Did We Go to the Moon?
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When people talk about the happenings in the sixties and seventies, they always seem to talk about the idea of man walking on the moon. Unfortunately though with the truth comes the nay-sayers of society, the people who seem to think that no American actually ever set foot on the moons surface and that the entire thing was a hoax. You may ask why would the American government do such a thing as to trick their own people, well let me tell you a little story called the Cold War. When President Kennedy said that we were going to beat the Russians into space, he was making a promise he didnt know if he could keep. The Russians were the first people from Earth to put a man into space. So in a last ditch attempt to save face, I believe the American government decided to pull the greatest hoax of all time
In 1969 Neil Armstrong did what people thought would be impossible, he walked on the moons surface. When Mr. Armstrong completed this unbelievable act, he said the following words “Thats one small step for manOne giant leap for mankind.” With those words, Armstrong sent the world into the Space Age. No longer was man restricted to the boundaries of the Earth, we had the technology to go to the moon. The objectors question if we actually made it to the moon, or was the static heard in the video of Armstrong just a clever rouse used by the production crew of the most expensive movie ever. There are many theories on this subject, and the theories do not go without plausible proof. If there isnt any wind on the moons surface, then why in the videos of men on the moon, do we see a waving flag? NASA experts say that the flag is waving because of the fact that when planted, the flag had to be shaken into place, thus creating the illusion of a ripple. If when the lunar lander took off from the moons surface, didnt it use a whole lot of force to get back to the main spaceship? If it did use such a force, then would there not be a crater under the spot from which it took off? Most conspiracy theorists say that this is the smoking gun of the entire hoax, they theorize that because NASA cannot prove that the LM(Lunar Module) doesnt make a blast crater upon takeoff, that the entire Apollo program was a fake. Leading experts say that the LM didnt make a crater on the moon, but it does on earth. The fact of the matter is that on the moon the entire landscape is basically dust,