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Very cool. I agree with Neil Armstrong on the hoax.

I have always been open minded about the hoax theories, but unless someone can show these images are fake, it pretty much puts those hoax theories to rest.

Appreciate this information....put that conspricy to rest....now I can concentrate on the free fall speed of buildings!

Hard to believe it has been 40 years since men walked on the moon. And no other country in the world has done the same thing since. The lonely lunar lander rests in eternal, relative peace only to be disturbed by a meteorite or two and to be covered by some fine moon dust. A tribute to all the scientists and technicians who used feeble computers to put many men on the moon. We left all kinds of crap there including dune buggies. Maybe one day we can bring that ancient stuff back and it would command a nice price on EBay.

2 words..Photo Shop

How did these guys get past the Van Allen radiation belt and back, not to mention the technology of a hand calculator?

Why hasn't anyone been back or beyond?

Hoax, no doubt in my mind.

And to anyone who says that it's impossible to keep the many people who've worked and continue to work in the space program deceived, then you obviously don't understand the simplest, most rudimentary concept of how an intelligence agency operates.

Google the word "compartmentalization", and click on the definition beside the word "intelligence" in parentheses.

Now go have fun finding out what you don't know, and stop dismissing anyone who questions the "truth" put out by a federal agency, like Nasa, like the Department of Defense, as a "wacko".

We "wacko's" might not have all the answers, but at least we're not swallowing every lure, hook, and rod thrown out to the public.

In my opinion, the real wacko's are the ones with hooks dangling from their mouths. As if you didn't know already.

Could Nasa explain why it's spent billions of taxpayer dollars to launch landers to Mars, equipped with scoops, spectrometers and deluxe mobile laboratories to find water on the Martian surface? But the prevailing wisdom regarding finding water on the moon is to hurl multimillion dollar rockets, at high velocity, towards its surface, and just "analyze" the dust plume for signs of water ice?

Huh?

Something's not right here. Nasa's obviously lying about something, and it's time for a full public disclosure of the truth about what that something is.

It's almost like the philandering husband who gets caught by his wife then tells her, "who you gonna believe, me, or your own eyes?"

It's time for truth, it's time for full disclosure about what they found up there. Or don't the Haliburton's, KBR's, aka big-shots of the world think we can handle the truth?

They're spending billions on top of billions of our tax dollars year after year. Shouldn't we know the real reason?

When is the public going to wake up and realize that Nasa has been lying about everything. I'm not saying the moon landings were faked, I couldn't prove it one way or the other, but what I am saying is...

Work with me here.

Nasa has shown us images of planets orbiting stars light years from Earth, light years...

Nasa has shown us high resolution close ups of comets impacting Jupiter...

Google Earth puts you right on top of my house, see my car in the driveway...

But this grayed out, over exposed image, with little to no discernible detail, is the best image possible of the Apollo Lunar landing site? The site of the single most important event in known human history?

How about this? Let's put Nasa on trial and say to it, "Prove to a jury of twelve men and women that you did, as you say, land human beings on the Moon and brought them back to Earth".

Would what they've put out so far, in the thirty or so years since the landings meet the stringent burden of proof required to convince a jury of everyday folks, like you and I that they've done what they claim?

What relief the descent platform is still there. I was worried some culture-challenged Selenites has traded it in during the cash for clunkers program.

I never thought the landing was a hoax. EVER, but now that NASA has released these photos, (real or not)(Photoshop is easy people, I'm for the first time in 40 years beginning to wonder that maybe it was a hoax. Why are they releasing these now? The shadow government CIA/FBI.SS, proves it's cover ups whenever it tries to do its damage control after the fact, ie 9/11, Assasinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, and on and on.

Hi, we will always have people that will demand more proof. I believed that the landing happened in the 60's and thank NASA for trying to help others believe that they did what they said they accomplished. It will take some people until they can walk up to the remaining craft on the moon and touch it before they will believe. So again, it was enough proof for those who wanted to be able to see what was left on the moon, since it can't be viewed directly from earth.

