing the annual maintenance costs in the process there is still a backlog of repairs Glenn has put off at the Sandusky campus because it does not have the roughly $55 million it would cost to undertake them, according to the IG. (See List of human spaceflights, 19611970, and refer to individual flights for the length of time.). Kubrick also used some 50mm f/0.7 lenses that were left over from a batch made by Zeiss for NASA. Kubrick did hire Frederick Ordway and Harry Lange, both of whom had worked for NASA and major aerospace contractors, to work with him on 2001. 3. Offer subject to change without notice. Rep. Kaptur introduced the legislation on a bipartisan basis alongside Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH). And at the Mechanical Vibration Facility, spacecraft launch conditions can be tested in what is the worlds most powerful spacecraft shaker system. Conspiracists have focused on perceived gaps or inconsistencies in the historical record of the missions. Offer available only in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico). 1. The digital technology on Earth during the time of the Moon landings was just in its infancy. [135] This computer had 96kB of memory. On the makeup of the Moon rocks, Kaysing asked: "Why was there never a mention of gold, silver, diamonds or other precious metals on the moon? BROOK PARK, Ohio NASA proposed a budget on Monday of $802.4 million for Glenn Research Center in fiscal 2021, down from an unofficial 2020 budget of $945 million. [172][173] However, the first Antarctic lunar meteorite was found in 1979, and its lunar origin was not recognized until 1982. [4][5], These conspiracy theories have kept public interest for more than 40 years. The deaths were an accident. Better signal was supposedly received at Parkes Observatory when the Moon was on the opposite side of the planet. Moon-landing conspiracists claim that observatories and the Hubble Space Telescope should be able to photograph the landing sites. Sign up for our newsletter and enter to win the second edition of our book. [137] Conspiracy theorists claim that the computers during the time of the Moon landings would not have been advanced enough to allow for human space travel to the Moon and back;[138] they similarly claim that other contemporary technology (radio transmission, radar, and other instrumentation) was likewise insufficient for the task.[139]. [195], There are subcultures worldwide which advocate the belief that the Moon landings were faked. The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior. There are, however, a few nonrocket B-2 bookings lined up for 2015. NASA's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio is now the The centers continued efforts to entice outside groups to utilize the inactive facilities remained ineffective. + NASA Home > Centers > Glenn Home > About Glenn > Testfacilities Experimental efforts included scientific and technical investigations of nuclear energy for spaceflight propulsion, nuclear power systems, and radiation exposure. Moreover, even if someone wanted to use the chamber, it is unusable in its current condition, according to the IG. This eliminated the near-term need for a nuclear rocket. Film in the cameras would have been fogged by this radiation. You should see the reCAPTCHA field below. One rebuttal by Sibrel to this claim is that NASA had compartmentalized all of the work on the Apollo program. The Apollo samples are easily distinguishable from both meteorites and Earth rocks[6] in that they show a lack of hydrous alteration products, they show evidence of having undergone impact events on an airless body, and they have unique geochemical traits. The reactor first went critical on 14 June 1961, and was finally shut down on 5 January 1973. [7] Despite having no knowledge of rockets or technical writing,[8] Kaysing was hired as a senior technical writer in 1956 by Rocketdyne, the company that built the F-1 engines used on the Saturn V rocket. Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}412309N 824059W / 41.38585N 82.68293W / 41.38585; -82.68293. In June 1977, NASA issued a fact sheet responding to recent claims that the Apollo Moon landings had been hoaxed. 7. Plum Brook is situated on 6,400 acres in Sandusky and is home to some of the world's most powerful space simulation chambers that support the Artemis mission to return to the moon, making this. By the time of Apollo 11, the United States had a lead much wider than that. The test facilities at Plum Brook are separated by large distances to safely support testing of large quantities of gaseous or cryogenic NASA Official: Anne Mills Lewis reactivated the B2 vacuum chamber in 1987, SPF and K Site in 1988, and the HTF in 1993. Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age. The inspector general recommended NASA create a long-term strategy for either maintaining or disposing of underutilized infrastructure at Plum Brook. [9][10] He served as head of the technical publications unit at the company's Propulsion Field Laboratory until 1963. Moon Landings? These may be labeled studio props. Any other potential visits would have to be arranged by contacting Glenn Research Center or Plum Brook directly. NASA's Glenn Research Center's world-class facilities and expert staff help develop and verify cutting-edge technologies in the areas of aeronautics, aerospace and space. He described the emergence of the atomic age and the weapons of mass destruction that were piling up in the storehouses of the American and Soviet nations. Moon-landing conspiracists focus heavily on NASA photos. Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick is accused of having produced much of the footage for Apollos 11 and 12, presumably because he had just directed 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is partly set on the Moon and featured advanced special effects. Various groups and individuals have made claims since the mid-1970s that NASA and others knowingly misled the public into believing the landings happened, by manufacturing, tampering with, or destroying evidence including photos, telemetry tapes, radio and TV transmissions, and Moon rock samples. [Meta] Sticky Comment. 10. The original SSTV transmission had better detail and contrast than the scan-converted pictures, and it is this original tape that is missing. They point to oddities in photos and films taken on the Moon. The conspiracy would have to involve more than 400,000 people who worked on the Apollo project for nearly ten years, the 12 men who walked on the Moon, the 6 others who flew with them as command module pilots, and another 6 astronauts who orbited the Moon. The war was one of several federal budget items with which NASA had to compete; NASA's budget peaked in 1966, and fell by 42% by 1972. [40], The American Patriot Friends Network claimed in 2009 that the landings helped the United States government distract public attention from the unpopular Vietnam War, and so crewed landings suddenly ended about the same time that the United States ended its involvement in the war. [28] The Soviet Union tracked the Apollo missions at the Space Transmissions Corps, which was "fully equipped with the latest intelligence-gathering and surveillance equipment. Landing on the Moon was viewed as a national and technological accomplishment that would generate world-wide acclaim. Since in 1969 water was believed to be absent on the Moon, no geologist discussed finding these on the Moon in any great amount. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched their SELENE Moon orbiter on September 14, 2007 (JST), from Tanegashima Space Center. Two of the above, X-15 pilot Mike Adams and MOL pilot Robert Lawrence, had no connection with the civilian crewed space program that oversaw the Apollo missions. The only real success story in terms of actual customers was, and still is, the Space Power Facility. Nafzger praised Lowry for restoring "crispness" to the Apollo video, which will remain in black and white and contains conservative digital enhancements. The Lunar Modules weighed 17 tons and made no mark on the Moondust, yet footprints can be seen beside them. Glenn began making plans to remove a number of its old test sites, including the Rocket Systems Area at Plum Brook. [46][47] To date, nobody from the United States government or NASA linked to the Apollo program has said the Moon landings were hoaxes. The Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility (formerly known as Plum Brook Station) is part of NASA's Glenn Research Center in Ohio. The Apollo Guidance Computer was on the Lunar Module and the command and service module. Footprints in the Moondust are unexpectedly well preserved, despite the lack of moisture. At a press conference Thursday, Marvel Studio officials said Plum Brook played a vital role in bringing the movie to Ohio. The Apollo 16 crew could not have survived a big solar flare firing out when they were on their way to the Moon. Rule 2 does not apply when replying to this stickied comment.. Rule 2 does apply throughout the rest of this thread.. What this means: Please keep any "meta" discussion directed at specific users, mods, or r/conspiracy in general in this comment chain only.. Longuski argues that it would have been much easier to really land on the Moon than to generate such a huge conspiracy to fake the landings. An article titled "Stanley Kubrick and the Moon Hoax" appeared on Usenet in 1995, in the newsgroup "alt.humor.best-of-usenet". However, most