What Are The Conspiracy Theories Over The Veracity Of The Moon Landings?

    • Dheeraj.Jangra@timesgroup.com
    • Publish Date: May 27 2016 2:36PM
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    • Updated Date: Aug 5 2016 4:49PM
What Are The Conspiracy Theories Over The Veracity Of The Moon Landings?

It has been almost 46 years since American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon. But ever since that first ‘giant leap for mankind’, many have questioned the veracity of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. Critics say the whole episode was a set-up by the US government to beat the Soviet Union (now Russia) in the space race. Sceptics believe that the fake lunar landings were shot in a secret film set. Some even suggested that Stanley Kubrick, director of the 1968 sci-fi movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ shot the fabricated landings. Any theory, including conspiracy theories, must be based on evidence, and nothing that has been offered as evidence against the moon landings holds water. Moreover, moon landings were independently confirmed by nations all over the world. But surprisingly, a survey in 1999 found out that 6 per cent of Americans believe in the fake landing theory while 5 per cent remained indecisive. 


Top Hoax theories and their answers

Q. Why no are stars visible in the Apollo photos?
The Apollo landings took place during lunar mornings, with the Sun shining brightly. The stars were not bright enough to be captured on camera.

Q. Why did the heavy landing modules make no impression on the surface, but the astronauts’ footprints did?
The layer of dust on the lunar surface is thin, so it was blown away by the blast from the descent engines. This dust resettled when the astronauts came out of the module. 

Q. How does the flag flutter?
As we know there is no wind on the moon so how can the flag flutter? Experts say, it was fixed with a rod and wires to give it a feeling of blowing in the wind. Also, on the moon, objects don’t stop moving as quickly as they do on Earth, so when the astronauts planted the flag, the movement would have easily caused the flag to unfurl.

Q. Why didn’t the lunar module show a flame when it took off from the moon?
The fuel in the rocket of the module contained a combination of hydrazine and dinitrogen tetroxide, which burn with no visible flame.

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