Did America land on the moon?

 

Bill Kaising, a former Navy officer with a Bachelor of Arts in English, published a self-contained book on the subject of the moon landing plot called We Never Went to the Moon: The US Thirty Billion Dollar Hoax (2) in 1976. [7] Bill Kaising was employed as a technical writer by Rocketdyne, the company that built the F-1 engines used in the Saturn 5, despite his lack of knowledge of missiles or technical writing.[8][9][10] Kaising served as head of the technical publications unit at the company's Propulsion Field Laboratory until 1963. The many claims in Kaesing's book were effectively made that the moon landings were fake.[11][12] The book claimed that the chance of a successful crew landing on the moon was calculated as 0.0017%, and that despite close monitoring from the Soviet Union, it was easier for NASA to fake a moon landing than to actually go there.[13][14] Kaising also monitored and examined NASA's still and moving images about those flights, and what he considered "irrational", according to his opinion.[3]

In 1980, the Flat Earth Society accused NASA of falsifying the landings, arguing that the landings were staged at Hollywood studios and sponsored by Walt Disney, based on a screenplay written by Arthur C. Clarke and directed by Stanley Kubrick. [a][15] Folklore specialist Linda Dave noted that director and writer Peter Hyams' film Capricon One (1978), which depicts a fake trip to Mars with a spacecraft that closely resembles Apollo, is what gave impetus to the popularity of the hoax theory. In the post-Vietnam War era. Dave sees parallels with other behaviors during the post-Watergate era, an era in which American public opinion has tended to disbelieve official accounts. Dave wrote: “The mass media has tossed these half-truths into an area of ​​shadows where public speculation becomes fact. The mass media have a bad influence on people who lack direction.”[16] Similarly, historian Roger Launius sees in his book “The Legacy of Apollo” that the success of conspiracy theorists is based on what he described as our “deep fears,” such as the mistrust of the period generated by the Vietnam War, and the Watergate scandal at the American domestic level, in parallel with hostile sentiments. For the Americans deployed abroad.[4] Andrew Chiken mentioned in his book “Man on the Moon”(3)[17] which was first published in 1994 that at the same time as the Apollo 8 mission to orbit the moon in December of 1968 [18] Similar conspiracy theories were spreading among the general public.[19]