Monday, August 27, 2012

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Aug 27th 2012, 14:02

Depending on where you get your data, as many as 6 - 20 percent of Americans believe that the manned Apollo moon landings were faked. How did such a far-out theory — there is no evidence to support it — gain so much traction?

Moon landing conspiracy theorists claim that the Apollo program and the moon landings were staged by the U.S. government, specifically NASA. The conspiracy theorists believe that NASA manufactured or tampered with evidence and convinced Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and the other Apollo mission astronauts to lie to the public for their entire lives.

As far-fetched as that may sound to the average person — and there is no serious evidence in support of it, and much to contradict it — these conspiracists have been able to maintain broad public interest. In 2001, FOX broadcast a documentary called "Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?" that explored the claim that the U.S. faked the initial moon landing in order to win the "space race" to be the first country to the moon.

A handful of examples from conspiracy theorists on twitter after Neil Armstrong's death Saturday show that these ideas persist, even after high-definition photos taken by the LROC spacecraft have shown the lander modules, tracks left by the astronaut, and the Apollo flags still standing on the moon...


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