@29: I think you are a bit confused, generally those who go against the official line, the generally held belief etc. are the conspiracy theorists, as pretty much all major scientific and political groups support the science of climate change (i.e. only ACT disagree here in NZ), it is those who claim that climate change does not exist that are the conspiracy theorists. You really have a lot more in common with the 'we didn't land on the moon' and '911 was an inside job' crowd than you think.

@lee #25 why haven't Russia gone to the moon or China for that matter. If the USA could do it 40 years ago we'd have at least seen another country get there. Moon 'rocks' has anyone independant and non biased tested these because they could have come from any one of many places on earth normal people don't go and be made out to be 'moon' rocks. Anyway so what if 400000 people worked on the Apollo missions. How many Muslims, Catholics, Jehovas Witnesses, Mormons etc are out there and believe they are correct? exactly each to their own - moon landers and skeptics also. Ultimately NZ will never get to space so who really cares!

I have a theory that the Apollo conspiracy theories (which state men never landed on the Moon) have been put about mostly by those disappointed that the Moon's surface was found to consist of rocks and sand rather than green cheese.

Mark #17 12:47 pm Feb 02 2010 "What chumps saying we never landed there! They put mirrors on the moon years ago, they do experiments with them from Earth"

...We can put satellites to the outer reaches of the solar system and possibly beyond... It's a different story putting people rather than machines into high radiation environments.

The earth's magnetic field protects us from this extreme radiation (note, the Auraura Borrealis or northern lights) even the ISS space station is protected from the worst of it at the altitude which it orbits the Earth. Going to the moon is a different kettle of fish!

@drv #14

We all know the face on the moon has moved to Mars!!

NASA don't wanna fake a moon landing again because its too close for the world to see.

Instead, they're putting their money into Mars because its conveniently too far for most telescopes. That way they can stage the perfect landing and showcase a fake discovery of Martian life that will put an end to all wars founded on religious differences that will allow the US to exit Afghanistan and Iraq.

Osama Bin Garden knows its coming, that's why he's hopped on board the climate change gravy train because the war of religion days are numbered, ha!

#18 said "If they had they would still be going because technology would have improved so much over the last 40 years that it would be cheaper and more effecient to get there."

Exactly WHICH technology has improved so much that it would significantly give these benefits?

e.g. Smaller faster computers may guide you to the Moon with more accuracy and with less reliance on ground based computers - but you don't ride a computer into space.

The "technology would have improved" claim is easy to make, but I've never seen someone quantify it.

Oh, how silly of me. Maybe I missed all the documentaries and books written and made by the americans, who said they did it. Because the Yanks would never lie.

Like when they said that they should invade Iraq because of WMDs and found huge stockpiles of them. Oh no, hang on. They didn't find anything.

Okay Okay I got it. It must be when they told us that they won WW2. D-Day and all that cool stuff. A pretty good effort except that the Russians had pummelled the life out of the Germans and the Allies only had the dregs to combat. Then the Russians destroyed the Japanese main army in China causing them to surrender. Not the Yanks silly nuclear bombs.

I guess I better go watch some more American movies and listen to all teh sicophants who just want to grow up to be Americans.

It is interesting that NASA have lost the original moon landing film. It seems all they have now are the digitally altered ones. How convenient.

moon landings were real,

it's kinda hard to get 4000+ people involved over 50 years, from the start of the project til now, to keep quite about it.

moon rocks. yes they are here, and not all accounted for.

people who say "oh but there was this documentary..." there might of been a documentary by someone putting forward their own skewed view, there are alot of them also on the 911 conspricy and a very famous one by Al Gore on "Global Warming", just because someone says something doesnt make it true.

They sure did go to the Moon, just not in the manner that was depicted...they had extra-terrestrial help, its certainly no accident that many of the former Astronauts were Freemasons, they were threatened not to reveal this fact...Although a couple of brave souls went against the grain, Gordon Cooper admitted on T.V, seeing hundreds of U.F.O's while in space over a day and a half period, and Edgar Allen Mitchell says that there has been a cover up of the extraterrestrial presence for the past 50-60 years