Why landing on the moon was fake

Neil Armstrong took this photograph of Aldrin with a 70mm lunar surface camera. Some skeptics have pointed out that Armstrong does not appear to be holding a camera, so someone else must be taking the picture. In his bulky suit, he needed something that was easy to manipulate. The camera he used on the moon was mounted on the front of his suit , which is where his hands are in the reflection.

It was so compelling that some conspiracy theorists later wondered if the government had actually hired Kubrick to film the moon landing in a soundstage possibly like the one James Bond ran through in the film Diamonds Are Forever. To those who know the moon landing was real, conspiracy theories that it was a hoax may seem silly and innocuous. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!

Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. To conspiracy theorists, it made perfect sense that NASA , realizing it could not actually land a man on the moon, turned to Kubrick. It could have been an act of patriotism, a citizen heeding the call of a nation in need. It could have been for money, enough to cover every production from here to Eyes Wide Shut.

Or maybe they had something on him. We all know about Hoover and the FBI. It would have been an easy gig in any case, cheaper and quicker than making itself. So, I ask: Where did Stanley Kubrick watch the moon landing? Was he in front of his TV at home, a viewer like everyone else? My God, what have I done? He felt the need to confess.

But who could he tell? He would instead confess with the only medium he really understood: film. It would be a coded confession, hidden but there for those with the right kind of eyes. It would bookmark the work he had done on the Apollo landing.

That was fiction disguised as history. This would be history disguised as fiction. What genre would he work in? That left horror, which was perfect for the story he had to tell, the story beneath the story, which was a kind of nightmare. One example: In the novel, the room to be avoided, the epicenter of bad mojo, is Room Kubrick changed it to Room Why would you make a change like that?

Maybe because the moon, on average, is , miles from the earth. It lets you experience The Shining , which was released in , with a renewed sense of discovery—that is, all over again. It starts with the Overlook Hotel. We are told the hotel stands for America. It was once grand, but has been allowed to dilapidate. The role of the caretaker, a novelist named Jack Torrance Jack Nicholson —an artist like Kubrick—is to maintain the fiction we landed on the moon while the foundation crumbles.

The man who hires the caretaker sits behind a big desk with an American flag at his side and an American eagle behind him. Meanwhile, Jack Torrance is writing, compiling a manuscript that turns out to be evidence of a collapsing mind.

Why twins? Because Apollo 11 came after another fake, the Gemini mission. On the Zodiac chart, the symbol for Gemini is a pair of twins.

In that situation, faint objects like stars simply aren't going to show up. Buzz Aldrin saluting the proudly waving American flag on the Moon remains one of the iconic images of the Apollo 11 mission, a declaration of US supremancy over space race rivals the Soviet Union.

But if there is no atmosphere on the Moon, there is no wind - so why is the flag waving? Is this the proof that conspiracy theorists have been seeking? Look again at the image, and in particular along the top edge of the flag, and you will find the answer. A telescopic pole has been extended along the top in order to make the flag fly proudly yes, NASA really did think of everything.

Apollo 17, the last Apollo mission to land astronauts on the Moon, took place in Since then, humans have never returned. Apollo 17 wasn't meant to be the end of the story, of course. Throughout the s there were ambitions to establish a permanent lunar base before turning to the next major space exploration challenge: Mars. Instead, attention turned to the Space Shuttle programme and, latterly, the International Space Station, which has been permanently inhabited by teams of astronauts since November But that doesn't mean humans couldn't return to the Moon in the future We have countless images, videos, lunar samples and scientific data to prove it.

But more than that, human exploration has literally left its mark on the Moon's surface. Absolutely stunning. Nor does it seem to be one to which Donald Trump, the ultimate product of news-as-entertainment, subscribes. The dynamics of the modern internet have clearly not helped: look up Apollo videos on YouTube and before long moon-hoax documentaries start lining up in the autoplay queue.

But there is little evidence that Russian disinformation agents have spread moon conspiracies as they have anti-vaxxing propaganda, for example. Although, if you think about it, it would make perfect sense for them to do so: a neat way of restoring Russian prestige while establishing continuity between the cold war and the information wars.

We hoped the guys would make it. We wanted this to happen. We knew those who were on board and they knew us, too. Who is left to counteract things that are untrue? Mythologies develop and become the dominant theme. Perhaps the hardest thing to believe in is the idea that humans might have accomplished something transcendent — something that even brought out the best in Nixon.

We have less faith in ourselves these days. Most moon conspiracists treat the whole thing as a joke, a rabbit hole to go down from time to time. Still, you could see the persistence of the moon conspiracy as a compliment to the Apollo scientists.