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Jan 3, 2022 · An old video supposedly showing leaked footage from Wikileaks about the 1969 moon landing being "faked" was recirculated on social media in December 2021: Various versions of this video have been ...
- The Claim: Video Shows Buzz Aldrin Admitting The Moon Landing Didn’T Happen
- The Post Takes Clip of Aldrin Out of Context
- Our Rating: False
- Our Fact-Check Sources
An Instagram post claims to show astronaut Buzz Aldrin admitting that the famous 1969 moon landing"didn't happen." The Oct. 4 postfeatures a video showing an audience member asking Aldrin, who is seated on a stage, what the "scariest moment" of his journey to the moon was. He appears to respond by saying, “It didn’t happen. It could have been scary...
The clip featured in the Instagram post was taken from a Q&A Aldrin did at the Oxford Unionin March 2015. The Union describes itself as "the world's foremost debating society," but there's no debating whether the moon landing happened. NASA, museums, newspapers and libraries house a trove of information about the mission. This includes an array of ...
Based on our research, we rate FALSE the claim that a video shows Aldrin admitting the moon landing didn’t happen. In the full video, Aldrin tells stories about his experiences on the moon. There is widespread documentation that the moon landing happened.
Buzz Aldrin’s website, accessed Oct. 7, Q&A AT THE OXFORD UNIONHistory, Dec. 3, 2019, When Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong Were Nearly Stranded on the MoonHistory, Jan. 30, 2019, 1969 Moon LandingPolitiFact, Oct. 6, Aldrin didn’t say the moon landing was a hoax- 1 min
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SPACE.comIs there a 'true' story behind the fake Apollo moon landing in 'Fly Me to the Moon?'
Columbia Pictures' "Fly Me To the Moon" is a new romantic comedy released on July 12, 2024 directed by Greg Berlanti that depicts this conspiracy theory, centering its story around a clandestine ...
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- The New York Times via Yahoo
Will a Movie Faking the Moon Landing Propel a Debunked Conspiracy Theory?
The new Scarlett Johansson-Channing Tatum vehicle, “Fly Me to the Moon,” uses a long-debunked conspiracy theory as the jumping-off point for a space-race romantic comedy. At the end of the 1960s ...
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- ‘The moon landings were filmed in a TV studio.’ There are two different ways of capturing moving images. One is film, actual strips of photographic material onto which a series of images are exposed.
- ‘They used the Apollo special camera in a studio and then slowed down the footage to make it look like there was less gravity.’ Some people may contend that when you look at people moving in slow motion, they appear to be in a low gravity environment.
- ‘They could have had an advanced storage recorder to create slow motion footage. Everyone knows NASA gets the tech before the public.’ Well, maybe they did have a super secret extra storage recorder – but one almost 3,000 times more advanced?
- ‘They shot it on film and slowed down the film instead. You can have as much film as you like to do this. Then they converted the film to be shown on TV.’
Apr 6, 2023 · The video consists of three separate clips, each appearing to show Mr Aldrin—the second person ever to set foot on the Moon—explaining how his expedition to the Moon had been staged or had never happened at all. Long-standing conspiracy theories about the 1969 Moon landing being fake are extremely widespread online, and we have checked them ...
May 8, 2024 · A recent Facebook post casts doubt on the Apollo 11 moon landing with an edited video that makes it appear as if someone in a green screen suit is holding the edge of the American flag planted on ...
Feb 16, 2024 · An Instagram video featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin recycles the consistently debunked conspiracy theory that the 1969 U.S. moon landing was fake.. In the clip, a robotic narrator speaks ...
Dec 31, 2021 · A video circulating online which purports to show leaked footage of the moon landings has duped people into thinking the iconic moment was faked. Rather, the clip melds authentic footage of lunar ...
