One big…lie? As NASA delays its moon landing to 2026, conspiracy theories are reignited online

It has been more than 50 years since humanity first set foot on the moon.

And ever since, conspiracy theories that the landing was faked have been rife.

While none of these theories have any grounding in reality, that hasn’t stopped them from spreading like wildfire.

Now, as NASA delays its highly anticipated return to the moon to 2026, social media has once again been flooded with claims that man has never visited our lunar satellite.

The delayed missions have even led some sceptics to claim that ‘they can’t figure out how they did it the first time’.

It has been more than 50 years since humanity first set foot on the moon. And ever since, conspiracy theories that the landing was faked have been rife. Despite appearing to be waving in the wind, the flag taken by the Apollo 11 seen here with Buzz Aldrin is held up by a metal rod and is hanging crumpled in the Moon's low gravity

It has been more than 50 years since humanity first set foot on the moon. And ever since, conspiracy theories that the landing was faked have been rife. Despite appearing to be waving in the wind, the flag taken by the Apollo 11 seen here with Buzz Aldrin is held up by a metal rod and is hanging crumpled in the Moon’s low gravity

As NASA delays its eagerly anticipated return to the moon to 2026, social media has once again been flooded with claims that man has never visited our lunar satellite

As NASA delays its eagerly anticipated return to the moon to 2026, social media has once again been flooded with claims that man has never visited our lunar satellite

The delayed missions have even led some sceptics to claim that 'they can't figure out how they did it the first time'

The delayed missions have even led some sceptics to claim that ‘they can’t figure out how they did it the first time’

'They're never going to fake another "moon landing", one user wrote. 'Artemis II or III will end in "disaster" and "human spaceflight" will be postponed indefinitely...'

‘They’re never going to fake another “moon landing”, one user wrote. ‘Artemis II or III will end in “disaster” and “human spaceflight” will be postponed indefinitely…’

Citing safety concerns, NASA announced that Artemis II, which will complete a lunar fly-by, has been delayed until September next year.

Meanwhile, Artemis III, which will once again put astronauts on the moon, won’t now take place until September 2026.

These sudden and unexpected delays have ignited a wave of conspiracy theory content on X (formerly Twitter).

One commenter wrote: ‘The way you guys are preparing to land on the moon again it seems like it’s the 1st time you are actually planning moon Trip.’

Another wrote: ‘It seems like they can’t figure out how they did it the first time.’

And another added: ‘They’re never going to fake another “moon landing”‘.

Why do people claim the moon landing is a hoax?

The moon landing hoax theory is usually traced back to a 1976 book by Bill Kaysing titled ‘We Never Went to the moon: America’s Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle’.

The book was released at a moment of low trust in the Government and spread quickly.

Theorists claim that America didn’t have the capability to land on the moon in the 1960s and so faked it to win the space race.

The ‘evidence’ generally consists of trying to find flaws in the photos of the moon landing which suggest they were staged.

The moon landing conspiracy claims that America never completed the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.

Rather, conspiracy theorists believe that NASA faked footage in a studio here on Earth, which was broadcast to people around the world.

The motivation was allegedly the US’s desperation to win the space race, but some wilder theories claim that it was faked because the moon does not exist or is flat.

Strangely, these theories also frequently claim that the moon landing footage was directed by Stanley Kubrick who had released 2001: A Space Odyssey the previous year.

These ideas have once again resurfaced on social media following the NASA delays, with one commenter writing: ‘Nasa is a hoax, Moon landing was a hoax, Kubrick fingerprints everywhere.’

Another X user, using the name The Flat Earther, wrote: ‘It seems that NASA is now so incompetent that they are unable to stage another fake moon landing, despite having access to superior CGI’.

One X user even called the Moon landing ‘one of the biggest frauds in human history’ and shared supposed ‘behind the scenes’ footage of the Moon landing filming.

(source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12946605/NASA-delays-moon-landing-2026-conspiracy-theories.html )

MkUltra brain washing & Moon Hoax

#AwE130, MKUltra a mind control experiment by the CIA, they had to admit in the 70’s that the project was operational in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. The CIA destroyed almost all documentation relating to MKUltra and claimed that it was a more or less failed experiment, but was it? In this presentation I will make the connection between the Apollo moon landings and MKUltra. I will show evidence that MKUltra was a great success by convincing (brainwashing) the world (YOU), they landed a man on the moon. The introduction to Bill Kaysing’s book “We Never Went To The Moon”. A June 14, 1970, Knight Newspaper article asked 1,721 people in six different cities whether they really believed that U.S. astronauts had been to the moon and back. According to the newspaper, a significant number did not believe it. “The most common reasons given by skeptics were that the US did it to deceive the Russians and Chinese,…….” The Apollo moon landings and MKUltra you were the experiment!

