Ruby anniversary of Moon Landing

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," Armstrong's words are etched in history 40 years ago in spite of the exciting legend surrounding the 1969 'Eagle' lunar module landing when Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin became the first men to 'moon-walk' while Michael Collins orbited above, on July 20 1969.

The whole episode that an estimated 500 million people watched worldwide was the largest television audience for a live broadcast at that time even though Sri Lanka still didn't run a television channel. However, whether people believe it or not, we have to accept the fact that landing on the moon is one of the oldest dreams of the human race.

The memorable mission fulfilled President John F. Kennedy's goal of reaching the moon by the end of the 1960s, where he gave a speech before a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961 obviously due to the fact that they wanted to beat the U.S.S.R. to the chase. He said, "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth,"

The Russians played space roulette with the Americans by sending the first artificial satellites into orbit, beginning with the 184-pound (83.5-kilogram) Sputnik I in October 1957. Not ready to give up yet, the Soviets followed that success a month later with Laika the dog who was the first animal in space but she died a few hours after launch.

They started becoming serious clinching the title of first man in space in April 1961 when Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made a 108-minute suborbital flight in a Vostok 1 spacecraft that returned safely to Earth.

Even though the first crew to land on the moon were public figures with commander Neil Armstrong converting to Islam, astronaut Buzz Aldrin became a more highly-publicized individual who described the "magnificent desolation" of the lunar landscape.

It was reported that he was the first person on the moon to urinate.

In 2001, Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin made the trip to Sri Lanka to visit legendary British science fiction author, inventor, futurist, and predictor Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE.

As this year marks the 40th anniversary of the first ever moon landing, NASA is currently streaming the original mission audio on their website in real time.

At the moment, they are in the process of restoring the original video footage and have released a preview of the highlights.

A group of British scientists interviewed as part of the anniversary events reflected on the significance of the moon landing: "It was carried out in a technically brilliant way with risks taken that would be inconceivable in the risk-averse world of today.

The Apollo program is arguably the greatest technical achievement of mankind to date and nothing since Apollo has come close the excitement that was generated by those astronauts - Armstrong, Aldrin and the 10 others who followed them".

Apollo Moon Landing hoax theories are claims that some elements of the Apollo Moon landings were faked by NASA and possibly members of other involved organizations.

Some groups and individuals have advanced various theories which tend, to varying degrees, to include suggestions that the Apollo astronauts did not land on the Moon, that NASA and possibly others intentionally deceived the public into believing the landings did occur by manufacturing, destroying, or tampering with evidence, including photos, telemetry tapes, transmissions, and rock samples, and that the deception continues to this day.

There is abundant independent evidence for Apollo Moon landings and these conspiracy theories have been generally discredited. Some of the major explanations of it are:

A model of the moon is used for the Apollo 11 descent footage. Anyone with basic knowledge of motion pictures can see it's a fake moon.

Another example is the Lunar Ascent Module footage.

It depicts a rotation that immediately commences at full speed, and after rotation, immediately stops. There is absolutely no indication of a drop off in speed or a gradual acceleration, as Newton's law of motion would necessitate. In addition, there are problems with the descent of at least two LEMs as well, as can be seen to the left in the Apollo 17 footage.

The Means and the Motive

Does life imitate art, or art imitate life - or is it possible that sometimes art simulates and manipulates life? Some have claimed that Stanley Kubrick was involved in the production of the Apollo EVAs. And not long ago, a Canadian, tongue-in-cheek film was produced to make a mockery of this claim.

In addition, since the 1950's Walt Disney was recruited to create widespread public acceptance of a very expensive trip to the moon, as well as the public approval of a group of war criminals, led by Wernher von Braun.

The result was widespread disinformation, but the end motive is not all together clear. One must ask, "Was the space race itself a fabrication, set up by those behind what Eisenhower called the "Military Industrial Complex"?

"Moon" Rocks.

Wernher von Braun, a German with the honorary rank equivalent of a major in Hitler's SS, took a team to Antarctica, while he was supposed to be perfecting Apollo's Saturn V rocket. This man signed papers to permit the use of slave labourers to build his V2 rockets, and over 20,000 people suffered daily and eventually died under his supervision.

In addition, he sent countless V2 rockets into the heart of London - with plans to do so to Washington DC, New York and Philadelphia. If he and his team were capable of such inhuman activities, it is clearly not a leap in logic to say they would have no problem continuing their unethical practices in this country as well. How? By falsifying the greatest purported evidence we have today for the manned landings by collecting meteorites to be later modified in a ceramic lab into forged moon rocks.

Some say, we have tiny moon-made spheres!

But these could have just as easily been collected by the unmanned probes we sent to the moon's surface.

Courtesy: www.moonmovie.com