Humanity first set foot on the Moon on July 20, 1969, achieving what we might call “humanity’s greatest exploratory feat.” For two and a half hours, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin explored the lunar surface on foot while Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 orbiter around the Moon.
This is the story we continue to celebrate today, almost 50 years after the first moon landing. Many will recall seeing that historic moment for themselves; others, we have listened to the memories of our parents and grandparents. But what happens when someone insists that man’s arrival on the Moon never happened, that we never set foot on the Moon?
As incredible as it is to most of us, it seems necessary to delve into some of the most common questions about landing on the Moon and tackle the most curious lunar phenomena with the latest data and of course scientific understanding.
Let’s be clear. Much compelling evidence supports the fact that humans actually set foot on the Moon several times between 1969 and 1972. But it is important to question and think critically about events on this scale, and sometimes investigating and deciphering the answers can also be very. entertaining.
When you write about space as much as we do (and delighted with it,) from time to time we hear that of: “hey, and did we really land on the Moon?”. That is why it is necessary for us to raise evidence and arguments for the lunar landing as well as dismantle some creative theories but all they do is undermine the correct understanding of the general public.
Pseudosciences under the guise of skepticism
It happens every year and it’s no wonder when you consider that a vast majority of the world’s population still believe that NASA faked the moon landings.
The internet and YouTube are riddled with millions of claims that NASA planned an Apollo fraud. Even in Christopher Nolan’s movie ‘Interstellar’ (2014) this issue is described in the scene where Matthew McConaughey confronts future educators who deny that NASA has landed on the Moon. Why are there so many attacks on the great achievements of the Apollo missions? One of the most important reasons is the rise of pseudoscience in popular culture.
Certain theorists present themselves as rebels against the general orthodoxy of modern science. They offer an endless stream of false “evidence” for scientifically illiterate and well-meaning skeptics, but there’s no question that NASA sent humans to the moon.
In 1969, video and television technologies were not advanced enough to stage and fake the moon landing in a plausible way. NASA had neither CGI nor Photoshop at the time. Television cameras were primitive compared to today’s cameras.
Although false claims about the moon landing have been discredited many times on the Internet, these are some of the most obvious reasons why the Apollo moon landings could not be faked. Let’s go for the tests.
