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Thursday, September 28, 2006

1969 Moon Landing



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1969 Moon Landing Hoax

I learnt from my history lessons that 3 men went and landed on the moon.I saw the film footage and the photos.My school teachers at that time praised these brave men for their heroism.As time went by, their were more and more opinion that this fact of these 3 men landed on the moon, is not true.

Did these 3 astronauts land on the moon? "One small step for men, one giant leap for mankind." That was what Armstrong said when he stepped on the surface of the 'moon'.So the story went that on 16 July 1969, Apollo 11 went and landed on the moon.Most of Americans people think so.

However, there are opinions that say no one ever landed on the moon and what the world saw back then in 1969 was a hoax by NASA.

These opinions were highlighted in FOX's documentary "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?" In his book 'A Man on the Moon', Andrew Chaikin mentions that, at the time of Apollo 8's lunar-orbit mission, in December 1968, such conspiratorial stories were already in circulation.

Why was it believe to be a hoax?

1. The Rocket technology at the time was not good enough to reach the moon.According to Bill Kaysing of Rocketdyne, the company that designed the Apollo rockets, it was technically impossible to do it.

2. Official News Footage
- there were no stars in the clear 'moon' sky
- the American flag were waving on the 'moon' surface that has no air or wind.
- there was no blast crater under the landing module.

3. No noise from the rocket engines of EAGLE (the landing module) when it landed on the 'moon'.The voice of the astronaut (Buzz Aldrin) was clear.

4. The landing module crashed during testing on earth but landed flawlessly on the 'moon'.Armstrong was almost killed in the test flight.

5. NASA had USD40 Million budget to ensure the lunar landings were told to the world.

6. The video images were black & white, grainy & blurr. The film technology at that time were already in colour.When the videos were fast forward 2x, the astronauts that look floated when they walk on the 'moon' surface were actually walking or running.So, the offical video could have been slow-motioned to make it look like they moon-walked on the 'moon'.

7. The still photos were perfect when all astronaut's still-cameras were chest mounted.There is no way the astronaut could take such perfect pictures.The shadows of the still photos is non sensical in a photography sense.Backlit pictures were clear.The background of the photos are the same in all photos.Maybe they use the same stage bakdrop.Too many anomalies.

8. One astronaut, Gus Grissom was killed on 27 Jan 1967 in a capsule that failed at launch. The Capsule burst in flames and killed Gus & 2 other guys.He was an NASA critic.His family thinks that Gus was killed because he knew too much of NASA's incapabilities to fly men to the moon.

9.Tom Baron, a safety officer that investigated Gus's fire,told US Congress Investigation that NASA program was in disarray.He was killed in an accident.His report mysteriously disappeared.

10. More than 10 astronauts were killed between 1964-67.Maybe they knew about the hoax in 1969 and were 'silenced' so that NASA could proceed with its plan.

11. Radiation in the Van Halen Belt around the earth, would have killed the astronauts that went to the moon.The lunar capsule has only a thin film of aluminium to protect it.The sun-storm would have killed the astronauts too.

12. Missing data
Blueprints and design and development drawings of the machines involved, telemetry tapes, the original high quality video of the Apollo 11 moonwalk, original tapes containing telemetry and video from the other five missions and other key documents that would help to validate the missions are missing.

13. Technological capability of USA compared to the USSR
At the time of Apollo, the Soviet Union had five times more manned hours in space than the US.

Political climate
Bear in mind that the North America's political climate at that time was tense with the Russians.On Oct 4 1957, USSR sent Sputnik Satelite to space and North American government feared that there were nuclear bombs that could killed its people with it.

Where was the footage made?
Maybe Area 51.It is a secret area in the Nevada desert.The landscape in Area 51 is very similar to the photos or videos taken for thre 'moon' landing.This reason alone is enough on why Area 51 is still guarded tightly until today.

No one doubts that on Amstrong, Collin & Aldrian launched into space with Saturn 5 and orbited the earth 8 days. But they never landed on the moon.It is a half truth so we cannot say they lied.

The 1978 movie "Capricorn One" was made based on this theory.In the movie, a government entity, fools the world by faking a mission to Mars.Paul Lazarus, the producer of the movie suggests that the plot of the movie could be more fact than fiction about NASA's decision to fake the landing on the moon.

So, do you still believe now that any man has ever landed on the moon?
More detail in here. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_moon_landing_hoax_accusations.)

2 Comments:

  • At October 19, 2006, Blogger Blueheeler - the hound who sniffs out fishy news said…

    i've seen a 'real' moon-rock on display in a museum before. but i've got to say that the reasons given to prove that the photos are fake are really quite good...

    But does it really matter we have landed on the moon or not???

     
  • At October 19, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I guess it only matters to the USA.The rest of the world could not care less.

     

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