On this, the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 "allegedly" landing on the moon, I was curious what everyone's thoughts were surrounding the subject.
I find it hard to believe that NASA or our government would do such a thing, but there are certain events that were taking place in 1969 that compel people to think otherwise.
-- Vietnam : Our country wanted and needed good news, or better yet, great news. Landing men on the moon detracted people's thoughts from the war to how cool it was that America was the first country to touch the surface of the moon.
-- The Cold War : America's space program was in a heated fight with Russia to be the first country to set foot on the moon. Yes, Russia had sent an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 1959, but no living person had ever touched the surface until the US did it in '69. While the Cold War wasn't exactly in full swing like it became a few years later, part of me believes that NASA and our government may have staged the landing simply to one up the cosmonots.
-- The JFK Proclamation : In 1961, John Kennedy declared that the US would "achieve the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." As we should all know, JFK was assassinated in 1963 and part of me wants to believe that our government staged the landing simply to support a dead president's declaration, ironically, just in the nick of time.
Thoughts ??
According to Wikipedia :
Apollo Moon Landing hoax conspiracy theories are claims that some or all elements of the Apollo Moon landings were faked by NASA and possibly members of other involved organizations. Some groups and individuals have advanced various theories which tend, to varying degrees, to include suggestions that the Apollo astronauts did not land on the Moon, that NASA and possibly others intentionally deceived the public into believing the landings did occur by manufacturing, destroying, or tampering with evidence, including photos, telemetry tapes, transmissions, and rock samples; and that the deception continues to this day.
There is abundant independent evidence for Apollo Moon landings and many commentators have published detailed rebuttals to the hoax claims.[1] A 1999 poll by The Gallup Organization found that 89% of the US public believed the landings were genuine, while 6% did not, and 5% were undecided.[2][3]
A new set of images published by NASA in July 2009, taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission show lunar landers (including that of Apollo 11) standing on the surface, science experiments and, in one case, astronaut footprints in a line between the Apollo 14 lander and a nearby science experiment. These images are the most effective hard evidence to date that the "landing hoax" theory is not grounded in fact
I find it hard to believe that NASA or our government would do such a thing, but there are certain events that were taking place in 1969 that compel people to think otherwise.
-- Vietnam : Our country wanted and needed good news, or better yet, great news. Landing men on the moon detracted people's thoughts from the war to how cool it was that America was the first country to touch the surface of the moon.
-- The Cold War : America's space program was in a heated fight with Russia to be the first country to set foot on the moon. Yes, Russia had sent an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 1959, but no living person had ever touched the surface until the US did it in '69. While the Cold War wasn't exactly in full swing like it became a few years later, part of me believes that NASA and our government may have staged the landing simply to one up the cosmonots.
-- The JFK Proclamation : In 1961, John Kennedy declared that the US would "achieve the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." As we should all know, JFK was assassinated in 1963 and part of me wants to believe that our government staged the landing simply to support a dead president's declaration, ironically, just in the nick of time.
Thoughts ??