Moon Landing Conspiracy Essay

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On July 16, 1969 we sent a man to the moon. And on July 21, 1969 he landed. President
Kennedy had posted the challenge that before the decade was up, we would have put a man on
the moon. But did we really? Many believe we didn’t. For some people it is just too ridiculous of
a thought that we flew someone out of earth’s atmosphere and sent them to the moon. In 1974 a
writer named Bill Kaysing wrote a book called “We never went to the moon: America’s Thirty
Billion Dollar Swindle”. Kaysing self-published his book in 1976. In his book he stated that even
with the Soviet Union monitoring us, the chances of actually sending someone to the moon was
0.0017%. It would have been simpler for the U.S. to fake the landing rather than actually
attempt it. …show more content…

To add to this, conspiracy theorists point
out that there is no video recording of the take-off or landing. How can we be sure if happened if
there is so visual proof to look see.

A third theory as to why the moon landing never happened is that, in the U.S’s rush to
beat Russia, actors acted out the whole thing on some secret movie set. Either on Hollywood hill
or some where in area 51. But that’s a whole other conspiracy theory. So instead of using all the
money NASA was given to actually go to the moon, the government made one big movie
instead. Was it just a distraction? Some believe so. Many Americans didn’t agree with the war
that America always seems to be in. so some conspiracy theorists say that, to distract the public
and keep them happy, the government faked a moon landing to change the peoples focus.
However, the official story is obviously different. Neil A. Armstrong and Col. Edwin E.
Aldrin Jr. are the first men to have stepped foot on the moon. July 21, 1969 the two men radioed
back to Earth saying “ the eagle has landed!”. While on the moon the men had to take their time
adjusting to the new gravity, because the moon is 1/6 of the earth’s gravity. Once Armstrong …show more content…

After this Aldrin Jr. joined Armstrong and they set up a camera so that
all the people around the world could watch and see what it was like on the moon. On this same
day the president call the astronauts’ ship.
It was called the most famous phone call ever made. The president congratulated them on
their safe landing. They described the surface as thousands of craters. However what they really
wanted to see was the Sea of Tranquility. The Sea of Tranquility is not an actual sea. When
astronomers first looked at the darker areas looked like seas. However there is no water on the
surface of the moon, it is all beneath the surface. So on their next day on the moon the moved
their craft and the two astronauts walked on the sea of tranquility. The astronauts stayed one
more night before making their trip home. It was the most celebrated road trip of the century.

Even though conspiracy theorists make a good argument when they say that the moon
landings did not happened. The thought that the government and NASA would spend millions of
dollars to fake the landings is just too ridiculous. That with the technological advancements in
those days we were not able to accomplish something like that. Something conspiracy

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