It's been more than fifty years since NASA astronauts last walked on the Moon, but there are still many who believe it never happened. The conspiracy theories behind the "fake" Moon landings and YouTube videos on it have amassed millions of views but sadly for the non-believers, it definitely happened.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was recently asked for his views on it and he also believes that the Moon missions were not fake.
pic.twitter.com/lyXp5GeVHO — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 7, 2024
"We definitely went to the Moon. I swear. We went to the Moon several times," he said in a recent interview with journalist Tucker Carlson.
"I just want to check your view on that," Carlson said to which Musk replied, "We one hundred percent went to the Moon."
Musk was actually answering a question on religion which made him wonder why can't witchcraft and magic, if they are real, take humanity to the Moon or Mars?
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The non-believers think the Moon landings during NASA's Apollo program was fake because of the illogical explanations that they are fed online - like the angle of the shadows, lack of craters near the spacecraft, the American flag 'flapping' in the wind and the most, for the lack of a better word, 'stupid' one - the lack of stars. Anyone who understands how a camera works will be able to tell why stars aren't visible in the pictures (it all has to do with exposure).
According to the deniers, the U.S. government staged the entire program in a studio to gain advantage over the Soviet Union when the cold war was at its peak.
But, as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson once said, it would have been cheaper to actually go the Moon than fake it.
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(Image: NASA/X)