In 1969, the American Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on the moon and began the first space journey of human landing on the moon.
Accompanying the success of the U.S. moon landing were skeptical voices, that is, the belief that the U.S. moon landing was a fraud. Since the beginning of the new century, with the advancement of China's lunar landing program, as China's understanding of the moon has deepened, especially the recent Chang'e-6 lunar landing, the debate on the authenticity of the US lunar landing has become louder and louder.
Whether the U.S. moon landing is true or not, this article will leave it aside for the time being, but what makes people feel strange is that the U.S. moon landing has a striking commonality with some Western historical narratives, and let's talk about this topic next.
The magical narrative of Western history
According to the Western historical narrative, there have been several glorious ancient civilizations in human history, which suddenly appeared, matured, and then suddenly cut off!
The civilization of the two rivers, the civilization of ancient Egypt, the civilization of ancient India, and the civilization of ancient Greece are the four ancient civilizations that the West focuses on described, but almost all of these four civilizations appeared suddenly, matured suddenly, and matured, and in many ways far surpassed other civilizations of the same era.
Among them, the ancient Greek civilization, which we are most familiar with, seems to have popped out all of a sudden, and in just a few hundred years, it has evolved to a super brilliant level; In addition, Gong Yushu, an expert on the history of West Asia in China, once pointed out that ancient Egyptian characters and cuneiform characters appeared suddenly, and no evolution process has been found so far.
What's even more bizarre is that these super-glorious civilizations have all suddenly been cut off, and it has not been discovered until the last few hundred years, as if the purpose of their existence is to "get by".
In contrast, Chinese history is advancing layer by layer, step by step, and finally passed down to the present, and modern archaeology and hand-me-down documents can basically restore this evolutionary process in line with the logic of social development.
In short, a Western historical narrative mode is: suddenly appearing, suddenly maturing, and suddenly breaking off!
Historical narratives of the U.S. moon landing
The American moon landing is a thing of the past, but its pattern is strangely consistent with the Western historical narrative mentioned above.
The first is sudden ripening
In 1961, Gagarin of the Soviet Union became the first man in space, and then the United States announced that he would land on the moon within ten years. Before the United States landed on the moon, space technology still lagged behind the Soviet Union, which was very unfavorable to the United States and the Soviet Union in their struggle for hegemony. But a miraculous scene happened, and the next thing was to witness the miracle:
The Apollo moon landing program is: no one orbits the moon - someone orbits the moon, and at the same time no one lands on the moon and does not return - directly someone lands on the moon and returns, there are only three steps! As of 1968, the United States had not been able to send a spacecraft to the moon and recover it, there had been two manned experiments, but one failed, and there was not a single unmanned lunar return before the moon landing.
In contrast, China's Chang'e program is very robust: unmanned around the moon - unmanned on the moon - unmanned on the moon - unmanned lunar return - manned lunar orbit - unmanned lunar landing to transport supplies - manned lunar return. After the new century, the United States launched the Artemis program to return to the moon, which is basically the same as the Chang'e program, but very different from the Apollo moon landing program.
In short, the United States Aerospace, which was not as good as the Soviet Union, lacked many practical tests on the moon, and then it was a success, and it was only eight years since the human race, the Soviet Union Gagarin, first entered space, and then there were five more moon landings, all of which were successful, without any casualties, with a success rate of 100%, and even the explosion of Apollo 13 finally miraculously returned safely without injury.
Therefore, the U.S. moon landing can be described as prominently mature, and the maturity is incredible.
The second is the abrupt severance
It is generally believed that after the moon landing, the United States ranked first in space technology in the world, but in fact, after 1972, in the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States was once again surpassed by the Soviet Union, the most typical is the construction of the space station (during the period of hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, except for the months of the moon landing, the United States space technology has been inferior to the Soviet Union); Moreover, after 1972, American astronautics could not maintain the same record of zero casualties as the moon landing.
Of course, the biggest problem is this: after the six moon landings in 1972, the United States never landed on the moon again, and did not send anyone out of low-earth orbit.
In this regard, the analysis believes that the United States feels that the moon is not interesting, or maybe it is lonely and invincible, so it has never landed on the moon again. That is, it's not that you can't, but not for, as long as the United States lands on the moon, you can do it at any time!
However, the question is: After the new century, the United States has launched another lunar landing program, and it stands to reason that it has already had six successful experiences and several decades of technological progress. But we all know that the US lunar landing project in the new century is faltering, the progress is slow (the moon landing was originally planned for this year), and even the deadline is far away.
If the moon landing has already been successful, why is it still faltering now? NASA published news in the New York Times, CNN and other big-name media to explain that the technical data of the first six moon landings were lost due to various mistakes, so everything had to be restarted, so the progress was slow. In other words, in just a few decades, the American moon landing technology was suddenly cut off.
In short, the American moon landing technology, like ancient Greece and ancient Egypt, suddenly appeared, matured, and became brilliant, but then inexplicably and suddenly cut off, but China is completely different from it.
More importantly, the sudden emergence and maturity of ancient Egypt and ancient Greece overwhelmed the Chinese civilization and then suddenly cut off, and the United States suddenly broke off again after the moon landing overtook the Soviet Union. It's weird!