Astronomical Pseudo-Science: A Skeptic's Resource List (Version 3.0; August 2003)

10. The "Great Moon Hoax": Did Astronauts Land on the Moon?

A small group of "true believers" who claim that NASA never landed on the Moon got a big boost in 2001, when Fox network broadcast a long paranoid show about their ideas. The web sites below provide a skeptical examination of this claim and the so-called evidence for it. From the many moon rocks brought back by the astronauts to the instruments they left on the Moon, there is ample evidence that the moon landings actually happened. So far, all the information to refute the "moon hoax" claims in on the Web:

The Bad Astronomy Site: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html Astronomer Phil Plait criticizes movies and TV shows in general, and has lots of detailed responses to the Fox program.

Science@NASA Site: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23Feb_2.htm Tony Phillips gives a brief response with further links. (An excellent set of lesson plans on hoaxes in general, and why this hoax is not true, by Phillips is at http://www.thursdaysclassroom.com/index_01apr01.html )

Comments by Jim Scotti: http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/NOT_faked/ A University of Arizona planetary scientist debunks the hoax claims

Jim McDade's Analysis: http://www.business.uab.edu/cache/debunking.htm

Apollo Moon Landing: Were They All a Hoax? http://www.redzero.demon.co.uk/moonhoax/ (A site with a sense of humor.)

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