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NASA Landed On Moon: Star Landing Was Not A Hoax?
NASA LANDED ON MOON: MANNED LUNAR LANDING WAS NOT A HOX

A Term Paper

Presented to

Dr. Paul Ellison

San Francisco State University

In Partial Fulfillment

of the Requirements for

LCA 514: Preparation for Graduate Writing

by

Onkar Chaubal

December 2015

On July 20, 1969 lunar manned landing was made by NASA. Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon. I am not saying that this was true based on the information provided by books or media, but can also be proved. There any many people, ‘conspiracy theorist’ who says that the lunar manned mission by NASA was a hoax. So, my paper will show that the lunar manned mission was made, NASA landed on moon.

“That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
- Neil Armstrong

The above statement is one of the most famous statements said by Neil Armstrong on his Apollo 11 mission on the Moon. There are people who say that this
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In the photograph we can see some wave like wrinkles on the American Flag. So the conspiracy theorists claim that the flag is not having any wrinkles but in fact the flag is waving. According to them the place where the photograph was taken is not on the Moon but it’s on the Earth itself. There is no atmosphere on the Moon; hence there is no flow of wind thus the flag should not wave. For this the answer is very simple. No one can say if the flag is waving or not by just looking at a single photograph. We need to look at the video clip taken at that time. In the video clip itself we can see clearly that the American Flag was rolled in a tube, and Neil Armstrong had removed it from the tube straighten it, and at that time there were wrinkles on it which stayed in the same pattern from start to end, and the flag was not waving. So, for this I would say that conspiracy theorists have used their knowledge but had lack of data or

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