The moon landing hoax stuff always seemed crazy to me... until I started digging into the thermal tiles

I used to laugh at anyone who brought up the moon landing being fake, like seriously roll my eyes. But then a buddy of mine who works at a machine shop in Houston sent me a close-up photo of a tile from the Saturn V that was supposed to go to the moon. The serial numbers on it didn't match the official records from NASA... like at all. I spent about 4 hours cross-referencing documents online and found at least 6 tiles with conflicting heat shield data. Now I'm not saying we didn't land there, but something about those numbers is just off. Has anyone else run into weird documentation that made you second guess the official story?

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jordancoleman17d ago

Hang on a second, man. Serial numbers can get mixed up in any big factory where they're stamping parts all day long, especially 50 years ago. You found six tiles that don't match some online document you pulled up that could have been typed by anyone, right? The real question is whether the heat shield data was actually wrong, or if the paperwork just got scanned wrong or had a typo. I'm not saying don't look into it, but one buddy's photo and a few hours of Googling seems like a thin reason to second guess the whole program. People get real excited when they find a single piece that doesn't line up, but they ignore the thousands of other parts that fit perfectly.

taylor_flores17d ago

Love seeing someone take the same skeptical approach I would working on old engines-half the time the manual's wrong anyway.