On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon.
Armstrong’s departure from his spacecraft and stepping into the unknown territory of the moon has gone down in history as one of the most significant steps mankind has ever taken, but some question its legitimacy.
Alex Stein He is one of them, so he’s talking to former NASA engineer Charles Buehler to find out the answers.
“Why is it that in the ’60s we were able to go to the moon with Apollo rockets, and today we don’t have rockets that can go to the moon, or at least send humans? What’s going on? Why is space technology regressing?” Stein asks Buehler.
“I think the biggest reason is for a couple of reasons. You know, 50 years ago, NASA had 10 percent of the federal budget. Today, NASA has less than 1 percent of the federal budget,” Buehler explained.
He also blames the lack of serious competition.
“We don’t have a traditional space race anymore like we did with the Russians in the 1960s,” he said. “Now we rely on companies. NASA is funding a lot of companies to run a space race. For space enthusiasts, this is very exciting.”
Buehler said Artemis 2 is a spacecraft that is expected to send astronauts into lunar orbit as early as next year.
“Charles, they always say we’ll put a man on the moon next year, and the year after that we’ll land a man on the moon. They’ve been saying that for 50 years,” Stein counters.
When Stein pressed Buehler about whether the moon landings were faked and, if so, why, Charles replied that they were “obviously” not faked.
He points to moon rocks in NASA labs as evidence that the moon landing really did happen, but Stein was prepared for that, pointing to a moon rock donated by Neil Armstrong to a museum in the Netherlands.
It was later discovered that the rock was a fake, made of petrified wood.
“I heard there are moon rocks in Antarctica,” Stein asked, before adding, “So you can’t get moon rocks on Earth?”
“That’s absolutely true,” Buehler said. “Every time there’s an impact, Martian rocks fall to Earth. It’s possible.”
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