Although the Soviet Union refused NASA’s Moon landing, NASA clearly completed this mission.

First Step on the Moon

‘’That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.’’ said Neil Armstrong while taking his first step on the Moon. However the Soviet Union claimed that this has never happened. The United States and the Soviet Union has always a big competition about discovery of the space. Although the Soviet Union refused NASA’s Moon landing, NASA clearly completed this mission.

Firstly, when NASA first started this Apollo program which aimed at landing a man to the moon and returning him safely to the Earth, they lost some of their astronauts during their discovery mission. This project failed many times and NASA allowed us to know about their failure because that was not just a game for them. Why would anyone reveal own mistakes out of nowhere?

Second evidence of NASA’s landing to the Moon is Neil Armstrong and his astronaut friend Buzz Aldrin’s broadcast live from the Moon. When Neil Armstrong was taking his first step on the Moon the whole world was watching him. According to this event we can say that, their broadcast live from the moon was one of the amazing evidence of their landing.

On the other hand, the Soviet Union brought something up: NASA is lying!!! They said that their broadcast was fake and they did not establish a direct link with television stations for the broadcast. The video people saw was actually filmed on the huge television screen in Mission Control. However, they seem to forget that there is stone and land samples which were taken from the Moon to be analysed to get information about the surface of the Moon.

In conclusion, as it is mentioned above, there are many evidence of NASA’s landing to the moon and there is also Soviet Union’s disclaim. There was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union about discovery of the space and their relationship was also bad in ideological and political ways. The Soviet Union apparently wanted to speculate on this achievement of NASA.