The simple answer is, it isn’t flapping, Fienberg says. But how can that be, since there’s no wind on the moon? If you look at the American flag in still pictures from the Apollo 11 mission, it appears to be flapping in the wind. The moon landing is fake because the American flag looks like it is flapping in the wind.īuzz Aldrin with the American flag on the moon in 1969. Here, we break down some of the most enduring conspiracy theories about the moon landing-and why there’s no evidence to support them. “If in fact the main motivation for believing in the moon hoax that is you don’t trust the government, you don’t trust our leaders, you don’t trust authority, how can you feel that 400,000 people would keep their mouths shut for 50 years? It’s just implausible.” “About 400,000 scientists, engineers, technologists, machinists, electricians, worked on the Apollo program,” Fienberg points out. But faking the success of the Apollo 11 mission would require deception on a grand scale-and would be practically impossible to pull off, says Fienberg. The initial claims the moon landing was staged came at a time when the Pentagon Papers and Watergate had eroded Americans’ trust in their government. He has some first-hand knowledge of this: nearly 40 years ago, Fienberg debated one of the first prominent moon landing deniers, Bill Kaysing, on TV. “With few exceptions, the same arguments just keep coming up over and over again,” says Rick Fienberg, the press officer for the American Astronomical Society, who holds a PhD in astronomy. Most of the deniers' “proof” is based on perceived anomalies in the images transmitted back to Earth from the moon's lunar surface.
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