Vance Licht
MOON LANDING..FAKE?
THINGS PEOPLE HAVE THOUGHT TO MAKE THE
MOON LANDING FALSE.
Apparent “wind” blowing on the moon?
 Two beams of light from spotlights supposed to
be the sun.
 Footprints staying on the moon’s surface when
there is no moisture on the moon whatsoever.
 TV report in England of the US using a studio
with apparent “astronauts”.
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THE SPACE RACE
The space race was one thing that the US was
determined to win, but it was going to be
expensive and risky. JFK famously stated that
we chose to go because it was hard.
 The main reason for going to the moon was the
Cold War. The Soviets would’ve “cried foul” if
NASA tried to cheat their way to the moon.
Proving a hoax would’ve been a huge win for
the Soviets.
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FUNDING
It was rumored that NASA faked the moon
landings to prevent further humiliation and to keep
receiving funding.
 NASA raised about $30 Billion to go to the Moon.
Some claim it was used to “pay off” many people.
 NASA would not have risked the public humiliation
of astronauts crashing to their deaths on the lunar
surface, broadcast on live TV.
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VIETNAM WAR
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It is claimed that the
landings helped the US
government because
they were a popular
distraction from the
Vietnam War; and so
manned landings
suddenly ended about
the same time that the
US ended its role in the
Vietnam War.
CONSPIRACISTS AND THEIR THEORIES
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Bill Kaysing says: Despite
close monitoring by the
USSR, it would have been
easier for NASA to fake
the Moon landings,
thereby guaranteeing
success, than for NASA to
really go there. He
claimed that the chance
of a successful manned
landing on the Moon was
calculated to be 0.017%.
EXAMINATION OF HOAX CLAIMS
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The foremost idea is that the whole manned
landing program was a hoax from start to end.
Some claim that the technology to send men to
the Moon was lacking or that the Van Allen
radiation belts, solar flares, solar wind, coronal
mass ejections and cosmic rays made such a
trip impossible.
MOON LANDING ISN’T FAKE
Jim Scotti claims that all the details and events
that took place on the moon fit together much
too well to be faked in anyway.
 While Mr. Overstreet thinks that the moon
landings were faked. Their argument is quite
compelling and the facts against the moon
landing in it are very minimal as compared to
the arguments for the moon landing.
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CITATIONS
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"Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
Web. 20 Sept. 2011.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories>.
"The Great Moon Hoax." NASA Science. Web. 20 Sept. 2011.
<http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-atnasa/2001/ast23feb_2/>.
"Hard Evidence against Moon Landing, Page 1." AboveTopSecret.com Conspiracy Theories, UFOs, Paranormal, Political Madness, and Other
"Alternative Topics" Web. 20 Sept. 2011.
<http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread7318/pg1>.
Cnn, Brandon Griggs. "Could Moon Landings Have Been Faked? Some Still
Think so - CNN." Featured Articles from CNN. 17 July 2009. Web. 20 Sept.
2011. <http://articles.cnn.com/2009-0717/tech/moon.landing.hoax_1_moon-landing-apollo-astronauts-billkaysing?_s=PM:TECH>.