Why is it true that humans first landed on the moon?

In mid-July 2007, the science and technology section of Mexico's "Perpetual Weekly" published an article titled "The Biggest Forgery of the Century" published by Russian researcher Alexander Goldov, which analyzed the United States 31 years ago. Photos taken of the moon landing raise questions. Not only did many newspapers and periodicals reprint this article, but it also immediately aroused close attention from readers. For a while, the discussion about the authenticity of the Apollo moon landing, which had been silent for a while, became heated again. According to statistics from an authoritative social survey agency in the United States, 10% (about 25 million) Americans believe that the so-called Apollo moon landing was a big hoax created by NASA. Strangely, no formal reaction has been seen from US officials so far. The 69-year-old American astronaut Neil Armstrong is still alive. Why not let him come out to clarify the facts? Does the United States simply ignore this, or does it really have something to hide? News media in various countries are quite eager to conduct investigations and interviews on this matter.

According to the generally accepted concept, from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, Americans, who were at a disadvantage in the space race, were determined to revive their former technological and military leadership at all costs. In 1961, US President Kennedy officially announced that the United States would achieve the goal of sending a man to the moon by the end of the 1960s. This is the world-famous "Apollo Moon Landing Program."

On the morning of July 16, 1969, the huge "Saturn 5" rocket carrying the "Apollo 11" spacecraft was ignited and lifted off from the Cape Kennedy launch site in the United States, beginning the first human space landing on the moon. flight. Participating in this flight were American astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins. At 4:17:42 pm Eastern Time, Armstrong carefully stepped on the lunar surface with his left foot. This was the first time a human had set foot on the moon. He then used a special 70mm camera to film Aldrin's landing on the moon. They planted an American flag near the lunar module. In order to make the Stars and Stripes look like it was waving in the wind on a windless moon, they used a spring-like wire to stretch it. Then, the astronauts installed a "seismometer" and a "laser reflector"... They stayed on the lunar surface for 21 hours and 18 minutes and recovered 22 kilograms of lunar soil and rock samples. In the early morning of July 25, the "Apollo 11" command module carrying three space heroes splashed down safely in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, marking the successful conclusion of mankind's first moon landing.

Doubt

However, more than 30 years later, Goldov publicly published an article expressing doubts about the moon landing photos taken by the United States. He believes that all the so-called photos and video records taken by American astronauts on the moon were produced in Hollywood studios. He emphasized that he made this conclusion after conducting careful scientific analysis and certification. The main reasons are as follows:

1. There is no image in which stars can be seen in the background of space;

2. The shadows left by objects on the image are oriented in multiple directions. , and the shadow formed by the sun's rays on the object should be in one direction;

3. In the photographic record, the Stars and Stripes on the moon is fluttering in the wind, but there is no way that there is wind on the moon to hold the flag.

4. From the photographic documentaries, we can see that astronauts walking on the surface of the moon are just like walking on the ground. In fact, the gravity on the moon is much smaller than that on the earth, so people Each step on the moon is equivalent to a person jumping 5 to 6 meters on the ground;

5. When the lunar landing instrument "moves on the lunar surface", small stones pop up from under the wheels The falling speed of the moon is also the same as the speed of the same phenomenon on the earth, and this speed on the moon should be 6 times faster than on the earth.

Goldof said that his questioning of the photos and camera records of the moon landing "taken" by American astronauts more than 30 years ago does not mean to deny the feat of the American astronauts landing on the moon that year. He believed that American astronauts were close to the lunar surface but were unable to set foot on the moon due to technical reasons. Because the United States was eager to show its credit to the world at that time, it forged many photos of the moon landing and a photographic documentary, deceiving and deceiving the world for decades. He said that the famous American engineer Ralph Rene and the British scientists David Perry and Mari Bert all agreed with his doubt.

Coincidentally, Professor Bill Kane, who claimed to have participated in the Apollo project, wrote a book called "We Never Landed on the Moon", which also listed the Apollo moon landing project. Some doubts were raised, and they even believed that the rocket carrying astronauts was indeed launched, but the target was not the moon, but the inaccessible Antarctic, where the command module ejected the rocket and was recovered by a military aircraft. The astronauts then performed the moon landing process in a laboratory on Earth, and finally entered the command module and were thrown into the Pacific Ocean to complete the entire so-called moon landing process.

