1. 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. In December 2015, a video surfaced which allegedly shows Kubrick being interviewed shortly before his 1999 death; the video purportedly shows the director confessing to T. Patrick Murray that the Apollo Moon landings had been faked. Plum Brook Station, however, continues to support NASA and industry with its four large test facilities today. NASAs astrophysics department plans to test high-altitude balloons in the chamber, and the U.S. Army plans to test components for unmanned aerial vehicles there, according to the IG. 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. In 1965, the United States started to achieve many firsts (such as the first successful space rendezvous), which were important steps in a mission to the Moon. In some photos, the crosshairs appear to be behind objects. Spacecraft Propulsion Research Facility (B-2), Cryogenic Propellant Tank Facility (K-Site), World's Largest Vacuum Chamber to Test Orion, + Budgets, Strategic Plans and Accountability Reports, + Equal Employment Opportunity Data Posted Pursuant to the No Fear Act, + Information-Dissemination Priorities and Inventories. The deaths were an accident. [48] With the number of people involved, and noting the Watergate scandal, Jillette noted that someone would have outed the hoax by now. They called on NASA to restore the test facilities at Plum Brook and resume operation. "[171] NASA continues to send teams to work in Antarctica to mimic the conditions on other planets. 1. The entire process ultimately cost $253 million, significantly more than the inflation-adjusted cost of constructing the facility.[4]. 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 fact sheet was reissued on February 14, 2001, the day before Fox television's broadcast of Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? Indeed, current plans for a Martian sample return would only gather about 500g (18oz) of soil,[175] and a recently proposed South Pole-Aitken basin robot mission would only gather about 1kg (2.2lb) of Moon rock. (See List of human spaceflights, 19611970, and refer to individual flights for the length of time.). 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. Technically, this allowed the mothballed test stands to be reactivated within 3 months. [11], Vince Calder and Andrew Johnson, scientists from Argonne National Laboratory, have given detailed answers to conspiracists' claims on the laboratory's website. [189][190], A 2000 poll conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation[ru] () in Russia found that 28% of those surveyed did not believe that American astronauts landed on the Moon, and this percentage is roughly equal in all social-demographic groups. The Apollo 16 crew could not have survived a big solar flare firing out when they were on their way to the Moon. The sites, which had been exposed to the elements for years, were beyond restoration. NASA Glenn Research Center Plum Brook Station 3899 E. Scheid Road Sandusky, Ohio 44870 Prepared by: Leidos 1750 Presidents Street Reston, Virginia 20190 September 2020 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK FINAL COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT PLAN FOR CERCLA ACTIVITIES NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PLUM BROOK STATION SANDUSKY, OHIO [150], In 2002, NASA granted US$15,000 to James Oberg for a commission to write a point-by-point rebuttal of the hoax claims. Footprints in the Moondust are unexpectedly well preserved, despite the lack of moisture. The Space Power Facility, meanwhile, is the largest vacuum chamber in the world. NASA also used the Space Power Facility to test its Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. Aside from NASA, a number of groups and individuals tracked the Apollo missions as they happened. 4. Penn Jillette made note of this in the "Conspiracy Theories" episode of his television show Penn & Teller: Bullshit! The reactor and Rocket Systems Area remained shuttered. The cavernous vacuum chamber continues to attract a steady stream of customers, including SpaceX, which has tested both its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft at the facility. Some staff members found new positions at Lewis, but hundreds of others were soon out of work. [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. [6], An early and influential book about the subject of a Moon-landing conspiracy, We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle, was self-published in 1976 by Bill Kaysing, a former US Navy officer with a Bachelor of Arts in English. For technical reasons, the Apollo 11 lander carried a slow-scan television (SSTV) camera (see Apollo TV camera). The photos were taken by a hyperspectral camera fitted as part of the mission's image payload. In the 2010s NASA demolished the Rocket Systems Area as part of the agencys effort to eliminate its unused structures. But going to the Moon would be risky and expensive, as exemplified by President John F. Kennedy famously stating in a 1962 speech that the United States chose to go because it was hard. The only real success story in terms of actual customers was, and still is, the Space Power Facility. "[16] In A Man on the Moon,[17] first published in 1994, Andrew Chaikin mentions that at the time of Apollo 8's lunar-orbit mission in December 1968,[18] similar conspiracy ideas were already in circulation.