Moon Conspiracy

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Fewer than a hundred years ago, the moon was still untouched by man and was one of the greatest mysteries to mankind. In 1961, John F. Kennedy established his ambitious goal to put an American man on the moon by the end of the decade. During the newfound Space Age, the United States and the Soviet Union were committed to a demanding competition to see who made it to the moon first; this was later proclaimed the “space race”. To America’s excitement, on July 20, 1969, American Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the moon. Although, recent polls in the Engineering & Technology British magazine, approximately 25% say they don’t believe anyone has ever landed on the moon. Within the documentary The Truth Behind The Moon Landings, theorists claim the whole landing to have been staged with props because of the lack of technology, the multiple light sources, and lack of stars in all photo and video evidence. Many people are skeptical about the Apollo 11 landing on the moon because, in the 1960s, NASA did not have advanced enough equipment and technology. Ralph René, a self-taught engineer and author claims, “there’s absolutely no way they went to the moon with what they had, in fact, there’s no way they can go today, there’s no way they can go tomorrow. You don’t send man where you haven't sent the monkey.” …show more content…
In discussions of light sources on the moon, one controversial issue has been how the shadows in the photos and videos of the landings converge and diverge. On one hand, the conspiracy theorists argue that because there is only one light source, the sun, there should be parallel shadows. This inaccuracy promotes the theory of the moon landing being staged in a film set with multiple sources of lights. On the other hand, NASA argues these unparalleled shadows in the photos represent uneven grounds that amount to the whole the lunar

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