The Man on the Moon? 帶我去月球？

In July 1969, people around the world witnessed America’s greatest achievement: NASA succeeded in landing a man on the moon, and in the effort, won its space race against the USSR. Millions of people were breathlessly watching black-and-white images of Neil Armstrong bounding across a rocky landscape. But did these millions actually witness a man on the moon?

Many people believe in a lunar conspiracy: that the U.S. government filmed the Apollo missions in a movie studio. Conspiracy theorists doubt that NASA had technology advanced enough to send a rocket to the moon, considering that, in those days, simple calculating computers were as big as houses and were very slow. Even today, rocket scientists are unable to fire a rocket and have it land upright. Conspiracy theorists are curious: How can NASA claim to have done just that in the 1960s?

Seeing is believing, but it is the pictures NASA used as proof of the lunar landing that have raised questions. NASA took the now-famous pictures of Neil Armstrong planting a waving American flag on the moon. But considering that the moon has no atmosphere, and thus no wind, how can the flag be waving?

More doubt about the truth of the lunar landing comes from NASA’s claim that it used regular slide film to take pictures on the moon. Conspiracy theorists point out two problems with this claim: Normal film will freeze and shatter if it gets colder than minus 20 degrees Celsius; it gets much colder than that on the moon. Secondly, there are high levels of radiation in space. Since film is sensitive to radiation (film is not even supposed to be put through the X-ray machines at an airport) how did NASA end up with pictures unaffected by it? Conspiracy theorists would like to know. ...

1969年7月，全世界的人目睹了美國(guó)歷史上最偉大的成就：“美國(guó)國(guó)家航空航天局”（NASA）成功地實(shí)現(xiàn)了人類(lèi)登月，這項(xiàng)壯舉使美國(guó)在太空競(jìng)賽中領(lǐng)先于蘇聯(lián)。數(shù)百萬(wàn)觀眾屏息拭目觀看尼爾·阿姆斯特朗躍過(guò)巖丘景觀的黑白畫(huà)面。但是這數(shù)百萬(wàn)觀眾真的目睹了在月球上的人嗎？

許多人相信有一個(gè)“月亮陰謀”：美國(guó)政府在一座電影攝影棚里拍攝了阿波羅登月的任務(wù)?？紤]到那時(shí)光簡(jiǎn)單運(yùn)算用的電腦大如房屋而且速度很慢，陰謀論者懷疑NASA當(dāng)時(shí)是否已掌握足夠先進(jìn)的科技將火箭發(fā)射至月球。甚至在今天，火箭科學(xué)家仍無(wú)法發(fā)射火箭讓它筆直地登陸月球。陰謀論者好奇的是：NASA怎么能在60年代就聲稱(chēng)他們已成功做到了呢？

眼見(jiàn)為實(shí)，但正是NASA用作證據(jù)的登月照片引起了質(zhì)疑。NASA拍攝了尼爾·阿姆斯特朗在月球插上飄揚(yáng)的美國(guó)國(guó)旗這張如今舉世聞名的照片。但是想想月球上沒(méi)有大氣，因此也沒(méi)有風(fēng)，國(guó)旗又如何能飄揚(yáng)起來(lái)呢？

更多關(guān)于登陸月球真相的疑惑來(lái)自NASA聲稱(chēng)他們是用普通幻燈片在月球上拍攝的。陰謀論者對(duì)此提出兩點(diǎn)疑問(wèn)：一般的底片若置于攝氏零下20度會(huì)凍結(jié)而破裂；月球上的溫度更低。第二，太空中有強(qiáng)烈的輻射。既然底片對(duì)輻射非常敏感（底片甚至不應(yīng)該被機(jī)場(chǎng)的X光機(jī)檢驗(yàn)），NASA又如何能拍出這些不受輻射影響的照片？這是陰謀論者想知道的…