[19]. The most notable claim is that the six crewed landings (19691972) were faked and that twelve Apollo astronauts did not actually walk on the Moon. [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]. Apollo 17 LM leaving the Moon; rocket exhaust visible only briefly, Apollo 8 launch through the first stage separation, Exhaust flame may not be visible outside the atmosphere, as in this photo. The 221-page operation manual for the LRV contains some detailed drawings,[129] although not the blueprints. [30], Also, there was nothing "abrupt" about the Apollo cancellations, which were made for cost-cutting reasons. On later missions, NASA released information to the public explaining where and when the spacecraft could be sighted. After that was cancelled in 1961, it became the primary NASA facility for space-related nuclear energy research and development. Follow us on social media to add even more wonder to your day. 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. The many allegations in Kaysing's book effectively began discussion of the Moon landings being faked. ", "End of Conspiracy Theories? One passage on how Kubrick was supposedly coerced into the conspiracy reads: NASA further leveraged their position by threatening to publicly reveal the heavy involvement of Mr. Kubrick's younger brother, Raul, with the American Communist Party. Some claim that the technology to send men to the Moon was lacking or that the Van Allen radiation belts, solar flares, solar wind, coronal mass ejections and cosmic rays made such a trip impossible. Maybe they had compromised Kubrick in some way. In northern Ohio, the glorious past of America's trains is on full display. This suggests that artificial lights were used. Moreover, the USSR did not develop a successful rocket capable of a crewed lunar mission until the 1980s their N1 rocket failed on all four launch attempts between 1969 and 1972. The Moon rocks also share the same traits as Soviet samples.[169]. The angle and color of shadows are inconsistent. Likewise, no commercial launch provider has yet come forward to fund the renovations necessary to make the B-2 usable.. 2. The tapes contain the original and highest quality video feed from the Apollo 11 landing. In 2004 NASA began funding the demolition of unused facilities across the agency. Meanwhile Plum Brook continued worked to complete several tests during this period, including testing of the Centaur Standard Shroud for the upcoming Viking mission. There are, however, a few nonrocket B-2 bookings lined up for 2015. NASA and ERDA constructed larger wind turbines at other sites around the country to study the integration of wind energy into the local power grids. An episode of MythBusters in August 2008 was dedicated to the Moon landings. 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. In June 1977, NASA issued a fact sheet responding to recent claims that the Apollo Moon landings had been hoaxed. 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. In addition, safety officials considered several sites to be hazards. 6. The facility's decommissioning began in 1998, and the last of its structures was demolished in May 2012. Much third-party evidence for the landings exists, and detailed rebuttals to the hoax claims have been made. [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. To broadcast the pictures to regular television, a scan conversion had to be done. However, five hours before transmission they were told to stand down. [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. NASA Glenn's Space Power Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, contains the world's largest space simulation chamber. Plum Brook Station is the 2590 hectare (6400 acre) field station of NASA Glenn Research Center. The reactor was originally planned for the NACA nuclear airplane project. Close-up of later generation prints of AS16-107-17446, 9. [162] A three-dimensional reconstructed photo also matched the terrain of an Apollo 15 photo taken from the surface. Whether funds continue to pour into Plum Brook Station remains to be seen. Oberg says that belief in the hoax theories is not the fault of the conspiracists, but rather that of teachers and people (including NASA) who should provide information to the public. The fairing is an essential piece of hardware for the Hawthorne, California, companys commercial satellite launches. NASA's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio is now the Covering the business and politics of space. [117] The Apollo 11 telemetry tapes were different from the telemetry tapes of the other Moon landings because they contained the raw television broadcast. [4][5], These conspiracy theories have kept public interest for more than 40 years. The Apollo Guidance Computer was on the Lunar Module and the command and service module. Discover the best publication that space professionals throughout the world turn to first. Kubrick also used some 50mm f/0.7 lenses that were left over from a batch made by Zeiss for NASA. [133][134] For example, in 1973, one year after the final Moon landing, the Xerox Alto was released. [13][14], In 1980, the Flat Earth Society accused NASA of faking the landings, arguing that they were staged by Hollywood with Walt Disney sponsorship, based on a script by Arthur C. Clarke and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Bart Sibrel cites the relative level of the United States and USSR space technology as evidence that the Moon landings could not have happened. The arms of the crosshair are washed-out on the white stripes of the flag (Photo ID: AS15-88-11863), Close-up of the flag, showing washed-out crosshairs. This would have allowed for only a small number of people to actually know the truth about faking the Moon landings.[49]. Plum Brook is part of the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center and is home to unique world-class facilities that conduct critical and innovative tests for the international aerospace community. 