Brainwashed: The echoes of MK-ULTRA | CBC News

‘Evidence’ Proves One of the Most Impactful Events in History Was a Lie

What if Neil Armstrong’s famed moon landing in 1969 was a lie – one of the biggest lies ever told? A major piece of “evidence” seems to suggest that America’s lunar conquest was a hoax. People have noticed that Neil Armstrong’s space boots do not match his footprints on the moon.

To date, Neil Armstrong’s iconic moon landing outfit is one of the most attractive treasures housed at the Smithsonian Museum. The outfit stands tall among the multitude of aviation and space artifacts in the Washington DC museum. According to the National Air and Space Museum, Armstrong’s spacesuit is a “key part” of “one of the single greatest achievements in the history of mankind.”

The suits, which are made from non-flammable material and include a liquid cooling garment, were designed to provide relative comfort for 115 hours. The white suit, which also came with gloves and attached helmets, can serve for 14 days in a pressure-free mode. But it was the boots that caught the most attention.

The soles of the boots at the Smithsonian Museum are markedly different from those of Neil Armstrong and his landing partner, Buzz Aldrin’s footprints on the moon. A photo of Armstrong’s footprint threads is horizontal and nothing like the smooth and plain soles of the boots in the museum. (source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/evidence-proves-one-of-the-most-impactful-events-in-history-was-a-lie/ar-AA1hJyOv )

'Evidence' Proves One of the Most Impactful Events in History Was a Lie

We Never Went To The Moon – full documentary

This is the classic “We Never Went to the Moon” by Bill Kaysing, which kicked off the entire moon hoax craze of the 1970s.
Bill Kaysing was head of the technical presentation’s unit at the Rocketdyne Propulsion Field Laboratory in California from 1956 to 1963. This period encompassed the major planning for the engine and components of the Apollo project. During this time, Kaysing held security clearances with the U.S. Air Force and the Atomic Energy Commission. This is the original 1986 interview with Kaysing by Ross Marshall. It was Kaysing, right or wrong, who really brought serious questions to the Apollo Moon Program, questions that were brought to film in the 1972 James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever.

Ex Russian Space Boss Says There’s No Proof Americans Went to the Moon in 1969

Dmitry Rogozin, the former head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, expressed scepticism on the validity of the US Apollo 11 mission’s 1969 Moon landing, stating he had not yet seen convincing evidence.

Rogozin claimed in a post on his Telegram channel on Sunday that he started his personal search for the truth “about ten years ago” while still employed by the Russian government. He claimed that he developed doubts about the Americans landing on the Moon after observing how rested the Apollo 11 crew appeared in comparison to the exhausted Soviet cosmonauts who had just returned from their missions.

Rogozin claimed to have asked Roscosmos for proof at the time. All he got in return was a book that detailed Soviet cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov’s conversation with American astronauts, during which they revealed to him that they had visited the Moon.

The former official said that after being named head of Roscosmos in 2018, he kept up his efforts. Rogozin, however, claims that he was not given any supporting documentation. Instead, he claimed that a number of anonymous academics harshly criticised him for damaging the “sacred cooperation with NASA.”

Another claim made by the former head of Roscosmos was that he had “received an angry phone call from a top-ranking official” who allegedly accused him of disrupting international relations.

‘Hard landing’ of moon mission Moon mission makes ‘hard landing’

In his last statement, Rogozin said that despite the enormous advancement in technology since the late 1960s, he still finds it hard to believe that the US was once able to accomplish the feat but is now unable to.

However, he asserts that he discovered that Washington had “its people in [the Russian] establishment.”

