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True but it's pretty hard to escape earth's gravity. Once you do, pointing yourself towards the moon is not that difficult. Getting back alive is, of course.
I think you can argue that the 60 years of progress between the Wrights hopping around a field and Gagarin getting into space is more impressive than the 8 years between that and Armstrong.
Agree that getting out of atmosphere can be tricky, but seems that China and India expecting to walk on the moon in 15-20 years. So have to assume that the journey isn't that straight forward, and that's with todays technology.
That said I do believe they got to the moon but just can't figure how the hell they managed it back then.
Another conspiracy theory is that they went to the moon and found that their is an alien base up there and the aliens were monitoring the moon landings. Apparently there are radio recordings of Armstrong describing the massive size of their ships. Apparently the following Apollo missions were quick visits, as the aliens didn't want them up there, probably bollocks, but who knows?
My problem with the moon landings were how they got through the Van Allen radiation fields around the earth? Conspiracy theorists say the ships and suits they travelled in offered little protection from the powerful radiation. Don't think we'll ever know the truth.
Ohh dear, there are some crazy ones on here.
Alien bases on the moon? I've heard it all on here.
Go and get yourself a decent telescope and you can view the moon yourself and get an incredibly close look at it in real time.
Of course man walked on the moon, the ball Don Murray took that penalty against Dynamo Berlin with in 1971 is on show at Cape Canaveral after Eugene Cernan brought it back a year later.
Here's the proof
https://youtu.be/AWK6DhsPH2Y
Always amuses me when people say they don't believe that they could have got safely through the Van Allen belt.
A quick Google will lead you to a large number of explanations and calculations showing it is demonstrably safe for the time they spent going through it.
Yet presumably you've read a nut job website that has told you it is literally impossible to survive going through and you've decided to accept that without question.
Ya, they said these were safe as well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Grapple
Don't believe everything you read.