of the Soviet gains listed above were matched by the United States within a year, and sometimes within weeks. The alleged Moon landings used either a sound stage or were filmed outside in a remote desert with the astronauts either using harnesses or slow-motion photography to make it look like they were on the Moon. The worlds most powerful spacecraft acoustic test chamber, its capable of simulating the noise of a spacecraft launch up to 163 decibels, or as loud as the thrust of 20 jet engines. This suggests that it was filmed on Earth and a breeze caused the flag to flutter. [120], In July 2009, NASA indicated that it must have erased the original Apollo 11 Moon footage years ago so that it could re-use the tape. [121] Goddard was storing 35,000 new tapes per year in 1967,[122] even before the Moon landings. [166][167] The Indian Space Research Organisation launched their uncrewed lunar probe on September 8, 2008 (IST), from Satish Dhawan Space Centre. Here, highly specialized facilities allow NASA and the international space community to carry out complex and innovative ground tests. A street in front of NASA's D.C. headquarters has been named in honor of the Black women who were essential to early spaceflight. Moon landing conspiracy theories claim that some or all elements of the Apollo program and the associated Moon landings were hoaxes staged by NASA, possibly with the aid of other organizations. [176][177][178] If NASA had used similar robot technology, then between 300 and 2,000 robot missions would have been needed to collect the current amount of Moon rocks that is held by NASA. "Moon hoax" redirects here. 2023 Atlas Obscura. NASA also notes that all of the operations and phases of the Apollo program were closely followed and under the scrutiny of the news media, from liftoff to splashdown. [36], Mary Bennett and David Percy claimed in the 2001 book Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers, that, with all the known and unknown hazards,[37] NASA would not risk broadcasting an astronaut getting sick or dying on live television. "[196][197], James Oberg of ABC News said that the conspiracy theory is taught in Cuban schools and wherever Cuban teachers are sent. Some main arguments (set in plain text) and counter-arguments (set in italics) are listed below. The criminal conspiracy involved distributing fentanyl and other similar substances from Canada and China into the United States, resulting in 15 overdoses, four of which were fatal. By May 1974 the staff had mothballed all of the Rocket Systems Area sites. [20], Hoax theory debunker Phil Plait says in his 2002 book Bad Astronomy,[b] that the Soviets with their own competing Moon program, an extensive intelligence network and a formidable scientific community able to analyze NASA data would have 'cried foul' if the United States tried to fake a Moon landing,[21] especially since their own program had failed. By 1977 the Hare Krishna magazine Back to Godhead called the landings a hoax, claiming that, since the Sun is 150millionkm (93millionmi) away, and "according to Hindu mythology the Moon is 800,000 miles [1,300,000km] farther away than that", the Moon would be nearly 151millionkm (94millionmi) away; to travel that span in 91 hours would require a speed of more than a million miles per hour, "a patently impossible feat even by the scientists' calculations. In addition, the center decided to begin removing the Plum Brook Ordnance Works (PBOW) concrete bunkers that had stored munitions during World War II and NASA records and equipment in later years. It was also used to shoot some scenes from the 2012 Marvel movie The Avengers. However, Kubrick only got this lens for Barry Lyndon (1975). They called on NASA to restore the test facilities at Plum Brook and resume operation. See. 4. SELENE orbited the Moon at about 100km (62 miles) altitude. The fate of the other facilities will largely depend on the whims of politicians and humankinds continued desire to reach beyond our planet. For example, he claims that, during the Apollo program, the USSR had five times more crewed hours in space than the United States, and notes that the USSR was the first to achieve many of the early milestones in space: the first artificial satellite in orbit (October 1957, Sputnik 1);[d] the first living creature in orbit (a dog named Laika, November 1957, Sputnik 2); the first man in space and in orbit (Yuri Gagarin, April 1961, Vostok 1); the first woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova, June 1963, Vostok 6); and the first spacewalk (Alexei Leonov in March 1965, Voskhod 2). Some facilities have already been penciled in for demolition, including the Cryogenic Components Laboratory. Moon landing conspiracy theoriesclaim that some or all elements of the Apollo programand the associated Moon landingswere hoaxesstaged by NASA, possibly with the aid of other organizations. 