Tom Bishop:
Unfortunately, we do not have a reliable space agency to tell us what is in space.
Actually we do, Tom. Tell you what. If you or another FE believer will come visit my university (I’m in the Midwest), I’ll give you $100 (but only one of you, please) on the sole condition that you talk with at least one of the following friends and coworkers about FET and your views on NASA and allow me to witness the conversation (I’m withholding their names because I don’t want to put them at risk for harassment):
(1) An astronaut-scientist who flew on one of the Space Shuttle missions, and who was very active in the Apollo program before that. For example, he was the astronaut on the ground who developed the instructions for constructing lithium hydroxide canisters for the Apollo 13 mission (the near-disaster), used to scrub CO2 from the air in the spacecraft.
(2) My boss, who designed the first space-borne radar system used on Skylab and who chaired a committee tasked with redesigning systems that had been used in the Mars Polar Lander (which crashed on the planet) for use in the Phoenix Mars Lander, which landed in a Martian polar region in 2008 and completed its mission successfully. Among other projects, he is currently working on NISAR, a joint satellite research project of NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation, with a launch scheduled for December 2019.
(3) My other boss, the director of the lab where I work and a longtime friend. He is the current president of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, the international organization of scientists and engineers who are working in this field, so he is very familiar with what is going on in this area. Much of remote sensing involves satellites.
(4) Another scientist and a graduate student, both currently doing research and design in satellite remote sensing, and who would probably kick in another $100 just to talk to a real flat-earther.
(5) Any of the hundreds of other people within a block of my office who are working on space-related research and design.
Just send me an email if you’d like to take me up on the offer. I’d like to encourage flat-earth believers to get up out of the armchairs where they are spinning their conspiracy theories, go see some space-related research first-hand, and meet some of the people who are doing it, or who have been there and back, and I’d love to listen to the ensuing conversations.
As a lagniappe, here is what AnswersInGenesis.org, the most influential Young-Earth Creationist website, has to say about moon landing hoaxers:
Some people deny that the U.S. Apollo moon landings ever occurred. Instead, they consider the landings part of a grand conspiracy to deceive the Soviets during the space race of the 1960s. This bizarre claim quotes a few details out of context, while hiding mounds of contrary evidence. Its supporters are guilty of the confusion and deception that they ascribe to others.
https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/far-out-claims-about-astronomy/and
https://answersingenesis.org/astronomy/moon/did-we-really-land-moon/My hat's off to the FE conspiracy theorizers. You have to get up pretty early in the morning to out-nutter Answers in Genesis.