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The Pros And Cons Of The Moon Landing

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For the last forty years people have been arguing whether if the Moon landings were real. The Moon landings occurred during the late 1960’s and into the early 1970’s. During this time the United States and the Soviet Union were in a competition known as the Space Race. The main objective during the Space Race was for one country to put a man on the Moon. The competition was getting intense, and both countries began expanding their space programs. During the Space Race and the Apollo missions NASA created over 400,000 jobs making it impossible for all of the workers to keep the events a secret if it were fake (Riley). The technology between the two countries was also top of the line at that time. The Soviet Union could track down the United States every move, so therefore if the moon landings were fake; the Soviet Union would clearly know (Allen). With the technological advancements and the jobs created throughout the process of the Apollo missions, it’s obvious that NASA did not fake the Moon landings. Conspiracy theorists believe that the evidence of the flag waving in space, the lighting from the pictures, and the strange shadows from the pictures create it obvious that the Moon landings were all a hoax. Conspiracy theorists claim these areas for the Moon landing being fake, and in the end they believe that the moon landings were done in a T.V. studio to give the affect that the Moon landings were in fact real. The flag waving is the largest claim that conspiracy theorist

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