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. Dgh writes: "The mass media catapult these half-truths into a kind of twilight zone where people can make their guesses sound as truths. 12. Who filmed Neil Armstrong stepping onto the Moon? [145], In July 2009, Weidner posted on his webpage "Secrets of the Shining", where he states that Kubrick's The Shining (1980) is a veiled confession of his role in the scam project. [c] Hundreds of thousands of people including astronauts, scientists, engineers, technicians, and skilled laborers would have had to keep the secret. Offer subject to change without notice. ), Conspiracy theorists claim that NASA faked the landings to avoid humiliation and to ensure that it continued to get funding. There was very little activity at Plum Brook until the late 1980s when Lewis Research Center reactivated four test sites and resumed testing. Measuring 100' in diameter and 122' high, it was ideal for testing the Mars lander systems and International Space Station hardware. Like Atlas Obscura and get our latest and greatest stories in your Facebook feed. Some still think so", "Solar corona photographed from Apollo 15 one minute prior to sunrise", "Goddard's Journal: Are Apollo Moon Photos Fake? The evidence was noticed by Misha Kreslavsky, of the Department of Geological Sciences at Brown University, and Yuri Shkuratov of the Kharkiv Astronomical Observatory in Ukraine. 7. 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. 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. The Moon's surface during the daytime is so hot that camera film would have melted. Sign up for our newsletter and enter to win the second edition of our book. Nevertheless, Opration Lune is still taken at face value by some conspiracy believers. Only Plum Brooks Space Power Facility, a cavernous vacuum chamber for testing full-scale space hardware, has a steady stream of customers lined up, according to the inspector general. Dgh sees a parallel with other attitudes during the post-Watergate era, when the American public were inclined to distrust official accounts. 2. [105], 4. [128] Three of them were carried to the Moon on Apollos 15, 16, and 17, used by the astronauts for transportation once on the Moon, and left there. 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. [3] The station included several large test facilities besides the reactor, including liquid hydrogen facilities for development and testing of the Centaur upper stage. The center did not bring the Rocket Systems Area sites, which had fallen into disrepair during the interim, back online. Up to one photo per 50 seconds.[68]. Film in the cameras would have been fogged by this radiation. NASA refers to the rocks and particles collected from the Moon as being evidence of the program's legitimacy, as they claim that these rocks could not have been formed under conditions on Earth. [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. And at the Mechanical Vibration Facility, spacecraft launch conditions can be tested in what is the worlds most powerful spacecraft shaker system. claimed NASA faked the first landing in 1969 to win the Space Race. The lens was originally a still photo lens and needed changes to be used for motion filming. Since 2012, Plum Brook Station has received about $31 million in annual funding from NASA, most of which comes from the agencys Construction and Environmental Compliance account the budget line reserved for building, maintaining and demolishing infrastructure. There appear to be "hot spots" in some photos that look like a large spotlight was used in place of the Sun. The job placement activities went well, but the attempts to elicit outside interest in Plum Brook failed. According to the article, Dr. Richard West said that his team would take "a high-resolution image of one of the Apollo landing sites." Orion progress at KSC, consumable offload planned for EM-1. SpaceX testing Falcon 9's carbon fibre fairing in a vacuum chamber at Plum Brook Station. "[35] In fact, NASA accounted for the cost of Apollo to the US Congress in 1973, totaling US$25.4 billion. [195], There are subcultures worldwide which advocate the belief that the Moon landings were faked. The astronauts had relied on computers to aid in the Moon missions. 5. No purchase necessary. The documentary reinvigorated the public's interest in conspiracy theories and the possibility that the Moon landings were faked, which has provoked NASA to once again defend its name. SELENE orbited the Moon at about 100km (62 miles) altitude. Some selections of restored footage in high-definition have been made available on the NASA website. [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. NASA responds to Bill Kaysing's book, We Never Went to the Moon, by identifying one of his claims of fraud regarding the lack of a crater left on the Moon's surface by the landing of the lunar module, and refuting it with facts about the soil and cohesive nature of the surface of the Moon. 5. Many computers at the time were very large despite poor specs. At a press conference Thursday, Marvel Studio officials said Plum Brook played a vital role in bringing the movie to Ohio. In August 2021, the facility was renamed to honor Apollo astronaut and Ohio native Neil Armstrong. Plum Brook Station is located about eight miles from Sandusky, Ohio. Note the near-transparency of the exhaust, even in air (water is being sprayed up from below), Atlas uses non-hypergolic kerosene (RP-1) fuel which gives a bright and very visible exhaust, 1.5MN (340,000lbf) of thrust, Bright flame from first stage of the Saturn V, burning RP-1, 3. Activities at the reactor were terminated immediately, and the other facilities would shut down by fiscal year 1974. The centers continued efforts to entice outside groups to utilize