rerevisionist wrote:If you just consider oxygen, the amounts are large, and the only way to transport it would be in containers able to hold it liquefied on earth, maybe with sodium peroxide or something to help out. NASA seem to have taken their iconography partly from mountaineers, with backpacks; but the oxygen supplementation that mountaineers get is quite small - SCUBA divers use a whole tank in about an hour. The 'astronauts' also need to urinate and defecate, and, though this latter could be reduced, they'd have some difficulty doing it in a vacuum. Heat exchange alone on the moon - in full sunlight, or in shade - would be impossible with the tiny amounts of equipment they supposedly had. Disentanging all the various myths needs a serious study.
This is quite apart from the other problems; consider for example launching off from the moon, without fins or stabilisation, and with about the same amount of fuel as in a lawnmower, and trying to catch up an object moving around the moon with escape velocity.
Can you be more specific than "large"? Try determining how much space liquefied oxygen takes up then compare that to the requirements for three men for two weeks along with several depressurizations. Are you sure saying "large" is enough proof to say the moon landings were fake?
The astronauts do not have to relieve themselves in a vacuum. They had a urine relief tube in the spacecraft and used plastic bags to defecate in while inside the LM.
While the LM landed in the early lunar morning, only half of it was in sunlight, the other half in shade and entirely capable of radiating heat. In your opinion what equipment is required for keeping a spacecraft habitable in a vacuum?
The LM could not use fins as it operated in a vacuum only. It had thrusters to adjust attitude and keep it stabilized in flight. What makes you think that the LM only had the amount of fuel as in a lawnmower? I think the actual amount is over 3000 pounds of fuel. Where did you get the value you claimed?
The ascent portion of the LM only had to accelerate to orbital velocity of about 5900 mph. The service module engine was the one that accelerated out of lunar orbit (over twice as fast) to return to the Earth.
Ranb