Consider supporting our work by becoming a member for as little as $5 a month. [172][173] However, the first Antarctic lunar meteorite was found in 1979, and its lunar origin was not recognized until 1982. The photo of the Apollo 14 landing site also shows tracks made by an astronaut between a science experiment (ALSEP) and the lander. "[29] Vasily Mishin, in an interview for the article "The Moon Programme That Faltered," describes how the Soviet Moon program dwindled after the Apollo landings. By May 1974 the staff had mothballed all of the Rocket Systems Area sites. These include the Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility, which is like something from the wildest dreams of Spinal Tap. The facility's decommissioning began in 1998, and the last of its structures was demolished in May 2012. The presence of retroreflectors (mirrors used as targets for Earth-based tracking lasers) from the Laser Ranging Retroreflector Experiment (LRRR) is evidence that there were landings. Blueprints and design and development drawings of the machines involved are missing. 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. Marcus Allen, a conspiracist, answered that no photos of hardware on the Moon would convince him that human landings had happened. [24], Conspiracist Bart Sibrel responded, incorrectly asserting that, "the Soviets did not have the capability to track deep space craft until late in 1972, immediately after which, the last three Apollo missions were abruptly canceled. Follow us on social media to add even more wonder to your day. Better signal was supposedly received at Parkes Observatory when the Moon was on the opposite side of the planet. "[171] NASA continues to send teams to work in Antarctica to mimic the conditions on other planets. The Daily Telegraph published a story in 2002 saying that European astronomers at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) would use it to view the landing sites. Moreover, even if someone wanted to use the chamber, it is unusable in its current condition, according to the IG. In 2007 the Cryogenic Components Laboratory replaced K Site. The fate of the other facilities will largely depend on the whims of politicians and humankinds continued desire to reach beyond our planet. 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. Moon Landings? [44] They show that NASA's portrayal of the Moon landing is fundamentally accurate, allowing for such common mistakes as mislabeled photos and imperfect personal recollections. On later missions, NASA released information to the public explaining where and when the spacecraft could be sighted. 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. A total of 6003 participants aged 18-35 years old residing in four major Canadian cities completed an online survey . [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. 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. They called on NASA to restore the test facilities at Plum Brook and resume operation. [43], Many Moon-landing conspiracy theories have been proposed, alleging that the landings either did not occur and NASA staff lied, or that the landings did occur but not in the way that has been reported. 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). The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior. The three main theories are below. The 2015 movie Moonwalkers is a fictional account of a CIA agent's claim of Kubrick's involvement. The reactor first went critical on 14 June 1961, and was finally shut down on 5 January 1973. [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. Others are looking for the missing telemetry tapes for different reasons. Credit: NASA. [135] This computer had 96kB of memory. The problem is that nobody has yet committed to testing an engine at B-2. [32] (See Vietnam War below. Copies of those tapes have been found.[120]. The MythBusters crew tested many of the conspiracists' claims. 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. 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 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 station isnt typically open to the public, although Open House events have been run in the past, allowing visitors to tour the various facilities. The entire process ultimately cost $253 million, significantly more than the inflation-adjusted cost of constructing the facility.[4]. [30], Also, there was nothing "abrupt" about the Apollo cancellations, which were made for cost-cutting reasons. Later Apollo missions did not use SSTV. 4. The combination of the Lewis Field and Plum Brook locations comprise over 6,800 acres of land and include 450 research and test facilities. Sandusky's Plum Brook Station is an annex to the NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cleveland, Ohio. [2][3] In 2012, images were released showing five of the six Apollo missions' American flags erected on the Moon still standing. Activities at the reactor were terminated immediately, and the other facilities would shut down by fiscal year 1974. Those who believe the Moon landings were faked offer several theories about the motives of NASA and the United States government. Plum Brook Station is a test facility for NASA's Glenn Research Center. The job placement activities went well, but the attempts to elicit outside interest in Plum Brook failed. [166], China's second lunar probe, Chang'e 2, which was launched in 2010, can photograph the lunar surface with a resolution of up to 7m (23ft). We hypothesized that (a) endorsement of COVID-19 conspiracy theories is positively associated with support for VR, and (b) psychological distress modifies the relationship between COVID-19 conspiracy theories and support for VR. 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. Nafzger praised Lowry for restoring "crispness" to the Apollo video, which will remain in black and white and contains conservative digital enhancements. And at the Mechanical Vibration Facility, spacecraft launch conditions can be tested in what is the worlds most powerful spacecraft shaker system. [149] Research quickly found, however, that the video was a hoax. [11], Vince Calder and Andrew Johnson, scientists from Argonne National Laboratory, have given detailed answers to conspiracists' claims on the laboratory's website. A remote Ohio facility used to test NASA's new moon-bound spacecraft has been renamed for the first astronaut to step foot on the lunar surface. Dan Leone is a SpaceNews staff writer, covering NASA, NOAA and a growing number of entrepreneurial space companies. It's home to the antenna that received the first images of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. The 1994 book Moon Shot[76] contains an obviously fake composite photo of Alan Shepard hitting a golf ball on the Moon with another astronaut. [182] Smaller retroreflectors were also put on the Moon by the Russians; they were attached to the uncrewed lunar rovers Lunokhod 1 and Lunokhod 2. 