Kaysing’s claim to expertise was that in the early 1960s, he had worked as a technical writer for Rocketdyne, a rocket design and production company, and alleged that the job had given him access to documents proving that the Apollo mission was a hoax.īut because Kaysing self-published his seminal book, it’s impossible to know how much money he actually made from inventing one of the most popular conspiracy theories of all time. We Never Went to the Moon (subhead: “America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle”) was written in 1976 by a man called Bill Kaysing, who according to the tribute website was also known as “Wild Bill Kaysing” and is widely considered the father of moon landing hoax theories. What would you call your book about the fact that we never went to the moon? To understand who’s making money off moon landing conspiracy theories, you have to go back in history, starting with the first major book written about it. Moon landing conspiracy theories began with a self-published book So I did what conspiracy theorists do, and followed the money. Someone must benefit from insisting that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin didn’t walk on the moon, right? Otherwise, why would so many people still believe it? And yet a steady gurgling of moon truther ephemera has remained since the 1970s, from books to documentaries and now, YouTube videos. This is only a sampling of supposed evidence that the moon landing was faked, all of which has been debunked, repeatedly, for decades. I just spent like 30 minutes reading about the moon hoax theory for my class and I'm just saying starting to look a lil sus /1yLuHxbaW2- Christina Camargo June 10, 2019 In photos, shadows appear at multiple angles, but shouldn’t there just be a single light source in space, the sun? Why was the American flag waving when there is no wind in a vacuum? Why wasn’t there a crater where the Apollo landed? Why would astronauts’ boots make footprints when there’s no water on the moon? What about the crosshairs? The crosshairs!!! Plus, the feat seemed physically impossible: Wouldn’t the Van Allen radiation belts kill astronauts before they got to the moon? (No, because the spaceship only moved through them for a few hours, not days.) And how were computers from the ’60s supposed to launch a rocket that went 239,000 miles? Weren’t they basically just calculators? Seems fake!Īnd then there is the dubious physical evidence of the moon landing, which has been dissected by conspiracy theorists for decades. The technology was there (although this Adam Ruins Everything segment explains why actually, it wasn’t), because 2001: A Space Odyssey had come out a year before and showed realistic footage of a studio-simulated space.
The motive is there: The US really wanted to beat the Soviet Union to the moon, and Sputnik forced NASA into action.
We have irrefutable proof of this still, anywhere from 6 to 20 percent of Americans do not believe it actually happened, depending on your source, with an additional (and far more bewildering) 5 percent who said in a 1999 Gallup poll that they were “undecided.”īut the moon landing hoax theory has persisted for decades due to the simple fact that if you don’t think about it too hard, it sort of makes sense. On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module landed on the moon. You can also disprove literally every moon landing conspiracy claim, of which there are many dozens. But you tell me why some of the camera’s crosshairs appeared to be behind objects in NASA’s moon landing photos? You can’t!
Crosshairs! The word itself sounds like it belongs on a bulletin board covered with a laserlike web of red yarn. The first step on the path to recovery is admitting that the more you listen to moon landing conspiracy theories, the more you start to believe them.
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