[NCC-1701]

If the moon landing WAS faked, there were 400,00+ people in on the fraud. You would have thought that someone would have leaked solid proof that it was faked somewhere along the line in the past fifty years. Nobody has.

[kvanbrunt2]

Although i don’t believe it was faked. It was the most disappointing event long term. The money spent produced very little and to this day there is not much going on spacewise. or maybe that was the benefit. space the final frontier insurmountable.

[MuttTheHoople]

Grandpa insisted they were fake.

[Telepathic Intruder]

There’s not a single piece of “evidence” that the conspiracy theorists have that isn’t based on sheer ignorance of science or how things work. It’s all so easily debunked, yet they persist. They could easily find the answer for any one of the things they consider suspicious, but they don’t even try.

[northislander]

Daytime surface temperature is 260F...

[Ransomed]

What % of eligible voters knew FDR was disabled?

Freegards

[LibWhacker]

The fact that no one, even us, has been able to repeat the feat in 50 years is proof we didn’t do it. That was put forward to me by a friend, who is definitely NOT a moon landing conspiracy nut, as the most convincing argument the nuts could possibly make. Of course, the REASON we didn’t do it again is NOT because it was impossible, but because we had little interest in doing it again.

[northislander]

The night time temperature is -260F...

[Steely Tom]

It’s no different than the flat earth people, or the people who think the WTC buildings were dropped by explosive charges placed within them by the Bush administration.

No amount of evidence will “convince” them, if they actually believe what they say, which is doubtful in many cases.

Conspiracy theories can pay good money in the internet age.

[Repeal 16-17]

Some people are incapable of believing anything unusual happens. When someone unusual happens, good or bad, they simply conclude that it was faked. So they believe the moon landing is fake, 9/11 is fake, the Challenge Disaster is fake, etc.

[northislander]

Close to a perfect vacuum...

[Nateman]

Once cites on the moon are established the whole solar system becomes a treasure to be used. It also protects civilization itself from self extinction. So it was not a waste of money but part of the process where life on Earth expands into the rest of the universe.

[Sybeck1]

And Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee died in pursuit of a hoax.

[Chode]

funny i have NEVER, EVER heard the Soviets claim it was a fake

[righttackle44]

You know why I believe the moon landings are real? Because Walter Cronkite believed they were.

If he suspected they were fake, he, Dan Rather, and CBS news would have done everything they could have uncover the phony program to discredit President Nixon.

I'm no great fan of CBS News, and no doubt Cronkite had his agenda. But certainly they would have uncovered a faked moon landing among the 400,000 or so people involved in the space flight program of NASA.

[TruthFactor]

Sad to see the ignorance and lack of critical thinking here on FR.

Apollo is man's greatest achievement to date. The ingenuity and will of the human mind and spirit is embodied in it.

[ealgeone]

IF they were faked then Russia, China, UK, France and any other country with satellite capability or radar capability would have been able to monitor the flight of Apollo 11 and call the US on the claim.

IF it were faked it's the biggest conspiracy theory ever.

[DannyTN]

I don’t believe they were faked, but if they had been, it would have been a truly genious and awesome piece of propaganda to demoralize the Soviets.

[Stravinsky]

I’m sure the USSR would have let us get away with faking it.