The moon landing was an essential part of the Space Race. We had finally got ahead of Russia and had claimed first in the race. Many Americans in 1969 were watching the moon landing. How could the U.S. fake a moon landing? It was televised and astronauts brought back moon rocks and photos they had taken many pictures. Still, some people believe the moon landing is fake.
One argument is that there are no stars in the pictures the Apollo 11 crew took. In the pictures, you wouldn’t have the effect of the light pollution and foggy atmosphere from Earth, so many people believed there should be plenty of stars. However, this argument relies heavily on the photos taken during the lunar phase. This would mean that sunlight illuminating the moon would overpower starlight.
The most convincing theory according to people is that if the moon landing was real, then the astronauts would have been fried by radiation. There are two belts surrounding Earth made up of highly energetic charged particles from solar wind. These are called the Van Allen belts. Some people believe that humans cannot withstand being exposed to such high levels of radiation. The belts were a big worry for the Apollo mission. Scientists had to work very hard to make adequate protection for the astronauts. Many people believe that no one could survive going through the Van Allen belts, hence, this theory.
In my opinion, the moon landing was 100% real. I don’t think that it is possible to fake such a huge thing. There are 8,400 public photos and many thousands of hours of footage from the mission. There are also full transcripts and audio recordings of air-to-ground conversations. Not to mention the 382 kilograms of moon rock that was brought back by the Apollo astronauts. The rocks have been tested and verified independently as lunar by labs from all over the world.
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- Do you think that the moon landing was fake? Explain your answer
- What conspiracy theory do you think is most credible?
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I think the moon landing is real because there is a lot of evidence that shows it is real. I don't think they would lie about it when they got all of the evidence. I think the conspiracy theory that is most credible is probably the star one. Even though the moon is so big and bright a star is very bright to so they could of easily lied about it.
I agree with you. I don't think that the people working at NASA would openly lie about such a big event.
Do you think the moon landing was fake? No, I believe that the moon landing was real. This is because we have evidence that can't be explained, such as the moon rocks that NASA brought back, also they had trackers on the rockets. Proving that they not only went to the moon, but also walked on the moon.
The moon landing isn't fake. If it was fake, why would they spend millinons on a space craft to send a man to the moon just for it to be fake? That simply douesn't sould plausible. If it were to be fake, why would they fake it when the launch was on national tv?
I agree with you. It seems kind of sketchy that the would go through all this work to fake it and launch it on live television, where many people could point out mistakes
1.) I think the moon may have been fake because there is no wind on the moon to make the flag flap, and the shadows cast from the rocks were pointing in different directions, insinuating that they may have been on a set and that there were lights all around the set, casting the shadows in different directions.
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No I think that it wasn't fake I think that it would have been to complex to fake at the time and they would have also had to fake millions of dollars in comsutuction has well as thousand of hours in paper worl. I dont think of them the conspiracy theorys are crediable
I think the the moon landing was real because of all the news on it and how they had footage from the astronaugts bodysuits. they also took a photo on the moon which would be hard to photoshop at that time. I din't know how people think it is fake because of how much footbage a proof on it.
I think that the moon landing could have been easily faked becuase of how bad the TV's were back then and if the government wanted to fake it they easily could have. I think that the moon rock that was recovered was a mission by a rover without any people on it.
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