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Satori Siva C | | ***after watching the documentary many years ago..it did seem very convincing that it was a hoax all along***
from wikipedia..whole article :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_moon_landing_hoax_accusations
The Apollo Moon landing hoax accusations are a set of allegations that some or all elements of the Apollo Moon landings were faked by NASA and possibly members of other involved organizations. A number of groups and individuals have advanced theories which tend, to varying degrees, to include the following common elements:
The Apollo astronauts did not land on the Moon;
NASA and possibly others intentionally deceived the public into believing the landing[s] did occur by manufacturing, destroying, or tampering with evidence, including photos, telemetry tapes, transmissions, and rock samples;
NASA and possibly others continue to actively participate in the conspiracy to this day.
According to a 1999 poll conducted by the The Gallup Organization, 6% of the public believes the landing was faked, while what Gallup termed an "overwhelming majority", some 89%, did not.The hoax claims are widely dismissed as baseless by mainstream scientists, technicians and engineers, as well as by NASA.
Origins and history
In his book A Man on the Moon, Andrew Chaikin mentions that, at the time of Apollo 8's lunar-orbit mission, in December 1968, such conspiratorial stories were already in circulation.
Charles K. Johnson, president of the International Flat Earth Research Society, challenged the idea that men had landed on the Moon, claiming that the landings were "faked in Hollywood studios", with science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke writing the script.[
The first book dedicated to the subject, William Kaysing's self-published "We Never Went to the Moon: America's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle" was released in 1974, two years after the Apollo moon flights had ceased.
Predominant hoax claims
Phil Plait observes that hoax proponents never spell out a complete picture of what they believe happened[citation needed]. Instead they spend most of their time questioning technical details, and make most of their accusations by unstated implication. Patterns to these accusations do emerge, but many hoax proponents do not self-identify with any of them. The various possibilities and their most readily identifiable proponents are described below:
Complete hoax—The idea that the entire human landing program was faked. Various sources argue that the technology to send men to the Moon was insufficient and/or that the Van Allen radiation belts made such a trip impossible.
Partial hoax / Unmanned landings— Bart Sibrel argues that Apollo 11 and subsequent astronauts had faked their orbit around the Moon and their walk on its surface by trick photography, and that they never got more than halfway to the Moon. A subset of this theory is advocated by those who concede the existence of laser mirrors and other observable human-made objects on the Moon. Marcus Allen represented this argument when he said "I would be the first to accept what [telescope images of the landing site] find as powerful evidence that something was placed on the Moon by man." He goes on to say that photographs of the lander would not prove that America put men on the Moon. "Getting to the Moon really isn't much of a problem—the Russians did that in 1959, the big problem is getting people there." His argument focuses around NASA sending robot missions because radiation levels in space were lethal to humans. Another variant on this is the idea that NASA and its contractors did not recover quickly enough from the Apollo 1 fire, and so all the early Apollo missions were faked, with Apollo 14 or 15 being the first authentic mission.[4]
Manned landings, with backup stagings—Dr. Brian O'Leary once suggested that, while the landing took place, NASA created a parallel fake landing in case of accidents or failures, although he now believes otherwise.[5]
Manned landings, with cover-ups—William Brian and others believe that, while astronauts did land on the Moon, they covered up what they found, whether it was gravitational anomalies, alien artifacts, or alien encounters.[6] Phillip Lheureux, in Lumieres sur la Lune (Lights on the Moon), said that astronauts did land on the Moon, but that, in order to prevent other nations from benefiting from scientific information in the real photos, NASA published fake images.
Suggested motives for a hoax
Several motives are given by hoax proponents for the U.S. government to fake the Moon landings:
Distraction—The U.S. government sought to distract the public from the Vietnam War.[(This argument is not supported by the events' respective chronologies).
Cold War Prestige—The U.S. government considered it vital that the U.S. win the space race against the Soviet Union. Going to the Moon, if it had been possible, would have been risky and expensive (though John F. Kennedy famously said that we chose to go because it was difficult). Despite close monitoring by the Soviet Union, hoax proponents argue that it would have been easier for the U.S. to fake it, and consequently guarantee success, than for the U.S. actually to go.[
Money—NASA raised approximately $30 billion to go to the Moon. Hoax proponents hypothesize that this could have been used to pay off a large number of people, providing significant motivation for complicity.[citation needed]
Risk—The available technology at the time was such that the landing might fail if genuinely attempted. This argument assumes that the problems early in the space program were insurmountable, even by a technology team fully motivated and funded to fix the problems
continued at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_moon_landing_hoax_accusations
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