The answer is: yes.
So why all those conspiracy theories?
An example of yet another attempt to prove that the moon landing was fake:
In January 2023 a videoclip on instagram was posted where Buzz Aldrin in a 2015 interview appeared to have said, 'we didn't go there'.
This was immediately debunked:
The video itself has a number of what appear to be jarring cuts, leading to comments suggesting that the clip must have been edited to change the meaning of Mr Aldrin’s words.
However, if we compare the Instagram clip to the full video of the interview, filmed in 2015, it is apparent that while the Instagram post may have been edited to cut some pauses in Mr Aldrin’s response, his actual words haven’t been changed.
But this doesn’t mean Mr Aldrin “admitted” the Moon landing was faked. Here’s what Mr Aldrin said in full: “That's not an eight-year-old's question. That's my question. I want to know. But I think I know. Because we didn't go there. And that's the way it happened.
“And if it didn't happen it's nice to know why it didn't happen so in the future, if we want to keep doing something, we need to know why something stopped in the past if we want to keep it going.”
While Mr Aldrin’s words are not that clear, it’s plausible he was responding to the question about why nobody had been to the Moon “in such a long time”, by explaining why astronauts hadn’t returned to the Moon. The last crewed expedition took place in 1972, with a total of 12 astronauts (all from US expeditions) walking on the Moon’s surface.
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Reply by FormerlyKnownAs
on March 25, 2023 at 9:50 PM
A couple of excerpts from an article I happened to run across that were good for a chuckle-and-a-twitch:
Some conspiracy theorists reference the lack of stars in the pictures taken by the Apollo astronauts from the surface of the Moon. ANSWER:The simple answer for this is that the stars are there, but just that they are too faint to see.
Some conspiracy theorists reference the famous US flag, which in photos of the moment, appears to be flapping in the wind.
ANSWER: The truth to this is that although it looks like it is moving, it isn't.
Bottomline...
ANSWER 1 = It's there; but, you can't see it.
ANSWER 2 = You see it; but, it isn't there.
When you hear this kind of 'splaining' how can you help but and
Reply by Knixon
on March 30, 2023 at 7:35 PM
The stars aren't too faint to see, they were too faint to show up on the film used at that time, in "daylight" etc.
The flag was set up to stand out and to appear "rippling" with wire etc, otherwise since there is no wind it would just hang down. But it's not actually moving.
Reply by Nexus71
on May 1, 2023 at 12:04 PM
Really do we need a post for this on a Star Trek board what's next a post that the Earth is flat ??
Reply by Knixon
on May 1, 2023 at 3:27 PM
There's no such thing as gravity! The Earth sucks!
Reply by FormerlyKnownAs
on May 11, 2023 at 12:18 PM
I Hear Ya!
But…
Theorists have to theorize. Otherwise they will find something else idiotic to do with all that spare time.
Anyway…
This maybe/maybe not “Moon Landing” has given us two iconic quotes:
'the eagle has landed'
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
For these two gems alone I can go the route whenever this discussion raises its persistent head.
ANOTHER NOTE: The Enterprise’s Five-Year Mission is built on the back of everything that has gone before. That would make “The Moon Landing” just one of the many undertakings that helped paved the way in the race-to-conquer-space.
ON ANOTHER, ANOTHER NOTE: I saw an ad a couple of years back where the Flat Earth Society sponsored “A Cruise” for its members. Go Figure!
Reply by wonder2wonder
on May 11, 2023 at 2:16 PM
While there are different theories within the Flat Earth community, the core belief is that the Earth is flat.
The FEIC (Flat Earth International Conference) was the one organizing the cruise. They claim that after “extensive experimentation, analysis, and research”, its adherents came to believe the Earth is not a sphere.
The Flat Earth Society, which is not connected to the FEIC, has suggested that “the space agencies of the world” have conspired to fake “space travel and exploration”. “This likely began during the cold war,” the Flat Earth Society says. “The USSR and USA were obsessed with beating each other into space to the point that each faked their accomplishments in an attempt to keep pace with the other’s supposed achievements.”
So, one can assume that the Flat Earth Society does not believe in the moon landing.
Reply by Knixon
on May 11, 2023 at 2:26 PM
Indeed, how can there even be a moon orbiting a flat Earth?
Reply by FormerlyKnownAs
on May 11, 2023 at 9:50 PM
“Despite real, scientific evidence to the contrary, the Flat Earth Society is continuing its quest to convince the world that spherical planets are a hoax and the earth is flat. In 2020, they’ll bring their message to the seas with a special cruise they promise will be “the biggest, boldest, best adventure yet.”( thelonelyplanet.com – March 29, 2019.)
Competing cruises OR sloppy fact-checking. All probably came to naught since the COVID-19 pandemic "blew everything out of the water".
Why does it necessarily follow that just because they believe the Earth is flat, they do not believe the Moon Landing was real?
Reply by Knixon
on May 11, 2023 at 10:33 PM
Because if you'll believe one crackpot theory, you'll believe another?
Reply by znexyish
on May 12, 2023 at 12:17 AM
As the saying goes: If the earth Is flat, cats would have pushed everything off it by now
Reply by wonder2wonder
on May 12, 2023 at 6:07 AM
It seems that Flat Earther Robbie Davidson, who organises these cruises, also organises the annual Flat Earth International Conference. (independent.co.uk - Friday 22 March 2019).
Excerpt from their website Flat Earth Society:
The Flat Earth Society are saying that space agencies are 'faking space travel and exploration'. Not everyone at the FEIC believes that.
Reply by FormerlyKnownAs
on May 12, 2023 at 10:20 AM
Makes sense. If they believe that all of it's a , then, they'd have no reason to believe that the Moon Landing was the one exception.
Reply by Dark_Sithlord
on May 20, 2023 at 3:42 AM
Flat Earthers can't expect much from a cruise because they'll fall off if they venture out too far.