Apollo

Apollo Moon Landings not a Hoax.
by Dennis Allen

Once in awhile I run across somebody that doesn't believe we landed on the moon. Not too often, but it does happen. Before latching onto another conspiracy theory, I wish people would just once consider the feasibility of that conspiracy.

What would be required to fake the moon landings? How could you organize and run such a hoax? The resources and manpower would have been enormous. The cost alone, using 1960's technology, would have been astronomical. Why fake the landings when it would be cheaper just to put men on the moon? Thousands of people had to be in on the hoax, keeping silent for half a century, even to the grave. Was the whole Apollo project, all 400k people, part of the hoax? If not, how could you run such a shadow group within the decade-long Apollo project without someone getting wise? And when in the history of mankind has such a hoax even been attempted let alone succeeded?

We've had fifty years of conspiracy theories, from people who make a living writing books and giving lectures on how the landings were fake. These people have so much skin in the game, you really need to take their theories with a grain of salt.

Anyway, still need proof we landed on the moon? Visit Apollo Landing Sites Revisited. This web page show images of the Apollo landing sites, taken by the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Obiter. You can see the descent stages of the lunar modules, where the astronauts walked, where they drove the lunar rovers, and where they left equipment packages. The American flags are still there, bleached white from fifty years of ultra-violet radiation. Still not convinced? Apollo 11, 14 and 15 left Lunar laser ranging retro-reflector packages, allowing accurate distance measurement between the earth and the moon. Observatories still shoot laser beams at these packages to this day.

Oh, all of NASA, past and present, and all of the astronomical community still in on the hoax? Well, statistically it's possible. Statistically, I believe you stand a better chance of getting struck by lightning a hundred times. Of course you could always send your own probe to the moon and see if the landing sites are real. No rush. Neil Armstrong's footprint will still be there, long after you and I are gone.

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