The Hollow Moon Conspiracy Theory

The moon is by far the biggest and most easily recognizable object in earth’s atmosphere that can be perceived by the naked eye on a cloudless night. It is hypothesized that it came into existence nearly 4.5 billion years ago, from residual debris after a planetary body collided with earth. Although, considered the runner-up to the sun as the second brightest object in the sky, its illumination is deceitful, insomuch as the moon is not a source of light, but instead reflects the sun’s illumination from the half of the moon that is in direct alignment with the sun at that time. More readily identified as a satellite of the earth rather than as a planet itself or even a star, it has a diameter a quarter of the size of earth’s size and it

John F. Kennedy once said, "No nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space...We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard”. The main motive for this quote was to ensure that the United States wanted to beat out the Soviets in the space race. Ever since the Soviets tried to advance on the moon, the United States wanted to be the first successful nation to accomplish the first ever moon landing. At the time, the tension between the United States and the Soviets was very strong because the Cold War just ended and neither nation wanted to lose to each other in the space race. Just as the

Was the Moon landing real or a hoax? The moon landing was a major scientific breakthrough and a great day for America. The problem is, it might’ve been faked. There are many pieces of evidence showing that it could have been faked but there is also evidence showing that the moon landing could have also been real. I believe that the moon landing was not a hoax. The flag was blowing in the wind but how was it supposed to stop if there is no friction on the moon? The astronauts' shadows don’t match the lunar light source because there was a matte box on the camera . That there were absolutely no stars in the sky because the pictures were taken during the day.

Conspiracy theorists have also argued that there should have been a freshly gouged crater where the lunar module’s descent engine blasted into the lunar soil. However Bizony rebuffs this myth by explaining that the powdery lunar soil was disturbed by the downward pointing jet of the exhaust, but the thrust was not enough to create a crater in the topsoil, much less even be able to penetrate the hard rocky substrate (Bizony, It was all a fake, right?, 2009). The website, moonlandinghoax.org explains that the lunar module had six-foot long landing probes under the foot pads and when they registered contact the engines would stop firing and the module would fall gently the rest of the way (Moon landing hoax). Since the engines stopped firing approximately six feet before landing, there was not enough blast pressure to create a crater. The article stated that a firecracker would have more power than the engines did after they ceased to fire (Moon landing hoax).

The moon landing conspiracy is a theory that the the U.S. has not ever gone to the moon.People have been fighting over this topic whether it was fake or real.In this essay eal.I am going to tell you if the moon landindgs were fake or real

Have you ever wondered if NASA had lied to you? Maybe they did lie to you about the

The Apollo 11 mission is a well-known milestone for the development of technology. However, a group of people in society believe that the moon landing wasn’t real. These individuals insist that the mission was a conspiracy to win the Cold War. Their claims are mainly based on three elements in the mission’s photographs: the moving flag, the multiple sources of light, and the lack of stars.

Space is a vacuum and the lack of atmosphere on the moon would mean that the flag shouldn’t be moving. The force employed by Neil Armstrong planting the flag, and moving around it would be more than necessarily to cause the flag to wave. Correlation doesn’t equate to causation, therefore by the flag waving similar to ours on earth doesn’t confirm the existence of wind; instead it confirms the existence of force. The biggest evidence the moon landing wasn’t a hoax would be that the Soviets never called out the USA for faking their moon landing. The USSR and the USA were in the middle of a potential nuclear war, and if it were a giant hoax the USSR would have called out the USA. If the moon landing was a hoax, it would be one of the best kept secrets. Not only would have Soviets bought it, the people involved in the conspiracy have been all tight-lipped about it. While I do agree that it would be more beneficial to question events than to be left with doubt, but the uncontrolled elements involved in this conspiracy are unfathomably as the events played out on television. With 9/11 we can observe the events that unfolded and cross reference it with the statements

“The Goods and Bads: Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax” Bad Astronomy. February 13,

Apollo 11’s 1969 lunar landing was real. According to the article, ¨The Moon Landings Were Faked,¨ the flag was moving, even though there was no wind on the moon. This is because when the astronauts were planting the flagpole, they twisted it back and forth to better penetrate the moon soil. In other words, the flag was only moving because the astronauts were creating movement by twisting it. This means that the flag was not moving because of wind when there was no wind, it was moving because of the humans working with it. There were no stars in the picture. However, the article, “The Great Moon Hoax,” states, “It’s difficult to capture something very bright and something else very dim on the same piece of film.” To add on to this, the article

There are many different theories about how the moon was formed. People believe different things. I believe one is more reliable than all the others. I think the Big impact theory is the most trustworthy. The Big Impact theory has many different pieces of evidence behind it. The other ones i could barely find any.

Conspiracy theories have been around since the beginning of time. When NASA sent the first landed on the moon, there are people who believed that NASA faked the moon landings. Men, such as Bill Kaysing, the Flat Earth Society, and Davie Groves, and Bart Sibrel, have written books, delivered lectures, and made videos about why they believed NASA faked the moon landings. Based on their observations which include no stars in their pictures, NASA's drive to beat the Russians to the moon, and a way to distract people from the Vietnam war, the group believes that the moon landings were faked.

In 1975, two scientists by the name of Dr. William K. Hartmann and Dr. Donald R. Davis, came up with a groundbreaking new theory on how the moon was created. Their theory stated “At the time Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago, other smaller planetary bodies were also growing. One of these hit earth late in Earth 's growth process, blowing out rocky debris. A fraction of that debris went into orbit around the Earth and aggregated into the moon” (Hartmann & Herres 1). This theory is known as the Giant Impact Theory and is the accepted theory in the scientific community of how the moon was created. Even though this theory is accepted by most, there are still some people who don’t hold this theory to be true. I agree with Davis and Hartmann’s Giant Impact Theory that a great collision occurred and created the moon. The Giant Impact Theory is supported by the lack of iron on the moon, the moon rocks from the Apollo missions, and its acceptance in the scientific community.

1. "Apollo Moon Rocks." Curators Chioce. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. 15 Oct. 2007 http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/cchoice/moonrocks/moonrocks3.htm.

The first argument from the hoaxers is why objects that are in the Lunar Module’s shadow are apparently illuminated, like Buzz Aldrin climbing down to the surface in this picture. There has to be another light source. Well, there doesn’t. Moon dust, properly called regolith, is pretty reflective, and the sunlight hitting the Moon isn’t passing through and being dulled by an atmosphere. When that unfiltered sunlight hits the regolith, it reflects almost as though off a mirror, shedding light on anything nearby, which in this case means Aldrin’s descending form.