This does not belong in a forum for the Mundane and Pointless.
Rather, this is one of the coolest things ever! My grandfather worked at Grumman and helped build the LM. This is the first I’ve seen of them in 40 years.
The jokes are OK, even if they are a bit lame, but hand-wringing about how the deniers will point to this or that and claim victory is pointless: They’ll point to anything and claim victory.
So you guys still think there’s a ‘moon’, is that it?
I think I can make out some footpaths (and maybe some buggy paths?) on Apollo 17 as well. And maybe just a hint on 15. Not nearly as defined as 14 though. So cool. I wonder which of those specs is the LRV?
That is so freakin’ cool. As is your grandfather, Mack Tuck. What did he do, or is it way too technical for the likes of us non-techies?
He was a metal cutter, and claimed to have cut some of the parts for the LM’s. He also said he put his lunchbox on it while he ate, but I don’t believe that part.
I used to have a pin that he gave me. It was given to all the Grumman employees who worked on the LM. Wish to hell I could find it. He was always very proud to have participated in the Apollo program.
At the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Long Island they have several LM plaques signed by the workers. I need to spend a day there just looking for his signature.
Somehow I don’t see them letting anybody put their lunchbox on any of the LMs. 
I’m eagerly anticipating even better pix!
Brian
Me too… maybe we can see, once and for all, if Apollo 11’s flag is still standing or if it did get knocked over by the lift-off.
There’s a big, beautiful picture of Armstrong posing by the LM taken by Buzz as my desktop background right now–beautiful!
I was a toddler and don’t remember the landings, but I do remember the excitement of Apollo 13 and following the later missions in elementary school.
Well, when I first saw the thread, I thought it said “The Eagle has been photoshopped”! So I guess this isn’t the joke thread. 
Please let this at least move toward the end of the whole “never happened” movement.
Probably not, though, since people still insist 9/11 was some sort of government conspiracy, despite overwhelming evidence otherwise.
I was watching a documentary earlier today about Apollo 11. They mentioned that the ascent stage of the Lunar Module was jetisoned while still in lunar orbit, and eventually crashed as its orbit decayed. (Checking Wikipedia, the ascent stages from all six landings, as well as the descent stage from Apollo 10 all impacted the moon somewhere.)
Do we know the locations of those sites precisely enough to take pictures? Even if the debris is too small to see, the impact craters might show up in photographs.
According to the various articles I have read there is about 176 mertic tons of man made equipment on the moon.
Why not?
It’s just a fabricated assembly of metal. It’s not uncommon for cutters, fitters and welders to eat at their workstations. There’s no real reason not to.
Of course, it might be a fanciful story (people in metalworking USUALLY eat in a lunch room) and we weren’t there so we don’t know, but there’s nothing implausible about it.
Is there someone suggesting that it is still landing? I’ve recently read by Andrew Chaikin’s book, A Man on the Moon, read Gene Kranz’s book, Failure is Not an Option, watched From the Earth to the Moon, and read a bunch of articles. (Can you tell I was on a roll?) Anyway, the point is, I sawseveral references to how difficult it was to get the flag planted, that they managedto do so only shallowly, and that the liftoff of the LM blew it over. I read/saw nothing to suggest it was still standing.
I just assumed that nobody would want food on an LM, it being a very complicated piece of machinery. Nearby, perhaps, but not actually on top of one.
Also, the lunch bit sounds like a story somebody’s grandfather would tell to impress the hell out of the grandkids.