# Did Armstrong REALLY walk on the moon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [July 26, 2002, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890 "2002-07-26T06:06:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gillianssj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/87869e/32.png) [@Gillianssj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gillianssj2)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890/1 "2002-07-26T06:06:27Z")
I have heard rumors about how Mr. Neil Armstrong never walked on the moon and that the U.S of A made it look like he did just to make it seem like they beat the Russians. I he could have but I would like to hear the real answer. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890/2 "2002-07-26T06:12:37Z")
[http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/apollohoax.html](http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/apollohoax.html) ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890/3 "2002-07-26T06:57:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gillianssj2 \* > \*\*I have heard rumors about how Mr. Neil Armstrong never walked on the moon and that the U.S of A made it look like he did just to make it seem like they beat the Russians. > > I he could have but I would like to hear the real answer. 😃 \*\* Remember, don’t believe everything you hear/read. If anything, it’s hard to believe the government could keep something of that magnitude secret for 30 year, without the Russians saying anything (And you know they’d take any hint of a faked moon landing and run with it). ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890/4 "2002-07-26T07:04:50Z")
Staff Report: [Was the Apollo moon landing a hoax?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmoonhoax.html) I’ll move this to our “Comments on Staff Reports” forum. ---
**Author:** ![Patricinus\_Scriblerus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@Patricinus\_Scriblerus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patricinus_Scriblerus)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890/5 "2002-07-26T07:06:55Z")
oh God, not again ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890/6 "2002-07-26T07:34:10Z")
[Apparently, Man has never set foot in Belgium, either.](http://www.obvious.fsnet.co.uk/belgium/belgium.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890/7 "2002-07-26T19:16:24Z")
Well, no, Armstrong didn’t walk on the Moon. It was more like hopping or skipping, really, what with the low gravity. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890/8 "2002-07-27T17:32:20Z")
But he had that heavy pack on, which probably weighed 40 points even on the Moon. So it was probably more like a combination trudge-saunter. ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890/9 "2002-08-05T15:24:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by javaman \* > \*\*But he had that heavy pack on, which probably weighed 40 points even on the Moon. So it was probably more like a combination trudge-saunter. \*\* That pack played hob with Alan Shepard’s golf swing, too, a fact which conveniently lets me link to a [web site](http://www.osiem.org/rovethemoon/) I just discovered which presumably would allow you – for a price – to remotely swing a golf club or direct a roving vehicle on the moon. You can participate in a nine-hole foursome on the Sea of Tranquility for only $75,000! 🆒 To which my reaction is: you guys do it and let me know how it goes. RR ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890/10 "2002-08-05T22:59:53Z")
If someone insists that we didn’t land on the moon in 1969, ask them why the Russians publicly admitted to picking up signals from our men on the moon. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2002, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890/11 "2002-08-06T12:06:27Z")
When they supposedly landed on the moon, the moon was down to a quarter phase, so they would have cut themselves on the sharp edge and probably fallen off. Also, their boots would have got stuck in the green cheese. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890/12 "2002-08-08T20:48:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gillianssj2 \* > **I have heard rumors about how Mr. Neil Armstrong never walked on the moon** He’d better have, or Mrs. Gorsky is gonna be **really** pissed. ---
**Author:** ![socomfort8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@socomfort8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/socomfort8)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890/13 "2002-08-12T18:12:03Z")
Not that I believe we didn’t go to the moon…BUT…how come there are no pictures of stars from the moon’s surface? How come there are no pictures of the astronauts on the surface with the earth behind them? You know like the pictures we take here on earth of us standing in front on some landmark. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890/14 "2002-08-12T20:17:27Z")
> [@](#): > > …how come there are no pictures of stars from the moon’s surface? How come there are no pictures of the astronauts on the surface with the earth behind them? [http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2001/feb/m20-023.shtml](http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2001/feb/m20-023.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890/15 "2002-08-13T21:47:42Z")
There are pictures of the stars, but it takes special effort to take them. Just like you can’t take pictures of the stars from Earth without taking special efforts. And there are several pictures of the Earth in the background. I seem to have lost all my bookmarks. Drat! Here, start here. [http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/apollohoax.html](http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/apollohoax.html) The bulletin board there is a great place to ask questions about Apollo, but do _not_ accuse it of being a fake or you will receive some rather withering stares. Also check out [The Apollo Lunar Surface Journal](http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/frame.html), a major resource for transcripts and pictures of the lunar missions, and many technical descriptions of the equipment used. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890/16 "2002-08-16T22:57:47Z")
Which one? Louis Armstrong? Bess Armstrong? Lance Armstrong? Jack Armstrong, All-American Boy? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-armstrong-really-walk-on-the-moon/120890/17 "2002-08-23T16:07:35Z")
You left out my two favorites: Stretch-Armstrong, and Armstrong Solarian Tile.