Apollo Moon Landings: Real or Hoax?

Ron Howard's Film "In the Shadow of the Moon" Includes Astronauts' Film Footage

The Apollo 11 mission was simple: Perform manned lunar landing and return mission safely. (Achieved).

Maybe you remember being glued to the television screen with Walter Cronkite on July 20,1969, as Apollo 11 astronaut Neil A. Armstrong became the first human to step foot on the surface of the Moon, followed by Buzz Aldrin. In one of the most famous quotes in history, United States astronaut Neil Armstrong said, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Not many people know that the word "a" was lost in the radio transmission. Then again, you may not have been born yet.

"You were alive when man walked on the Moon?"

In 2006, I stood staring at a Lunar Module (LM) in the Smithsonian museum, totally shocked at how amateur the construction appeared. It looked as if it were built in someone's garage from old appliance parts and colored aluminum foil. As I talked about watching the July 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing on television and how frightening it must have been to land on the Moon in this "Beverly Hillbillies" lunar module, a young couple approached and asked in utter amazement, "You were alive when man walked on the Moon?"

After thanking the young couple for what I wanted to believe was a compliment for not looking as old as I am, they went on to say that they heard theories about the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) faking Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's landing of the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle on the Moon. The young couple did not believe that the command module Columbia carried the LM Eagle into space where it landed at the Sea of Tranquility.

The Great Moon Hoax