Not that the nonsense even deserves a reply since it's so comical. One reason the wingnuts can't be taken seriously is you're still using lies to prop up the claim. Lets take the lie about the Van Allen belt. This only proves that you don't know what you're talking about. The lie works on the ignorant who don't actually know where the belt ends or how far beyond it the moon lies. The astronauts didn't hang out in the belt as you pretend. The radiation exposure from passing through the Van Allen belt was no more dangerous than an xray. Of course maybe you're claiming thousands of more people are involved keeping the "real" data about that secret also.

And pretty much every other piece of nonsense mentioned here comes down to money.

Why a cheap probe to the moon and an expensive one to Mars? It answers itself. $$

Why no Google Earth of the moon? It again answers itself. $$ plus the distance. HiRes imaging satellites are a few hundred km above the earth... the moon is 380,000+ km.

Why haven't we gone back to the moon? It answers itself. Additional Apollo mission were canceled because we as a country lost interest in funding them.

All of the people insisting the landings never happened fall into 2 categories they're either making money off of gullibility or throwing their money at them.

@Jeff Why are they releasing these now?" When would they release them? Since they were taken less than a month ago? You do realize that proving the moon landing was not the mission of the LRO mission? These shots were the gravy of the mission.

One question for you to consider - Why is it that the people with the most to gain from the landings being a hoax, the most resources to prove it a hoax if it were and infinite reasons to demonstrate that it was a hoax if any evidence did exist had to concede that they were beaten to the moon? For this to be a hoax the Soviets had to be in on it.

I always believed that everything was true and those images I saw on our B&W TV in 69 were actually happening. I still want to believe but I think that NASA, with the technology that is available today, could a much better job proving to the public that it is not a hoax. Another curious thing I just saw on the picture that Armstrong took after walking away from the module, what happened to his footprints? Unless he took a really big jump to get where he took the picture, we should be able to his footprints leading to that spot. Curious....

Cool article Ned, Love Neil's quote! Kind of funny now 40 years later ... 'say Neil, what are those footprints off to the right? That wasn't in the procedure.'

I have always believed that we did go to the moon but I also think that NASA could do a much better job at convincing the skeptics that it was not a hoax, especially with all the technology that we have available today. One question I do have after looking at the picture of the landing module that Armstrong took from a distance, if he took a “dash” to get there, where are his footprints? Interesting….

Interesting that the conspiracy theorists are all saying "Why now?" on pictures and given that the NASA site shows the LRO orbiter having been launched on June 19'th of this year, perhaps some elementary logic has escaped their notice? The cries of fakery are so ridiculous as to be laughable in my mind... However, each to their own.

If those guys want to believe that the moon is still virgin territory, believe me, go right ahead. When we land there again, and we will, I will enjoy seeing the Apollo sites turned into historic parks and preservation areas for tourists in the future... LOL.

WhatDaBlah "For this to be a hoax the Soviets had to be in on it." Well said.

I think my favorite reality challenged comments are the ones from people who think they're getting higher quality images of comet impacts on Jupiter. It says some pretty sad things about our educational system when people have such a distorted understanding of the scale of things like this. I doubt we'll have images of Jupiter in our lifetime as good as the ones above of the moon.

To the... I'm not even sure what to call people claiming the landings didn't happen... if you really want NASA to "prove it" call your Congressman and get their funding increased. Right now they're by far one of the most successful government agencies. I'm all for an increase in their budget. It beats flushing it down Iraq and Afghanistan.

If they PhotoShopped in the laser reflectors, I'd like a copy of NASA's version of PhotoShop -- scientists have been using them for various studies since they were deployed by the Apollo astronauts.

Conspiracy theorists would still believe the moon landing was a hoax even if they traveled there and saw the landing site with their own eyes. They would claim the landing site was "staged."