Was the moon landing real or fake? On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 supposedly blasted off and landed two men on the moon. Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins were the astronauts on Apollo 11. The first theory was that the moon landing was real. According to expert, Tom Kemnitz, Armstrong reported that they landed on the moon from the rocket ship sent into space. Armstrong says, “Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed” from the moon to NASA this supports that the moon landing was real because an astronaut on the mission reported that they landed. This would not have happened if it was faked. There is physical and visual proof that the moon landing happened. Kemnitz says, “Man had been on the moon, photographed himself
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The moon landing took place during the Cold war and a tense point in the nuclear arms race, an era in which the two world superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, which is now Russia, competed for technological superiority. What better way to prove superiority than to land a person on the Moon, a place no man on earth had gone before. Some believe that because sending astronauts into outer space and onto the moon would be incredibly expensive, the U.S. didn’t have enough money to complete the project. According to the conspiracy theorists, faking the moon landings would be much cheaper if it were convincing enough, it could still send a message to Russia that the United States had the better technology. In my opinion I believe the moon landing was faked. I believe this because there is a ton of information supporting that it was faked. There is no evidence on the moon that shows the astronauts ever landed there. There is no blast carter from the rocket. Also, all the evidence brought back to earth has flaws. The shadows show more than one light source, and the backgrounds in the picture are the same indicating a backdrop and more. If the moon landing was real the evidence would not have all these flaws indicating that it never
The moon landing took place during the Cold war and a tense point in the nuclear arms race, an era in which the two world superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, which is now Russia, competed for technological superiority. What better way to prove superiority than to land a person on the Moon, a place no man on earth had gone before. Some believe that because sending astronauts into outer space and onto the moon would be incredibly expensive, the U.S. didn’t have enough money to complete the project. According to the conspiracy theorists, faking the moon landings would be much cheaper if it were convincing enough, it could still send a message to Russia that the United States had the better technology. In my opinion I believe the moon landing was faked. I believe this because there is a ton of information supporting that it was faked. There is no evidence on the moon that shows the astronauts ever landed there. There is no blast carter from the rocket. Also, all the evidence brought back to earth has flaws. The shadows show more than one light source, and the backgrounds in the picture are the same indicating a backdrop and more. If the moon landing was real the evidence would not have all these flaws indicating that it never