# Have we really been to the moon or what? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 9, 2006, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-we-really-been-to-the-moon-or-what/347656 "2006-03-09T06:15:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-we-really-been-to-the-moon-or-what/347656/61 "2006-03-10T21:01:07Z")
According to one book I read years ago, no cite sorry, whenever Neil took a photo, he was instructed to say he was taking a photo so that Mission Control could mark the time the photo was taken. They were very meticulous. The times and exposure numbers were cross referenced for archiving and for whatever else they needed that specific info for. I just wish I could remember the book! It would definitely fit in with this discussion. Oh well… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-we-really-been-to-the-moon-or-what/347656/62 "2006-03-11T02:31:20Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > (we’re not counting reflections of Armstrong in Aldrin’s visor) We’re not? [sub]heh-heh… moving the goalposts is easy in one-sixth G 😃 [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-we-really-been-to-the-moon-or-what/347656/63 "2006-03-11T02:32:48Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > If anyone says that we didn’t go to the monn, Buzz Aldrin will punch you in the mouth. Hey, I’d’ve been happy to hold Sibrel down while Buzz got in a few kicks, had I been there. ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-we-really-been-to-the-moon-or-what/347656/64 "2006-03-11T06:32:32Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > I just wish I could remember the book! It would definitely fit in with this discussion. Oh well… Maybe you read the [Apollo Lunar Surface Journal](http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/)? The first time I came across that site, I read the Apollo 11 story from beginning to end, and was almost moved to tears by the danger, courage, and accomplishment of these folks more than 30 years before. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-we-really-been-to-the-moon-or-what/347656/65 "2006-03-11T07:29:40Z")
> [@CurtC](#): > > Yabbut, that video was black-and-white, and pretty poor quality. The photo we’re referring to is a high-quality Hasselblad 50mm film kind of image. Not that the argument deserves defending - if someone at this pro-hoax site knows enough to know that it’s a photo and not a video capture, that a good camera didn’t get in that position until someone carried it down, they should know enough to be able to tell that other aspects of that scene clearly show it wasn’t Armstrong’s first step. I understand. I just wanted it in this thread that Armstrong’s actual descent of the ladder was photographed. That will not convince those claiming fake, of course. Did NASA, or Armstron or Aldrin ever claim that the photo you speak of was Armstrong? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-we-really-been-to-the-moon-or-what/347656/66 "2006-03-11T08:40:41Z")
> [@Laughing Lagomorph](#): > > [This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=82431) is my personal favorite (which I see you participated in **Cervaise** ). > > The OP had to be one of the most batshit raving nutters ever to grace this board. > Unfortunately I see the links to his picture site no longer work. Ahh, good one **Laughing Lagomorph**! It is getting close to the time he promised that children would be learning the “truth” in School! Sadly 😛 it is his website and him that turned to dust. Regarding the OP: Yes, we really did go to the moon. A better link to mission transcripts and video and photographs: [http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/frame.html](http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/frame.html) * * * \*I sometimes catch myself looking up at the moon, remembering the changes of fortune in our long voyage, thinking of the thousands of people who worked to bring the three of us home. I look up at the moon, and wonder: When will we be going back? And who will that be? - Jim Lovell\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-we-really-been-to-the-moon-or-what/347656.md?page=3)