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 NASA Glenn Research Center's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, houses the world's largest, most powerful space environment simulation facilities, most powerful spacecraft acoustic test chamber, and highest capacity and most powerful spacecraft shaker system. 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. In 2004 NASA began funding the demolition of unused facilities across the agency. On this page: Acoustics Facilities Combustion Facilities Components Facilities "[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. In November 2004 the Dynamics Stand (E Stand) became the first to fall. More by Dan Leone. Enlargement of a poor-quality 1998 scan both the crosshair and part of the red stripe have "bled out", Enlargement of a higher-quality 2004 scan crosshair and red stripe visible, David Scott salutes the American flag during the Apollo 15 mission. Nevertheless, Opration Lune is still taken at face value by some conspiracy believers. 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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. However, still photos of the original SSTV image are available (see photos). We depend on ad revenue to craft and curate stories about the worlds hidden wonders. Measuring 100' in diameter and 122' high, it was ideal for testing the Mars lander systems and International Space Station hardware. [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. However, most of the Soviet gains listed above were matched by the United States within a year, and sometimes within weeks. The Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility (formerly known as Plum Brook Station) is part of NASA's Glenn Research Center in Ohio. [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. [191][192][193] In 2009, a poll held by the United Kingdom's Engineering & Technology magazine found that 25% of those surveyed did not believe that men landed on the Moon. This suggests that artificial lights were used. 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Nash (Executive Producer, Writer), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories&oldid=1141029494, This page was last edited on 23 February 2023, at 00:31. Typical delays in communication were about 0.5 seconds. The first was a 100-kW experimental wind turbine at Plum Brook that Lewis researchers erected and operated. NASA agreed, and, in a letter appended to the audit report, said it would present the strategy in a report to Krista Paquin, associate administrator for mission support, in September. 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. [1] Since the late 2000s, high-definition photos taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) of the Apollo landing sites have captured the Lunar Module descent stages and the tracks left by the astronauts. Their flight paths were tracked using radar and they were sighted and photographed using telescopes. Only about 30kg (66lb) of lunar meteorites have been found on Earth thus far, despite private collectors and governmental agencies worldwide searching for more than 20 years.[174]. NASA also used the Space Power Facility to test its Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. Bart Sibrel cites the relative level of the United States and USSR space technology as evidence that the Moon landings could not have happened. 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. After a three-year search, the "inescapable conclusion" was that about 45 tapes (estimated 15 tapes recorded at each of the three tracking stations) of Apollo 11 video were erased and re-used, said Nafzger. DESIGN OF THE NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER'S WORLD-CLASS REVERBERANT ACOUSTIC TEST FACILITY . 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. [48] With the number of people involved, and noting the Watergate scandal, Jillette noted that someone would have outed the hoax by now. 6. Conspiracists often use this evidence to suggest that objects were "pasted" over the photographs, and hence obscure the reticle. Cropped photo of Buzz Aldrin saluting the flag (the fingers of Aldrin's right hand can be seen behind his helmet), Cropped photo taken a few seconds later, Buzz Aldrin's hand is down, head turned toward the camera, the flag is unchanged, Animation of the two photos, showing that though Armstrong's camera moved between exposures, the flag is not waving. 11. The tapes are believed to have been stored rather than re-used. [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. 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. Conspiracists argue that Marshall Space Flight Center Director Wernher von Braun's trip to Antarctica in 1967 (about two years before the Apollo 11 launch) was to gather lunar meteorites to be used as fake Moon rocks. The angle and color of shadows are inconsistent. In terms of astronaut/cosmonaut time, the USSR had 534 hours of crewed spaceflight whereas the United States had 1,992 hours. Lewis Director Bruce Lundin traveled to Plum Brook that day to personally inform the staff that the station would be closed down. Using the scientific process, any hypothesis that is contradicted by the observable facts may be rejected. Astrophysics and the army will not need the chambers rocket-testing capabilities, so the two groups are out as possible bill payers for B-2s broken steam-ejection system. This suggests that a painted background was used. These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production. Kubrick also used some 50mm f/0.7 lenses that were left over from a batch made by Zeiss for NASA. [117] suggests that he could have been pressured to agree to the conspiracy to protect himself from recriminations over his past. The movement of characters on the Moon in 2001 differs from that of the filmed movement of Apollo astronauts, and does not resemble an environment with 1/6 the gravity of Earth. The B-2 test facility is located at Plum Brook Station, in Sandusky, Ohio. This eliminated the near-term need for a nuclear rocket. To broadcast the pictures to regular television, a scan conversion had to be done. [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 US$230,000 restoration project took months to complete and did not include sound quality improvements. Engineers inspect the inlet of a prototype Hypersonic Research Engine scramjet prior to a test run in Hypersonic Tunnel Facility. There was very little activity at Plum Brook until the late 1980s when Lewis Research Center reactivated four test sites and resumed testing. A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center. Covering the business and politics of space. 