Was the Moon Landing Faked?

More importantly, if they did walk on the moon, how did they get all that cheese off their moonboots?

I think that it would be harder for NASA to fake a moon landing than to actually go there. All the experts agree that we went thier (scientists etc)...the ones that think its a hoax are usually news sites trying to get attention. 20% of America thinks its a hoax. out of those 20% how many do you think got into advanced math like trig and physics?

Interesting that we're debating all this at the annirversary of the flight, or the not-flight (whichever you believe LOL!!).

I think there are no microchips back then and their computers might still have been running on vacuum tubes.  It's a wonder they didn't miss the moon and end up on Mars instead.  :)

But seriously, I know a photographer that have met Buzz Aldrin.  He told me that when Buzz talks about the moon landings, he does so with a sense of wonder that cannot easily be faked.

Anyway, I'm sure we went to the moon.  It won't be easy to fake using the technology of the time, and it can probably be easily picked apart using today's technology if it was really faked.

Remember Orson Wells war of the worlds, he had folks going for a while, this is obviously a much bigger task if it was a hoax. It's just fascinating to consider the millions of stars, planets and what ever else is out there and how it came about. Isn't the moon made out of cheese?

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Lissie I thought you were a scientist. Don't you remember the proofs you used to do in Geometry class? You say the astronauts walked on the moon but what proof is there? Usually the picture taken from the moon is used as proof that they were there. But any third grader can tell you it is fake because it shows the earth as a ball instead of flat like we all know it is.

This so called round earth idea has been circulating (and I hesitate to use that term which would indicate a roundness but, be that as it may) for centuries and everybody knows it doesn't hold water which is my point exactly. If the earth were round the water would all drain off the south pole and we all know that doesn't happen.

Also, you couldn't even type on your key board because you would have to be hanging on or you would fall off too since you are in the "southern hemisphere". Well, I guess you could be hanging on with one hand and typing with the other but I am sure that would get very uncomfortable.

And another thing, have you noticed how the moon gets smaller and then bigger every month? But your so called interplanetary travelers didn't say anything at all about part of the moon missing when they were there. Doesn't this seem strange? I mean, if they would have been shot off when the moon is that little teeny sliver thing they would have missed it altogether and I suppose you are going to say they wouldn't have just hit the ceiling with all the stars painted on it and bounced back down here.

And besides that, my wife's uncle's brother-in-law knew a guy who dated a woman whose father actually delivered the paint to the stage in Burbank where they made the movies of the so called moon landing. So what do you think of that miss smarty pants who probably doesn't even think there are Bigfoots living up here in the forest?

I await your reply because your kind always wants to talk about "facts" like they can be proved or something.

Oh before I go, did they really see Elvis up on the North Island. I heard he is recording a comeback album. I can't wait. :-)

The number of conspiracy theories going around just doesnt seem to die. But whatever I have read, I feel Americans did land on moon. These theories will be there forever. Thanks for such a wonderful hub Lissie.

I precede most of you by a generation, I reckon, but I worked at McDonnell Douglas at the time of the moon shot. Seeing the TV replays today, I felt seriously proud of making the tiniest contribution to that achievement, getting to the moon! Doubt on, if you need to. But we really did it. Shine on silver moon!

Leave it to the media to try to create doubt in one’s mind concerning a historical event. Seems they are never happy unless history can be scandalized in some way…I believe we landed on the moon…Why, because aesthetics were not yet refined enough to make the whole event appear so real.

I watched the moon landing as it was happening. Every news organization in the world with thousands of people would have to have been in on it. It is just silly.

Americans love conspiracies. We have reasons. It's not like our government hasn't trried to pull a fast on now and then. Watergate was not a hoax, the government did abuse its power. That's not the real reason though, conspiracies our exciting and we imagine ourselves uncovering the truth. If we didn't like the bologna we wouldn't have tabloid newspapers.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, I don't know the facts and I wasn't there so I don't know and I'm not trying to argue or anythign, but I do have a question.

The sun, moon and stars all give off light, right. We know that the sun is a ball of fire, and so are the stars, wouldn't that make the moon a ball of fire as well? If so then these men would have been torched before reaching the moon. If not, what is the moon made of and how does it give light?

