The Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969 was one of the most astonishing achievements in human history. That day, an estimated 530 million TV viewers watched U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take their first steps on the moon . Afterward, the two men and ...

In images from the moon landing, it is possible to see certain objects even though they are in shadow.Skeptics argue that if the sun were the only source of light, this wouldn't be the case.Therefore, the fact that you can see some objects in shadow must be the result of ...

Yet just a few years later, some people claimed the "giant leap for mankind" had been faked.Conspiracy theories that the moon landing was actually a hoax that the U.S. government had staged to win the space race with the Soviets began to gain traction in the mid-1970s.Alt...

In one of the pictures from the moon landing, you can see Armstrong clearly reflected in Aldrin’s visor. Some skeptics have pointed out that Armstrong does not appear to be holding a camera, so someone else must be taking the picture. But that isn’t true.Armstrong couldn’...

Director Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey wowed audiences in 1968 for creating a realistic image of outer space.It was so compelling that some conspiracy theorists later wondered if the government had actually hired Kubrick to film th...

The only “evidence” that Kubrick filmed the moon landing has itself proved to be a hoax.Denial of America’s great progress in space exploration and belief in these myths is “more of an ideological thing—a political thing—than it is a scientific thing,” Fienberg notes.To t...