Now there is "ironclad evidence"! The American Apollo moon landing turned out to be a fake?
The lunar rover that Apollo landed on the moon was discovered in Nevada, the western part of the United States.
Could it be that the moon landing program was really a lie of the century?
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A small step for the individual, a giant leap for humanity
On July 16, 1969, the U.S. Apollo 11 successfully landed on the surface of the moon.
Three days later, astronaut Armstrong cautiously stepped out of the cockpit and stepped on the surface of the moon, becoming the first human to set foot on the surface of the moon.
He then broadcast the famous phrase to the world: "This is a great leap for humanity." ”
This was followed by astronauts landing on the moon.
They conducted several scientific experiments on the lunar surface and collected about 47.5 kilograms of rock and soil samples.
The five subsequent Apollo missions to the moon were also successful, with a total of 12 astronauts becoming humans on the moon at a total cost of $25.5 billion.
Eventually, due to financial problems, the Apollo program was officially terminated in 1972.
However, even the Americans themselves are skeptical about the authenticity of the American moon landing.
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In 1976, former U.S. Navy officer Bill Casey also published a book, Never Left Earth, in which he controversially questioned the 1969 Apollo moon landing.
Casey believed that radiation levels on the moon's surface would be lethal if they were too high, that the Apollo spacecraft could not withstand the extreme temperature difference of the moon, that gravity was too small to control a precise landing, and that he was suspicious of some of the background of the imagery.
Even more unexpectedly, he even suspected that NASA lacked the budget and technical capabilities needed to achieve a moon landing at the time.
As soon as Casey's remarks were published, they immediately aroused widespread attention and controversy in society.
However, these doubts were quickly refuted by NASA and the vast majority of scientists and space experts.
Experts systematically explained every question Casey raised, convincingly proving that the lunar program was carefully designed, simulated and tested, and that the Apollo spacecraft and astronaut equipment were fully capable of withstanding the lunar environment.
What is even more amazing is that a large amount of physical evidence, such as lunar rock samples, residual traces of astronaut activity, laser mirrors, etc., all corroborate the authenticity of the moon landing.
But the so-called evidence is full of holes.
Suspicion 1: Moon Rock Fraud
In 1969, the United States once gifted the Dutch government a so-called "moon rock", claiming that it was a sample collected and brought back from the moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts.
However, more than 20 years later, in 1998, this "moon rock" was identified not from the moon at all, but an ordinary igneous rock on Earth.
After all, if the United States has real samples of the moon landing, how can it deliberately fabricate and give them away to allied countries?
This is tantamount to admitting that you have falsified.
However, despite the causes, the U.S. government has not given any explanation or apology for the incident to this day.
What's more, American scientists after analyzing samples of rocks brought back from the moon.
Surprisingly, it was announced that these samples were not significantly different from Earth's rocks in terms of chemical composition and mineralogical composition.
As a celestial body with a completely different environment from the Earth, the rocks of the Moon should be significantly different from the Earth's rocks, and even small differences in composition are reasonable.
However, the actual results are almost identical, which is difficult to explain scientifically.
Therefore, there are suspicions that what they brought back was not real moon rocks at all, but "alternatives" that had been prepared on Earth beforehand.
They speculate that the entire so-called "moon landing program" may have been a hoax from the start.
Suspicion 2: Missing stars in the photo
Of all the photographs of the moon landing that have been made public, we are strikingly surprised to find that none of them clearly show the stars or planets.
This is extremely contrary to the real space environment, after all, the moon has no atmosphere to obstruct it, and the light of celestial bodies should be very bright and eye-catching.
Many skeptics suspect that this is because NASA was unable to accurately simulate the vast starry sky when shooting in the Earth's studio, and could only focus on the surface of the moon, and deliberately avoided the starry sky.
From this, some conspiracy theorists conclude that the entire so-called "moon landing program" was nothing more than filming in an Earth's studio.
Suspicion 3: The national flag fluttering on the moon
During the lunar mission, astronauts planted an American flag on the surface of the moon.
However, according to the photos, the flag did not appear to be flat and draped, but fluttered and twisted.
But what is questionable is that the moon, as a celestial body without an atmosphere, theoretically does not exist.
Many skeptics point to this phenomenon, arguing that it exposes traces of the artificiality of the Americans for the sake of the effect.
It is even more suspected that the entire so-called "moon landing image" may have been filmed in a film studio somewhere on Earth, and the fluttering of the national flag is naturally just a process made to simulate the real scene.
Some conspiracy theorists have even taken this suspicion to a whole new level.
Think that the entire Apollo program was an elaborate hoax and that the moon landing was nothing more than an elaborate plan by the United States in order to win the propaganda war in the Cold War.
