Who are you, and why should we trust you?

• I have been trained as an engineer and have worked as an engineer in the aerospace industry. I studied mechanical engineering and computer science at Kansas State University, and engineering design and computer science at the University of Utah. At the latter institution I did graduate work using their advanced manufacturing laboratory and for the associated corporate spin-off Engineering Geometry Systems. This company provided design and testing support to major aerospace contractors as well as the United States Department of Defense.
• I have studied the history and technology of the Apollo program in depth due to both personal interest and professional necessity. Many of my professional mentors were engineers on the Apollo project and have offered personal insights to me on many of these questions, and have arranged access to materials and machinery not otherwise easily available.
• I have met and spoken with astronauts from the Apollo project and from the space shuttle on some of these points.
• I am an experienced photographer and have worked professionally in that area from time to time.
• I have worked as both a hobbyist and a professional in the motion picture and stage theater industries and I'm familiar with the techniques and equipment in that field.

I don't mean to sound boastful. There are certainly many more qualified than I to comment on most of what I present on this site. And with any luck, they'll tell me where I've gone wrong. But I believe it's important that those with the essential qualifications exercise their talents in pursuit of the truth.

Having thus given my qualifications, I'm going to therefore proceed to ignore them and state that my site should speak for itself. My arguments are strong not because I'm qualified, but because they make sense independent of who proposes them. I leave it to the reader to determine what has the ring of truth.

You work in aerospace. Doesn't that mean you could be part of the conspiracy?

Yes, it's possible but not very rational. The conspiracists wish to divide their opponents into two groups, those who know very little about the moon landings and therefore don't have the knowledge required to see through the holes in the conspiracy theory, and those who know quite a bit about the moon landings and therefore (say the conspiracists) are probably part of the conspiracy. To stack the deck so that all the possibilities point to the conspiracy is to avoid seriously examining the question. Evidence which seriously challenges the conspiracy must be dealt with, regardless of who proposes it.

As a practical matter, I have never worked for NASA. I get paid regardless of whether NASA landed on the moon or not, or whether anyone believes they did or not.

There are ads on your site. Are you trying to make money by doing this?

No. The ad is a requirement of the free service I am using to get this site up as fast as possible. When I move the site to its permanent home, the ads will disappear. Any proceeds from those ads go to my provider, not to me.

I want to talk to you privately. How should I reach you?

Email to claviusmoon@angelfire.com.