The Moon Landing, True or False?
The Moon Landing, True or False?
The issue of the veracity of the Moon landing by Neil Armstrong on 1969 is one of the best known conspiracy theories from XX century. And not only from the last century but it has still persisted nowadays. For example on 2001, Fox TV offered a documentary named Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?1 making NASA seem as an organization of liars.
The theory claims that some or all elements of the Apollo program were a fraud staged by NASA and members of other organizations that had great interest in EEUU winning the space race. This senseless theory started to spread out in the mid seventies and several proofs, if they can be named so, have been provided since then. This myth has been a public interest despite all the evidences of the landing and the detailed rebuttals to the hoax claims, some of which are going to be provided within this document in order to clear any doubt (if there was any) about the truthfulness of the landing. However, it becomes necessary to provide some data before refuting conspiracy theorists and their arguments: the trivial proofs given by them are pulled out from the videos that NASA showed to the viewers on TV, such as the EEUU flag swinging, or photographs from the same source like the picture of two astronauts and the Eagle lunar lander in Buzz Aldrin’s visor, something that is strange because only two were on the surface: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin itself. The whole of them that are going to be refuted are the most famous ones, which are the following: the flag swinging, the issue of the diving helmet, the absence of stars and the lack of crater under the lunar lander.
But firstly, it becomes necessary to provide some extra proofs against conspiracionists that they have not had into account but must be shown: the pendulum2 and the free falling bag.
There is a video in which a pendulum is moving back and forth and both astronauts are near to it. The length of the pendulum is 0.9 meters and the period of its movement is 4.8 seconds. Applying this formula to figure out gravity with that data: g = L / (P/2 pi)^2 it is obtained g = 1.62 m/s^2. Gravity on Earth is 9.81 m/s^23. Therefore, for the movement of the pendulum to happen as if they were on Earth (and as it should move if it were fake), the speed of the video had to be increased to 246%. If the video is speeded up this number, astronauts move too quickly and falsely.
Something similar happens to the bag. It falls during 4.6 seconds, getting the apex in the half time: 2.3 seconds and getting a height of 4.1 meters. Using gravity as in the pendulum issue, in order to make it free fall as if it were free falling on Earth, the video speed should increase to 246% and astronauts move the same unreal way.
These are two real proofs that can demonstrate the veracity of the video of NASA on July 1969. But four of the most popular myths about this