Moon Landing

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Van Allen Radiation Belt

A radiation belt is a layer of energetic charged particles that is held in place around a magnetized planet, such as the Earth, by the planet's magnetic field. The Earth has two such belts and sometimes others may be temporarily created.

Alan Shepard

Alan Bartlett "Al" Shepard, Jr.,was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, flag officer, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and businessman, who in 1961 became the second person and the first American to travel into space.

Alan Bean

Alan LaVern Bean, is an American former naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut; he was the fourth person to walk on the Moon.

NASA

As a result of the space race between USA and the Soviet Union in the 1950s, NASA was created in 1958 from NACA, and other related organizations.

Bill Kaysing

Bill Charles Kaysing was a writer best known for claiming that the six Apollo Moon landings between July 1969 and December 1972 were hoaxes. He is regarded as the initiator of the Moon hoax movement.

John W. Young

Captain John Watts Young is a retired American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer, who became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as Commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.

Pete Conrad

Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr., was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and during the Apollo 12 mission became the third man to walk on the Moon.

Charles Duke

Charles Moss "Charlie" Duke, Jr., is an American engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, test pilot, and a former astronaut for NASA. As Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 16 in 1972, he became the tenth and youngest person to walk on the Moon.

David Scott

David Randolph "Dave" Scott, is an American engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, former test pilot, and former NASA astronaut. He belonged to the third group of NASA astronauts, selected in October 1963.

Edgar Mitchell

Edgar Dean "Ed" Mitchell, Sc.D., is an American former naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut.

Buzz Aldrin

Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. is an American engineer and former astronaut, and the second person to walk on the Moon. He was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing in history.

Eugene Cernan

Eugene Andrew "Gene" Cernan, is a former American naval officer and aviator, electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, fighter pilot, and NASA astronaut. 11th person

Harrison Schmitt

Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt is an American geologist, retired NASA astronaut, university professor and former U.S. senator from New Mexico. He was the Apollo 17 mission.

Arthur C. Clarke

He had said that the Americans would not be the first to land on the moon. That the Russians would be the first to land on the moon. British - Sri Lankan science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

James Irwin

James Benson "Jim" Irwin, was an American astronaut, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and a United States Air Force pilot. He served as Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 15, the fourth human lunar landing.

Neil Armstrong

Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.

The "C" Rock

One particular rock somehow has a letter 'C' printed on it from Apollo 16 mission. This was marked to show where an astronaut should be standing as actors have on a stage when performing.

Stanley Kubrick

One theory, however, outdoes all the others in terms of lunacy: theorist Jay Weidner claims that Stanley Kubrick littered 'The Shining' with clues to suggest that he filmed the fake Moon landing for NASA in 1969.

Only Orbit Belief

People believe that we made it to space and in orbit, but not on the moon.

Buzz Aldrin's Photos of the Moon

People say that Aldrin's photos of the moon are to clear to be in the 1969, so there fake. What's in the pictures.

Area 51

People think that the moon landing was actually filmed at area 51.

Sputnik

Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957.

Apollo Program

The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.

Flat Earth Society

The Flat Earth Society believes that the world is flat. They believe that the moon landing is fake.

The Moon Flag

The moon flag was waving, just like it would in the earth.

Moon Shadows

The shadows on the moon were not always vertical. They were in different angles.

Moon Orbit Belief

They could get around the moon but never got on the moon.

Capricorn One

Three astronauts are about to launch into space on the first mission to Mars. But when a mechanical failure surfaces that would kill the three men, NASA removes them from the Capricorn One capsule. To prevent a public outcry, NASA launches the capsule unmanned and requires the astronauts to film fake mission footage in a studio. However, the plan is compromised when an ambitious journalist discovers the conspiracy.

No Orbit Belief

We did not get anything in orbit of the earth.


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