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American astronaut (born 1930)
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 moon landings (six crewed landings from 1969–1972) are widely documented and repeatedly defended by scientific institutions; the Institute of Physics says “every single argument” that NASA ...
Buzz Aldrin has repeatedly been misquoted or had clips taken out of context that make it appear he said the Apollo 11 moon landing “didn’t happen”; fact-checkers and major outlets say those clips do n...
The apparent waving of the American flag on the Moon is a mechanical artifact of how astronauts deployed it and the flag’s construction, not evidence of lunar wind or fabricated footage: astronauts ro...
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 ...
We can be certain humans landed on the Moon between 1969 and 1972: multiple lines of independent, international evidence — photographic observations by later lunar probes, radar and radio tracking by ...
Moon‑landing hoax proponents point mainly to two visual puzzles in Apollo photos and film: the U.S. flag appears to “wave” as it’s planted, and shadows in still images fall non‑parallel or show bright...
Fact‑checkers across Reuters, USA Today, Logically, AFP/CEDMO and other outlets concluded the viral clips do not show Buzz Aldrin admitting the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked; instead, they found he...
Conspiracy accounts focus on a handful of recurring photographic anomalies——and assert these suggest fabrication; mainstream technical rebuttals explain each anomaly by camera exposure, physics of the...
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...
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 ...
The Apollo 11 mission to the Moon in July 1969 occurred as a verifiable historical event supported by , and claims that it was staged lack credible support. Recent public attention sparked by celebrit...
Buzz Aldrin has not denied the authenticity of the Apollo 11 Moon landing nor publicly called it a fake; on the contrary, reporting and historical records show him defending the mission and once physi...
Multiple fact‑checks identify three short, highly edited clips that were stitched together and shared as “proof” recanted the landing; the original material comes from a Conan O’Brien comedy/bit that ...
first landed humans on on , when the lunar module touched down in and two astronauts— and —walked on the lunar surface, while remained in lunar orbit aboard the command module . The mission launched e...
Yes — the technology to land humans on the Moon did exist in 1969 and was demonstrated by Apollo 11, which carried astronauts to lunar orbit, landed a two‑stage lunar module on the surface, and return...
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) began returning images of Apollo sites in July 2009 and has since captured higher-resolution passes that show lunar module descent stages, rover tracks and, i...
Major news organizations framed the September 9, 2002 confrontation between astronaut Buzz Aldrin and conspiracy filmmaker Bart Sibrel as a recorded street confrontation in which Aldrin, provoked by S...
NASA and high-profile agency figures publicly rebut moon‑landing hoax claims by citing the six Apollo lunar landings and pointing to technical explanations for common skeptic talking points; NASA’s Ac...
The has returned high‑resolution images that show the remains of landing sites and, in most cases, the shadows where U.S. flags were planted — strong evidence the flagpoles (and likely some flag struc...