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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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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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Illustration: GlamourBeing critical is one thing, but now there are conspiracy theories that the whole Blue Origin flight was fake. Hey, some people still think the moon landing was faked, so can we really be surprised?Seriously, though. Some people are theorizing that the 11-minute voyage, which …
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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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This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission; the one that landed mankind on the moon for the first time, in one giant leap. It is one of humanity’s all-time great achievements. So it’s disheartening beyond words to see the results of a recent 500-person poll, in which a full …
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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, 1969, conspiracy theories about the mission were born. In December of that …
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No American has ever been to the moon. It’s all just fake.The moon landings? Staged in TV studios, where the scenes weren’t even properly lit. And then there were the amateur mistakes, such as the waving US flag. Pfffff. As if flags “wave” on the moon. Without an atmosphere. Fake. A political …
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The moon actually is made of cheese. Really. Really! Not the stuff from which you saw off a wedge to spice up a cracker. Cheese. The bloomy-rinded pablum that people seem to mean, but can’t possibly be taken seriously. The fifty years since we sent three men there—and put two on its surface!—have …
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