I am intrigued by the fact that if Man could land on the Moon vide Apollo 11 mission on 20th July 1969, why not in recent times such Moon Landings have not taken place. After 5 succeessful missions to the Moon till 1972, suddenly there was a lull in Moon Mission. If the Americans can land on the moon 5 times why not some other nation like former USSR, or Great Britian, China or even India. Indian Chandrayan mission a few days back was aborted after successfully oribitting the Moon. This has proved to be a dampner to the Indian scientific community.
There is a popular perception that US moon landing was a fulfillment of Kennedy's dream for sake of American public. By the turn of this decade that Man Americans will be landing on the moon uttered Kenndy.. During the cold war days missile development program was strongly opposed in general by public and politicians of the time. Russians were off the block first with, Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to have seen the outer space on 12th April 1961, which triggered panic buttons in US that the Russians might over take them in mission to land man on the moon.
The interesting anecdote of Gagarin's experience on the flight was the utterance that the Earth was blue and how wonderful and amazing........ He was also quoted out of context by Khrushchev that Gagarin flew into outerspace and he didn't see any God there taking a pot shot at believers. Gagarin being baptised in church could never have uttered such blashmey confirmed Colonol in his justification.
Some of the interesting findings have been beautifully captured in various interviews among experts in the fake moon landing videos posted on the youtube. In fact Moon Landing has clearly proved the superiority of the Hollywood studio production capabalities with space odessey as a theme which was conceived for a film. The photography added to visual effects by superior lens created by Carl Zeiss, accordingly enabled to capture crystal clear images, which may never have been released to the market in view of its strategic importance. There is an interesting quote by one of the authoritative sources, that it was promised if hollywood can pull of the Moon Landing we would ensure that one of their fellowmen would also become the President. Behold it was a prohecy come true and so did the cowboy actor legend Mr Ronald Regan become the President of US in 1981. Dictionaries released in 1980 predicted that Mr Ronald Regan would be a sure shot the Prez. His approval rating are amongst the highest for all time Presidents.
The Soviets lost out in the race to the moon with a major accident, when their shuttle blew up on the launch pad, destroying all the facilities, setting them back ages in the race for the moon. The cold war was taking its toll on the USSR, and they instead focussed on build up of their army instead of focussing on the elusive moon landing. Missile program and star wars became their focus instead.
Cuban Missile crisis was the worst moment in the cold war regime. Soviets had sneaked in war heads into Cuban territory as a retaliation for the Jupiter missiles placed in Turkey. The US admn was taken by surprise, that they were not able to discover such a deployment which would jeaopardise their national security. The Cuban dictator was warning USSR its allies, that US might use all its forces to destroy the missile in Cuba, before deployment. He wanted USSR to undertake premptive strikes on US. But luckily sanity prevailed and USSR proposed that US remove the Jupiter Missiles and in turn they will dismantle their Nuclear war heads in Cuba. But in the propaganda war US had a morale victory since their public was not made known of removal of war head from Turkey. It was a major disaster which could have lead to III world war, which was averted by Robert Kennedy and Krushchev giving peace a priority rather than Nuclear annihilation. This particular fact was analysed in the Cuban crisis summit.
It is absolutely surprising that even after the collapse of USSR as an aftermath of Glasnost, that China has not embarked on the moon mission. I sometimes wonder whether the Moon mission was a successful antidote to the cold war hostility. The Moon mission itself was a clever ploy to de-escalate the Nuclear war head crisis. China is fully focussed on its weapon deployment program steadfastedly more as a deterrant. There is no threat for China, except for a miniscule one from North Korea.
The Moon Mission of Indians have failed, and thankfully so the resources can now be diverted to other economic building activity. Satellite launch programs will be on-going to keep the huge space organisation intact. Can we witness any further attempts to land on the moon ?
Whether it is really worth to land on the moon and collect some rock samples. Is it going to really yield any commercial benefits. The much hyped Helium gases being present on the moon. Helium is touted to be a panecea for power generation problems. How far can we succeed in harnessing the green gas, whether technologically it is feasible is a key question ?
In conclusion the world will never get to know whether Moon Landing has taken place in reality. Was it just another trip to the outer space and back to the Ocean. Techonology seems to be developing rapidly but the key question is whether US would like to make one more attempt at the MOON in current scenario. What is the motivation ? There is no cold war type of scenario, nor Missile crisis, nor carrot in the form of Helium. At least we can be happy with the feel good factor that Man was on the moon................courtsey SFX. It is difficult debunk the hoax moon landing but till it is proved otherwise, let us respect the sentiment of the scientific community and give it to Americans the credit for Moon landing.
Courtsey : Wiki
Kennedy's goal was accomplished during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969 with the landing of astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, while Michael Collins orbited above. Five subsequent Apollo missions also landed astronauts on the Moon, the last one in December 1972. In these six Apollo spaceflights twelve men walked on the Moon. These are the only times humans have landed on another celestial body. The Apollo program, specifically the lunar landings, is often cited as the greatest technological achievement in human history
Ack : Wiki
Please check out the official version of the Moon Landing
ACK : Video courtsey Youtube
Disclaimer : This conspiracy theory may not hold water in test of time. The proofs are not conclusive, but it make an interesting fiction like reading and watching. So guys just enjoy the show.
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