# Damn moon landing conspiracy theorist! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 18, 2009, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-moon-landing-conspiracy-theorist/510560 "2009-09-18T05:53:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-moon-landing-conspiracy-theorist/510560/61 "2009-09-26T21:24:00Z")
> [@Shig](#): > > Now I’ve become fascinated by these people claiming that the Chinese faked their moon walk. Er. What? ---
**Author:** ![Shig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Shig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shig)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-moon-landing-conspiracy-theorist/510560/62 "2009-09-26T21:54:01Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Er. > > What? OOPS! That should say “spacewalk”, not “moonwalk.” ---
**Author:** ![pmwgreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@pmwgreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pmwgreen)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-moon-landing-conspiracy-theorist/510560/63 "2009-09-27T01:24:55Z")
You might point him at this too. [Trans-lunar injection - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Lunar_Injection) It’s a bit technical but this is rocket science we’re talking about. It does make the point that you get to the moon in a few really precisely timed burns of your rocket and a lot of coasting. Lots of interesting background too. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-moon-landing-conspiracy-theorist/510560/64 "2009-09-27T02:07:02Z")
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**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-moon-landing-conspiracy-theorist/510560/65 "2009-10-04T02:02:08Z")
> [@Shig](#): > > He has no problem believing that we could get up 100-200 miles like shuttles and the ISS, but “there is no way there could have been enough fuel on there to get them almost 239,000 miles away and back again.” Let’s remember that the Saturn V was 36 stories tall, of which about 34 stories of which were fuel. If you look at the cross-section diagrams on the Wikipedia pages, you’ll see that the rocket stages really are pretty much big fuel tanks. Other than the engines, there’s very little else in there. And, of course, as **pmwgreen** says, it’s mostly coasting. That’s why there’s no gravity in the capsule – if they were under acceleration the whole time, they’d be feeling it in the form of artificial gravity, the same way you’re pressed back in your seat when you hit the gas in your car. –Cliffy [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-moon-landing-conspiracy-theorist/510560.md?page=3)