The Truth About the Moon Landings
Directed by Tim Dodd (2025)
Film Review
This is an extremely well researched documentary addressing the widespread conspiracy theory that NASA faked the Apollo moon landings. It begins with a detailed index allowing viewers to focus on specific concerns about the official story. The film is partially based on 11,000 hours of NASA footage of the six Apollo missions, as well as considerable independent research and demonstrations. The final mission (Apollo 17) spent three days on the moon.
For me the main weakness in the official account concerned the intense radiation astronauts would have experienced traversing the Van Allen radiation belt. My concerns mainly stemmed from a bizarre (erroneous according to the film) on the NASA website in 2014 that humans had never traversed the Van Allen radiation belt.
Dodd begins by explaining that the Van Allen belt consists of alpha participles, beta particles and protons emitted by the sun and trapped by the Earth’s magnetic field. Beta particles are high speed electrons that easily penetrate the skin but are too small to cause significant damage. The best shield against them is hydrogen containing substances, such as water or plastic. The best shield against high speed proton particles is plastic or aluminum
The Apollo astronauts were protected against exposure to high speed beta particles and protons by lightweight layers of aluminum and stainless steel and by following a flight path originating near the equator, where the Van Allen belt is thinnest. According to the Biomedical Results of Apollo, even when one mission flew through the densest area of the belt, the exposure, only lasting a few minutes, was far below an acute dose.
Altogether astronauts spent at most a half hour per moon shot in the belt, amounting to one year’s worth of average radiation exposure on Earth.
Another topic I checked out were why the flag planted by Apollo 11 astronauts appears to flap in the wind. Dodd explains, with NASA diagrama, that the astronaut’s flag was supported by a horizontal cross bar to keep it extended. What appears to be flapping are actually waves rippling through the fabric due to lack of air resistance in the moon’s atmosphere. If you watch the films long enough, the flags always come to rest.
I also looked at Dodd’s explanation concerning the absence of flames when the lunar module lifts off the surface of the moon and the identity of the videographer (since all the astronauts were in the module. Dodd explains that during the last three missions, a camera was left on the moon rover (which remained on the moon) to record the module’ lift off. Mission Control operated the camera from Earth.
The explanation for the absence of flames is that rocket exhaust only birmsorange in the presence of oxygen.
According to Dodd, no human being has left low earth orbit since 1972, for the same reason Hovercraft and supersonic Concorde and dirigible passenger operations have ceased: for budgetary and safety reasons .
NASA experienced peak funding (47% of federal budget) in 1966. At present, NASA receive 1% of US government funding.
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