SpaceX and Tesla Inc TSLA CEO Elon Musk said recently that the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon-landing mission was an “anomalous situation.”
What Happened: “The fact that we were able to go to the Moon in '69 was such an anomalous situation it was like reaching into the future and bringing the technology forward,” said Musk on the "Full Send" podcast.
The landings, which saw Neil Armstrong become the first human to step on the lunar surface, were “not the natural pace of technology development,” according to the SpaceX founder.
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It’s just that the United States just collectively decided that this has got to be done,” Musk said, referring to the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
The above is posted in Benzinga.com.
The reason why the Americans could land on the moon in 1969 and then many more times in the 1970s is not because of technology. It is about collective will, as I highlighted above in bold. The Americans just wanted to beat the Russians to the moon, and they did it.
After that, they relaxed and forgot about everything, lost all the blue prints, all the files, all the technology. Now they could not find any of the records that could help them to rebuild the same rockets to the moon. They would have to start all over again from scratch.
Now the Chinese are going to the moon. Not to worry. When the Americans want to beat the Chinese to the moon, when they collectively decided that it has to be done, it would be done, got technology or no technology does not matter.
The failure of Artemis from lifting off is not because the Americans have no technology to do it. It is because they have yet to collectively think that they have to do it. Wait for a few more years, wait for the Americans to want to do it, collectively, and an American miracle will happen. Another anomally would happen. They will get to the moon before the Chinese, just the same way they beat the Russians to it.
PS. For the moment, no country would make an official statement that the Americans are lying. They can only say it if someone has gone to the moon, to the sites to confirm that the Americans had not been there. This is a scientific and reasonable way to approach this belief.
The truth would need to be confirmed by facts, not beliefs. It can go either way until then.
My guess, the cake mud footprints were the giveaways. The moon is dry, dry dust could not create cake foot prints. Just examine the area around the footprint and ask how is this possible.