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. Sibrel said that it may have been caused by indoor fans used to cool the astronauts since their spacesuit cooling systems would have been too heavy on Earth. 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 the 1970s the center expanded the scope of its work into new areas, such as renewable energy sources. Plum Brook Station is located about eight miles from Sandusky, Ohio. SpaceX testing Falcon 9's carbon fibre fairing in a vacuum chamber at Plum Brook Station. [42] This was the reason the final flights were cut, along with plans for even more ambitious follow-on programs such as a permanent space station and crewed flight to Mars. They have found that the Apollo 11 tapes were sent for storage at the U.S. National Archives in 1970, but by 1984, all the Apollo 11 tapes had been returned to the Goddard Space Flight Center at their request. Plum Brook is currently . Its walls are 2 feet thick to withstand the blast of powerful . The number of photos taken is implausibly high. Plum Brooks newest addition, the Combined Effects Chamber, which was designed to simulate the conditions found on the surface of the Moon or Mars, had never been used. 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 mockumentary based on this idea, Dark Side of the Moon, could have fueled the conspiracy theory. Because von Braun was a former SS officer (though one who had been detained by the Gestapo),[170] the documentary film Did We Go? 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. [159] "Given SMART-1's initial high orbit, however, it may prove difficult to see artifacts," said Foing in an interview on space.com. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched their SELENE Moon orbiter on September 14, 2007 (JST), from Tanegashima Space Center. 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. The Apollo Guidance Computer was on the Lunar Module and the command and service module. 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. Four mission-worthy Lunar Roving Vehicles (LRV) were built by Boeing. The Plum Brook Reactor was a NASA 60 megawatt water-cooled and moderated research nuclear reactor,[1][2] located in Sandusky, Ohio, 50mi west of the NASA Glenn Research Center (at that time the NASA Lewis Research Center) in Cleveland, of which it was organizationally a part. In this image, the Earth is lit by moonlight, not sunlight. 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. [151][152] In November 2002, Peter Jennings said "NASA is going to spend a few thousand dollars trying to prove to some people that the United States did indeed land men on the Moon," and "NASA had been so rattled, [they] hired [somebody] to write a book refuting the conspiracy theorists." Some staff members found new positions at Lewis, but hundreds of others were soon out of work. The fact that his brother, Raul Kubrick, was the head of the American Communist Party may have been one of the avenues pursued by the government to get Stanley to cooperate. [41] In fact, the ending of the landings was not "sudden" (see Space Race above). Says This Prophet", "Moon Hoax Moonmovie.com Frequently Asked Questions", "Russia's space command and control infrastructure", Apollo 18 through 20 The Canceled Missions, "Could moon landings have been faked? One rebuttal by Sibrel to this claim is that NASA had compartmentalized all of the work on the Apollo program. And considering the cost of maintaining them, this was no small issue. [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. Plum Brook Station is testing a new generation of space exploration technologies that are essential for NASA's plans to explore the lunar surface and again land humans on the Moon. 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. 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. [4][5], These conspiracy theories have kept public interest for more than 40 years. 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 astronauts had relied on computers to aid in the Moon missions. You should see the reCAPTCHA field below. [117] The Apollo 11 telemetry tapes were different from the telemetry tapes of the other Moon landings because they contained the raw television broadcast. The exception is that of Apollo 11, which has lain on the lunar surface since being blown over by the Lunar Module Ascent Propulsion System. 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. In 1985 the Office of Management and Budget recommended that NASA relinquish control of Plum Brook Station. In December 2009 NASA issued a final report on the Apollo 11 telemetry tapes. The Parkes Observatory in Australia was billed to the world for weeks as the site that would be relaying communications from the first moonwalk. In 2015, a report from NASAs inspector general made the disconcerting announcement that all but one of the major test facilities at Plum Brook Station had few or no customers. In August 2021, the facility was renamed to honor Apollo astronaut and Ohio native Neil Armstrong. Dgh sees a parallel with other attitudes during the post-Watergate era, when the American public were inclined to distrust official accounts. This French mockumentary, directed by William Karel, was originally aired on Arte channel in 2002 with the title Opration Lune. It spotted traces of the Apollo landings. 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. Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age. 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. 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