5. The astronauts could not have survived the trip because of exposure to radiation from the Van Allen radiation belt and galactic ambient radiation (see radiation poisoning and health threat from cosmic rays). [146][147] This thesis was the subject of refutation in an article published on Seeker nearly half a year later.[148]. 4. Since 2012, Plum Brook Station has received about $31 million in annual funding from NASA, most of which comes from the agency's Construction and Environmental Compliance account the budget. [117] suggests that he could have been pressured to agree to the conspiracy to protect himself from recriminations over his past. Discover the best publication that space professionals throughout the world turn to first. [133][134] For example, in 1973, one year after the final Moon landing, the Xerox Alto was released. Whether funds continue to pour into Plum Brook Station remains to be seen. Baron was a quality control inspector who wrote a report critical of the Apollo program and was an outspoken critic of NASA's safety record after the Apollo 1 fire. Credit: NASA. Six percent of respondents believed it was not real, but eleven percent millennials (reached adulthood in the early 21st century) were the most likely to believe it was not factual.[200]. The many allegations in Kaysing's book effectively began discussion of the Moon landings being faked. There should have been more than a two-second delay in communications between Earth and the Moon, at a distance of 400,000km (250,000 miles). [199], In 2019, Ipsos conducted a study for C-Span to assess the level of belief that the 1969 Moon landing was faked. For technical reasons, the Apollo 11 lander carried a slow-scan television (SSTV) camera (see Apollo TV camera). This implies that the world's major observatories (as well as the Hubble Program) are complicit in the hoax by refusing to take photos of the landing sites. Between 1975 and 1985, the researchers investigated several different configurations on the machine. The cameras were fitted with a Rseau plate (a clear glass plate with a reticle etched on), making it impossible for any photographed object to appear "in front" of the grid. Sandusky's Plum Brook Station is an annex to the NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cleveland, Ohio. [136] Most personal computers as of 2019, use 50,000100,000 times this amount of RAM. Conspiracists see this as evidence that they never existed. A total of 6003 participants aged 18-35 years old residing in four major Canadian cities completed an online survey . The angle and color of shadows are inconsistent. Rocket engines are the dark structures at the bottom center, The launch of a Titan II, burning hypergolic Aerozine-50/N2O4, 1.9MN (430,000lbf) of thrust. The European Space Agency's SMART-1 uncrewed probe sent back photos of the landing sites, according to Bernard Foing, Chief Scientist of the ESA Science Program. Like us on Facebook to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders. Page Last Updated: September 28, 2021, 21000 Brookpark RoadCleveland, OH 44135(216) 433-4000. The contrast has been tweaked (yielding the "spotlight effect") and a black band has been pasted at the top. Nevertheless, the claim was taken up in earnest;[144] Clyde Lewis used it almost word-for-word,[143] whereas Jay Weidner gave the brother a more senior status within the party: No one knows how the powers-that-be convinced Kubrick to direct the Apollo landings. Our premier ground test facilities support powered flight through the atmosphere and beyond. Mark D. Bowles and Robert S. Arrighi (August 2004), nuclear energy for spaceflight propulsion, NASA's Nuclear Frontier: The Plum Brook Nuclear Facility, "Tour the tomb of NASA's first and last nuclear reactor", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plum_Brook_Reactor&oldid=1031126485, This page was last edited on 29 June 2021, at 23:42. All of the conspiracists' claims examined on the show were labeled as having been "Busted", meaning that the conspiracists' claims were not true. Even as late as 2001, the Fox television network documentary Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? ", "End of Conspiracy Theories? In northern Ohio, the glorious past of America's trains is on full display. WASHINGTON All but one of the five big test facilities at NASAs Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, have few or no customers, and the situation is unlikely to change any time soon, according to an April 23 report from NASAs inspector general (IG). 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