Moon Landings: Did They Happen or Not?

[Brewer]

Maybe, maybe not. Apollo going to the Moon does not mean that all footage was genuine.

Even NASA has an issue with it's most famous and iconic moon photo ever.

It cannot explain how this pad imprint got here, it knows its not meant to be there but has to acknowledge it as its so obvious. According to the official narrative the LM didn't bounce during landing, it couldn't bounce as it's struts had single use crushable honeycomb shock absorbers. The engine was cut and it dropped to the surface.
Armstrong and Aldrin said

[Armstrong - "We actually had the engine running until touchdown. Not that that was intended, necessarily. It was a very gentle touchdown. It was hard to tell when we were on."]
[Aldrin - "You wouldn't describe it as 'rock' (as in, 'dropping like a rock'). It was a sensation of settling."]
[Some of the other crews shut down 'in the air' (meaning 'prior to touchdown') and had a noticeable bump when they hit.]
[Aldrin - (Joking) "Well, they didn't want to jump so far to the ladder."]
[Armstrong, from the 1969 Technical Debrief - "The touchdown itself was relatively smooth; there was no tendency toward tipping over that I could feel. It just settled down like a helicopter on the ground, and landed."]

However there's quite a deflection there, that pad has moved and with enough force to the left for the surface sensing probe to form a ridge of regolith that spills small pills of dust over the imprint. Looks like a set dressing fail, the prop leg may have broken or needed adjusting so they moved it and forgot to dress the 'lunar regolith'. If you look at the secondary strut directly above the +Y pad you'll see a human hand sized tear to the kapton foil. Are those twin peaks in the foil caused by the middle fingers of a human hand?

Who knows but anyway NASA can't explain it, no one can. I've asked half a dozen fanboys to explain the mechanism of the imprint but they can't. I asked AI to model it but it can't either and removes all Apollo content from my account!
In other space news another lunar probe is orbiting the moon and once again, like Artemis and Polaris I cannot see one star! My cheap android can, filmed Alpha and Beta Centauri the other month with my fire truck's lights flashing in the foreground through a hazy sky and a dense atmosphere! Something NASA, Musk and others have yet to achieve!

 

[Brewer]

Interesting observations from a flerfer, not a flerfer myself but credits due. Not Apollo related but from the same agency.

It concerns shuttle missions over 6 years apart and they use exactly the same footage of the external tank separating from the shuttle.

The 1996 video is narrated as if it's really happening, nowhere does it say that it's footage from a previous mission. So far I cannot find any official explanation and haven't bothered to ask AI as I'll just get a long winded word salad that will vanish next time I shut down.

STARS FROM MARS!!!!​

As part of an eternal quest to find stars in space imagery, I hit paydirt!

Mars at night.

It will be worth the trip to just look up. pic.twitter.com/j3VkS5BSyE

— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) March 14, 2025

Grok confirms it!!! Well, says its likely!

The image in the X post, showing the Martian night sky, was likely captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been imaging Mars since 2012, including a notable night sky photo on sol 397 in 2020, as reported by The Planetary Society.​

Still no images from the lunar surface or from cis-lunar space and Grok gives it's usual long winded 'answer'. Won't quote it here except the links it provided.

Summary of Links and Clips

• Apollo 8 TV Broadcast: NASA YouTube – 2:30 mark for star commentary (no visible stars in video).
• Apollo 17 Trans-Lunar Coast: NASA YouTube – 5:20 mark for faint stars in window shots.
• Chang’e-3 Lunar Night Sky: YouTube – 0:30 mark for stars above the lunar horizon.
• Artemis I Orion Footage: NASA YouTube – 3:40 mark for faint stars during lunar flyby.

Here's what you get!

 

[axj]

As part of an eternal quest to find stars in space imagery, I hit paydirt!

The explanations for why stars are usually not visible in videos or photos (whether on Earth or taken in space) seem to make sense. Short exposure, light pollution, camera focus on foreground objects, etc.