Was Neil Armstrong's moon landing a hoax?

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THE Apollo moon landing in 1969 was an elaborate hoax and a pivotal part of the cold war between the USA and the Soviet Union.

These are the claims of a North Wales aircraft designer and aerospace expert, published for the first time today.

In an exclusive interview before his death last year, Concorde designer Ray Noble told the Free Press that after half a lifetime investigating the Apollo Moon landings, he concluded that the ‘giant leap for mankind’ was a complete fake.

His controversial views are supported by thousands of other conspiracy theorists across the world.

Ray, who lived for 20 years near Llansannan, claimed that the world’s greatest hoax was conceived after Russia fired Yuri Gagarin into space in 1961.

At an emergency meeting of Congress, President Kennedy responded with an ultimate facesaver: to put a man on the Moon at a project cost of 40 billion dollars.

“And within seven years, with quite primitive technology by today’s standards, the USA achieved the dream with the Apollo 11 moonshot in 1969,” said Ray.

“This was pivotal in the cold war… and just as important as the Berlin Air Lift or the Bay of Pigs, in the battle of supremacy between the USA and USSR,” he added.

And official NASA photographs and film footage are the only proof that the Eagle ever really landed in 1969.

And Ray believed the pictures are fake.

For a start, he said the relayed TV footage from the moon was blurred and very poor quality. This was deliberate, claimed Ray, so that nobody could properly examine the detail.

By contrast, the still photos were stunning.

And that, according to Ray, is the real unanswered puzzle.
The astronauts took hundreds of pictures, each one perfectly exposed and sharply focused.

And their film stock was unaffected by the powerful radiation on the Moon… conditions that should have made it useless.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin managed to adjust their cameras, change film and swap filters in pressurised suits. It should have been almost impossible with the gloves on their fingers.

Also in the pictures themselves the shadows could only have been created with multiple light sources and powerful spotlights, claimed Ray.

But the only light source on the Moon was the sun.

The American flag and the words United States are always brightly lit, even when everything around is in shadow.

“If the pictures are fake, then we only have NASA's word that man ever went to the Moon,” said Ray.

But the conspiracy doesn’t stop there. Outer space is awash with deadly radiation that emanates from solar flares from the sun.

For protection of the astronauts would have needed shielding at least two metres thick.

Yet the walls of the lunar landers which took astronauts from the spaceship to the moon’s surface were, said NASA, about the thickness of heavy duty aluminium foil.

“Part of my design work on Concorde back in the 1960s was on heat shielding and even from jet engines that has to be significant,” said Ray.

“So for us to believe that the lunar landers could get away with just Bacofoil as shielding is simply beyond belief,” he added.

Ray Noble died aged 78 years in October 2008.

Ten conspiracy space oddities

1) When the astronauts are putting up the American flag it waves.

There is no wind on the Moon.

2) One NASA picture from Apollo 11 is looking up at Neil Armstrong about to take hisgiant step for mankind.

If Armstrong was the first man on the Moon, then who took the shot?

3) No blast crater is visible in the pictures taken of the lunar landing module.

4) The landing module weighs 17 tons and yet sits on top of the sand making no impression. Next to it astronauts’ footprints can be seen in the sand.

5) The footprints in the fine lunar dust, with no moisture or atmosphere or strong gravity, are unexpectedly well preserved, as if made in wet sand.

6) When the landing module takes off from the Moon’s surface there is no visible flame from the rocket.

7) If you speed up the film of the astronauts walking on the Moon’s surface they look like they were filmed on Earth and slowed down.

8) The astronauts could not have survived the trip because of exposure to radiation from the Van Allen radiation belt.

9) The pressure inside a space suit was greater than inside a football. The astronauts should have been puffed out like the Michelin Man, but were seen freely bending their joints.

10) All six Moon landings happened during the Nixon presidency. No other national leader has claimed to have landed astronauts on the Moon, despite 40 years of rapid technological development.