Editing Moon Hoax (section)

===Discrepancies in NASA documents===
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;Earthrise photos
The first photo of Earthrise by a human as he watched the event unfold (AS08-13-2329) was taken on 24 December 1968.<ref>[http://history.nasa.gov/ap08fj/14day4_orbits456.htm Apollo 8, day 4: Lunar orbits 4, 5 and 6], NASA, 3/1/09 (the 2nd photo, at 075:47:37)</ref>
|There is yet another photo (AS08-14-2392) of the same Earthrise at the same time and place but with a window frame<ref>[http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo8/html/as8-14-2392.html AS8-14-2392], NASA, 3/2/09</ref> and said to be taken two days earlier.<ref>[http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/luceneweb/caption_direct.jsp?photoId=AS08-14-2392 AS08-14-2392], NASA, 1/11/06</ref> A sceptic says that both photos are taken by a secret Lunar Orbiter unmanned craft and not from Apollo 8.<ref name="Popov"/><sup>(p. 190)</sup>
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;Visibility of stars from the Lunar Module
103:12:44 [Neil] Armstrong (Apollo 11): ''"I'd say the colour of the local surface is very comparable to that we observed from orbit at this Sun angle—about 10° Sun angle, or that nature."''

103:22:30 Armstrong: ''"From the surface, we could not see any stars out the window; but out my overhead hatch (means the overhead rendezvous window), I'm looking at the Earth. It's big and bright and beautiful."''<ref name="postland">[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.postland.html Post-landing activities], NASA, 5/6/09</ref>
|[Alan] Bean, from the [Apollo 12] 1969 Technical Debrief—''"Star (and) Earth visibility was interesting. We could always see stars at the upper rendezvous window."''<ref>[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/a12.postland.html#1105518 Post-landing activities], NASA, 11/6/09</ref> The Sun is currently 5.5° above the eastern horizon.<ref>[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/a12.postland.html#1120659 Post-landing activities], NASA, 11/6/09</ref> With the Sun 10° above the horizon, stars should have been visible out the Apollo 11 overhead window too.<ref name="aFon"/>
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;Visibility of stars from the lunar surface
[Neil] Armstrong (Apollo 11): ''"We were never able to see stars from the lunar surface or on the daylight side of the Moon by eye without looking through the optics."''

[Michael] Collins (Command Module pilot): ''"I don't remember seeing any."''<ref name="pressconf"/><sup>(1:06:00–1:06:19)</sup> (Collins' remark is misattributed to [Edwin] Aldrin in the transcript.<ref>[http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/FirstLunarLanding/ch-7.html The first lunar landing], part 6, NASA, 24/4/01</ref> In his book "Liftoff", Collins writes "My God, the stars are everywhere, even below me. They are somewhat brighter than on Earth")<ref name="Rene"/><sup>(p. 33)</sup><ref>M. Collins, "Liftoff", Grove Press, 1989, ISBN 9780802131881, p. 100</ref>

Alan Bean (Apollo 12): ''"Oh so carefully, I removed my silver pin, took one last look at it, and gave it my strongest underarm toss out towards Surveyor. I can still remember how it flashed in the bright sunlight then disappeared in the distance. It was the only star I ever saw up in the black sky, the sunlight was just too bright on the Moon's surface to see any of the others."''<ref>[http://alanbeangallery.com/lonestar-story.html Lone star], The Alan Bean Gallery</ref>

