appologies if this has been covered before - but it came up in an IRL convo , so a bottomline challenge to the HBers who claim that " appolo was faked "

posit a credible mechanism to fake the landings with 1969 tech / resources

i wont dictate what must be covered or is irrelevant but please no silly strawman arguments like :

" the laser reflector COULD have been delivered by a robot probe , ergo the ENTIRE appolo mission was unmanned "

good luck

mod edit, spelling in title

[edit on 11-9-2005 by DontTreadOnMe]

It wasnt faked, belive it or not we actually did go to the moon, get over it.

it wasn't...

i thought it was, but now (thanks to ATS), i know the truth...

OK...
I got a child hood memory of getting up early in the morning to watch this landing. I was four years old, and can still remember it now. It was in black and white , because we didn't have color then. I was in the UK watching this and thought it was absolutely brilliant. The talk at school was great that day, because all my friends had done the same thing as me. They watched and believed.

Only now do i read about weather or not it actually happened. I have kept away from any replies until now regarding this. I think it happened, but only through the eyes of an eager child wanting to be an astronaut. The memory has not left me since i got up early to watch it happen, and it never will.

Basically, i want to keep it real for me, in the eyes of the child i once was.
And i did say me.............