One giant ... lie? Why so many people still think the moon landings were faked | The moon | The Guardian

Moon Photographs – Expert Analysis By A World Famous Photographer

I’m a world-famous photographer who photographed with Hasselblad Cameras for over twenty years. I was sponsored by Hasselblad and a lecturer at Hasselblad University. I also started up (and ran) Pictage, Inc., at the time the largest professional digital photo lab in the United States. I photographed famous celebrities and politicians, so I know a lot about how to preserve and protect fragile photographic emulsions and films. I’m also a graduate of UC Santa Barbara with a degree in Pharmacology, and was a UCLA Physics major prior to this. I also held a de-commissioned Hasselblad lunar camera in my hands, and played with it. That is where I saw a lot of things that didn’t make sense. This video explores the possibility that the photographs that were shown to the public as photos from the moon could not have possibly be authentic, given the vast amount of information given to me. This is not to say that man never landed on the moon, or that there is a “conspiracy”, because I wasn’t there, and I don’t personally know any of the astronauts. But as a photographer who took millions of images on Hasselblad Cameras, and as an operator of a leading photo lab, I finding it impossibly hard to believe that the moon photographs could have been taken on the moon.

MOON LANDING HOAX CONFESSION

One year to the day after the publication of the revelatory book “Moon Man: The True Story of a Filmmaker on the CIA Hit List”, which divulges the deathbed confession of the former Chief of Security at Cannon Air Force Base in Clovis New Mexico, who confessed thereon to his participation in the falsification of the first “moon landing”, his identity is finally revealed. This predetermined waiting period was previously negotiated with his sole surviving son, who himself passed away this year.

Cyrus Eugene Akers detailed the information in the book, including not only the location of the filming of the first fake moon landing at his military base, the dates it was filmed, and the CIA codename for the operation, yet also gave the names of fifteen government scientists and officials who were allowed exclusive observation of this historic government fraud, some of whom are still alive today. The list was given to Akers by President Lyndon Johnson, who was there at the first day of filming.

Threatened with execution if he ever revealed this information, Security Chief Akers kept all of this to himself until his deathbed, the guilt from which prompted his tearful confession to his son, who was also threatened with assassination after sharing this information with the author of Moon Man, Bart Sibrel.

This sad and outrageous, and really unnecessary deception, was done for pride and embezzlement. It demonstrates the complete arrogance of leaders over their people, who in fact are financing their own deception. Unlike government frauds about war, assassination or terrorism, the moon landing deception cruelly gave the over-trusting public the pleasing candy that they cried out for. Trying to take it away from them, after they believed with tears and cheers, by exposing their heroes as the criminals they really are, faces fierce resistance. Even a professor at a major university has so famously said, “Even if I heard a moon astronaut confess that he never really went, I would still believe that he walked on the moon.”

Fortunately a new generation is here, ones who were not emotionally branded by the deception, who are objective to the unfolding reality of the moon landings falsification. Simply put, what the corrupt government is claiming, is that in 1969 they went from never being in space, to walking on the moon, with only 8 years of research and development, and that with one-millionth the computing of a cell phone, and on the first attempt, when even the South Pole on Earth was not reached on the first attempt.

Today, with 50 years of more advanced rocket and computer technology, the current Artemis moon rocket took 18 years to develop, had three launch failures, is not safe enough yet to carry astronauts, and will only orbit the moon, because a moon lander for it has not yet been developed that works. The farthest that the government can send astronauts today, 50 years later, is to the space station, which is only one-thousandth the distance to the moon.

For the first time in the entire history of the world, technology was greater in the past than in the future. As this is actually impossible, it only means one thing, that the 1969 moon landing was a forgery. It is not the first time scientific boasts were falsified or governments have lied, as covid vaccine maker Prizer has been fined billions of dollars, on multiple occasions, for making fraudulent claims about their scientific products.

Former high-ranking government employee Robert McNamara, who was Defense Secretary during the Vietnam War,  admitted before he died that the “Gulf of Tonkin Incident”, which was the reason why the war began, was completely fabricated by the CIA. If the corrupt government is willing to falsify something that led to the death of a million people, including 58,220 of their own citizens, then I think they are capable of faking an image on a television.

All Truth passes through three stages.

First, it is ridiculed,

Then it is violently opposed,

Finally it is accepted as self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In an age of universal deceit,

telling the Truth is a revolutionary act.

Whoever controls the past, controls the future.

George Orwell

One of the saddest lessons of history is this:

If we’ve been bamboozled long enough,

we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.

We’re no longer interested in finding out the Truth.

The bamboozle has captured us.

It’s simply too painful to acknowledge,

even to ourselves,

that we’ve been taken.

Once you give a charlatan power over you,

you almost never get it back.

Carl Sagan

It is easier to fool people,

than to convince them that they have been fooled.

Mark Twain
 
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