Pressingon - I'm not sure if you are being serious or not - but I'll take the risk and assume you are being serious - the light from the Moon is merely the light from the Sun being relfected back to the Earth

ok so the moon is not give light...just reflects it...I appreciate your answers...but still, how can it be cold enough for humans to walk on with the sun penetrating these rocks 24/7. I went for a walk on the beach the other day and burnt the bottom of my feet from the hot sand

Pressingon - I'm not an expert in such matters but I believe that is why they wear space suits and very dark visors on their helmets - but there is also, I believe, no atmosphere on the moon which makes it very hot in the sun 100 Celsius - and very cold out of the sun - but the space suits are deisgned to protect the astronauts.

@Lissie - It makes me sad to think that there are people who truly believe the moon landing was a fake. It just goes to show that Seth Godin was right, we've lost our ability to dream big outrageous dreams.

Bring back the era of outrageous science fiction that drove the development of technology! Here's to Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein and all the rest who used their imagination to stretch science to its limits!

There is actually an organization who's members still believe that the world is flat. Can't remember what they're called but I thought they were a joke until I saw one of them interviewed on the TV! He was very serious.

Well, even I'M not entirely convinced men really went to the Moon. After all, doesn't the American flag appear to flutter? What about the famous image of Buzz Aldrin? Doesn't it appear that he was standing in a floodlit desert or in a setting with a spotlight shining on him?

On the other hand, if men didn't really go to the Moon, maybe Spirit and Opportunity didn't really go to Mars. Maybe the Venera landers didn't really land on Venus and maybe the Huygens lander didn't really land on Titan.

Anyway, I am featured on the BBC website and anxious to bring my weblinks to everyone's attention. Simply visit Google and search the web for Jeremy Keller, or Jeremy Keller BBC, to access the details. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin apparently wanted to go to the Moon and want to explore the Moon to cut a long story short. As for Michael Collins, I still don't quite understand why he had to remain in the command module in lunar orbit. Wasn't it unfair on his part?

Great hub Lissie - I get the consipracy theory because it's so unbelievable they actually got there and back with the technology they had. But someone would have blabbed by now if it was a hoax...

well not sure y it would be faked and would all the countries around the world be faking it two were the not all involved in some way my self m not sure on this one

I seem to recall there was the casual televised debate as to whether or not men went to the Moon 30 years after Apollo 11.

I seem to recall that one of them mentioned the faked lunar scene in the Bond film Diamonds are Forever but I don't think any of them mentioned the film Capricorn One. Capricorn One is about faking an expedition to Mars. The idea is that at first everyone is fooled into thinking they really have gone there, but in the end they find out it was all a hoax. In any case, the would-be crew, one of them played by O J Simpson, don't want to feel guilty telling their freinds and famalies they did something they didn't really do. In the plot it is decided that that have to be killed in case they tell anyone. The excuse for their deaths is that the capsule was incinerated on re-entry into the atmosphere. Two of the three, including the one played by O J Simpson, are killed. The one who isn't is able to be reunited with his family just as they are attending his would-be funeral.

Where did you get the idea that Russians believe in the Moon Landing Hoax?

I can assure that all American conspiracies are inbred.

Jeremy Keller, the flag they placed only "flutters" as they are adjusting it in the soil. After that it stays perfectly still for the 30 minutes of film-time it is recorded.

The landing site can still be seen from Earth. And don't forget there were successive moon missions, all of which show the moon, and the Earth 200,000 some odd miles away, etc. etc.

Just as there are people who constantly claim that space aliens shot Kennedy, Bill Clinton had Martians on his cabinet, Mae West was really a man in drag, and that Elvis lives in a motel in Michigan, such claims are just as credible as the people who create them - and it takes more than a wild and crazy claim to make a claim real. One needs proof. The burden of proof is on those who make the claims.

Julie-Ann Amos, the technology they had was adequate to guide bombers to their targets with pin-point accuracy, was powerful enough to do the simple tasks then required of it onboard the space vessel, and many other things besides that while going to the moon. Besides, that, everyone involved knew it was a risk and they were willing to take it.

Do not belittle the technology they had because it was also used to run NORAD and the Houston space control center. Also, so much of the data needed was actually created on Earth and then sent to the capsules, so the actual size of the computing power needed on the space vessel was small. Most of the ship-board technology was simply busy sending out telemetry and vitals to Houston. That is what caused some of the heart-stopping moments for Apollo 13, because they lost so much telemetry from the ship after the tanks ruptured, and Houston had to do a lot of best-guessing with flawed telemetry coming from the ship.

