First Men on the Moon: Was it All a Hoax?

In 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to set foot on the Moon, but some people are beginning to believe that it was all a hoax. The questions come up, “How could the footprint stay so perfectly?” and “How is he not dark in this picture if he is in the shadow?” Well I’m here to prove that they really did walk on the moon and that NASA didn’t fake it.

First of all, NASA wouldn’t have left the Earth and forged the rest of it—common sense tells you that. There is no point to leave the Earth’s atmosphere and then somehow secretly film the rest in a studio because NASA had no motive for that. Nobody would make up that huge of a lie to fool the entire country. They also have brought back rocks from the Moon and scientists have studied them confirming that the particles are made up of extraterrestrial substances.

The astronauts have been accused of appearing too bright in the shadow of their spacecraft so it must have been faked in a studio. Hosts of the popular TV show MythBusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, replicated the conditions of multiple hoax claims and gave proof that the moon reflects sunlight, so the man in the picture must be illuminated from the reflection of the sunlight off of the moon, not because of a secondary light source.

The photograph of the footprint imprinted on the surface of the moon was accused as fraud because there is no moisture to hold the mold of the footprint, however, the two men mentioned earlier have proven that it is possible to have a clear footprint in the closest material to the Moon’s powdery surface that we have on the Earth in a vacuum chamber. This is because lunar regolith is jagged, not rounded like the weathered soil on earth, so it can hold its shape without collapsing.

Another reason why people believed that landing on the Moon was a conspiracy is that in a photograph, the shadows are going different directions off of different objects rather than being parallel. Slopes on the surface of the moon creates the effect of a shadow going in a different direction verifying that it isn’t because of studio lighting.

One of the biggest proofs for conspiracy theorists is that the flag planted on the moon appears to be waving in the breeze but in the vacuum environment on the moon, there would be no breeze because there is no atmosphere to create it. Jamie and Adam made an exact replica of the flag on the moon, placed it inside of a vacuum chamber, and swung it to mimic the motion of planting it into the Moon’s surface. In the vacuum, the flag swung for much longer than in regular air, and looked like the footage from the Moon landing.

If this isn’t enough evidence to convince someone that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon, in July of 2009 the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) took pictures of the Apollo landing sites as shown in the picture to the left. I never believed that this was a conspiracy, and with all of this proof, I am fairly positive that we successfully landed on the Moon on July 20th, 1969.