Moon landing was faked!! What's your take.

An Internet post claiming that high-ranking Chinese officials had called the American moon landing a "complete hoax" is a fake news story that has been in circulation for years:

A new scandal has happened after high ranking officials from the Chinese space program called the American moon landing "a complete hoax", the Beijing Daily Express reports.

The claims came after the Chinese moon rover allegedly couldn’t find any proof of American landings on the Moon.

The rover took thousands of photos and after analyzing them the Chinese discovered that there’s no trace of these moon landings.

The post attributes the quote to the Beijing Daily Express, a publication we found no record of. It also points to thousands of photos taken by the Chinese Yutu moon rover, which launched in December 2013 and ceased to operate in July 2016, stating these "showed no trace" of the Apollo moon landing.

While the rover did take many photos, Andrew Jones, a journalist following China’s space program, points out that Yutu landed far from the Apollo landing site, so there wouldn’t be evidence one way or another.

"It had traveled tens of meters in total, when it would have needed to travel thousands of kilometers over varying and hazardous terrain to visit all the Apollo landing sites," Jones said. "Yutu, with designed minimum lifetime of three (Earth) months and a range of up to 10 kilometers, lasted 31 months on the Moon, but was stationary for the vast majority of this."

The Lunar Reconnaissance Spacecraft has captured ample evidence of the Apollo landing, though, which can be seen in this database. This is the same spacecraft that the Chinese space agency used to determine Yutu’s landing site.

In addition to photographs, the Apollo mission brought back rock samples that have fueled decades of scientific research, and are available upon request from NASA.

"So far, no one has seen those samples and declared them to be fake," director of space policy at Planetary Society Casey Dreier said.

The story also claims the Chinese space program launched a petition demanding the United States declassify NASA information regarding the U.S. moon landing, signed by 200 of its highest-ranking officials.

But the petition is nowhere to be found and alleged signee and "world renowned nuclear engineer" Yury Ignatyevich Mukhin is actually renowned in fake news circles as a Russian conspiracy theorist denying all moon landings. The only information available about him online, though, has been produced by Mukhin himself, leading Wikipedia to cast serious doubt on his profile.

The story can be traced back to a 2014 post on WorldNewsDailyReport.com, a known peddler of fake news that assumes "all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content.

 

It is so interesting that you posted this.I also heard the moon landings were Holly-Wood staged. I do believe that it could be true,considering the very many convincing conspiracies that are coming out these days especially about religion ,aliens and world history. I saw a picture on the internet whereby Neil Armstrong's space boots do not match his boot foot prints on the moon. It realy made me to believe that the landings could be hoax.

 

The moon landing was definitely not fake. We are aware of the US government having a rough past with propaganda and such. However, this was not fake/staged. Some might argue and say that the flag was moving. But that's not because they believed in winds on the moon back then, it's because that's what would have happened. Since there was no force to stop it from moving except the gravitational force, which simply wasn't strong enough so it took a while until it was completely still. And that has to do with Newton's inertia law of motion.

 

The Chinese and Russians actively observed the moon landing as it happened, as did countless of private parties and states around the world. Till this day you can point a laser on reflective surfaces left by the Apollo mission on the moon. The so-called analysis of the moon landing footage presented as proof the landing was faked actually proves its authenticity, as we know for a fact no one had the technology to cast parallel lights like those found in the footage at the time. It wouldn't be viable for the US government to have possessed that technology in secret at the time because of the sheer utility of the lasers needed. If they had the technology they would've used it one of the countless applications of it.

Most importantly, how on earth would the Soviets be persuaded to keep silent on this? They were America's #1 enemy and they acknowledged that the Americans did put a man on the moon. In fact, they were receiving the same radio signals NASA was sent directly from the moon. Not to mention how massive NASA is, making it impossible to keep all people involved from leaking the secret.

 

I don't know why people are so adamant that the moon landing didn't really happen. We have satellites and probes out in space as we speak. Some space crafts have been sending images and information back from out in the solar system for decades. Just because gravity in the moon caused the flag to behave in a manner other than what we are used to on Earth doesn't make it a fake. That's like saying that a creature from the bottom of the ocean is fake because you've never seen anything like it before despite video proof that it exists.