Persuasive Essay: The Moon Landing Conspiracy

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The Moon Landing Conspiracy

On July 20, 1969, the United States supposedly landed on the moon. Millions of people believe this, but millions don’t. Millions of people believe that the Apollo 11 mission successfully landed on the moon, and that Neil Armstrong was the first human to step on the moon, followed by Buzz Aldrin. Millions of people believe that this is a hoax, to win the “space race” of the 1960’s.

Me personally, I believe it was a hoax, to prevent embarrassment. in 1961, JFK said that we would have had humans on the moon before the end of the 60’s. I believe we would have faked going to the moon to prevent embarrassment.

Surveyor 3, another unmanned mission, was sent to observe the moon. it was broken down on the moon, and
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his partner, Buzz Aldrin was still in the capsule when Neil got out. There are supposedly “real” pictures of Neil getting out of the capsule, from the outside. who could have possibly taken those pictures? There was no moon rover with a camera attached with them, and there was no one outside.

There was many pictures that were taken, of both Aldrin and Armstrong, but in the pictures of both of them, first of all, who took them, and second of all, why are there no stars visible? Photoshop?

The moon’s surface is dusty. there is landing rockets on the bottom of the capsule. to land, the rockets activate and if the rockets activated properly, they should have caused a crater, but they didn’t. Why not?

If the astronauts were trained in a fake moon environment, (which they were), they could have taken picture on a fake moon environment. The rocket could have been real, and went to space, but the astronauts could have slipped out a trap door, sent the rocket to space, and filmed in a studio, elsewhere. I believe that there is more genuine evidence that the moon landings were a hoax by the Americans, to win the space race and not to be embarrassed. Is it really worth the struggle to hide all of this up, just to win a silly “space race” with the

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