Expert: Jayendra Upadhye - 7/31/2004

Question
hello... i hav heard on tv that the landing of armstrong in moon was not true? but ofcourse i do believe that.. i just wanna clarify them.
thanks!

Answer
Hi,
Raiza, when I was young, I saw the moon photos in Time magazine. I was also very surprised and remember asking one of the grown ups .."But where are the stars"?
To me it was the "glare" from the white moon surface, that was killing the stars..but little did i realise that in vacuum, there is no glare.
Whatever may be the reason, one thing you can be rest assured of, and that is it is IMPOSSIBLE to support a lie of this nature and scale for such a long time.
I am sure there were gunine landings.
When it is so difficult to support alie in our personal lives, imagine how difficult and next to impossible it is to control 1000s of intelligent individuals who worked on the space program. After so many years there would have been an outcry!
There isnt! (except for the sulking conspiracy theorists that is!).
People take pride in the hard work they put in making the program successful.
Have faith! If only for their sakes!
And for your sake too if you are young..
In Hindi, people say "Duniya Ummeeed pe kayam hai!"
The world rests on hope!
And Hope rests on Faith!
Jayen.