Apollo 11 Conspiracy Essay

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NASA is due to release a recording of “music” that the Apollo 10 astronauts are alleged to have heard while orbiting the far side of the moon, according to the International Business Times (1). The incident is suspected to have been classified for 47 years until it was mentioned during a program that recently aired on the Science Channel.

Apollo 10 (2) flew to lunar orbit and back in late May 1969. Thomas Stafford, John Young, and Gene Cernan undertook every aspect of a lunar mission except for the actual landing, with Stafford and Young boarding a lunar module and flying it low over the lunar surface before returning to the Apollo command and service modules.

Young and Cernan would go on to command their own Apollo lunar missions, Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 respectively. Stafford would fly on board the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission. …show more content…

The lunar music story has been around the conspiracy community for some years, as a video from LunaCognita demonstrates (6).

One of the conspiracy theories surrounding the Apollo program, less well known than the “we never went to the moon” theory, involves the idea that the Apollo astronauts made the first contact with aliens during their lunar voyages and that NASA is covering the fact up.

Indeed, the narrative tries to explain why the last three Apollo missions were cancelled by suggesting that the aliens warned Earth humans not to venture to the moon again. The movie “Apollo 18” (7) was based on the premise, in part. The so-called music concert on the far side of the moon fits neatly with this theory.

The real reason we never went back to the moon stemmed from American domestic politics. After the first moon landing, public and political opinion clamored to bring the lunar exploration program to an end to address more earthly concerns, such as poverty and environmental

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