I'm surprised that this hasn't been posted yet...so I'll do the honors.  Today is the 39th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.  One July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon followed by his LM Pilot Buzz Aldrin who became the second when they stepped out onto the surface at the Sea of Tranquility.

This was the first of 6 highly successful manned moon landings.

One unfortunate truth about Apollo 11, no still photograph was taken of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.  Every photo taken during the mission that was focused on an astronaut was taken of Buzz (by Neil).  However, one photo that Buzz took did have Neil in the corner with his back the camera.  That's the only photo of Neil standing on the moon.  Here is that photo:

 

BigTruck wrote on Jul 21^st, 2008 at 10:50pm:

Yeah, there is actually a lot of controversy over the lack of Armstrong photos.  Some believe that Aldrin, who did appear quite bitter over not being the first man to step on the surface, did it intentionally.  I personally don't believe that but some do.  I hope that he was just so busy (and Armstrong did have the camera more than Aldrin) that he just didn't think of it during the 2.5 hours they were out there.

But, my statement about the "only" photo isn't quite true.  There are a couple others where part of Neil's backpack...or an arm is visible in the corner or something like that.  But, the only other photo of Neil that was taken while they were walking on the surface was this one...which was terribly underexposed.  Had it turned out, it would have been a very nice image.  It was years until someone noticed that Armstrong was even in the photo.  Apollo historian and author Andrew Chaikin noticed him in the photo several decades after it was actually taken.  Armstrong is in the lower left hand corner of the image (easiest to spot thanks to his gold visor).

my question is why would the government launch a multi millon dollar rocket into space make all that fake footage and drop a module from the upper atmosphere into the ocean with poeple in it when thye could just go to the moon =\

anyways there beautiful pics

Fozzer wrote on Aug 5^th, 2008 at 10:25am:


Are you implying that they didn't land on Luna?

Fozzer wrote on Aug 5^th, 2008 at 11:50am:


In the 2 pictures in this thread that include flags, you get to see both sides. Neither of which say Welcome to Nevada.

Fozzer wrote on Aug 5^th, 2008 at 1:42pm:


Oh come on you- You know we could argue about this all day and nothing would change. Just give one good solid reason why the landings were faked.

Keep your hair on Alex.

We've discussed this subject on this forum many times before. History records that Man walked on the Moon on July 20, 1969. To be honest it doesn't really matter now whether it was faked or not. The important thing is that the object of the exercise was achieved. You have to appreciate the political situation of the time to understand the implications of failure.