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That May, the three astronauts of Apollo 10 took the first complete Apollo spacecraft around the moon in a dry run for the scheduled July landing mission. At a. Armstrong, a year-old civilian research pilot, was the commander of the mission. After traveling , miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into a lunar orbit on July The next day, at p. Two hours later, the Eagle began its descent to the lunar surface, and at p. At p. As he made his way down the module's ladder, a television camera attached to the craft recorded his progress and beamed the signal back to Earth, where hundreds of millions watched in great anticipation.
Aldrin joined him on the moon's surface 19 minutes later, and together they took photographs of the terrain, planted a U. By a. The two men slept that night on the surface of the moon, and at p.
Among the items left on the surface of the moon was a plaque that read: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the moon—July A. There would be five more successful lunar landing missions, and one unplanned lunar swing-by.
Apollo 13 had to abort its lunar landing due to technical difficulties. The last men to walk on the moon, astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt of the Apollo 17 mission, left the lunar surface on December 14, The expense was justified by Kennedy's mandate to beat the Soviets to the moon, and after the feat was accomplished, ongoing missions lost their viability.
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Launius, who was working at Nasa at the time, recalls much banging of heads against consoles. We began to receive all kinds of questions. Most of the calls came not from conspiracists, but from parents and teachers. But it really did churn up a big response. Given an implausible event for which there is lots of evidence Apollo 11 and a plausible event for which there is zero evidence the moon hoax , some people will opt for the latter.
James Bond has to take a small share of the blame. A chase ensues across a film set dressed up to look like the moon, complete with earthbound astronauts. The authorities opt to fake it and kill the astronauts one of whom is played by OJ Simpson to prevent them revealing the truth.
In the post-Watergate era, the idea that the government could lie on this scale had become much more plausible. Apollo marked a turning point between the optimism of the 60s and the disappointments of the 70s. Conspiracists are divided on whether the earlier Apollo, Mercury, Gemini and Atlas missions were also fakes, whether Laika or Yuri Gagarin ever made it into space, and what role Kubrick played.
The line between conspiracy and entertainment is far more blurry. Still, while irritating for those involved — Buzz Aldrin punched moon conspiracist Bart Sibrel in — in one sense the conspiracy idea is harmless, at least compared with misinformation about vaccinations or mass murders.
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.
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