Essay On Apollo 11 Hoax

On the 20th of July 1969, millions of people across the world watched eagerly as the Apollo 11 landed successfully on the moon and Neil Armstrong officially became the first man ever to step onto the celestial body. It was a moment of great victory for the U.S. It was a moment which would be remembered in scientific history for a long time: but is it remembered for the right reasons? There are many people that believe that the landing of 1969 was a hoax. They believe that it was filmed in a studio somewhere within Area 51 and was just a desperate attempt to beat the Russians who were also planning to send a man to land on this heavenly body orbiting the earth. It was just a desperate attempt to win the space race.

The first piece of evidence which suggests the Apollo 11 landing …show more content…
On earth, we are clearly able to see the stars in the sky therefore surely in space they should be visible no matter where you are. Since there are no clouds on the moon the stars should always be visible and much brighter than they would be looking through the surface of the Earth’s atmosphere. Then why is it there are no stars visible in any of the videos and pictures taken from the moon? NASA says that the lack of stars in the pictures is because of the quality of the camera is not the best as the technology wasn’t quite so advanced back in the 60’s but even in the high quality cameras they had, the stars were still not visible. These same cameras were used on earth to take pictures of the stars and they were quite visible which made people question whether it was just an excuse they used to hide the truth that they didn’t actually land on the moon. All conspiracy theorists believe that NASA found that it would be quite impossible to mark out the locations of all the stars accurately so left them out intentionally because if they got it wrong people would be able to tell it was a