Was the Apollo 11 moon landing fake?
Even fifty years after astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped on the Moon, there are people who still insist that it never happened and that it was a hoax perpetrated by the US government.
On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 Mission landed two men on the Moon. Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin piloted the lunar module, which detached from the spacecraft and landed on the Moon's surface. Their commander, Neil Armstrong, became the first man on the Moon. He passed away in 2012 at the age of 82.
However, conspiracy theories that claimed that the moon landing was feigned and that it was all a Hollywood-like cinematic drama shot on Earth have been doing the rounds for years.
There is a point in their views. But let's see that was it real or just fake?
There are many claims that the Apollo 11 missions have been faked. Let's see some of them:
In the photos from the Moon, the American flag looks like it's flapping in the wind. That would be impossible because there's no air up on the Moon.
Secondly, no stars can be seen in the background of any photographs as NASA knew that astronomers would be able to use them to figure out whether the photos were taken on the Earth or the Moon.
Also the lunar module didn't scatter any dust and didn't leave a crater from the rocket blast that slowed its descent when it descended onto the Moon's surface.
But there are proofs that why did this happen which supports the Apollo 11 mon landing. Here are they:
Instead of letting the American flag droop, the NASA had decided to use a right-angled rod to keep the flag spread out. According to the report, Armstrong and Aldrin bent the rod a bit by accident, which made it look like the flag was in motion. Further, the astronauts were worried the flagpole would fall down after they had twisted it into the ground, so they snapped the photos quickly, capturing the flag as it was still in motion.
Astronauts' cameras were too fast to capture the stars' faint light and so the photographs don't have stars in the background.
The module was traveling horizontally for some time, and so the thrusters weren't pointed down and wouldn't have kicked up dust. However, you can see dust actually being thrown up.
So, now it's apparent that all the hoaxes are fake.
The Apollo 11 lunar landing was one of the most significant cultural events of the 20th Century and it is estimated that 650 million people around the world viewed the first human footsteps to disturb the ancient dust on the moon.
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I thought it would be better not to delete or revamp these posts, even if they suck. The bitter truth is that old works always suck, but I take that as a positive tool to convey that I am growing. Besides there's no better way to showcase my journey without these old, messy, poorly written posts!
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