I was born in 1970, the year after the first moon landing. Throughout my entire life, every reference I heard about it silently reinforced the assumption that mankind had been to the moon. So when I heard that some people thought that it was a hoax made in a movie studio, I was perplexed. I wanted to know what evidence they had for it.

Well, I finally found it — and a site that discusses and debunks each point. I don’t understand some of them, like this one…

The lunar dust has a peculiar property: it tends to reflect light back in the direction from where it came. So if you were to stand on the Moon and shine a flashlight at the surface, you would see a very bright spot where the light hits the ground, but, oddly, someone standing a bit to the side would hardly see it at all. The light is preferentially reflected back toward the flashlight (and therefore you), and not the person on the side.

…but overall, they make perfect sense.

Sorry, conspiracy theorists, but I’m still convinced that we’ve been to the moon, and that the footage provided from the first Apollo mission is authentic. You’ll just have to try harder. 🙂