By: Brad Nagel

As we all know Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon ending the space race. Now, many years later this moon landing is thought to be a hoax. The question remains: why? Would the United States government really want to trick thousands of people? Did they really make up the entire thing or are some people just thinking this?

Waving Flag- the moon doesn’t have any wind, so how is the flag in the picture moving?

Part of a Nevada desert was said to be a mercury test site, and astronauts stayed in Las Vegas. This desert was kept private. Was it the site of the fake moon?

Shadows of the two men aren’t in line- the moon only has the sun as a light source, so the shadows should all be in line, but they aren’t which shows that there are multiple light sources

No stars in the background of pictures Light reflecting in astronauts visors

The flag was equipped with wires that made the flag look like it was moving

Pictures on the moon- it would be hard to make a fake moon

It was perfectly possible to reach the moon at the time with the technology that they had

The astronauts can easily describe their journey

The three main reasons for a fake landing are the government used the given money to pay of debts, to take thoughts off of the Vietnam war, and to win the important space race.

A poll of American adults was taken in 1973 to see how many people thought that the moon landing was a hoax

The result was that 30% of the American adults thought that it was a hoax

This shows that there is an extremely large number of people that don’t trust our government

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