There are a number of questions which should be asked before believing any conspiracy theory.

 

1. How many people knew about it? In this case, we'd be talking about the three astronauts on each mission, the people who built the set, the people who filmed it and several senior NASA people at the very least. Then there would be the people who engineered the sound delay in the communication with the astrtonauts. Unless all that was pre-recorded which would mean all the people in the command centre would have known. That's too many people to have kept it all secret for so long.

 

2. Who benefits? Apart from the astronauts, not many. It meant the US was seen to beat the Russians but that would have meant even more people (Presidents for example) would also probably have known about it.

 

The answers to those two questions lead me to believe that it was not a hoax.

 

the conspiracy theory only came to light in recent years, no one in the 60's 70's and at least most of the 80's had any doubts...... then up popped this bloke who wrote what became a best selling book claiming the landings were a hoax. :lol:

 

tbh i dont think even he believed it, but he saw an opportunity to make money out of suckers :lol:

This is interesting. From one of the Hoax sites. Who can explain a Coke can being seen then?

 

http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicapollo.html

 

errr...

are you aware that your main source credits in its home page (as one of its three main stories) Robbie Williams' UFO endorsement as some kind of major happening?

 

now THAT is hard to explain.

 

tbh i dont think even he believed it, but he saw an opportunity to make money out of suckers :lol:

 

No, he probably didn't.. He just watched "Capricorn One" and decided to rip off the plot wholesale for his own work of fiction..... :lol:

 

The bugger should be sued for plagiarism if you ask me...... :lol: :lol:

 

interesting to note that all the conspiracy theorists have gone mighty quiet now around the time of the aniversary with all the media displaying what really went on! :lol:

interesting to note that all the conspiracy theorists have gone mighty quiet now around the time of the aniversary with all the media displaying what Nasa want us to believe.

 

 

I consider myself informed, but I've got to be honest, when I looked at this thread title, I couldn't remember the name of the first man on the moon either. Obviously I have heard it was Neil Armstrong in the past, but the name wasn't on the top of my head. I think man going to the moon is just taken as such a given these days, it's not really that talked about by parents or teachers to kids. If I'd been in this survey, although I would'n't've answered Buzz Lightyear (although I'd guess most people who answered that were joking anyway), I wouldn't've been able to give an answer.