March 26, 2002

12:11 PM

Were the Moon Landing Shots Faked In July 1969, more than 600 million people watched in awe, as Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the surface of the moon. The last men to set foot on the moon were the astronauts of Apollo 17, in December 1972. But even before this, a set of conspiracy theories were spreading, the most radical of which claimed that NASA had faked all the lunar landings-that man in fact never landed on the moon. Look at the evidence and decide for yourself. <a href="http://www.scottahrens.net
posted by sahrens428 (12 comments total)

If the moon landings were faked, then how do you explain the appearance of missing flight 93 on the moon?
posted by mecran01 at 12:17 PM on March 26, 2002

Way old.
posted by McBain at 12:18 PM on March 26, 2002

Not this again. Thoroughly and completely debunked here, among many other places.
posted by jaek at 12:18 PM on March 26, 2002

Wow--you have the evidence on your own site?! How convenient for everybody. Go read the posting guidelines.
posted by LionIndex at 12:20 PM on March 26, 2002

Right. No moon landing. Also, the works of Shakespeare were written not by Shakespeare but by some guy named DeVere.

Also, professional wrestling is not staged, and OJ Simpson didn't kill Nicole.
posted by anapestic at 12:20 PM on March 26, 2002

Debunking any lunar hoax on Bad Astronomy
posted by McBain at 12:20 PM on March 26, 2002

Capricorn One.
posted by bingo at 12:21 PM on March 26, 2002

Already stated on MeFi here and here. Next time use the search for previous posting.
Moon landing hoax, so 1996. -_^
posted by lheiskell at 12:23 PM on March 26, 2002

Were the moon landings faked?

No.
posted by delmoi at 12:25 PM on March 26, 2002

NASA explained this quite thoroughly after Fox's piss-poor special about this. It aired about 13 months ago, if memory serves. Fox's show was quite convincing, even to a critic like myself, but NASA explains all of the mysteries quite adequately on their site. (Though McBain's link to Bad Astronomy is, if anything, more informative despite being less authoratative.)
posted by waldo at 12:26 PM on March 26, 2002

Is it possible to represent a trombone "wah" textually?
posted by Spoon at 12:28 PM on March 26, 2002

lionindex, the posting guidlines say he can post a self-link in a discussion if it's on-topic and adds to the discussion.

stop trying to be a policeman and/or dick.

If you simply wanted to point out that you find the credibility to be lower since it's from his site.. fine.. go ahead and ask for more evidence.

Anyway, to say something on topic... there really has been plenty of debate over this, it's very old, and very dead horse. The moon landings were real, and you'd be hard-pressed to find me any reason to be skeptical any longer -- and I'm skeptical by nature... it's just that this subject has been mulled over so much it's ridiculous...
posted by twiggy at 12:28 PM on March 26, 2002