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Buzz Aldrin has repeatedly been cited in online clips that conspiracy-minded viewers interpret as him saying the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing “didn’t happen,” but contemporary reporting shows those cli...
The Apollo 11 astronauts survived radiation exposure primarily because the missions traversed regions and timing that produced relatively low particle fluxes, the spacecraft provided some shielding, d...
Buzz Aldrin did not deny that he walked on the Moon; available reporting shows he consistently affirmed the Apollo 11 landing and has publicly rebuked and physically confronted prominent moon‑landing ...
The Apollo moon landings of the late 1960s and early 1970s are documented by contemporaneous NASA mission reports and decades of scientific follow-up work, and the core claim that humans landed on the...
Apollo 11 returned of lunar material collected with dedicated tools and procedures, later authenticated and analyzed to reveal basaltic compositions and no evidence of water or life . Independent fore...
Apollo 11 returned 21.6 kilograms of lunar material — roughly 50 discrete rock specimens, dust (regolith) and two short core tubes — that have since been split between NASA’s curated research collecti...
The preponderance of analysis in the supplied documents supports that the Apollo moon landings were real, citing physical lunar samples, footprints and surface experiments, photogrammetric reconstruct...
The strongest technical evidence disproving claims that the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk was filmed on a soundstage comprises physical lunar samples, contemporaneous telemetry and engineering data, optical...
Independent, non‑US recordings of Apollo 11 exist but are limited: amateur radio operator Larry Baysinger recorded VHF voice from the astronauts on the lunar surface, and a handful of professional obs...
The Apollo 11 moon landing is supported by multiple independent lines of evidence: third-party spacecraft imaging and tracking, contemporaneous radio and telemetry records, and physical artifacts and ...
There is broad agreement in available reporting that Apollo 11’s flag was planted, briefly appeared to “wave” in TV footage because of handling, and very likely did not remain upright after the lunar ...
Bart Sibrel is a prolific moon‑landing denial filmmaker who repeatedly sought out Apollo astronauts for filmed confrontations; the most documented encounter ended when Buzz Aldrin punched Sibrel outsi...
Yes—NASA equipped Apollo 11 with multiple radiation-monitoring instruments (personal dosimeters, passive badges, a portable radiation-survey meter and new neutron-detection techniques) and post-flight...
The small array of fused‑silica corner‑cube retroreflectors Apollo 11 left on the Sea of Tranquility returns laser pulses to Earth decades later, enabling precise round‑trip time measurements that pin...
Apollo-era instruments—most notably the seismometers left by Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15 and 16—have long supplied the Moon’s only continuous seismic record and remain the primary source for understanding m...
Photos and videos of Apollo landing sites continue to fuel hoax claims: social posts resurfacing images of Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 sites sparked denial comments in 2025 (Digital Camera World) . Public...
A small set of Apollo-era instruments left on the lunar surface remain scientifically useful decades later — most notably the Laser Ranging Retroreflectors (LRRs) deployed beginning with Apollo 11, wh...
Apollo 11’s survival in space relied on layered engineering: spacecraft Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLS) and the command and service module (CSM) kept cabin pressure, oxygen, temp...
Apollo-era passive dosimetry and later analyses show that crew-averaged skin doses for the nine lunar missions clustered well below levels causing acute injury, with Apollo 14 recording the highest me...
Apollo 11 was the first crewed lunar landing, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touching down on July 20, 1969, and Armstrong becoming the first human to walk on the Moon—a moment watched by an esti...