Moon Landing

It’s the 1960’s and America was at war. Thousands of Americans were dieing in a conflict that most people didn’t even understand. Russia was dominating the space race five-one. It seemed America was now at the bottom of the world power spectrum. America needed something to be proud of so in 1969 we decided to land on the moon. It put hope in people’s lives and smiles on children’s faces. Although the moon landing was a landmark event for America, decades later many skeptics believe it never happened.

The first evidence used by the skeptics is the picture of the American flag “waving in the breeze” on the moons surface. There is no air on the moon’s surface, nor is there any atmosphere to hold it if there was (Sibrel 4). So how does the flag flutter? It has to be fake.

Secondly, about 20 miles from the Earth, there is a radiation belt named the Van Allen belt. Supposedly no human can get through this belt. If you tried than you would get hit with a dangerous, even lethal amount of radiation (Overstreet). The Space crafts had to go through these belts and there was no way the ships could afford to take all the weight of lead shielding with them (Moo

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On the moon, there is only one light source, the sun (Sibrel 2). The shadows that seemed to be cast from a different light source were in fact just that. Think about how bright the moon is on a full moon from the surface of the Earth. It was waving because of the astronauts waving it back and forth to get it in the ground (Philip). The astronauts not only came back from the moon, they also brought back over 840 pounds of Moon rock with them to Earth (Stenger 9).

The van Allen belts are regions above the Earth's surface where the Earth's magnetic field has trapped particles of the solar wind.

It is crazy to think that someone can believe that we did not land on the moon, but having an opinion is what made America great. The spaceships used in the moon landing traveled through the belts pretty quickly, getting past them in an hour or so (Jim). So how could there be shadows at different angles? There are also no stars in the sky. Through blazing hot and freezing cold temperatures, through layers of radiation, and against the odds, the astronauts who landed on the moon were just doing what Americans do. It is very difficult to get a photograph of a very dim object, the stars, and a very bright object, the astronauts, at the same time (Philip). There would be no wind on the moon, so any normal flag would just hang limply and unattractively down the pole (The Great Moon Hoax).

The flag used on the moon had a horizontal bar attached to it at the top. An unprotected man would indeed get a lethal dose of radiation, if he stayed there long enough (Moon Hoax?). In fact, you will never see any stars in any photographs taken on the Moon (Overstreet).

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