• Question: Is the moon landing fake?

    Asked by anon-245169 to Ondrej, Jordan, Ed on 6 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Edward Banks

      Edward Banks answered on 6 Mar 2020:

      The moon landings were very much real- we still have an entire generation of living witnesses. The Apollo 11 mission alone brought back just over 20kg of material from the Moon’s surface, which is different to any of the rock we might find on Earth. But they also left behind some special mirrors called retroreflectors; these reflect light back in the direction from which it came, unlike a normal mirror. So if you get a strong enough laser you can point it at these retroreflectors left on the Moon’s surface and see it reflected back.

    • Photo: Ondrej Kovanda

      Ondrej Kovanda answered on 6 Mar 2020:

      None of them is fake. If my memory serves me well, in the Natural History Museum in London you can see a piece of Moon rock brought back by one of the missions.

    • Photo: Jordan McElwee

      Jordan McElwee answered on 9 Mar 2020:

      They were real, and also very cool! In total the Apollo missions (USA) brought back 382 kg of Moon rock (that’s around 5 and a half men!). Most people think NASA faked the Moon landings so they could beat Russia to it, but automated Russian spacecraft also brought back samples (years after) of the Moon that matched the USA’s samples.
      Another piece of evidence is that we have photographs of the Moon’s landscape from the Moon landings and also pictures from recently. If the Moon landings were fake you definitely wouldn’t expect the pictures to show the same things, but they do!
      There is plenty of other evidence for the Moon landings, all of which is really interesting, but I can’t list it all here, there’s far too much!

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