Moon Landing: The Ultimate Hoax or Greatest Achievement?

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[fallingdream]

when I was at art school I overheard a fellow student say "it's a hoax, Neville Armstrong *never* walked on the moon!" and I thought well you're not wrong

[DeliveryMcGee]

As a sometime professional photographer, my preferred way of wording the response to "Why no stars in the photos?" is that sunlit side of the moon is as bright on the sunlit side as it is on a sunny day on earth (even a bit more, what with lack of atmosphere to break up the incoming light). This is easily proven, as Simon basically said in a bit more convoluted way, by taking a photo at night with artificial lighting that gives you the same exposure as daylight on your subject, no stars.

[vectorwolf]

My grandfather and father were systems engineers during Mercury and Apollo. I can personally attest to the reality... and my grandfather's assertion that for all the innovation and pluck involved, it's a miracle more men didn't die up there. They were inventing as they went in a lot of cases.

[orterves]

At some point the conspiracies become so convoluted that they would have cost more than just actually doing the moon shot

[tamarrajames]

Thank you once again, for a much needed dose of sanity in a world gone mad for conspiracy theories. I watched the Moon landing as a teenager in high school, and though Canadian…not American, we followed the project and plans closely in school. It happened, and the men were retrieved from their capsule after it landed in the ocean…right where it was intended to.🖤🇨🇦

[joelellis]

Stanley Kubrick was hired to fake the moon landings. He was so devoted to realism, however, that he insisted on shooting on location! 😂😂😂

[Foiled_Foliage]

This is why I love Simon. He loves a good story but understands some stories are just that.

[arfived]

The thing to remember with the "no stars in photos" thing, is that they were taken during the day.

[richardwilson]

We had a guy I worked with who insisted that NASA got Stanley Kubrick to direct the whole thing. We all went along with him for a while and then told him while he was correct that Kubrick did do it, he insisted on filming on location. I know we weren't the first ones to ever use this joke, but it was still funny and it got him to shut up for a few months.

[garnetbelial]

If you just listen to the astronauts talk about the experience, these are either Oscar worthy actors who have NEVER broken character or people genuinely touched by this lifechanging moment.

[PhDMario]

Why do people think that we never got back to the moon? There were six moon landings with crew, and many others without. Also, there was another (with no crew) moon landing in 2019, by the Chinese.

[everettd]

New channel idea: Simon Reads Speeches. Holy hell the way he read that eulogy was gripping

[siobhanrikan]

My father worked on the lunar module. I have his tie and lapel pins of the module and the Grumman logo which was one of the many contractors that worked on the program. Grumman moved us to Texas for the better part of a year for him to work on it. And he was just one of so many people working on it. Remember that we didn’t have computers then. They were sometimes called “those slide rule boys” by locals who didn’t know what they did. I still have that slide rule.

[cleverusername]

Dear Dave
Thank you for the excellent script, well done research, and your willingness to debate people in the comments. You're a legend.

[Mr_Beaubles]

One thing: the rover wasn't brought on the first landing. They didn't have it till the later trips. My grandpa was a Boeing engineer in one of their think-tanks and helped design the mesh tires for the rover.

[gordondouglas]

I feel like the existence of a speech in the event that the mission failed is proof it wasn't faked. There's literally no reason for this speech to exist if it was all faked.

[jezzter]

It happened, humans did walk on the moon. No-one would keep a fake that secret for so long!

[johnoswald]

The Russians would of definitely mentioned it, they tracked the whole mission. Plus 2001 was a beautiful work of art but the Apollo 11 footage gravity has never been replicated to this day, they went to the Moon and Neil landed the craft manually because he was a hot shot test pilot with nerves of steel.

[j.p.]

11:43 what is obvious but still weird to think about is the smartphones we carry around every day (that I’m watching this on right now) carry far more computing power than used to get to the moon.

[Lucius]

One of the greatest disappointments of my life was that I never watched Neil Armstrong step onto the moon.
I was 10 years old, at summer camp on Cape Cod. They had a TV on in the main building; I watched and watched, but nothing seemed to be happening; so I went back to my bunk. Thus I missed that historic moment. 😞