Moon Landing
It’s the 1960’s and America was at war. Thousands of Americans were dieing in a conflict that most people didn’t even understand. Russia was dominating the space race five-one. It seemed America was now at the bottom of the world power spectrum. America needed something to be proud of so in 1969 we decided to land on the moon. It put hope in people’s lives and smiles on children’s faces. Although the moon landing was a landmark event for America, decades later many skeptics believe it never happened.The first evidence used by the skeptics is the picture of the American flag “waving in the breeze” on the moons surface. There is no air on the moon’s surface, nor is there any atmosphere to hold it if there was (Sibrel 4). So how does the flag flutter? It has to be fake. Secondly, about 20 miles from the Earth, there is a radiation belt named the Van Allen belt. Supposedly no human can get through this belt. If you tried than you would get hit with a dangerous, even lethal amount of radiation (Overstreet). The Space crafts had to go through these belts and there was no way the ships could afford to take all the weight of lead shielding with them (Moo
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Some common words found in the essay are:
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Approximate Word count = 799
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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