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Article: Lunatic fringe There has long been a suspicion in some quarters that the Moon landings were faked. Nasa, however, has always maintained a dignified silence on the subject. Until now... ANDREW GUMBEL reports on a new twist in the greatest conspiracy theory of all
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 27, 2002
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To understand everything you need to know about the Great Moon
Landing Conspiracy, you don't have to go back to 20 July 1969, the
day that Neil Armstrong's celebrated moonwalk (or perhaps, given the
territory we are entering, we should say purported moonwalk) was
broadcast live to an awestruck world.
You don't even have to go back to the summer of 1978, the release
date for a highly suggestive sci-fi B-movie called Capricorn One, in
which the first manned mission to Mars is revealed to be a colossal
fake staged by Nasa - a plotline that gave a lot of otherwise
trusting people some irresistibly scurrilous ideas about the true
size of that "giant leap for mankind" nine years earlier.
No, the ...
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