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One Giant Leap for Lunar Skeptics

As many as 20 percent of Americans believe that the moon landings were faked.

Michael Cabbage / Sentinel Space Editor
July 10, 2001

CAPE CANAVERAL
As cosmic conspiracies go, this one has it all. Government lies and treachery. Murdered astronauts. Global domination by a one-world cabal.

Move over, grassy knoll and Area 51. The myth that America’s lunar landings were faked by the U.S. government is booming -- and not just among X-Files addicts. Millions of Americans, as many as 1 in 5 according to some estimates, now suspect Neil Armstrong took his one small step inside a television studio in the Nevada desert.

While most Americans still snicker at such a scenario, not everyone is laughing. NASA has been forced to officially deny that Apollo was a fraud. Teachers are facing increasingly cynical students. And hundreds of Apollo veterans are being branded as liars and phonies for their role in one of humankind’s defining moments.

Books and videos detailing the conspiracy "evidence" are growing in number -- and sales -- almost daily. Internet sites are popping up everywhere. And now, television is helping win converts by the millions.
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“According to Hoagland, the moon landings must be real. Why? His detailed analysis of Apollo photos detected ruins of giant crystal structures built on the moon by aliens.

“‘He finds himself in the rather delicate position of having to defend NASA for the moon missions while having to attack NASA for suppressing the fact that space aliens lived there,’ Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer and an astronomer at California’s Sonoma State University, said, laughing. ‘When I found that out, my irony gland was basically squeezed dry.’”

The bit about the irony gland had me!
Dan