THE MOON LANDING WAS FAKED CONSPIRACY

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It’s been over four decades since Neil Armstrong took the “giant leap for mankind”, if he indeed did leave Earth. Conspiracists say that the US government were desperate to beat the Russians in the monumental ‘space race’ and so faked the Moon landings, without Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin acting out the mission on a secret film set, whose  location varies from high in the Hollywood hills, or deep within area 51, depending on which theory you believe in. With the videos and pictures only available through NASA, there’s no proof that they were anything but a fake.

 

The conspiracists claim that some, or all elements of the Apollo program and the Moon landings were not real, but were hoaxes, staged by NASA. These claims have been made since the mid 1970s.  They base their claims on the notion that NASA and other organisations knowingly misled the public into believing the Moon landings were real, via the tampering, destroying, and manufacturing of evidence. Evidence includes Moon rocks, transmissions, tapes and key witnesses.

 

So, who actually believes in this theory? Well these conspiracists have actually managed to sustain the public’s interest in the theory for more than 40 years, despite the magnitude of third-party evidence. Polls taken in various locations in the US show that between 6% and 20% of the US population believe that the Moon landings were faked, along with 28% of the Russian population. Even as late as 2001, major television network Fox broadcasted a documentary called Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? Claiming NASA faked the first Moon landing in order to win the ‘space race’ with Russia.

 

James Oberg of ABC News said that the conspiracy is taught widely in Cuban schools, and wherever the Cuban teachers are sent. A poll conducted in the late 1970s by the United States Information Agency in several countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa showed that most people were unaware of the Moon landing and that the majority of people dismissed them as propaganda and science fiction. Some even believed that the Russians were the ones to land on the Moon.

 

In a 1994 poll by The Washington Post, 9% of the people asked said that it was possible that the astronauts did not go to the Moon and a further 5% said that they weren’t sure if they did. A 1999 Gallup Poll found that 6% of the American’s asked doubted that the Moon landings happened and that 5% of those surveyed had no opinion on the matter, which roughly correlates to a similar poll held in 1995 by Time/CNN. Officials of Fox network remarked that such scepticism came from their documentary about the theory, seen by roughly 15 million people, when the disbelief in the Moon landings rose to 20%.

 

Furthermore, in Russia, a 2000 poll conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation in Russia found that 28% of the population did not believe that the Americans had landed on the Moon. In the UK, a poll was held by Engineering and Technology magazine and found that 25% of those reviewed did not believe that the Americans had landed on the Moon.

 

So what provokes conspiracists to believe the Moon landing was faked? There are three main theories;

 

The space race. The United States government deemed it vital that they win the race to land on the Moon over the Soviet Union, despite going to the Moon being risky and expensive, but President John F Kennedy famously stated that the US decided to go because it was hard. The race to the Moon was initiated due to the Cold War. Philip Plait says in Bad Astronomy that the Soviets – with their own competing Moon program, an extensive intelligence network and a formidable scientific community to analyse NASA data – would have cried foul if the US decided to fake a Moon landing, especially since their own program failed. Proving that the landing was a fake would have been a huge win for the Soviets, but Bart Sibrel responded “the Soviets did not have the capability to track deep spacecraft until late in 1972, immediately after which, the last three Apollo missions were abruptly cancelled.”

 

Funding. It’s claimed that NASA faked the Moon landings in order to avoid worldwide humiliation and submission to the Russians, and to ensure that the funding continued. NASA raised roughly $30 billion in order to go to the Moon, and Bill Kaysing thinks that this money could be used in order to pay off certain people. Kennedy promised that the US would have men on the Moon before the decade was out, and many people believe that it was faked to remove any humiliation if the decade ran out. Many people also believe that NASA would not of stood for the humiliation they would receive if the astronauts were to fail, all whilst being broadcasted on national television.

 

The Vietnam War. Many people claim that NASA faked the landings in order to help the government distract the population form the Vietnam War; coincidentally the manned landings ended at the same time the US ended its role in the Vietnam War.

 

The responses of those who believe it happened are equally if not more than convincing. Vince Calder and Andrew Johnson, scientists from Argonne National Laboratory, use the Laboratory website in order to give detailed responses to conspiracists’ theories. They prove that NASA’s portrayal of the Moon landings is accurate, allowing for mislabelled photos and incorrect personal recollections. There is no unity within the theory of the faked Moon landing as it varies from person to person.

 

James Longuski, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering at Purdue University, the conspiracy theories are impossible due to the size and complexity of the mission. It would have to involve over 40,000 people who worked on the project for nearly 10 years, the 12 men who walked on the Moon, the 6 others who flew with them to the Moon, and the 6 men who orbited the Moon. Thousands of professional people, whose lives revolve around the work of progression and science, would have to agree to lie to the world, and possibly hinder the research and progression of man on the Moon.

 

Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has been accused of having produced the fake Moon landings, presumably due to his director’s role in 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s rumoured that when the film was in post-production in 1968, 1 year before the Moon landing, Kubrick was approached by NASA and asked to fake the Moon Landing.

 

MY OWN CONCLUSIONS AS TO WHY THE MOON LANDING WAS FAKED

 

1)    There were three men on the spaceship. There was a predicted chance of 1/3 of them dying. NO ONE DIED.

2)    The moon is a jillion miles away and jillion is not a real measurement, therefore it is impossible to travel there.

3)    If men HAD landed on the moon, it would no doubt anger the space Nazi-zombies, who we all knew fled from the scene at the end of WWII and re-located to the moon. If the men HAD landed on the moon, there would be mass nuclear war between us and the Nazi-zombies.

4)    So this ‘moon’ that supposedly orbits the sun or whatever, clearly does not exist because the Earth is hollow, and life is an illusion and we do not exist.

5)    NOBODY POOPED. 8 days of travelling and not one of those didgeridoo astronoobs pooped. I personally think it’s an unfair role model to mankind.

6)    In the film La voyage dans la Lune the Moon has a big smiley face and would actually of just gobbled up Neil Armstrong before he could make his “giant leap for mankind”

7)    When you do not want to speak to someone on the phone you make it sound like there is a lot of static on the line to avoid them. This is what the moon landing was like. It’s all a set up.

8)    Buzz is an onomatopoeia, not a name.

9)    There were 3 (pretty hunky) men all cooped up in the same space for 8 days and there was no rumpy pumpy? Take a trip to a British all-boys boarding school and tell me that the moon landing was faked.

10)I am much cleverer than you all and you should follow my example in disbelieving and if you don’t you’re a square

 

 

 

ROSALIA GRACE

16-08-13

 

 

 

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