Talk that the landings were faked arose immediately, but it wasn’t until Bill Kaysing, a senior technical writer for a NASA contractor, published his book ‘We Never Went to the Moon’ in the 1970s that the hoax theory really took hold.
#First man on the moon fake tv#
Indeed during a live ITV broadcast on the night of the landing, famous British TV historian AJP Taylor questioned the veracity of what he was seeing. The astronauts returned to Earth safely, bringing with them moon rocks and a whole array of iconic, beautifully framed photographs.īut the suspicion that it was a bit too perfect struck some almost immediately. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins
Less than 8 years later an estimated 500 million people watched the incredible feat live on television - an astonishing demonstration of American preeminence to the world. President Kennedy announced the Apollo program in 1961, vowing to land man on the Moon before the end of the decade.Īfter years of floundering behind the Russians in the space race, the US took a leap forward unprecedented in its ambition.
It’s the greatest achievement of mankind, but ever since Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the Moon in 1969, conspiracy theories have abounded.
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