Stars are not readily seen in the daylight lunar sky by either the human eye or a camera because of the brightness of the sunlight surface.<ref>[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a13/images13.html#S7031774 S70-31774], NASA, 19/9/09</ref>
|103:22:54 Duke: ''"...Gene Cernan says that, while standing in the shadow of the Apollo 17 [Lunar Module] (LM), he could see some stars while he was outside."''<ref name="postland"/> (Correction on the star visibility issue from the Moon is introduced later.) Astronauts' reminiscences contradict the descriptions of the star sky observed by Soviet cosmonauts (Leonov, Lebedev, Savinykh) on the dayside of the orbit; light from the Earth (Earth albedo 0.367, Moon albedo 0.12) did not hamper them see the stars.<ref name="aFon"/> For example, Leonov says that "the brightest of the stars can be recognised when they are farther than 30° away from the daylight luminary [the Sun]".<ref>[http://epizodsspace.testpilot.ru/bibl/tm/1981/4-tsvetn-pal-kos.html The colour pallete of cosmos], A. Leonov, Technology for the youth, 4/81, pp. 27–29 (Rus.)</ref>

On the Moon, the sky is black—even during the day—and the stars are always visible.<ref>[http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/moon_worldbook.html Moon], P. Spudis, 30/11/07</ref><ref>[http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070621.html Stars and the Solstice Sun], NASA, 21/6/07</ref>

In fact, the Moon is about the poorest reflector in the solar system... The Moon reflects only 7% of the sunlight that falls upon it.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/200801/liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/universe/moon.html The Moon], NASA, 20/1/00</ref>
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;Omitted telltale astronauts' words from journal text?
116:07:19 [Alan] Bean (Apollo 12): ''"OK. You go ahead. That's difficult, because it's so tender up here on these legs."''

116:07:26 [Charles] Conrad: ''"Well, I don't see the Earth anywhere in the sight."''<ref>[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/a12.tvtrbls.html#1160542 TV troubles], NASA, 14/5/09</ref>
|Listening to the RealVideo clip (1:39–1:45), Alan Bean actually said ''"It's difficult tricking them"'', and Charles Conrad replied ''"Yea, I know."''<ref>[http://youtube.com?v=T1yYfOfMUVk Moon landing hoax Apollo 12], Youtube, 27/8/08</ref>
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;Moon landing trajectory and dust visibility
[Charles] Conrad (Apollo 12), from the 1969 Technical Debrief—"''As soon as I got the vehicle stopped in horizontal velocity at 300 feet'' (figure 4–12 from the Apollo 12 Mission Report indicates that he stopped almost all of his forwards motion at about 220 ft), ''we picked up a tremendous amount of dust—much more than I had expected. It looked a lot worse than it did in the films I saw of Neil's landing. It seemed to me that we got the dust much higher than Neil indicated. It could be because we were in a hover, higher up, coming down...''".<ref>[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/a12.landing.html#1103206 A visit to the Snowman], NASA, 4/5/09</ref>
|According to the Apollo 12 land path,<ref>[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/landpath.jpg A profile and plan view of the Apollo 12 approach trajectory], NASA</ref> at 300 ft (90 m) the module was almost half a kilometre far from the landing place and was descending not vertically but down a very gently sloping trajectory, and dust was first seen at a 3 times less height of 30 m (100 ft).<ref name="Popov8"/>
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;Fred Haise on the Moon?
[Fred] Haise and fellow [Apollo 13] crewmen, James Lovell (spacecraft commander) and John Swigert (command module pilot), working closely with Houston ground controllers, converted their lunar module "Aquarius" into an effective lifeboat. Their emergency activation and operation of lunar module systems conserved both electrical power and water in sufficient supply to assure their safety and survival while in space and for the return to Earth.<ref>[http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/haise-fw.html Fred Wallace Haise, Jr], NASA, 4/12/08</ref>
|Edwin Aldrin (Apollo 11): ''"The highlight of the evening was a film showing Fred Haise, my back-up on the flight to the Moon, stumbling around on the surface of the Moon until, in desperation, he retreated to the lunar lander which, the moment he stepped on the ladder, tumbled into pieces around him."''<ref name="Rene"/><sup>(p. 164)</sup><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/1997/jan/m05-025.shtml Moon 'photos'?], G. Birdsall, 5/1/97</ref><ref>E. Aldrin, W. Warga, "Return to Earth", Random House Publishers, 1973, ISBN 9780394488325, p. 189</ref>
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;Dust blowing
After the landing of the Apollo 14 lunar module, the engine has worked for several more seconds and the jets of dust flying from under the module are clearly seen.<ref>[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/video14.html#Landing Landing at Fra Mauro], NASA, 6/9/06</ref><sup>(4:46–4:56)</sup>
|There are no signs of blowing the dust on the photo of the surface under the Apollo 14 lunar module.<ref>[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/images14.html#9258 AS14-66-9258], NASA, 8/7/09</ref><ref>A. Popov, [http://manonmoon.ru/book/9.htm First on the Moon], 21/7/09 (Rus.)</ref>
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;Separation—Contradictory times and distances to Earth
03:42:29 [Apollo 17] Commander [Eugene Cernan]: ''"Separation, Houston."''<ref>[http://ehartwell.com/Apollo17/ap17fj/AS17Flight_03TLI.htm Day 1: Translunar Injection (TLI)], Apollo 17 Flight Journal, 11/4/07</ref>

