There is a fairly large group of individuals that believe the historical moment when astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong allegedly became the first men to set foot upon the moon is nothing more than a well presented hoax. The larger group says otherwise, however, there are certain aspects of that great moment in time that might make one wonder exactly where the truth lies.
First, it is a well-known fact that the United States was in an international race with opposing country, Russia, to be the first one on the moon. Those were the days when the cold war was in its’ apex, when being outdone or shown up by Russia would have done great moral damage to the United States. It was vital that the United States of America was to be the first one to land on the moon.
Next, there is the factor of the films. There were several “rehearsals” that came to the public light at one point, wherein Aldrin and Armstrong were rehearsing the moon landing. NASA and other governmental organizations were quick to step up and state that this was a rehearsal for the actual moon landing and not a rehearsal for a mock film of that landing. Nevertheless, the rehearsals showed some very realistic footage that was extremely similar in nature to the “real” landing itself.
Another notable reason that the lunar landing could have been a hoax is the fact that there were many private donations that funded the lunar landing. For the actual landing to have failed, it would have led to very many possible future funding being instantly cut off. This would have been nothing less than a great financial disaster for the NASA Corporation as well as certain notable government entities losing funding. In short, the cost for it to have failed would have inevitably been more than the cost for it to have succeeded.
There are many actual theories on what really happened in the chance that there was no actual lunar landing. One was that the lunar landing was attempted, but was never actually achieved. There are some who believe that the ship only made it halfway and that NASA had a fake landing filmed at the time just in case the goal was never reached. Another was that the technology that was planned never quite made it to a successful level in time, and that NASA was forced to do a fake landing and later did the real one. Yet another was that the original moon landings were unmanned, with mere devices to scan the surface. Lastly, another one, not very viable, was that the landing was a success and that what was really found that day was kept top secret and a second landing was faked in a studio.
As with many conspiracy theories, the truth is likely to never be revealed. Nonetheless, we can still look at the odds and know that there is more to the first lunar landing than has been revealed.
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“Nonetheless, we can still look at the odds and know that there is more to the first lunar landing than has been revealed.” - Or alternatively, we can look a bit deeper, and find that our reliance on the objectivity and authority of the hoax claimants is misplaced, and that every single hoax claim can be easily dispelled. The hoax myth perpetuates itself through the agency of known liars who are only in it for the money, people who rely on the fact that most people will not bother to dig deeper to uncover the truth behind their glib, self-serving lies. To address your points:
1) Yes, they were in a race. In what way does this conclusively prove that the landing was hoaxed? Are the results of any given race hoaxed, or just this one? This provides absolutely nothing in the way of substantive proof, it simply states a supposed motivation. One that can be dismissed if the actual evidence is examined.
2) It would be highly suspicious if no training exercises were carried out for a project of this magnitude and complexity. A handwaving assertion that the simulations were “extremely similar” to the real thing is simply untrue - exercises done in desert conditions have blue skies, red or brown earth, and shrubs, for example. There are factors in the real footage that simply cannot be faked here on Earth, such as the way that dust kicked up by the astronauts falls straight back to the ground with no dust cloud eddies lingering in the air, due to the lunar vacuum. Big budget Hollywood productions such as Apollo 13 or From The Earth To The Moon couldn’t get this right in recent times, there was literally no chance of doing it 40 years ago.
3) This is simply flat out wrong. There were no “private donations” to the lunar program, it was fully federally funded through NASA. Again, the claim that the mission weere faked due to a supposed threat of loss of funding does absolutely nothing to prove that a hoax took place, it is simply more supposition about hypothetical motivations. In reality, the funding was cut early - the missions were terminated after Apollo17, in spite of the fact that hardware had already been partially built for missions through to Apollo 20. Once the public and Congress lost interest in further missions the money dried up. That doens’t mean that the early mission never happened.
4) Yet more supposition about what “might really” have happened, with absolutely no evidence to bak any of them up - even though some of them can be eliminated out of hand, such as that they made it “half way”, as anybody with a college level grasp of the physics of orbital mechanics can tell you it simply doesn’t work that way - you can’t just turn around and come back at a time of your choosing, which is why Apollo 13 had to continue on after the explosion and slingshot around the Moon before they could return.
In short, this article is almost completely devoid of actual facts and testable claims and very, very long on handwaving. If anybody really wants to find out the truth about these events, try going to apollohoax.proboards21.com or badastronomy.com and talk to people who can back up their statements with references to actual facts you can then check for yourself.
I’m amazed that there are people that don’t believe we have been to the moon. Just silly.
Thanks for using this space geeks photo!