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The 'Apollo Moon Landing Hoax' Hoax

By , About.com GuideJuly 17, 2009

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Forty years ago on July 20, 1969, one of two world-changing events in human history occurred:

1. Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon,

or

2. Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong participated in a massive hoax designed to convince the public that men had actually landed and walked on the moon, when in fact they hadn't.

Folks who subscribe to the second scenario are known as moon landing conspiracy theorists. They're convinced that the moonwalk watched by millions of people on live television was staged at some secret location here on earth. Believe it or not, there are more people convinced of that today than there were 40 years ago when the "hoax" was supposedly perpetrated.

Being conspiracy theorists, they will never be convinced otherwise. And, being conspiracy theorists, they fervently hope to convince you and me that their topsy-turvy version of reality is correct.

Abandon common sense all ye who enter here...

The Conspiracy Theorists:
Did We Land on the Moon? (No)
The Faked Apollo Landings
The Vocal Minority - Moon Landing Was a Hoax
Could the Moon Landings Have Been Faked? Some Still Think So
Why Do Some People Believe the Moon Landings Were a Hoax?

The Conspiracy Theory Debunkers:
Did We Land on the Moon? (Yes)
The Great Moon Hoax
Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax
Apollo Moon Landing: Conspiracy Theories Debunked
Refuting the Most Popular Apollo Moon Landing Hoax Theories

Comments

July 20, 2009 at 8:07 pm
(1) ShanghaiJohnnyP says:

Jesus,Buddha and Mohammed!!!
What is it with people??

Personally,I beleive it’s all due to Talk Radio!!!
I’m convinced that if”Kim Jong Bill”O’Reilly
told everybody listening to his Radio Program
to run nekkid down the street shouting”Ah Giddy Bah!!”,they’d do it!!!

Of course we went to the moon 40 years ago!!!
Granted,you-Wait For It!!!-MIGHT have been able to fake the first Moon Landing;but not 16 more times including Apollo 13 which had
some major malfunctions in 1970!!!

It’s almost up there with people who beleive
Wrestling’s Real and Sarah Palin claiming she
could see Russia from her back yard,you betcha!!

“Forgive your enemies.It’ll drive them crazy!!”-Willie Nelson

July 21, 2009 at 2:54 am
(2) joey says:

With all new technology why they don’t show the world the remnants of the moon landing. They can always take precise picture[past} of the lunar landing with all new technology, digital imagery that can be made to what you call the white elephant telescope which they are trying so much to fix their booboo. Instead of feeding our own specie !!Tao in plain eng or english what ever the whole world will understand human being first!!!First and always be first Human!!

July 21, 2009 at 12:58 pm
(3) CR says:

Let’s send the non-believers to the moon…

July 22, 2009 at 12:04 pm
(4) Herb says:

The Mythbusters busted every one of the hoax believers claims. I watched the program last weekend.
Very simple, very easy to understand.
We sent ment to the Moon!!!

July 30, 2009 at 5:40 am
(5) ed ivey says:

I like that,We sent ment to the moon,LOL…….

September 26, 2009 at 3:49 pm
(6) Bruce Smyth says:

So… You want to talk about “abondoning common sense”… if it was do-able 40 years ago, then why haven’t we ever gone back to the moon???

January 25, 2010 at 2:51 pm
(7) Ofreo says:

Right on Bruce. Why is everyone is so ready and willing to believe what ever is told to them by the powers that be.

While much of what people use to disprove the moon landing is foolish, no real evidence has been presented that they went other than “official” documents.

July 24, 2010 at 6:11 pm
(8) Crowbar says:

We put a man on the moon 40 years ago, but we cant plug a leak in the sea today?

If ever there was a time to doubt the moon landing, now is the perfect chance !!

March 28, 2011 at 7:37 am
(9) Jerry says:

FAKED? Yes! It appears those who actually believe we really went to the moon and the ones in denial. Facts prove we did not. Proof. Easy. My father was a general in the Air Force, you don’t want to really know the truth… as one famous man said, “you can’t handle the truth!” So keep thinking that we went (when we did not), it seems to make life easier for you all, than accepting the Gov. lied to us all. We live in a generation that beilieves EVERYTHING they see in video..very sad.

September 17, 2011 at 5:14 pm
(10) Myth Busted says:
August 27, 2012 at 5:19 am
(11) Colin says:

If we never went to the moon, why do the Russians believe we did.

August 31, 2012 at 5:38 pm
(12) Becca says:

The people that buy into the moon landing hoax conspiracies have to represent some of the most bone-headed and ignorant members of the species. It’s been shown time and time again why the moon landings were NOT a hoax. Aside from the fact that hundreds of thousands of people were involved with the Apollo program, and supposedly NONE of them ever talked, even on their deathbed, the fact that the markings and objects left on the moon have been seen from orbiting spacecraft, and the simple fact that the Soviets, who were also planning a moon landing at the time, would easily have been able to detect a fake, there was simply no need to fake anything, as the technology was clearly more than adequate. People who subscribe to this nonsense really need to get a life and move on…conspiracies are the inventions of the paranoid, nothing more.

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