The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
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Online accounts sometimes argue that Walt Disney and L. Ron Hubbard are, in effect, creators of NASA -- reasoning from Wernher von Braun's 1955 collaboration with Disney and Jack Parsons's 1945-46 association with Hubbard. NASA was created by act of Congress in 1958 (the National Aeronautics and Space Act); no document supports the claim as written, and the documented associations it draws on involve people connected to NASA's precursor programs, not NASA's founding itself.
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PURE SPEC -- some online commentary goes further and speculates that NASA staged or altered the Apollo 11 broadcast, pointing to the 2009 admission that the original telemetry tapes were destroyed as evidence of a cover-up. No document is cited here because none exists to cite: this is entered as pure spec, not a claim, and carries no receipts.
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This investigation examines the Apollo 11 Moon Landing (July 1969): the official NASA account, including NASA's own 2009 admission that it lost the original telemetry tapes, and the documented associations sometimes cited online to argue that Walt Disney and L. Ron Hubbard were involved in creating NASA. The official account is entered honestly, anomalies included. The associations are entered as receipts. The "creators of NASA" claim built on them is entered separately, as a claim, not a fact. The record does not rule on any of it.
On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle landed on the Moon. Its television camera transmitted live slow-scan television (SSTV) video, received at ground tracking stations (including Honeysuckle Creek and Parkes in Australia), where engineers recorded the original signal onto one-inch telemetry tapes as a backup while simultaneously converting the feed to standard broadcast format for the live television audience.
Apollo 11 launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969, carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins toward the Moon.
In 1960, Wernher von Braun's Army Ballistic Missile Agency rocket-development team was transferred into NASA, and von Braun became the founding director of NASA's newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He served as chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle that carried the Apollo missions, including Apollo 11, to the Moon.
On March 9, 1955, Walt Disney's Disneyland television series aired "Man in Space," a program on spaceflight. Wernher von Braun -- at the time still with the U.S. Army's Ballistic Missile Agency, five years before joining NASA -- appeared alongside Willy Ley and Heinz Haber as a technical consultant on the program's rocketry and spaceflight content. This predates NASA's creation by more than three years.
Jack Parsons was one of the founders, in 1943, of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech (grown out of the GALCIT Rocket Research Group he had helped form in the 1930s). Starting in mid-1945, science-fiction writer and U.S. Navy officer L. Ron Hubbard moved into Parsons's home in Pasadena and the two became close friends, engaging together in ritual magic practices through early 1946. In February 1946 Parsons and Hubbard formed a business venture, Allied Enterprises; the partnership collapsed within months when Hubbard left with a large share of its funds. This association is documented; it is not a NASA record and predates NASA's creation by more than a decade.
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