Today's ships use a lot of onboard technology, mostly as a back up, and also to make the voyage more self-sufficient in case something goes wrong. Just the same, a lot of the computing power is still done on Earth and sent back up to the shuttle used today. But in 1969 they could EASILY have done what they did with the technology of the day. They just used technology in a different way than we do today.

No patience with Never Address Serious Allegations (NASA) apologists! Unthinking sheep follow. Follow on! Know why tapes allegedly recorded over/misplaced? So they could not be exposed to world as fakes they are. Peace.

Hey Lissie,

Did I tell you that I was conceived the night of the moon landing. True story. Aw crap now you know how old I am.

Tracey ;)

I don't know where is the truth of man landing on the moon? Recently on TV Channel(SBS-Melbourne) I was watching a documentary called "The dark Side of The Moon" I think. It was said the film was done by Stanley Kubrick(no sure for the spelling) but the mission was done in real. All in the hope if something would have gone wrong to have a film which is a fake.

I don't doubt that Americans have walked on the moon ... but I do doubt that they did on 20 July 1969. I also know we will never know the truth of the matter. When it comes to cover-ups, the American government, American military and secret service personnel are EXPERTS.

When there is still so much we have yet to learn about this planet, wasting billions of dollars on exploring outer space just seems so pointless.

Some people always doubt when anyone makes any progress...

Americans are really masters of conspiracy theories...

Great article, as always.

I am sure that Americans 1969 landed on Moon.

Liked your section about moon rocks. Pure BS! NASA palmed off petrified wood as moon rocks. Just ask Dutch! You believe anything a lying organization like this one says? Dream on dear one! Reality is more difficult to contend with than dreams.

Have examined your allegations plus those of Stendek. More swayed by those of Stendek. Fake moon rocks torpedoed most of your arguments. Once a liar...

...always a liar!

Tell it to Dutch people! Guess blatant lies are all right as long as your precious NASA tells them. Braindead sheep like yourself believe all fed gov bullshet. BAA!

To bad when they test "moon rocks" that are in museums they turn out to be fake. I wonder where the real "moon rocks" are? 'Moon Rock' in Dutch Museum Is Just Petrified Wood google it

Want proof that conspiracies exist? I am a conspiracist. Have been for over half a century! I know for a fact from decades as an investigative reporter that conspiracies are fact not fiction. I have been on a personal crusade against NASA since astro-not Edwin "Sucker Punch" Aldrin launched an unprovoked attack on an American citizen. NASA never brought to task when it was AUTHENTICATED that a piece of worthless wood palmed off on Dutch as genuine moon rock. United States media made light of national disgrace. Why? I digress. Friends told me NASA would get my conspiracy pages off HubPages. I authored almost 5,000 pages so even I found that difficult to believe. Guess what? My friends knew more than this conspiracist! Signed into account one day only to find all pages had vanished. NASA won again! When I requested report on Roswell Report for my newspaper I was told by friend that my name is flagged at Pentagon due to my conspiracy columns. Not security risk since weekly newspaper has limited circulation. When report arrived at newspaper offices it had my name on it although only the newspaper name had been utilized. Those darn coincidences. All my conspiracy HubPages now in limbo. Having to get almost 5,000 pages "cleared" by nameless HubPage czars prior to publication. Are conspiracies real? Hell yes! See Jesse Ventura show on 911 which only scratched surface? Keep seeking truth. Skeptics be damned. Perhaps one day even their eyes will open. Doubt it. Peace. ++STENDEC++

Love this Hub. This subject matter has intrigued me ever since I was old enough to understand the debate. How rational and otherwise intelligent creatures can discount this feat amazes me to this day.

The evidence the wannabe conspiracy theorists site as proof of a cover-up is absolutely ludicrous...

You gotta pick yer battles, people; This ain't one of 'em!

Will men ever go to the Moon again? Barack Obama seems to have cancelled any plans to send men to the Moon again in 2020.

If men really DID go to Moon all those years ago, why isn't there now a permanent Moon base? You'd think there would be one by now, wouldn't you? Who would've thought that the record of the last man on the Moon 37 years ago would still hold today? I can understand that it was anticipated as the last manned expedition to the Moon of the decade, but of the century as well? I would certainly like to think the whole thing was faked!

Anyway, how about sending robots to explore the surface of the Moon, like Spirit and Opportunity on the surface of Mars? If NASA can send send such a robot to Mars, why don't they pop one over to the Moon?

