We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle (Paperback)

by Bill Kaysing (Author), Randy Reid (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 87 pages
• Publisher: Health Research (June 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787304875
• ISBN-13: 978-0787304874
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #16,849 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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18 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for what it is., September 18, 2001

By	D. Keen "awen seeker" (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you want to see what the conspiracy theorists have to say about the moon landing, here's a great place to start. I'd venture to say this is the definitive work in the field.

That being said, let me say that this is less science and more science fiction. It should be noted that Kaysing was a WRITER, not a scientist. All of his information is second-hand, and little of it from any authoritative source.

If you want a detailed explanation of why the "hoax" idea is hogwash, check out

where the February 2001 FOX broadcast is disected point-by-point.

If you want a more common-sense explanation: Thousands upon thousands of people were involved in the Apollo project, including the heads of hundreds of companies that financed the research. To think that ANY organization could keep that tight of a lid on anything this big is preposterous. I believe it was Twain that said, "Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead."

38 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I would give it 0 stars if I could, March 26, 2003

By A Customer

This, simply speaking, is the most utterly ridiculous book ever written. I mourn the loss of the time I spent reading this.... thing. I will not even call this rambling snarl of images and text a book. That this man could shame the Apollo astronauts who went to the moon, the astronauts who gave their lives in the quest to get there, and the hundreds of thousands of Americans involved in sending us to the moon, is appalling.

To speak about the pseudo-scientific "evidence" that he presents is a waste of time. However, if this person's ideas have intrigued you, I will briefly refute three of the most popular ideas:

1) The flag is waving. We faked the Apollo program and shot it on a stage in Nevada.
The flag was stiffened with wire on the back to give it the apperance of waving, since there is no air on the Moon. Plans to do this can even be found in books written before we went to the Moon! Movies where the flag is actually waving only appear where the Apollo astronauts were struggling to stick the flag in the soil, and as a result, the thin wires vibrated.

2) There is no blast crater underneath the lunar module. We faked the Apollo program and shot it on a stage in Nevada.
There is no blast crater underneath the lunar module because, as can be found in countless books and websites, the lunar module's engine was shut down about five feet above the lunar surface. A long probe extended from the end of each footpad. When they touched the ground, the engine was shut down to prevent thrust from bouncing back from the surface and damaging the LM.

3) There are no stars in the pictures from the moon. We faked the Apollo program and shot it on a stage in Nevada.'
Have you ever tried to take a picture of a bright object and a dim one at the same time? The lunar cameras were designed to take pictures of the well-lit surface. The bright lunar surface and Earth washed out the stars. If you don't believe this, try to find stars on a moonlit night with snow cover or try to take a picture of a flashlight and a car headlight at the same time.

My favorite part of this book is when he says that while the astronauts were not on the Moon but in Las Vegas, they were visiting bars and the like. There is a full-page spread of an exotic dancer. No astronauts, just a dancer. Boy, I'm really convinced now!

Please, don't, don't, DON'T get this book. There are better things to do with your life, like planting hyacinths, re-inventing the law of gravity, or painting pictures of your relatives.

19 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Faulty Premise(s), April 22, 2006

By	Curt Vandenheuvel (Jacksonville, FL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The gist of Kaysing's pamphlet (as near I can make out - the writing style is not exactly fluid) is that NASA was under enormous pressure to produce a successful moon-shot before the Soviets. What Kaysing didn't know (no doubt due to his complete and utter lack of research) is that the Soviet moon program was dead and buried long before 1969 - and pretty much everyone at NASA and the CIA already knew that.

The Saturn V rocket was powered by a 1st stage module which consisted of 5 J-2 engines. (If you've ever been to KSC, you'll know how big these engines are. You could, quite literally, park a car inside a J-2 engine.) The Soviets, in their haste, made a crucial design error in their moon-rocket - the N1 (technically, the N1-L3). They built the first stage with 30 NK-33 engines (yup - that's *thirty* engines). They then discovered what the Americans already knew - controlling the thrust of multiple engines was difficult, but without even thrust from all engines, the rocket would be unstable, and would never fly. NASA had enough trouble working out a control system for 5 engines - the Soviets never had a chance of controlling thirty engines simultaneously. The technology to do so simply did not exist. The N1 program suffered a series of catastrophic failures during the mid to late 60's.

About a month before the Apollo 11 launch, seismic detectors all over Europe picked up a massive detonation originating in Russia. CIA spy planes later imaged the Baikonur launch complex, only to discover that the complex was almost completely destroyed.

Decades later, the Soviets admitted what the CIA already knew - the N1 had exploded on the launch pad, with massive loss of life. The Baikonur plant had to be abandoned - along with the N1 program.

NASA had all the time in the world to get the Apollo program safely off the ground - there was no longer any pressure to take shortcuts. The moon race was over long before Apollo 11 lifted off from KSC, and took its crew safely to the Moon.