The document discusses the Apollo missions to land astronauts on the Moon from 1969-1972. It provides details of the Apollo 11 mission, which was the first to land astronauts on the lunar surface in 1969. Some claim the moon landings were faked, citing issues like the waving flag, lack of impact craters, and unusual shadows. The document counters several of these claims and provides NASA's explanations for the perceived anomalies. It also notes the technological and political context of the space race with the Soviet Union.

1. THE GREAT CONTROVERSY ON
NASA MOON LANDING
Prepared By: Sagar Kumar

2. The Apollo Missions :
 Designed to land humans on the Moon and
bring them safely back to Earth
 Six of the missions (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16,
and 17) achieved this goal
 Apollo 7 and 9 were Earth orbiting missions to
test the Command and Lunar Modules
 Apollo 8 and 10 tested various components
while orbiting the Moon
 Apollo 13 did not land on the Moon due to a
malfunction

3. Some Known facts : APOLLO 11
 Lunar Module : “ Eagle “
 Command Module : Columbia
 Crew : Neil Armstrong , Commander
Edwin Aldrin , Lunar Module pilot
Michael Collins,
Command Module pilot
Continued…..

4.  Launch : July 16 , 1969 Kennedy Space Center
 Landing : July 20 , 1969 Sea ofTranquility
 First Step : July 21 , 1969
 Returned Earth : July 24 , 1969

5. “ That’s one small step for men
and a gaint leap for mankind “
 Armstrong and Aldrin were the first
astronauts to successfully land the Lunar
Module (LM) Eagle on the Moon .
 Collins orbited in the Command and
Service Module (CSM) Columbia.

6. From Where it all Started :
THE CONTROVERSY
 Bill Kaysing claimed that the chance of a
successful landing on the moon was 0.0017% ,
this information appears to be a report prepared
by the Rocketdyne company in the late 1950s
 Every Apollo mission before number 11 was
plagued by about 20,000 defects apiece
 in 1968, Stanley Kubrick, making his
masterpiece, “2001: A Space Odyssey” before
the moon landing in 1969
Continued…..

7.  US - Russian ( then USSR ) hurdle to win the
space race . Since Russia had already send a
drone to moon in 1959
 In 2001 , Fox television network broadcast :
ConspiracyTheory: DidWe Land on the Moon?
which claimed NASA faked the first landing

8. Ten reasons that moon
landing could be a hoax…

9. THE WAVING FLAG
NASA COUNTER : Flag was stored in thin tube &
so ripple effect caused this waving flag effecct

10. The lack of impact crater
NASA COUNTER :The surface of moon itself is rock
solid, so a blast crater probably wouldn’t be feasible
anyway….

11. Multiple light sources
NASA COUNTER : Due to uneven landscape on
strange shadow

12. The Van Allen radiation belt
NASA COUNTER :The short amount of time it took
the astronauts to traverse the belt

13. The unexplained object
NASA COUNTER :The poor quality of
photographs.
So the object remains still unexplained

14. Slow motion walking
and hidden cables
NASA COUNTER : Hidden cables and wires are
suggested to give astronauts extra height

15. Lack of stars
NASA COUNTER :The quality of photograph
washes them out

16. The C rock
NASA COUNTER : It may simply have been a stray
hair which got tangled up somewhere in
developing process

17. The layered cross hairs
NASA COUNTER :The cameras used by astronauts
during moon landing had a multitude of cross-hairs
to aid with scaling and direction

18. The duplicate backdrop
NASA COUNTER : Since the moon is smaller than
Earth horizons can appears significantly closer to
human eyes