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Moon landing hoax
Six landings, one persistent rumor.
A minority of people believe NASA staged the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing, often citing photographic anomalies explained by lunar lighting and the cameras used. Physical evidence, including retroreflectors still used by scientists today, is treated as conclusive proof by mainstream science.
⇄disputed
Quick facts
- →The "no stars in the photos" claim ignores basic exposure settings — same reason you can't see stars in a daytime photo on Earth.
- →Retroreflectors left on the Moon are still bounced with lasers by scientists today, decades later.
- →Over 400,000 people worked on Apollo — a hoax that size has never produced a credible whistleblower.
- →The Soviet Union — no fans of American propaganda — independently tracked and confirmed the landing.
- →In 2002, Buzz Aldrin punched a conspiracy theorist in the face — on camera — after the man cornered him and called him a liar and a coward. No charges were filed.
- →NASA's own 2009 orbiter photos show the astronauts' equipment and footpaths still sitting on the surface today — nobody's walked over that spot since 1972 to disturb them.
Entities on file
Richard Nixon (person)
37th U.S. President; resigned in 1974 rather than face near-certain impeachment.
→ made historic phone call during → Apollo 11✓documented
→ authorized activities of → Committee to Re-elect the President✓documented
→ ordered the same "Plumbers" unit that later carried out Watergate to investigate the leak of → Pentagon Papers✓documented
NASA (organization)
Conducted the Apollo program, including six crewed Moon landings between 1969 and 1972.
Also appears in: Operation Paperclip
→ conducted → Apollo 11✓documented
Apollo 11 (event)
July 1969 mission that first landed humans on the Moon.
No outgoing connections on file.
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Stanley Kubrick (person)
Film director hoax theorists claim was enlisted to fake the footage — a claim with no supporting evidence.
→ allegedly helped stage → Apollo 11⇄disputed
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