Whats the deal?
I have fortunately been given the opportunity to shed light on one of the most agonizing conspiracy theories the the history of conspiracy theories. Before I go any further, it is important for me to establish that I am not a conspiracy theory person. There is not a single conspiracy theory that I believe in beaucse none of them have sufficient evidence to back them up. However, I am especially annoyed by the moon landing conspiracy theory as it takes one the greatest scientific accomplishments in human history and says that it never happened. If you do believe the moon landing conspiracy theory and are easily offended, I suggest you click away from this page before I carefully explain why you are wrong. In the information that follows, I am going to analyize many aspects about the moon landings used as "evidence" by the theorist. I am then going to explain how these ideas do not support the theory.
"It was just filmed by stanley Kubrick"
One of the most common theories about the moon landings is that all the footage of the astronauts on the moon as well as the footage taken while orbiting the moon, was all taken on a secret soundstage by filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. Most of the moon footage depicts the astronauts doing things such as floating in zero gravity with their spacecraft and jumping around in very light gravity on the surface of the moon. These conditions would have been next to impossible to simulate in 1969. At the time of the the first moon landing, Stanley Kubrick had just finished working on his film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick's experience with working with scenes set in space led many conspiracy theorist to identify him as capable of simulating moon conditions in a studio. However, Stanley Kubrick is not the type of person who would have allowed the government to distract him from finishing his movie, especially if the intention was the deceive people. Another theory about the the footage taken from the moon is that all of the footage from low orbit of the moon was also created on a sound stage. The problem with that theory is that there is hundreds upon hundreds of hours of footage from orbit around the moon, taken by the astronauts themselves. It would have taken years to create hundred of hours of fake footage in the 1960s. Another more recent way of proving that the moon landings occurred is that in 2009 a probe in lunar orbit took new pictures of the original landing sites, with everything just the way the astronauts left it.
What about the Soviet Union?
Moon Landing conspiracy theorist will often cite the Soviet Union as motivation for "fake moon landings." Theorist will say that the United States was desperate to beat the Soviet Union to the moon and thus decided to fake the landings. However, this theory leaves out one detail. If the United States claimed that it was sending a manned craft to the moon with the intention of landing it, the Soviets would tracked the crafts every move to make sure the U.S. was not lying. The Soviets would have come forward with the evidence if no landing occurred. Some conspiracy theorist have made the claim that the Soviets did not have the ability to track objects all the way to the moon until after the Apollo project was over. This claim is nonsensical because the Soviets launched and landed the unmanned Luna 2 probe on the moon in 1959, a full decade before the first manned Apollo landing.
INDISPUTABLE evidence proves the landings
Between the impractical recourses needed for shooting the landings on earth and the hundreds of hours footage that could not the be created in a reasonable amount of time, the landings are indisputable. Not to mention the fact that the Soviet Union tracked every move and the fact that over half a million people worked on the Apollo project over the eleven years in which it was active. There is no way that hundreds upon thousands of engineers, factory workers, and scientist have ket quite for the last 40 years. Everyone who worked on the Apollo project donated their time, their intellect, and their money to make sure that the landings were accomplished. To take all of their hard work and dedication and say that it was all fake, is really just down right disrespectful. I hope I have made you more aware of the details surrounding this great technological milestone.