Apollo 11 landed the first men on the Moon on Sunday, July 20, 1969, or did it? There are many people who believe we NEVER landed on the moon and it was an elaborate hoax. In this forum we will examine some of the evidence they have put forward. Of course, as always, these are not necessarily my views.
In a recent article in U.S. News and World Report titled "Dark side of the moon landing" by Avery Comarow, issue date August 26, 2002 - September 2, 2002 the author goes on to state that there are many strange things about the landings such as the lack of stars in any of the over 30,000 photos taken, a rippling flag on an airless moon, no crater made on landing. Is he alone in these assumptions? No, believe me, you will see that there is no lack of purported evidence in this case.
<Apollo 11 Patch

Last Year CNN aired a program about the moon landings and questioned NASA about them. Specifically they asked if we really landed on the moon and the answer from NASA was YES. The theorists point to supposed oddities in NASA moon shots to boost their claim. Among the most prominent: The US flag should not be waving. Camera cross hairs should not be behind lunar features in the distance. Stars should be in the background. NASA, as expected, dismissed this saying if we had not landed there wouldn't have been any moon rocks brought back. (Not the best answer)

<Lunar Lander

Bart Sibrel was decked by Buzz Aldrin when he demanded Aldrin swear on a bible, in front of a camera crew, that he walked on the moon Sibrel insists the landing never took place and has made a video called "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon". He claims he has evidence footage from the Johnson Space Center. He says the footage shows Apollo 11 astronauts faking footage of earth from the back window of their capsule. He says they were using a "crescent piece of black material" to hide the fact that they only traveled HALFWAY to the moon.

<Apollo 11 Capsule

When the Apollo capsule landed in the ocean, a frog man opened up the portal to throw in quarantine suits thus destroying the integrity of the quarantine Could it be it was know that the quarantine wasn't necessary because no one had been to the moon? Many wonder how the astronauts survived their trip through the Van Allen Belt. It is suggested that the radiation there is so lethal that no human could live through it. No probe to the moon as yet detected anything we left behind.

< Splashdown Apollo 15 with 1 chute disabled

In June of 2001 British television aired a program on channels 4 and 5 expressing doubt about whether the Americans ever went to the moon. The programs were viewed by millions of Britons. Experts in their fields expressed their conviction that the NASA moon landing in 1969 was actually a clever hoax, a sort of American Cold War public relations stunt of huge proportions filmed, according to those on the show, somewhere in a remote desert in the United States.

< NASA Composite AS11-5863-5, notice the absence of a crater or dust on the rock

Experts quoted on the show pointed out that the moon pictures were perfectly framed and exposed even though the cameras used had no viewfinder or exposure meter and were strapped to the astronauts' chests.

This official NASA picture is strange indeed. Notice how the flag is flapping in the wind, when we all know there is no air on the moon, therefore no wind.

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An official NASA picture showing an extremely bright flag, in a perfect picture. Why is the flag so bright, even brighter than the reflective gold foil on the lander?

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<Moon Rock From NASA Photos

Notice the 'C' carved into this lunar rock. Many people think this rock was a prop that was erroneously placed upside down. A strange thing has happened, when you get the picture from NASA now, you get the bottom picture without the 'C' and the crosshairs seem to be different.

<Same Moon Rock From NASA Photos Now

Notice how the shadows seem to be pointing in different directions.

<Apollo 17 Photo

There seems to be multiple light sources in this picture.

<Apollo 16 Photo

Since the sun should be the only source of light on the moon, it is strange to find pictures that seem to show reflections from a close up light source.

<Apollo 14 reflection from light source in visor

Cross hairs were etched into the lens of the cameras that were used, yet this cross hair appears behind the astronaut There are many of these pictures available.

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Some of the evidence presented on behalf of the moon landing hoax are pictures like these on the left. Pro hoaxers say these pictures both have the same background only one has the LM inserted into it.

< 2 Moon pictures supposedly with same background

In this NASA photo notice the stick like shadows by the legs and the brightness of the suit facing away from the light.

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Here the photo has been altered to show how it should have looked. Notice the full shadow and the darkness of the suit.

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