#FIRST MAN ON THE MOON CONSPIRACY MOVIE#
#FIRST MAN ON THE MOON CONSPIRACY TV#

He mentioned the returned moon rocks, the ability to bounce laser beams off gear the astronauts left behind and images NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took of the Apollo landing sites in 2011. In early 2019, NASA spokesperson Allard Beutel recited a pile of evidence supporting the moon landings to The Washington Post. (A few days later, Curry said he made the comments in jest.) NASA has done a lot of debunking work over the decades, including a 2018 offer to NBA superstar Stephen Curry to view moon rocks at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston after Curry said he didn't believe in the moon landings. That's more than 16 million people, assuming a U.S. Opinion polls over the years regularly show that around 5% of Americans believe the Apollo moon landings were faked, former NASA chief historian Roger Launius told the Associated Press. Other filmmakers, such as the folks behind the 2002 mockumentary 'Dark Side of the Moon,' spoofed moon hoaxers. Meanwhile, some documentary films and reality-TV efforts - a 2008 episode of 'MythBusters,' for example - tried to chase away the conspiracy theory by educating people. How NASA's Artemis moon landing with astronauts works Apollo 13: The moon mission that dodged disaster In photos: Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins' space missions

#FIRST MAN ON THE MOON CONSPIRACY TV#

The conspiracy was also addressed in many other fictional TV shows, from 'Futurama' to 'Friends.' 'The X-Files' brought all sorts of space conspiracies into the public consciousness in the 1990s and 2000s, and the rebooted version of the show addressed the moon landing in a 2018 episode.

That was over 40 years ago, but moon-hoax enthusiasts are still with us today.

(Also, a 1976 self-published pamphlet by Bill Kaysing, 'We Never Went to the Moon,' was popular among conspiracy-minded people of the day.)

#FIRST MAN ON THE MOON CONSPIRACY MOVIE#

The James Bond movie 'Diamonds Are Forever,' for example, had a joke about faked moon landings just two years later, in 1971.īut what really propelled the conspiracy theory into popular culture, Plait said, was the 1978 Peter Hyams film 'Capricorn One,' which portrays a faked human landing on Mars. Even back then, some people were sceptical that the feat was technologically possible. Just to know that if Fox hadn't aired that, who knows what my career path would have been.' Moon hoax theory and popular cultureĪpollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. Let it get out to the public, and let it heal, and let it kill the infection. On the other hand, it's exposing a wound to sunlight. 'I kind of wish it had never aired,' Plait said about the Fox documentary, 'because it opened a huge Pandora's box. Plait remains a popular science commentator nearly two decades later. Fox's TV show propelled Plait's writing to a large audience, and his 2002 book 'Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing 'Hoax'' (Wiley) helped as well. Plait's essay on his personal blog, which he published shortly after the show aired, quickly generated thousands of views years before Facebook, Twitter and today's social media even existed.

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