The Moon Landing and the Real Hoax

July 20, 2005

Today July 20th is the celebration of Apollo 11’s historic landing on the moon. Thirty six years ago, Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. took a walk on the lunar surface while Michael Collins, aboard the Command Module, continued to orbit around the moon and took photos of it and the Earth. Many people witnessed this event on TV. Upon setting foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong said “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. Armstrong and Aldrin left their footprints in the Sea of Tranquility.

Unfortunately, a few years ago we were alerted by a show aired in Channel 23 that this historic moon landing is really a hoax. This show, entitled Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?, featured those people who claimed that the landing on the moon was simply a setup in the studio and showed many pieces of evidence supporting their claim. For instance, they observed that the moon dust settled quicker on the moon than on earth, even though there is lesser gravity on the former than the later. And that no stars were found in the lunar atmosphere. And that cross hairs on the photos went behind the objects instead of in front. And that no one could have survived the radiation in the Van Allen belt surrounding the earth, although the astronauts somehow managed to survive.

Their arguments sounded so convincing to me that I almost believed them until I found some very scientific websites that explain why those things happen on the moon contrary to intuition and that the moon landing really happened. So it turned out that the whistleblowers were the real hoaxers.

Check out these sites:

Bad Astronomy on the Moon Hoax

Redzero’s Moon Hoax