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Moon Conspiracy Mongerers Run Amok

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
July 15, 2009

NASA Hints It’s Found Missing Moon-Landing Videotapes, Fox
“The story, as summarized by Britain’s Sunday Express newspaper in late June, was that the tapes had been found in a storage facility in the basement of a building on a university campus in Perth, Australia. Monday’s statement appeared to confirm that report, stating that the footage comes from what is “believed to be the best available broadcast-format copies of the lunar excursion, some of which had been locked away for nearly 40 years.”
Vocal Minority Insists It Was All Smoke and Mirrors, NY Times
“Mr. Sibrel, who sells his films online, has hounded Apollo astronauts with a Bible, insisting that they swear on camera they had walked on the Moon. He so annoyed Buzz Aldrin in 2002 — ambushing him with his Bible and calling him “a coward, and a liar, and a thief” — that Mr. Aldrin punched Mr. Sibrel in the face. Law enforcement officials refused to file charges against Mr. Aldrin, the second man on the Moon. In an interview, Mr. Sibrel said that his efforts to prove that men never walked on the Moon has cost him dearly. “I have suffered only persecution and financial loss,” he said. “I’ve lost visitation with my son. I’ve been expelled from churches. All because I believe the Moon landings are fraudulent.”
Apollo 11 Moon landing: conspiracy theories debunked, The Telegraph
“2) No stars are visible in the pictures taken by the Apollo astronauts from the surface of the Moon. The Apollo landing takes place during lunar mornings, with the Sun shining brightly. Exposure time on the cameras is set very rapid so as not to let in too much light and obscure detail. The stars, whilst being visible to the naked eye on the Moon, are not bright enough to be captured in the photographs.”

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