Editor, Times-Union: Have you ever wondered if NASA really did send men to the moon? Well I have. My name is Luis Duenas; I am a sophomore at Warsaw Community High School in Indiana. I am writing a persuasive essay that I hope will one day come out in the newspaper. I am writng about NASA and how I don’t really think they sent men to the moon. I am not dissing them or anything; I just don’t believe the fact that they say that they did go to the moon. I have been researching a lot and I have found many pictures that they “supposedly” took on the moon, and I have found that all these pictures can’t be “real” pictures because all of these pictures show random and unreal things. So I hope after reading what I have researched you will think twice about believing if NASA did really send men to the moon or not.
The first picture that I saw that NASA claims that’s real is a picture that shows the American flag on the moon. The only problem with this picture is that it shows the flag waving and as you might know there is no air and most certainly no breeze in outer space. This really got me thinking because if there is no air in outer space why is the flag waving?
Another picture I found shows the footprints of the astronauts especially Neil Armstrong’s. The problem with this one is that how can footprints be possible if there is no dust on the moon? This can’t be possible because the moon’s surface is hard and very rocky, therefore making footprints impossible.
There was another image taken and this one shows no stars on the background. If you can see stars from the earth, wouldn’t it be easier to see them from outer space? My point here is that if you capture photos from the moon you must be able to see some stars from the background. It wouldn’t matter what direction you would take the picture. Two other images show earth from the moon. In one image the earth is closer than the other image. The question is which one is correct?
Now the main pictures that really got many people’s and my attention were the shadows that certain pictures show. Now the only source of light on the moon is the sun. The only problem with all these images is that the shadows shown appear in multiple directions not only in one. Didn’t NASA know that technology would advance and people wouldn’t notice?
I’m really trying to prove a point here, and that point is that I don’t believe that NASA sent men to the moon because of these images that I have seen. Well at least not now. The only way to find out if they did go to the moon is to prove that the American flag is still on the moon. That is the only proof that they can show the world. I hope this article really got you thinking about what NASA is capable of doing. You don’t have to believe it; I just hope it gets more people thinking.
