In the video, near the end (I cannot remember at what point in the video), there were a few examples of the astronauts moving around on the moon, and what appeared to be a momentary glint above them – on most cases directly above their helmet, and in one case higher up to the top of the frame. It was claimed that these were wire supports. I want to believe that this was not a hoax, so I tried to rationale this, but it makes no sense. Why the glint, if there was no wire there?
Hi Zephyros and welcome to Apollo Hoax.
Courtesy of another member of this board I once had a loan of the Spacecraft Films'
Apollo 17 DVDs, so analysed some of the glints in
this post. The are just artefacts of the copying process used at times and there are a few different types of these artefacts. Another result of this process is a type of audio print-through that I mention.
Note the comments:
In fact, there are two flashes from the antenna, both lasting for three frames. Neither of these two flashes are responsible for the flash at the top of the screen, which lasts for two frames and begins four frames after the beginning of the second antenna flash, just as it fades completely away.They need to be read carefully in regard to individual frame counts, otherwise they are meaningless.
Also:
About one second later another similar flash can be seen at the bottom of the screen and also lasts for two frames. It is unrelated to anything happening on screen, so I believe that the flash at the top of the screen is just another random artefact and just coincidentally occurs above the antenna, but is not in any way evidence of a wire. If it was, it should also have occurred during the first antenna flash.Aulis simply selected an artefact that coincidentally occurred above an antenna, but not in perfect synchronisation with the sunlight glinting off it. You can view many others of these all over the picture.
I also wrote a little more about Aulis (the publishers of
Dark Moon and the video you saw), in posts 35 and about HBs' beliefs in post 40. If you can tolerate reading the entire thread, it will give you an idea of what we sometimes have to put up with here from hoax-believers (HBs). Other posters in this thread have already commented on this.
When speaking of the Apollo 13 mission, Bennett states that: “…By Wednesday, April 15th, 2.5 days after the accident, the Apollo 13 had circumnavigated the moon, corrected its trajectory, and was already 19,000 miles into its homeward journey…” I find this a little hard to believe, particularly considering the fact that this was done immediately following such a dangerous accident. Coupled with the fact that Fred Haise, at that point, was supposedly able to spot Fra Mauro, which was on the dark side of the moon, makes her argument rather convincing. Is there any evidence to de-bunk this?
Below is a list of some of Apollo 13's major events, with Ground (or Mission) Elapsed Times -- sorry I don't know how to format these things. Note that contrary to what one poster has implied, the mid-course correction burn at 30:40:50 put the craft on a hybrid (non-return) trajectory, and the free-return burn, which was done with the lunar module's engine and not that of the damaged service module, took place more than five hours after the explosion. It then took another 15.5 hours for the spacecraft to go out of contact behind the moon, but that burn sent them on a course around the moon and back towards Earth. Three more burns were required, and one of them sped up the spacecraft to shorten the duration of the journey.
The move
Apollo 13 does a "typical Hollywood" and has the astronauts claiming to see Tsiolkovsky crater (on the back of the moon) and Fra Mauro (on the front) one after the other. But as you know Hollywood doesn't let the facts get in the way of a good yarn, so in
Die Hard has Bruce Willis running around on broken glass with bare feet.
Apollo 13 launch ## 0:00:00
Earth parking orbit ## 0:12:40
Translunar injection burn ## 2:35:47
CSM separation from S-IVB ## 3:06:39
CSM docked with LM ## 3:19:09
S-IVB release ## 4:01:01
S-IVB separation manoeuvre ## 4:18:01
S-IVB lunar impact burn ## 6:00:00
Mid-course correction ## 30:40:50
TV broadcast began approx: ## 55:14:00
TV broadcast ended approx: ## 55:46:00
Fans in oxygen tank turned on ## 55:53:18
Oxygen tank No. 2 exploded ## 55:54:54CSM powered down approx. ## 58:10:00
LM activated ## 58:40:00
Free-return burn ## 61:29:44Out of contact behind Moon ## 77:08:35
Contact regained ## 77:33:10
S-IVB impacted lunar surface ## 77:56:40
Transearth injection burn ## 79:27:39
Mid-course correction ## 105:18:42
Mid-course correction ## 137:40:13
Service Module jettisoned ## 138:01:48
Lunar module jettisoned ## 141:30:00
CM entered Earth's atmosphere ## 142:40:46
Apollo 13 splashdown ## 142:54:41