The question of whether the "Apollo moon landing program" was a hoax has aroused strong reactions in the United States.

People represented by the famous physics professor Hamlet affirmed the "hoax theory". They believed that the Apollo moon landing was faked on the following basis:

1. The Apollo moon landing photos were purely fake

According to calculations based on data released by NASA, the incident angle between sunlight and the moon was only about 6-7 degrees at that time, but the photo of the Stars and Stripes on the moon shows that the incident angle of sunlight was about nearly 30 degrees. The shadow angle that appears in the photo should only be obtained 46 hours after "taking the first step".

2. The Apollo moon landing video tapes were filmed on Earth

Through video analysis, the astronauts’ jumping movements and heights on the lunar surface are similar to those on the ground, and do not conform to the characteristics of walking on the lunar surface. .

3. There is no laser reflector installed on the moon at all

According to data from an American observatory, it can be calculated that the intensity of the reflected beam received by a laser receiver on the earth is now only 1/200 of the reflection intensity of the reflector. In fact, this beam of light is reflected by the moon itself. In other words, there are no laser reflectors on the moon.

4. The Apollo program progressed at a suspicious pace

The United States did not develop the first "Saturn V" until January 1967, and the first launch test was conducted on January 27. Unfortunately, The fire killed three astronauts. Subsequently, the lunar module was redesigned and hardware development was delayed for 18 months. How could it be possible to successfully land on the moon by July 1969?

5. Questions about the Saturn V rocket and lunar module

Modern space shuttles can only send 20 tons of payload to low orbit, but the Saturn V of that year could easily do so. The Earth put more than 100 tons of payload into the earth's orbit and pushed dozens of tons of objects out of the earth's gravity circle. Why was it later abandoned? It is said that even the drawings were not preserved?

6. The impact of temperature on photographic equipment

The lunar surface can reach 121°C during the day. According to the picture, the camera is exposed outside the spacesuit without any insulation measures. Film will curl and fail due to heat at 66°C. How can I take photos?

These people believe that the U.S. government has never been able to explain all the above, and insiders have remained silent so far because they are worried that their lives and safety will be affected, and they may even have been directly coerced. But I believe that in the near future, the "moon landing scam" born in the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union will definitely come to light.

Refutation

However, many people believe that the "Apollo" moon landing program cannot be faked:

First of all, because the program was broadcast live around the world at the time , nearly 100 million people saw it with their own eyes. In addition, astronauts also brought back some physical objects, such as rocks, from the moon.

Secondly, the US government will not make fun of its credibility. If it was a scam, they didn't need to take such a big risk to broadcast it live, but just publish some photos afterwards. Otherwise, if something goes wrong, the U.S. government will have to bear great consequences, and it may even lose its reputation and be unable to recover.

Third, NASA has thousands of science and technology and engineering personnel, and the vast majority of them have a scientific attitude and will not treat serious scientific issues as child's play. If the moon landing plan is a scam, not only will the integrity of all participants be damaged, but it will also be difficult for tens of thousands of people to keep their lies for decades.

In addition, the media in the United States is almost pervasive. If the government commits deception, the major media outlets will make a big fuss about it. So far, the American press has not exaggerated this, so there must be some truth to it.

Furthermore, the evidence revealed is not sufficient. Some people point out that Hamlet's reasons are not rigorous enough. Using a few photos and videos to judge that the moon landing was a hoax is as ridiculous as using mathematical induction to prove Goldbach's conjecture.

Amid heated debate, on July 20 last year, the United States held a ceremony at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon. U.S. Vice President Al Gore awarded the Langley Gold Medal to the three astronauts who landed on the moon on Apollo 11 in recognition of their contributions to the aerospace industry. This somewhat expresses the US government's attitude towards this. However, Armstrong still refused to participate in any press conferences, sign autographs or take photos. He chose to remain silent for 30 years. This leaves people with a huge doubt.

So did the American astronauts land on the moon for the first time? Was the U.S. moon landing really a hoax? People are eagerly looking forward to the real answer