On July 16, 1969, the
Apollo 11 successfully landed on the moon. It carried Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Aldrin. The primary objective of
Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on
May 25, 1961, which was to perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth. The United States' Apollo 11 was the
first manned mission to land on the Moon.
Though the whole event
was documented, many skeptics believe that the NASA Moon Landing was all a hoax
from start to end, and that it was staged by NASA with the aid of other
organizations. This is due to claims
that state that the technology to send men to the Moon was lacking or that the,
solar flares, solar wind, coronal mass ejections and cosmic rays made such a
trip impossible.
According to James
Longuski (Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering at Purdue
University), the conspiracy theories are impossible because of their size and complexity.
The conspiracy would have to involve more than 400,000 people who worked on the
Apollo project. Hundreds of thousands of people, including astronauts,
scientists, engineers and many more, would have had to keep the secret. Longuski
argues that it would have been much easier to really land on the Moon than to
generate such a huge conspiracy to fake the landings.
Vince Calder and Andrew
Johnson (Scientists from Argonne National Laboratory), also gave detailed
answers to the conspiracists' claims about the moon landing program. They show
that NASA's portrayal of the moon landing is fundamentally accurate, using the
scientific process, they say that any hypothesis that is contradicted by the observable facts
may be rejected.
These conspiracists
have managed to sustain public interest in their theories for more than 40
years, despite the rebuttals and third-party evidence, and will continue to do so.
Works cites: Figure 1, http://www.space.com/images/i/000/040/749/original/buzz-aldrin-moon-apollo-11.jpg
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