Examiner reported :

As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, the “Apollo 11 hoax” community is providing a strident counterpoint to the historic mission.

The hoax theory has already been disproven many times. One of the most recent was last summer, when Myth Busters tackled one of the biggest, most scandalous rumors ever.

You know, the one that says that NASA never sent astronauts to the moon during the Apollo program. The MythBusters team tackles the definitely lost-in-space story that alleges NASA just made the whole thing up while mashing up some cheesy movies.

The broadcast did sound work on disproving the major allegations posed by the conspiracy theorists.  If Discovery rebroadcasts the show, it’s must-see TV.

news.nationalgeographic.com reported :

Republished July 20, 2009–Forty years after U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon, many conspiracy theorists still insist the Apollo 11 moon landing was an elaborate hoax. Examine the photographic evidence, and find out why experts say some of the most common claims simply don’t hold water.

You can tell Apollo 11 was faked because … the American flag appears to be flapping as if “in a breeze” in videos and photographs supposedly taken from the airless lunar surface.

The fact of the matter is … “the video you see where the flag’s moving is because the astronaut just placed it there, and the inertia from when they let go kept it moving,” said spaceflight historian Roger Launius, of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C.

The astronauts also accidentally bent the horizontal rods holding the flag in place several times, creating the appearance of a rippling flag in photographs (Apollo 11 moon-landing pictures).

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