May 20, 2022 Don’t Believe This: TOP 5 Crazy Space Myths Where there is at least the slightest share of the inexplicable, conspiracy theorists appear, who seek out the slightest inconsistencies to confirm their erroneous ideas. Such ideas are harmful because they mislead many people, undermining the credibility of academic science. Despite the fact that science can also be wrong, nevertheless it has managed to expose many of the conspiracy theories. Aliens and UFOs, the green surface of Mars, the theory of the ether — this is just part of what is easily refuted by a couple of solid scientific facts. But there are well-established conspiracy theories that many people continue to believe in, despite the fact they have long been myths and repeatedly refuted by scientists and experts. We have compiled the TOP 5 most popular conspiracy theories about space, which for some reason continue to be believed. Lunar Conspiracy The Moon Conspiracy is one of the most popular conspiracy theories Initiated by John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the Apollo lunar program achieved its goal of landing a man on the surface of the Moon by the end of the 60s. As the American president said: “We will do it not because it is easy, but because it is difficult”. Alas, Kennedy never managed to see how Neil Armstrong took a small step on the surface of the Moon, which turned out to be a huge leap for humanity. Nevertheless, the Apollo program was very successful — 12 astronauts visited the surface of our natural moon in the period from 1969 to 1972. All their landing sites were subsequently found by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and published photos that are iron proof of a man’s stay on the Moon. However, there are a huge number of people who believe that astronauts did not land on the Moon. This myth is called the “Lunar Conspiracy”. Its supporters are sure that the entire Apollo program was staged. Why are there no stars in the sky in the photos? Why are US flags flying on the surface? Why do you see traces of astronauts in the pictures, and not traces of landed lunar modules? Edwin Aldrin on the Moon. In his helmet, you can see the reflection of Neil Armstrong. Source: NASA The answers to these questions are simpler than you might think. There are no stars in the sky for the same reason that you don’t see stars during the day on Earth — the bright glow of daylight on the surface eclipses them, and insufficient exposure of photographic equipment also interfered. The flags of the United States, installed in the lunar soil, had metal rods sewn into them to create the impression of a flapping in the wind flag — in an airless and windless space, such a flag would simply not unfold. And the lunar modules, although heavier, did not leave noticeable traces on the surface, because their mass was distributed more evenly than the weight of astronauts in heavy boots. All the myths have been exposed for a long time, it’s just that people still don’t want to recognize the success of the Apollo mission as a fact. And this myth will live on for a very long time. NASA — Fiction A huge number of famous and successful NASA missions, from Mercury and Apollo to Voyager and Curiosity/Perseverance with a huge database of scientific data, do not seem to be proof for adherents of the myth that the aerospace administration supposedly does not exist. Some people seriously believe that the whole function of NASA is not to explore space, but to create space-related hoaxes in order to simply “legally” distribute an inflated budget among officials. Drawing the NASA logo on the Electron rocket, which will be used to launch the CAPSTONE mission. Source: Rocket Lab If you search Twitter for publications with the hashtag #NASAhoax, you can find numerous followers of this myth. They will prove to you that no rockets have ever flown into space, and amazing satellite images of Mars, Pluto and even the Earth are “photoshop” or beautiful computer graphics. The NASA special effects #nasahoax pic.twitter.com/6L426LaBll — Kusum Lata (@kusumlatathakur) December 28, 2021 In fact, NASA was created in 1958 to study the problems of flights in the Earth’s atmosphere and beyond. The creation of the space agency was initiated by then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower. It was a response to the unexpected success of the Soviet Union in launching an artificial Earth satellite in 1957. NASA helped the United States enter the space race and even win it. Since then, the Aerospace Administration has launched thousands of satellites, and its spacecraft have visited every planet in the Solar System, some even plunged into the atmosphere or descended to the surface of alien worlds. NASA also sends astronauts into orbit, where they conduct useful research for humanity on the International Space Station (ISS). Open the Google Maps app on your smartphone — your location is determined by the global positioning satellite system. Without NASA, such a project could not exist in principle. The myth is destroye...