Suspicion 4: Loss of video tape data
According to NASA, although they took a lot of valuable footage during the Apollo moon landing program in the 60s.
Unfortunately, some or all of the video footage was accidentally lost due to operational errors or technical reasons during the subsequent transfer and storage of these original tapes.
This statement undoubtedly deepens people's suspicions.
As such a major scientific and technological achievement in human history, NASA should properly record and preserve the entire process of the moon landing, and the original image is the most important, how could it be so "lost" in such an unknown way?
Some conspiracy theorists have further speculated that NASA may have deliberately concealed or destroyed the remains in order to cover up some major fraud.
Another theory suspects that NASA may have realized that the moon landing program itself had irreparable loopholes and flaws, and in order to maintain the leading position and national pride of the United States in the space field at that time, it had to make this "decision" and falsify this "masterpiece."
Doubt 5: Technical difficulty
There is a view that in the 1960s, the level of science and technology was relatively backward, computer performance was limited, and aerospace technology was also in its infancy.
Accomplishing a feat, such as the moon landing, required a lot of sophisticated calculations, navigation, control, and other technical support, and the conditions at the time were extremely challenging.
Therefore, it is objectively implausible for skeptics to believe that NASA claimed to have accomplished such an extraordinary feat with limited technological power.
Moreover, it was impossible for the United States at that time to have enough scientific research costs to support lunar exploration.
Suspicion 6: The follow-up moon landing plan is missing
It is estimated that from 1961 to 1972, the total cost of the entire Apollo program was as high as $24 billion, which translates to about $126 billion today.
This huge cost not only includes the R&D and manufacturing of space vehicles, but also includes a large number of infrastructure, personnel training, measurement and control systems and other aspects.
As an unprecedented and ambitious scientific and technological project, the Apollo program is undoubtedly a high-risk and high-investment adventure.
Therefore, NASA explained that after the success of the Apollo program, the United States could not afford to launch another moon landing program of the same size in a short period of time due to a severe lack of funding and resources.
From an economic point of view, this explanation is logical, and it is impossible for any country to invest in space exploration without a bottom line without a bottom line.
However, there are also skeptics who argue that the gap in technology reserves and funding is not enough to fully explain the decades-long abandonment of the moon landing program by the United States.
They suspect that NASA may have some hidden deeper causes, or that the original "moon landing" was simply faked.
Moreover, the U.S. government has remained largely silent on questions about whether the Apollo moon landing was fake, and has not given any positive response or explanation.
This has undoubtedly heightened doubts about the authenticity of the moon landing.
Doubts from the USSR
In fact, other countries, including Russia, have questioned whether American astronauts have actually landed on the moon.
Allegedly, the Soviet Union at that time, as the main competitor of the United States in the field of space, had advanced radio and radar detection technologies.
Theoretically, if the Apollo astronauts did fly to the moon, the Soviet Union should have been able to catch the spacecraft's departure from Earth and orbiting the moon through radio signals and radar.
However, during the implementation of the Apollo program, the Soviets never detected any such high-power radio signals from the moon.
Although the U.S. explained that they were using low-power communications equipment or taking advantage of the masking effect of the moon itself.
But it is undeniable that this "no signal" mystery does exist.
End Result
However, in 2012, China's self-developed Chang'e-2 unmanned lunar probe, while working in orbit around the moon, successfully photographed the remains of the rover, lunar module and other equipment left on the lunar surface during the Apollo lunar landing.
These precious images have broken the long-standing doubts about the authenticity of the Apollo moon landing.
And for those doubts, NASA has also explained separately, but people don't buy it.
Recently, the controversy over the authenticity of the Apollo moon landing program has been ignited again.
A lunar rover believed to have been used for the moon landing was "discovered" in Nevada, and it was soon seen as ironclad evidence that "the United States never actually landed on the moon."
However, if we dig deeper into the context of this "discovery", we will find that the truth is not so simple.
In fact, NASA has built a number of test facilities on Earth in order to simulate the lunar environment and test the lunar landing equipment.
The so-called "lunar rover" found in Nevada is likely to be one of these simulators used for testing.
We should not dismiss the great milestone of the human moon landing on the ground on the basis of an isolated "discovery".
Looking to the future
Now, the world has set off a new round of lunar exploration craze.
The United States even announced that it will re-achieve a manned landing on the moon in 2030.
As a rising star in the global manned space industry, China is making every effort to promote its own aerospace industry.
Around 2020, China has achieved major breakthroughs such as the retrieval of lunar rocks on Chang'e-5 and the orbiting and landing of Mars by Tianwen-1.
Just a few days ago, the mainland's Chang'e-6 spacecraft landed on the moon.
In the future, China will certainly make greater contributions to the peaceful use of space by mankind.
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