For the past few days, the media seems to have been elated by the great leap humanity supposedly took forty years ago, on July 21, when man “walked on the moon for the first time.” This is more because India’s first lunar probe is facing a serious technical glitch that may jeopardize the entire mission and stop it prematurely. It was July 16, 1969; America would hold its breath.

The countdown had begun at the Kennedy Space Center. It wasn’t many seconds before Apollo 11 was blasted into space on a 250,000 mile journey to the moon over 8 long days. The astronauts saw the spectacular views of the flowery land in a weightless environment. They were supposedly going to a place where no man had gone before. Neil Armstrong was shown opening the hatch. He would slowly go down the small ladder and out onto the lunar surface. He uttered unforgettable words, ‘it is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’.

The world received the event as a way opener. Since people couldn’t believe their eyes, NASA received praise from people all over the world. The small step for man and the one giant leap for humanity were based on faith and confidence that the world rested on NASA and indeed the USA, the superpower. But it soon emerged that the future of the space program of NASA, the world’s leading space agency, became uncertain. Human spaceflight, in particular, became a contentious and divisive issue. After the triumph of sending man to the moon, the cancellation of the Apollo project 3 years later hinted that the past glory of humans landing on the moon would never be restored.

A large section of people, who from the beginning refused to accept the theory that the moon landing ever took place, had every reason to defend the conspiracy theory that the man-made moon landing was nothing more than a hoax. According to this theory, man did not land on the moon at all and, for some obvious reasons, in the future he will not be able to land on the moon. The conspiracy theory, which bases its arguments on examination of government surveillance, film, evidence as well as, for example, the suspicious deaths of 10 astronauts in the span of a few years. Given that the footage from Apollo 11 and other similar missions, shown during and after the trip, is claimed to be riddled with a number of inconsistencies, experts seem to find no reason not to dismiss the trip as a big hoax of all. the times. .

Brill Kaysing, an analyst associated with the company that designed the Apollo rockets, is one of the leading investigative journalists to have worked on the conspiracy theory. Based on his examination of the film and image evidence from the Apollo mission, he has several questions that require answers. For example, while he was looking at the images with his experience, the latter made him skeptical that what was shown was not real. To his surprise, the stars were conspicuously missing from the Apollo images despite the deep space in the black lunar sky.

Back in the 1950s, the Americans and the Russians were locked in a struggle for supremacy in the mission to land on the moon. The USSR terrorized the US by sending Sputnik, the first spacecraft, to the moon in 1957. Rocked by apprehensions about Russian plans to make the moon a possible missile base, the US mission is still it was in disarray and the chances of sending a man to the moon were remote. As Brill Kaysing would say, NASA worked on the “if you can’t make it fake” strategy. This is why; according to him the blowing up of Apollo was real but not the sending of the astronauts. They orbited the earth for eight days and in a typical scenario from a 1978 movie (Capricorn-I) they falsely landed and simulated the scenes with all available technology (Paul Lazarus, the film’s producer).

According to experts, the moon landing scenes were created and simulated at Area-51, the arid high desert of the US. The area is said to be heavily guarded and trespassers can be shot without warning . As the astronauts themselves recognize the similarity between the moon and desert terrains (the craters are similar, even the same, to those found on the moon), it is believed that the lunar assemblies used during the Apollo missions still exist on the planet. desert.

To the surprise of theory experts, the Lunar Excursion Model, the LEM that landed on the moon on July 20 should do so with a possible 10,000 pound thrust to create an explosion crater. No blast crater is seen in any of the 6 Apollo moon landings. In view of the dusty lunar surface, the dust expected to have fallen on the lander’s foot pads is simply absent. As the images show the footprints still present there, experts claim that the scene was simulated in the film set on earth. To top it off, the absence of exhaust flow during exit, they say, suggests the use of lunar module props in a typical movie set. Engine noise at the time of running the rocket is expected to be around a 140-150 decibel level. Experts (such as Ralph Rene) challenge how astronauts’ voices could be heard against the background in a noise level so huge.

The temperature on the moon is said to be around 250 degrees Celsius during exposure to the sun and minus 250 degrees Celsius on a dark day. Experts denounce NASA’s claim that given the composition of the spacesuits used by astronauts, the latter could not survive the hostile temperatures on the lunar surface.

Within the magnetosphere 500 miles above Earth, on the way to the moon, are the Van Allen radiation belts, named for the American physicist James A. Van Allen, who discovered them in 1958. The Van Allen belts are regions where charged particles from the Sun and cosmic rays are trapped and sent on spiral paths along Earth’s magnetic field lines. Radiation belts protect the Earth’s surface from these highly energetic particles. Occasionally, however, due to extremely strong magnetic fields on the Sun’s surface, which are visible as sunspots, a brief burst of highly energetic particles flows along with the solar wind.

Because Earth’s magnetic field lines converge and are closer to the surface at the poles, some of these energetic particles slip through and interact with Earth’s atmosphere, creating the phenomenon known as an aurora. Any body that passes through the thousands of miles thick belt is destined to die. Other than Apollo, no human mission has ever crossed the belt. The astronauts clad in the aluminum film along with some fiberglass material and the like on the Apollo 16 mission on the date the magnetic storm is supposed to have flooded space with 10,000 times more radiation cannot be expected to have escaped to adversity. . Realizing all this, experts claim that the Russians have to date avoided sending men out of space and that they don’t even have such plans in the future.

Brain Welch, Bart Siberal and David Percy, the moon landing photography experts, criticize the grainy images that, according to them, are intended to hide reality. Doubting the authenticity of the images of astronauts walking on the lunar surface, experts claim that the still images shown to the world were staged and even manipulated. With the Sun being the only light source on the moon’s surface, the expected shadows are parallel, east-west, and do not intersect.

As the pictures taken reveal the shadows that cross each other, the experts simply state that the pictures were taken on earth under simulation under the artificial/fixed light sources. To prove their point, experts claim that the astronaut’s body cut out on the dark side should have been shrouded in total darkness, but in these images not only is his body visible, but the words United States etched on the lander are also visible. sharp and clear. . Also, pictorial anomalies such as the same scenes with similar backgrounds appear to be there on two different days albeit 2 ½ miles apart. As NASA disproves the anomaly, the superimposition of the 2 scenes reveals that the locations were the same. The availability of the lunar base and modules on the moon’s surface support its claim as a case of poor editing and failure to effectively handle (evidence). The crosshair located in the various places in different images turns out to be the final nail in the coffin.

Lastly, it is claimed that around 10 astronauts, including C. Kristen and Thomas Ronald among many others, were silenced in staged fake deaths because these guys knew the truth and could report NASA. Experts (such as Bill Kaysing) vehemently support the moon landing conspiracy theory as a monumental hoax. According to them, the footage shows astronauts struggling in their attempt to plant the US flag, which surprisingly fluttered when there was no atmosphere and therefore no wind on the moon. These experts simply state that the lack of application of proper mind resulted in such an anomaly when the scene of planting the US flag was simulated in the desert at Area 51 in the gust of wind.

Reacting to NASA’s unconvincing responses, experts argue that if a telescope powerful enough to look at the moon’s surface were made available, NASA’s claims could be verified. They claim that the remains of the mission, including robotic machines, Landers, the American flag and the like, must still be there on the surface of the moon to prove that the Apollo mission was not faked and simulated at Area-51 in the US. , as part of the biggest hoax of the 20th century.