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Why has Barack Obama cancelled any plans to send men to the Moon "again" by 2020? How could NASA have had the technology to send men to the Moon 40 years ago if they don't seem to have it now?

There even seems to be evidence that the whole thing was faked. What about the dust clouds created by what was apparently a Moon buggy? I do believe a dust cloud cannot be created in a vacuum.

People seem to unanimously agree that they at least got as far as the Earth's orbit but didn't reach lunar orbit. They got far enough from the Earth to photograph our planet as a globe. That way they could zoom out on the image and make the Earth appear smaller, hence more distant.

During the Apollo programme there was apparently at least one member of the crew who stayed in lunar orbit. Then why didn't he photograph the Earth whilst orbiting the night side of the Moon? I think this would've been a very logical thing to do in lunar orbit!

Furthermore, if Neil armstrong and the others really did go to the Moon, why don't they defiantly insist on it and that claiming they didn't is an insult to their memories?

I'm skeptical. I read some of the arguments elsewhere, and it is claimed that the original recording is missing. If that is true, then it is pretty convenient, so it can't be analysed to see if fake.

With more advanced technology now, why do they make excuses about going back?

is this all fake or not

I love the history. Thanks for sharing this information.

I do not think we faked it but question the technology we had in creating the story that was given. I think we filmed a great deal of propaganda into the actual event simply because the photography may have been to poor to present the effect we desired. People have claimed that several major producers were involved in just such a thing but to what purpose we really do not know but it created part of this story of a hoax. Perhaps we did not do all those things on the first landing but the race against the Soviet Union made us make such a claim that we attained the complete goals later on following missions. Looking back and wondering why we have not returned has often puzzled me. Thinking about the technology we have today and wondering about technology that was really late 1950`s makes me ponder a number of issues. Did we go there most likely. Did it happen the way we claimed perhaps. I say 1950's technology because the military technology we use today was mostly designed in the 1980's.

Fake in my own opinion.

Just a few reasons: We can have high definition photos of the Mars surface but don't have any high definition photographs of the Moon landing sights. You can open Google Earth and view any house or street in the world, "but not high definition Moon images "or any for that matter".

The original high defination footage of the Moon landings went missing and the public only ever received blury grainy footage that was recorded from another screen and broadcasted live. I suppose that's not important because blury grainy footage is just as good. It's not like that would be important in those days and no wonder it got lost. Also the radiation is extremely strong without the protection of earths atmosphere, "hence the space station stays well inside the boundaries and is protectected from that extreme radiation".. "Hence nobody space travells outside those boundaries with todays technology for some reason". Although despite the austronaughts making contact with the extreme radiation in those days, no austranought ever had any probs with it. Today they think diferently, but ofcourse it's stronger now "that's why" Besides there's no need to go there anymore anyway.

Moon rock, meteor rock, astroid rock.. . Could have came from anywhere, including from the ground we are standing on if you are going to be scientific.

I think landing on moon was really a hoax.My question is why NASA not recognizing this clear logic?Each and everyone has their own scientific view but they should surrender themselves,isn't it?

While I believe it was a hoax I also believe there is a credible reason for the hoax moonlandings, something Russia promised to go along with to some degree. Alot of people forget about world war 1 & 2 and also the COLD WAR. The Russians were totally defensless when Hitler attacked, they had to start designing & manufacturing war boats, fighter planes, guns you name it as they were being invaded. Once Russia got into the swing they were a very prepared and deadly enemy becoming far greater than the Germans ever inticipated, which also ended up being their first & last mistake. At the same time America was gearing up their war anticks and soon Russia and America were breathing down each others throats knowing they had nuclear technology now. The moonlandings put everyones minds off war and towards hope and joy. It was something that brought joy to everybody and exactly what the governments would have needed to help bring the focus on war to a stop. I don't know what agreements were made between the countries but I believe we should know before to long. I think we are living in interesting times to be very honest. Just lately the Chinese have been threatening to send un-manned crafts to the moon and take pictures of the so called moonlanding sight. When they don't find it what will happen ?

We did land on the moon. My dad worked on apollo. Bbut I think the readon for not going back is there probley a alien moon base that there afraid to go. Recently. They firef a "missile " to the moon I think that was retaliation

My thinking is, why only Americans Landed on Moon? How come no one from other countries tried to land on moon? Technology has improved so much...wouldn't it be logical that someone tried to land on moon again? I am sure that moon is not claimed as US property!