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The moon-landing hoax still lives on, more than 50 years after Apollo 11 — the first crewed mission to land on the moon. Phil Plait has mixed feelings about the moon-landing hoax. Plait — known as “The Bad Astronomer” to his many thousands of readers on Syfy — told Space.com he is frustrated that …
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ins{background:none;} WAPAKONETA — It started as a fringe conspiracy. It’s now often regarded a joke. So why do some Americans continue to believe the Apollo 11 moon landing was a hoax? “It’s so easily debunked,” said Richard Fienberg, a press officer for the American Astronomical Society who has …
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In the video above, filmmaker SG Collins explains why the Apollo moon landings on the moon in the late 1960s and early ’70s couldn’t have been faked. He’s talking about it from a filmmaker’s point of view, so he doesn’t try to debunk the many arguments conspiracy theorists have put forth to “prove” …
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Phil Plait has mixed feelings about the moon-landing hoax. Plait — known as “The Bad Astronomer” to his many thousands of readers on Syfy — told Space.com he is frustrated that he and others like him still have to debunk the hoax theory from time to time, 50 years after the first moon landing. Then …
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USA TODAY first published this story in July 2019, the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. July 20, 2020, marks 51 years since the moon landing. You know the photo: Buzz Aldrin, standing on the moon and saluting the American flag. Zoom in. What’s really in the image? Why is the flag waving? …
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The moon landing is one of the most famous events in human history. When it was broadcast on TV in July 1969 — July 20 in some parts of the world and July 21 in others — 500 million people around the globe watched it, and even more people have seen it since. The footage of Neil Armstrong taking …
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Let’s all just agree on one thing: the moon is weird. It’s in the sky. It glows. Sometimes it’s big, and sometimes it’s small. It also causes tides, somehow, for some reason, though if you’re looking for an in-depth explanation as to how it does this and why, you are encouraged to look elsewhere. …
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Rocks collected from the moon 50 years ago and analysed by an international team of scientists, including from The Australian National University (ANU), dispel any notion that the lunar landing was faked, an ANU expert says. ANU scientist Professor Trevor Ireland, who is a space rock expert, said …
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Rocks collected from the moon 50 years ago and analysed by an international team of scientists, including from The Australian National University (ANU), dispel any notion that the lunar landing was faked, an ANU expert says. ANU scientist Professor Trevor Ireland, who is a space rock expert, said …
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This piece was originally published on PolitiFact.com on July 18, 2019. Fifty years ago this Saturday, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the moon. But not everyone believes it. Almost as soon as the Apollo 11 spaceflight landed at Tranquility Base on July 20, …
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