the inactive facilities remained ineffective. The three main theories are below. A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center. However, Kubrick only got this lens for Barry Lyndon (1975). Some of the main facilities hadnt been used for years. [168], The Apollo program collected 380kg (838lb) of Moon rocks during the six crewed missions. Several scenes in 2001 show dust billowing as spacecraft landed, something that would not happen in the vacuum environment of the Moon. Some of the facilities, most of which date back to the 1960s, are so rundown they require millions of dollars in repairs costs that must be borne by prospective customers who show no sign of materializing, the IG wrote. Others are looking for the missing telemetry tapes for different reasons. [174] Furthermore, lunar meteorites are so rare that it is unlikely that they could account for the 380kg (840lb) of Moon rocks that NASA gathered between 1969 and 1972. NASA said that von Braun's mission was "to look into environmental and logistic factors that might relate to the planning of future space missions, and hardware. The CMA will connect the capsule to the ESA (European Space Agency)-provided service module for the spacecraft's next mission, Exploration Mission-1. Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age. . This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. This suggests that it was filmed on Earth and a breeze caused the flag to flutter. [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 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. Conspiracists have focused on perceived gaps or inconsistencies in the historical record of the missions. As of September2021[update], four of the twelve Apollo astronauts who landed on the Moon between 1969 and 1972 are still alive, including Buzz Aldrin. An article titled "Stanley Kubrick and the Moon Hoax" appeared on Usenet in 1995, in the newsgroup "alt.humor.best-of-usenet". Plum Brook Station, located about 50 miles west of NASA's Glenn Research enter in Sandusky, Ohio, is home to several unique space-related test facilities, including the Space Power Facility (SPF), an environmental simulation chamber used to test hardware in a simulated space or planetary environment. Here, highly specialized facilities allow NASA and the. Learn about the history and craftsmanship of carousels inside this museum located in a former post office. Dan Leone is a SpaceNews staff writer, covering NASA, NOAA and a growing number of entrepreneurial space companies. [184] A 1999 Gallup Poll found that 6% of the Americans surveyed doubted that the Moon landings happened and that 5% of those surveyed had no opinion,[185][186][187][188] which roughly matches the findings of a similar 1995 Time/CNN poll. [39] There was in fact no video broadcast during either the landing or takeoff because of technological limitations. We will get in touch with you shortly. This direct TV signal, along with telemetry data, was recorded onto one-inch fourteen-track analog tape at Parkes. It is now accepted by the scientific community that rocks have been blasted from both the Martian and lunar surface during impact events, and that some of these have landed on the Earth as meteorites. Opinion polls taken in various locations have shown that between 6% and 20% of Americans, 25% of Britons, and 28% of Russians surveyed believe that the crewed landings were faked. [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. "[196][197], James Oberg of ABC News said that the conspiracy theory is taught in Cuban schools and wherever Cuban teachers are sent. As a result, Lewis partnered with the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) to construct a series of experimental large horizontal axis wind turbines. NASA Glenn's Space Power Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, contains the world's largest space simulation chamber. Marcus Allen, a conspiracist, answered that no photos of hardware on the Moon would convince him that human landings had happened. "[179] Geologists realize that gold and silver deposits on Earth are the result of the action of hydrothermal fluids concentrating the precious metals into veins of ore. [151], In 2004, Martin Hendry and Ken Skeldon of the University of Glasgow were awarded a grant by the UK-based Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council to investigate Moon landing conspiracy theories. Moon-landing conspiracists focus heavily on NASA photos. Furthermore, NASA and others say that these gains by the Soviets are not as impressive as they seem; that a number of these firsts were mere stunts that did not advance the technology greatly, or at all, e.g., the first woman in space. Their flight paths were tracked using radar and they were sighted and photographed using telescopes. Also, six of the twelve Apollo astronauts who flew to the Moon without landing between 1968 and 1972 are still alive. The station isnt typically open to the public, although Open House events have been run in the past, allowing visitors to tour the various facilities. It parodies conspiracy theories with faked interviews, stories of assassinations of Stanley Kubrick's assistants by the CIA, and a variety of conspicuous mistakes, puns, and references to old movie characters, inserted through the film as clues for the viewer. Here, highly specialized facilities allow NASA and the international space community to carry out complex and innovative ground tests. The slow-scan television images were not on the tape. Analyses by scientists worldwide all agree that these rocks came from the Moon no published accounts in peer-reviewed scientific journals exist that dispute this claim. 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