Emma Loren - Moon Landing Conspiracies by Emma Loren https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk Made with good vibes en-us 2017-11-29 13:43:55 UTC 2026-03-19 16:25:40 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Planets.png Overview eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/211391441 Space race, and the United States involvement with Russia (ussr). ]]> 2017-11-29 14:09:24 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/211391441 Governmental Trust eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/211397697 Government is either 'the problem' or 'the solution', depending on one's political left/right leanings]]> 2017-11-29 14:19:04 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/211397697 Possible Thesis eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/211404264 What role did the lack of governmental trust play on the creations of the Apollo Moon Landing conspiracies, and why do people still believe them?]]> 2017-11-29 14:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/211404264 Documentaries and Videos eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/211412685 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd6ekSYpt9w

https://www.netflix.com/watch/80103478?trackId=13752289&tctx=0%2C1%2Cdd831ede0b829c9e844725960e08a9ac04a982b8%3Acdd8beb116212c02d0f0be751d6729eb0ffe26b3]]> 2017-11-29 14:40:41 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/211412685 Article: eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/211414529 https://spacecentre.co.uk/blog-post/know-moon-landing-really-happened/]]> 2017-11-29 14:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/211414529 Resource Page eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/211667912 https://sites.google.com/csw.org/library/topic-guides/uso?authuser=0]]> 2017-11-29 23:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/211667912 3 Assumptions eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/211828592 - NASA was desperate to land on the moon because of the Cold War 
- It was believed the first to land on the moon would win the Cold War 
- People have distrust in this event because of previous encounters with the government. ]]> 2017-11-30 13:37:43 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/211828592 3 Questions eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/211828819 What types of people believe the moon landing is fake? 

What is the "proof" for the conspiracy? 

What are some reasons the government would create the hoax?

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- "In 1964, roughly seventy-five percent of all Americans said they trusted the federal government to do the right thing most of the time"
- Watergate Scandal in 1972 where Nixon staged a FBI break in and Nixon's helpers listened to phone lines and secret papers were stolen, leading Nixon to resign two years later.
- Exposure to media messages promoting government conspiracy theories on distrust in the government
http://www.people-press.org/2015/11/23/1-trust-in-government-1958-2015/
- With in a decade, – a period that included the Vietnam War, civil unrest and the Watergate scandal, governmental 
trust was so weak that the population percentage went from 77% in 1664 to 36% in 1774. 
- The 1960s were a period in which Americans had highly favorable attitudes toward the federal government. In 1964, 64% said that the government was “run for the benefit of all the people,” according to the National Election Study.
- Just 29% said that the government was “pretty much run by a few big interests looking out for themselves.”]]> 2017-12-04 18:40:02 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213010259 What Caused Trust to be Restored? eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213012585 https://medium.com/@monarchjogs/the-decline-of-trust-in-the-united-states-fb8ab719b82a 
- One cause of gained trust is World War II after the United States took a victory. 
- Improved Economy 
- Increased Congressional Approval. 
- 64% said that the government was “run for the benefit of all the people,” 

]]> 2017-12-04 18:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213012585 With 64% Gov. Trust, Why did the Apollo Moon Landings seem impossible? eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213024089 2017-12-04 19:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213024089 Vietnam War and The Moon eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213028848 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories
United States government distract public attention from the unpopular Vietnam War, and so manned landings suddenly ended about the same time that the United States ended its involvement in the war.]]> 2017-12-04 19:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213028848 Moon Landing eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213079605 It was an incredible, unprecedented triumph for NASA and a monumental achievement for humanity in general—and one we haven't bothered to repeat since the end of Apollo.]]> 2017-12-04 21:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213079605 Quote - Nixon eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213339665 “This is the greatest week in the history of the world since Creation.]]> 2017-12-05 15:32:20 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213339665 Landing Quote eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213347662 “Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.” July 20th, 1969, Neil Armstrong ]]> 2017-12-05 15:44:08 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213347662 Conspirists Quote eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213351986 "The conspiracy theorists argue that NASA and others knowingly misled the public into believing the landings happened by manufacturing, destroying, or tampering with evidence; including photos, telemetry tapes, transmissions, rock samples, and even some key witnesses." 

- Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories
by Jesse Russel 
]]> 2017-12-05 15:51:01 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213351986 Thirst for American Patriotism Quote eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213360769 "Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child." - Craig Ferguson 

"American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik." - Buzz Aldrin

]]> 2017-12-05 16:04:45 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213360769 Nevada Desert Quote eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213363492 In 2001, Katie Couric told 'Today Show' audiences that 7 percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened - that it was staged in the Nevada desert." - Annie Jacobson ]]> 2017-12-05 16:08:58 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213363492 Greatest decade Quote eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213364805 "The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon." - Walter Cronkite, The Moon Landing and Me ]]> 2017-12-05 16:11:10 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213364805 Milestone Quote eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213366631 "There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight." - Buzz Aldrin ]]> 2017-12-05 16:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213366631 Sputnik eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213547437 History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union (Russia) successfully launched Sputnik I, the world's first artificial satellite launched into orbit. Immediately after the Sputnik I launch in October, the U.S. Defense Department responded to the political furor by approving funding for another U.S. satellite project. ]]> 2017-12-06 00:32:47 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213547437 Buzz Aldrin Quote that Is the Base of some conspiracies eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213547907 " I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things." - Buzz Aldrin 

By using the word "impossible", especially from one off the astronauts on Apollo 11, the world second guessed the reality of the Moon Landings, calling them "next to impossible"


]]> 2017-12-06 00:37:41 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213547907 Triumph + American Patriotism eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213711502 "It's a great honor and privilege for us to be here representing not only the United States but men of peace of all nations, men with interests and a curiosity and men with a vision for the future."]]> 2017-12-06 14:31:25 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213711502 Armstrong -> landing eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213964553 Armstrong will later confirm that landing was his biggest concern, saying “the unknowns were rampant,” and “there were just a thousand things to worry about.”]]> 2017-12-07 02:21:05 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/213964553 Conspiracy Theory youtube video comments eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/215248890 GlacticCat445 "You stupid jerks seriously think this sh*t is real? The United States was so paralyzed by the fear that USSR would fire missiles at the US from space, that they faked a moon landing for national patriotism and to beat the communist threat the USSR posed. Especially after the United States have been involved with scandals such as the Watergate scandal and used the supposed "moon landing" as a distraction from the Vietnam war, that's, why the "landings stopped once the war, did. Especially as a Brit, I look on this landing as the biggest American scandal and fake of all time. ]]> 2017-12-11 23:11:14 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/215248890 Youtube comments eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/215249682 SirDezFezMez - "I mean we were fighting a very serious Cold War with Russia. It was a war of espionage, propaganda and brinksmanship. It was a hugs national victory to beat the USSR to the moon. The competing space programs were a main feature of the Cold War. So while I'm not convinced, I fully believe that the CIA had a black ops mission to fake a moon landing for propaganda purposes. They would have the motive and means to do it."]]> 2017-12-11 23:18:35 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/215249682 what gave rise eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/215250862 reference to state of trust, Vietnam war- used as a cover up or distraction, Cold War propaganda, ]]> 2017-12-11 23:31:01 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/215250862 CONC eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/215272050  These conspiracy theories are not just created but they are formed through years but are created by a lack of trust in the American government to an extent that people have come to believe that the American Government have faked one of the most influential events in history and science, the Apollo 11 moon landing.]]> 2017-12-12 03:14:13 UTC https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/215272050 Citations for Watergate section eloren2020 https://padlet.com/eloren2020/8vz0wjdf4ggk/wish/215400353 Keller, Frandis. The Moon and Watergate. Seattle: Readers, 1991. 

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