2+moon+landing

 Flag-
 * FACT VS OPINION & COMPARISONS:**
 * Opinion: The American flag appears, in the photo below, to be flapping as if "in a breeze" in videos and photographs supposedly taken from the airless lunar surface, says the people of National Geographic.
 * Fact: "The video you see where the flag's moving is because the astronaut just placed it there, and the inertia from when they let go kept it moving," said spaceflight historian Roger Launius, of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.



 Footprints- Hollywood Spoof- l  Shadows- 
 * Opinion: In pictures it is clearly visible that there are footprints in the moon like the moon has wet sand material but it is really bone dry
 * Fact: the moon sand is "like a finely ground powder. When you look at it under a microscope, it almost looks like volcanic ash. So when you step on it, it can compress very easily into the shape of a boot."
 * Opinion: In pictures like this one below, it is opinionated that the glare is a production set and lights
 * Fact: "it's highly unlikely NASA would make such an obvious blunder if they had spent millions of dollars to fake the moon landing," Plait said.
 * Opinion: Hoax subscribers suggest that the shadows on the moon aren't parallel and they do not line up in line with one another, and in a picture the man is seen when he's in the shadow and is clearly visible. They say that he should be able to be seen.
 * Fact: Lanius states that there are multiple light sources coming from all around the moon. There is no way that only one shadow would appear and the man in the picture would be able to be seen seeing how there is more than one source of light. "You've got the sun, the Earth's reflected light, light reflecting off the lunar module, the spacesuits, and also the lunar surface," Lanius said.

The Moon From Earth-  
 * Opinion: Many new instruments have been made such as the Hubble Space Telescope, this would enable scientists to peer into the distance and see objects on the surface of the moon. But no such pictures are of existence.
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Fact: No telescope on earth or in space has that kind of high resolve or magnification. It is simply impossible to view anything smaller than maybe a large house.
 * CAUSE AND EFFECT:**

During the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, a space race took place. In October of 1957, the Soviet Union started the space race by launching the first satellite into space called Sputnik. The Cold War was like a competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to see who could be better. Since the Soviets went into space, the Unite States had to as well. The effect of the launching of the Sputnik was the United States trying to get into space. In 1958 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was created. On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first people to walk on the moon. Having the astronauts land and walk on the moon was an effect of the Cold War and Sputnik. Many pictures were taken on the moon and that lead to the disbelief that the pictures were faked and no one visited the moon. The pictures taken had shadows that some people did not believe were in the right places. There was also a picture where the flag on the moon was waving and people believed that it was faked since there was no wind on the moon. The pictures of the moon exploration lead to disbelief of the entire moon landing.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">There are only two ways the moon landing could have happened. They either landed on the moon or they did not. By looking in the Fact and Opinion section, all the ways that they did not land on the moon are opinion. For the situation of not landing on the moon, the ideas presented would have to be fact but they are not. The alternate of not landing on the moon could have been done to try to take the easy way out and still beat Russia in the Cold War's Space Race. However, the conspiracy of not landing on the moon can be eliminated due to the fact that there are no facts to prove the theory. the only alternative left is that the United States landed on the moon.
 * ALTERNATE:**

<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> There are two sides to the moon landing, landing or not landing. All the not landing theories are based off pictures taken from the moon or what the theorists believe is a movie set made to trick the Russians. The not landing theorists say that a flag shouldn't be waving, a shadow shouldn't be there, the lighting isn't right, or footprints shouldn't be on the surface. All those opinions are found to be false when they are explained. The inertia causes a flag to wave, the shadow and lighting is different on the moon, and the surface allows for footprints to be made. It is obvious from the research that the Apollo 11 did land on the moon.
 * CONCLUSIONS:**

http://www.kidport.com/REFLIB/Science/MoonLanding/MoonLanding.htm http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0900/frameset_reset.htmlhttp://www.nebraskastudies.org/0900/stories/0901_0105.html http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/AS11/a11.htm <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/photogalleries/apollo-moon-landing-hoax-pictures/index.html
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