This photo shows the [Apollo 12] Spacecraft-LM Adapter (SLA) above centre.<ref>[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/images12.html#7326 AS12-50-7326], NASA, 4/8/09</ref><ref>[http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/a12_h_50_7326.html AS12-H-50-7326], NASA, 21/9/04</ref> (Altitude at [SLA] separation was about 3,800 nautical miles—about 7,000 km.)<ref>[http://history.nasa.gov/ap12fj/03tde.htm Day 1: Transposition, docking and extraction], NASA, 24/9/05</ref>
|A Full Earth from the Apollo 17 Command Module at about 5 hours 6 minutes, shortly after separation of the docked CSM-LM from the S-IVB at 4 hours 45 minutes.<ref>[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/images17.html#22726 AS17-148-22726], NASA, 3/8/09</ref>
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;When was the descent engine stopped?
113:01:43 [Harrison] Schmitt (Apollo 17): ''"Stand by. 25 feet, down at 2. Fuel's good. 20 feet. Going down at 2. 10 feet. 10 feet."''

113:01:58 Schmitt: ''"Contact."'' (Pause)

113:02:03 Schmitt: (Reading a checklist) ''"Stop, push. Engine stop; Engine Arm; Proceed; Command Override, Off; Mode Control, Att(itude) Hold; PGNS, Auto."''

113:02:11 [Eugene] Cernan: ''"OK, Houston. The Challenger has landed!"''<ref>[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17.landing.html Landing at Taurus-Littrow], NASA, 30/6/09</ref>
|Eugene Cernan: ''"We shut the engine down some 3 m above the surface."''<ref name="didwego"/><sup>([http://youtube.com?v=y1MVtrBytZs#t=6m02s part 6], 6:02–6:26)</sup>
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;Lunar rovers had an engine muffler?
120:10:55 [Eugene] Cernan (Apollo 17): ''"Just don't step on it."'' (Pause)

120:11:01 [Harrison] Schmitt: ''"I do that (pause) in training, though."'' (Pause).

120:11:13 Cernan: "''Ooh.'' (Grunting and breathing hard) ''Hey, Bob, just out of curiosity, what kind of heart rates has this drill been producing on me?"''<ref>[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17.deepcore.html#1201037 Deep core], NASA, 12/10/08</ref>
|Listening to the RealVideo clip<ref>[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17.alsepdep.html#1195335 ALSEP deployment], NASA, 12/10/08</ref> (17:11–17:41), these words are missing from both the journal text and the MP3 audio clip:

120:10:57 Flight/EVA: ''"OK, we definitely did not want Flight to figure the rover's muffler at this point. He has it as a stick with mine as an optional, as an option, and ah we're, at this stage of the game, we're screwing around. We definitely do not want to figure this muffler. Since we're being called upon, I'm sure you all recognise not to do this anymore."''<ref>[http://metacafe.com/watch/3418554 Moon landing hoax Apollo: Lunar rover had an engine muffler—ran on fuel in the fake Moon bay], Metacafe, 24/10/09</ref>
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